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Mining & the mines, 1906

5,722 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

Broken Hill Mine Fires. Position at the Proprietary Mine. the Fire Area Confined. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 7

Such excellent progress has been made with blocking off the affected area in the Proprietary mine that the management this afternoon was able to send 386 men underground…

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Tasmanian Mining. Launceston (Tas.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 9

Operations on Briseis and New Brothers Home No. 1 are still practically confined to the drift faces, no rain having fallen during the week to supplement that of March 10. The…

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Financial. Relation Between Gold Production and Interest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 9

We have already given some points of an exhaustive paper by Mr. Goo. E. Roberts, Director of the U.S. Mint, upon the influence of the new gold supplies. This is a question…

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Miners' Strike in France. the Eight to Strike Admitted

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--M. Clemenceau, the French Minister of the Interior, has conferred with the Labor confederation at Courrieres, and has promised to respect…

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Mining in the State. Wolumla

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 9

The Nancy Lee Gold Mining Company, Ltd., has been granted three months' suspension from labour conditions on their leases for the purpose of amalgamating with the North…

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Mining on Private Property to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 9

Sir,--In your issue of the 10th instant appears a letter signed "Prospector," in which he shows how the present Mining Acts operate with much burshness on the genuine prospector…

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Late Mining. the Zeehan Field. Zeehan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 8

The Comet mine tributers intend developing the mine from No. 3 level, which has recently been unwatered after over four months' work. Since the present party commenced…

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The Late Mr. George Lansell. a Famous Mining Magnate. Story of His Career

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 March 1906 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Mr. George Lansell, whoso death was reported yesterday, was known throughout Victoria as the "Quartz King," and for the last 40 years history of his mining…

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Financial. Mining for Depreciated Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 11

Reference was recently made to the fact that the greater production of gold would have an important bearing upon Australia, as a gold-producing country. This…

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Coal Miners in Litigation. Action for Alleged Libel

Evening News · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 5

In the Banco Court, before the Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Darley) and a jury of four, today, Thomas Richard Morgan brought an action against Walter M'Pherson for alleged libel,…

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Abermain Colliery Company, Limited

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 751

THE Abermain Colliery is within easy distance by rail of Newcastle, and comprises an estimate of 4174 acres. The seam worked is that now so widely known…

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Our Hidden Wealth. Ii. Some Cobar Mines. Metallurgical Difficulties. the Cobar Gold Mines Company. the Occidental Mine. Low-grade Ores and Effective Cyanide Treatment. (From Our Special Reporter.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 13

One of the risks that have to be run when developing a mine in the Cobar district is the possibility of the metallurgical conditions of a lode changing as the works pass out of…

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The A. A. Company. Hebburn Colliery. Sea Pit Colliery. the Company's Wharf

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 746

A. A. COMPANY'S WHARF, NEWCASTLE. GENERAL VIEW OF A.A. COMPANY'S HEBBURN COLLIERY. PIT-TOP, HEBBURN COLLIERY. GENERAL VIEW A.A. COMPANY'S SEA PIT COLLIERY—PIT-TOP…

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Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 10

The following were to-day's clearances:— Melbourne, s, for Melbourne, with 2420 tons coal; Auchenblac, s, for Manila, with 6097 tons coal…

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Coal-lumper's Fall

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 10

Tate Ohlsen, a coal-lumper, residing in Gloucester-street, City, was at work on the steamer Afric, at Darling Island, yesterday morning, when he slipped and fell from a plank…

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The Coal Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 733

A nation's greatness is often the outcome of some natural advantage, and cities often owe their size and affluence to the same reason. Newcastle is an instance of this, and its…

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Barrier Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 11

The South Blocks main shaft is now down 30ft. A contract has been let to sink it 100ft, and the work is now in progress. The shaft will probably be taken to 500ft. The plans for…

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The World's Gold Output

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 35

A disposition is shown to attribute the rising tendency in prices to the unprecedentedly large output of gold in recent years. But the importance attached to the increasing yield of…

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Mining Patent Appeal

Evening News · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The High Court gave its reserved decision in the case of G. O. Potter against the Broken Hill Proprietary Company to-day. The plaintiff sought to restrain the…

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Miners' Demands. Smelters' Union Statement. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 10

Regardlng the statement made last week by Mr. G. H. Blakemore, general manager of the Great Cobar Copper Syndicate, as to the men's demand for higher wages and other privileges,…

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