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Mining & the mines, 1909

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 4

Columbia Extended (Gymple) crushed 315 tons, yielding. 6210Z. smelted gold. A dividend of 3d is payable this day. Melton (W.A.) crushed 420 tons for 226oz…

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Re-arranging the Coal Sidings

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 9

The Railway Department is arranging to rearrange the present disposition of the shunting lines in the coal compound at Carrington. When the work Is completed a great deal of the…

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Chillagoe Copper Mine. Payable Ore Cut

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 11

The mining manager of the Chillagoe Company, telegraphed yesterday as follows:— "Ruddlgore, new main shaft, No. 2 level, 225ft, face just fired out, cut ore, and entered into…

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Mining. Metal Values Improve

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 4

Spot copper has recovered 30s In two days. Having fallen to the very low point of £57 7s 6d, the metal came,Up to its prior level of £58 5s on Tuesday, and on the following day £58 17s…

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December. Gold Reduction Works. 17,142 tons produced 4132oz. gold. Copper Reduction Works

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 4

8172 tons produced 360 tons blister, containing 353 tons pure copper, and 4005oz. geld. Of copper precipitate 58 tons were recovered. The metal consisted of 17oz. gold and 43 tons copper Altogether the production…

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January. Gold Reduction Works. 14,732 tons produced 50870Z. gold. Copper Reduction Works

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 4

12,366 tons produce 272 tons blister, containing 260 tons pure copper and 3876oz. gold; 30 tons copper precipitate containing 11oz. gold and 20 tons copper. The total estimated value is £54,200 (£57,200 in December),…

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Mount Lyell Mine. Yield for the Month. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 11

The Mount Lyell smelting return, from December 31 to January 27, shows that 29,946 tons of ore were treated, being 20,099 tons from the Mount Lyell mine and 9847 tons from…

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Western Australian Mines. Great Boulder Develops Well. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 11

Reports from the Boulder No. 1 St. George lease state that the difficulty in treating the slimes, hitherto experienced, owing to the kaolin nature of the ore, has been overcome. It…

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Mining in the State. Yambulla

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 11

Allison and party are opening up a good show on the west end of the old Indigo lease. Hicks and party continue to raise good ore. The old British Lion and the new contractors…

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Western Australian Gold. Production of the State. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 8

Official returns issued by the Mines Department show that the gold output for Western Australia for the last month, comprising the quantity exported from the State and that…

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Tossed Up with the Old Womanl a Coal Carter's Courting Days

Evening News · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 5

Evidence on behalf of the employers was entered upon by the Coal Carters' Wages Board, in the Water Police Courthouse. Mr. T. E. Spencer presided…

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Terrible Mining, Fatality. Dynamite Explosion. Two Men Killed. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 7

Information has been received from Copmanhurst of a double mining fatality at Gordon Brook coppor mine. It appears that two men, named Taylor and Goodall, were…

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Before the Court. Broken-hill Dispute. Miners' Decision. Will Abide by the Award. Proprietary' Directors to Confer

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Thursday.--The Federal Arbitration. Court, which is inquiring Into the industrial dispute between the Proprietary Company and the A.M.A., resumed its sittings at the…

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South Coast Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 13

WOLLONGONG, Friday. -- At the South Bulli Mine a number of mon working under the stone contractor are dissatisfied at having to work nine and-a-half hours from bank to bank. The…

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Weekly Coal Exports

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 15

The export of coal from Newcastle during the past week showed a slight improvement on the figures for the previous week, but at the same time the dullness of trade is apparent…

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Short of Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 4

Our Brisbane correspondent wired last evening that the steamer Falls of Orchy, bound to Newcastle, from Manila, arrived there yesterday afternoon…

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Weekly Coal Export

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 17

The quantity of coal exported from Newcastle for the week ending to-day was 61.897 tons. Of this 32,561 tons wont to the Commonwealth and New Zealand ports, and 29,226…

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Mines and Mining. Dealings in Scrip. Copper and Lead Weaker. To-day's Operations

The Australian Star · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 13

Metals were weaker in London yesterday. Copper was quoted at £58 2s 6d, a fall of 5s, and lead at £13, a drop of 2s 6d per ton…

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Work for the Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 14

Mr. Griffith, M.L.A., informs, us that he has arranged with four public works' contractors for the employment of about 1000 men from the Barrier on works which will last from two to…

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A Mine of Information

The Australian Star · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 5

One of those good-natured persons who are always bent on imparting information was humiliated one day. A man, apparently, a yokel, was seated on a fence. intently…

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