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Mining & the mines, 1905

4,906 stories in Sydney's papers · page 69 of 246

Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 9

Running full time last week with two pans going, Block 14 zinc plant treated 1280 tons tailings, assaying 14½ per cent. zinc, 5½ per cent. lead, and 6½oz silver, which yielded…

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Mining. Wombat and Harden

Evening News · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 8

After leaving the Garibaldi reefing system, particulars of which appeared in the "Evening News' a fortnight ago, on the Young side of Wombat, we come to what is known as the…

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The Furnace for Gold. a Tale of a Mining Community. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Xxiv. Diamond Cut Diamond

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 3

"The [?] pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the Lord trieth the hearts."—Proverbs XVII., [?] Schulz suspected Michael the first day he worked with him. His former life had given…

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Scottish Gold. a Mountain of Money

Evening News · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 4

Ross-shire, Scotland, is in a ferment of excitement over the discovery, which a touring German geologist has made of a mountain of rich gold-bearing quartz ten miles from…

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Russia's Gold Reserve. £132,000,000

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 7

M. Kokovlsoff, t[?] Finance Minister, Russia, states that the Russian bullion reserve in st. Petersburg amounts to £88,800,000, besides £12,000,000 deposited…

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Victorian Brown Coal. Proposal to Utilise It

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The State Premier is now talking Of launching out in another branch of Slate enterprise. He wishes to utilise the brown coal deposits at Morwell, and has been…

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Newcastle. the Coal Export Trade. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 7

The coal shipped beyond the State during the week ending yesterday, exclusive of tha[?] required for ships' use, nmounted to 73,737 tons, of which 33,125 tons were sent to…

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Mining in New South Wales. Corowa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1905 · page 9

At an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Corowa Deep Lead mine it was decided that the surplus assets of the company amounting to about £100 should be distributed…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 9

A very sluggish market obtained yesterday on the Sydney Exchange, comparatively few sales being recorded. The silver section remained firm, with a better feeling regarding North Broken-hill and Junction North…

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West Australian Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 9

KALGOORLIE, Monday.--The South Kalgurli management are making good progress with the erection of the new treatment plant, and expect that the mill will start in April…

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Mining Intelligence

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

A moderate amount of business was transacted on the Mining market yesterday. Generally speaking, the prices quoted showed no material change. In silver shares prices…

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Claim for Coal Royalty

Evening News · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 6

The action brought by the Perpetual Trustee Company, Limited, against the Railway Commissioners, to recover £27,679 15s 6d, being the amount of royalty which they claimed to…

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

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

Marlowe, after walking down the shed, stood for a few minutes looking gloomily to the floor, when a voice beside him startled him out of his abstraction…

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Newcastle. the Coal Exfort Trade. Newcastle

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

The steamer Norkoova cleared at the Customs to-day for Melbourne, with 2200 tons of coal; and the steamer Inger for Ocean Island, via Sydney, with 950 tons of bunker coal…

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Western Australia. Export of Gold. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 5

The R.M.S. Marmora took from Fremantle 25,000 sovereigns from the Union Bank, 50,000 sovereigns from the Commercial Bank, for Colombo, £10,075 worth of bar gold from the…

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Eddies from the Great Smoke. Gold From Sea Water

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 4

The syndicates which had Sir William Ramsey for a patron, and was going to extract gold from Bea water, has found a lively rival. The first syndicate was…

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Mining Development. to the Editor of the Herald

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

Sir,—It is refreshing to find practical common sense infused into this controversy. "Miner" has, in Saturday's issue, shown an advanced and comprehensive grasp of first…

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Mining in New South Wales. Broken Hill

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

Rumours have been lately freely circulated that the Junction North magnetic separators were not capable of doing the service ascribed to them in the treatment of crude sulphides…

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Late Mining. Alluvial Rush at Coolgardie. Perth

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

An alluvial rush has taken place about 2½ miles north of Bayley-street, Coolgardie, and about half a mile west of the old Bonnie Vale-road. The prospectors Jewell and Spargo…

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Russia's Finances Is Her Gold Reserve a Sham ? British Press Dubious. LONDON, Monday, 2.55 p.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 1

Mr. Lucien Wolf, the well-known London journalist, in a tetter to the "Times," referred to the Russian gold reserve as a "colossal Humbert safe."…

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