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Mining & the mines, 1904

5,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 250

Barrier Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 9

Block 10 mill, running 137 hours last week, accomplished good work, treating 2851 tons crude sulphides for a yield of 455 tons o[?] concentrates of high metal contents…

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Submarine Mines Round Liao-tung

The Australian Star · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 4

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express" telegraphs that a Russian Note announces that Admiral Makaroff, who commands the Russian naval forces in the Far…

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The Rand Gold Mines. Attack by Ex-general Smuts. Eighty Per Cent. Declared Bogus. Government Blamed for Abetting

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--Advocate J. C. Smuts, who held the rank of a Boer general in the late war, and was previously a Free State judge, strongly objects to the…

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Russian Submarine Mines. Sound the Peninsula

Evening News · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 4

LONDON, March 16.— The correspondent at Berlin at the "Danly Express" states thai a Russian Note announces that Vice-Admiral Makaroff has completed laying…

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New South Wales Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 9

BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--Block 10 plant, working 137 hours last week, treated 2851 tons crudes, yielding 455 tons concentrates of good value. Despatches were: 367 tons concentrates, leaving 744 tons of this product on…

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The Aberdare Colliery. Turning the First Sod. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 5

The first sod in connection with the sinking of the Abordare colliery shafts, near Cessnock, was turned yesterday by Messrs. George Brown and John Doyle, two old residents of…

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Newcastle. the Coal Export Trade. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 8

The American four-masted schooner Borealia eleated at the Customs to-day for Honolulu with 1050 tons of East Greta coal; the barque Lime[?], for Slaverry, with 1628 tons of Wallsond coal; the…

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Protectihg Port Arthur. with Submarine Mines. London, March 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 7

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express" telegraphs that a Russian Note has announced that Vice-Admiral Makaroff, naval commander-in-chief, has completed…

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Mining in the State. Peak Hill, Wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 9

Mr. Thomas Britt, when prospecting at Mingelo discovered a number of quarts specimens showing gold freely. A r[?] in the vicinity was worked some years ago…

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The Outtrim Miners. Mr. Wilson's Fairy Tales. at the Maitland Demonstration

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The report of the coal-miners' demonstration held at West Maitland on Sunday, where Mr. A. A. Wilson (general secretary of the V.C.M.A.) is reported to have…

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The Romance of Coal Tar Products. Science Wonders : for the "Catholic Press."

The Catholic Press · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 7

The science oil modern chemistry has verified ninny of its theories concerning the ultimate structure of matter by the practical application of those theories in various…

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Chinese on the Rand. Boer Attack on the Mines. "Eighty Per Cent. Bankrupt." London, March 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 7

Mr. J. C Smuts, late a General in the Boer forces, in objecting to Chinese immigration for providing labour for the Rand miney, blames the Government for…

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The War. Russia's Plan of Campaign. Concentrating a Huge Army. to Advance Into Korea. Present Garrison to Hold Port Arthur. Submarine Mines Laid Round Liao-tung. Secret Methods of the Japanese

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Standard" states that General Kuropatkin intends to start deliberately with an army of 250,000 men for…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 9
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Yesterday was a semi-holiday on the Sydney Exchange, and only a moderate business was recorded. The fact that the Queensland Exchanges were closed tended to restrict operations. The chief fluctuation in prices was a…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 7

The steamer Moerak[?] cleared at the Customs to-day with 1600 tons of coal and sundries for Wellington, via Sydney; the steamer Moorabool, for Melbourne, with 4680 tons of coal; the steamer…

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The United States. Coal Strike Averted. London, March 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 7

The threatened strike of bituminous coal miners of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania, has been averted by the men accepting a reduction of 5½ per…

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Copper Mining Co. Dissatisfied Shareholders. LONDON, Thursday, 2.45 p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 4

The shareholders of the Mount Lyell and Comstock Copper Mining Co. held a meeting yesterday, at which they rejected the reports and accounts that were submitted…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 6

PERTH, Thursday.--The February return of the Lady Loch (Coolgardie) showed 250 tons milled, with a total yield of 328oz., value £1032. Preparations are being made for a series of…

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Port Darwin. an Important Discovery. the New Gold-mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 10

PORT DARWIN, Friday.--There has been a recurrence this week of wet-season conditions, and there is every indication of their continuing…

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