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Mining & the mines, 1905

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Want Mines Resumed

Evening News · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 3

Messrs. Meehan, Griffith, Cann, and Nielsen, Ms.L.A., formed a deputation to the Minister for Mines, and urged that a number of mining leases in the White Cliffs district should be…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 9

There was a moderate amount of business on the Mining market yesterday. Broken Hill shares showed an improvement in quotations, and advanced rates were ruling for…

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Sea Pit Colliery. Wages to Be Reduced

Evening News · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The management of the Sea Pit Colliery has posted at the pit top a fortnight's notice informing employees that the wages of the miners and other hands will…

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Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 9

At the New White Leads the southern drive along the course of the lode at the 150ft level measures 125ft, with good ore in evidence across the face and under foot. Late assays…

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The Furnace for Gold. a Tale of a Mining Community. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter VIII.—Continued

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 3

Low Morgan, among the spectators, was inwardly tickled, though his serious face gave little signs of this, by the absorbed air of importance of the officials, and those who…

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Mining Dispute. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 6

A dispute between the filter press [?] employed at Kalgoorlie mines and the employers formed the subject of a conference this afternoon, when five of the leading mine…

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Newcastle. the Coal Export Trade. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 8

The steamer Wakatipu cleared at the Customs to-day for Launceston, via Sydney, with 1000 tons of coal, and 33 cases biscuits, the steamer Barrier for Melbourne, with 2830 tons of coal, the German steamer Augsburg…

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Colliery Troubles. Last to Come First to Go Rule. an Appeal Dismissed

The Australian Star · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 1

The Arbitration Court this morning delivered its reserved judgment in the appeal case of Harry Stuart Banks, inspector under the Factories Act, and the North Bulli…

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Mining Deputation. a White Cliffs Matter

The Australian Star · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 7

A deputation waited upon the Minister for Mines yesterday with the request that the Government should resume a number of mining leases at White Cliffs, which are…

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White Cliffs Opal Field. Government Asked to Purchase Miners' Rights Wanted

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 3

A deputation consisting of Messrs. Meehan, Cann, Nielson, and Griffith, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Mines (Mr. Moore) yesterday to urgo that the Government should resume…

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The Etheridge Gold Field. Nil Desperandum Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 24

ThE Nil Desperandam Gold Mine occupies a central position in very promising gold-bearing country on the Etheridge Gold Field, North Queensland. It is about twenty-six miles from…

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Wyalong Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 54

Our Wyalong correspondent writes:—The reduction works are keeping well supplied with material, and the True Blue Company has dispatched another…

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Health of Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 8

The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the ventilation and sanitation of mines has presented its report. The report says:--"We are strongly of opinion that a great deal…

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The Price of Coal. Miners' Hewing Rates. Lithgow, Tuesday.--Mr. J. Thirlwell, the

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 8

miners' general secretary, has received the accountant's certificate regarding the selling price of coal for the six months ended December 31, 1904. This determines the hewing rate for…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 11

The market was dull yesterday on the Sydney Exchange, but it was only in the case of silver shares that there was any adverse movement in values. Private cables quoted a decided decline in lead, and for all Barrier…

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Gold Shipments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 7

The R.M.S. Mongolia took from Fremantle 200,000 sovereigns for Colombo, and 25,000 sovereigns for Bombay from the Union Bank, 75,000 sovereigns for Colombo from the…

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Lost Gold

The Australian Star · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 2

Can you beat this for miserable truckling to political supporters. Down south a State official used to oblige miners by locking up their gold in a safe. It was no…

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Gases in Mines. III

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 23

With this article we conclude the remarks of Mr W. Poole, B.E., director of the Charters Towers School of Mines, who recently delivered a'lecture on the subject,of "Gases in Mines:"—…

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Coal Trade. Newcastle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 572

The barquentine Senorita cleared at the Customs to-day for Kaipara, with 510 tons of East Greta coal; the steamer Kakapo, for Burnie, via Stanley and Devonport, with 300 tons of coal; and the steamer…

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Western Australian Mines. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 13

Great Fingall main shaft is still following the poor section of the reef on the underlay, the last measurements taken showing the depth to be 1378ft. At No. 1 level the north…

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