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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Italian Subsidy for Coal Shipments

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 10

ROME, Tuesday.—It was recently stated that a Chamber of Deputies was discussing a pro[?] to grant a subsidy to an Italian shipping [?]pany for the transport of 7,000,000 tons of…

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Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 13

The South Blocks mill for the month of December treated 10,401 tons of crudes, averaging 16.1 per cent, lead, 2.5oz silver, 9.4 per cent, zinc, producing 2000 tons of leady…

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The Miner Philippine Gold Fields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 39

The Paracale-Mambulao Gold Field, in the Philippine Islands, has for centuries been known to the natives as rich in gold, and it was exploited in a crude way by the…

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The Bullfinch. a Strike of Miners. Bullfinch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 7

Matters at Bullfinch are very quiet at present, and all concerned seem content to wait for the expiration of the general exemptions on the 7th inst. Work at the Proprictary…

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Italian Shipping Subsidy. for Transport of Welsh Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 9

ROME, Tuesday.--In connection with the shipping subsidy for the transport of Welsh coal it is now explained that the Government merely proposes a subsidy, of £12,000…

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Mining in the State Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 13

A report from Sunny Corner on Saturday is as follows:—"Considerable surprise was expressed here to-day when it transpired that the Sunny Cornor Mine leases had been…

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Subsidy for Coal Shipments. Italian Proposal Modified. Rome, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 9

It was recently stated that the Chamber of Deputies was discussing a proposal to grant a subsidy to an Italian shipping company for the transport of 7,000,000 tons…

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Shipping of the Port. the Effect of the Coal Strike

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 10

The annual return issued by the Deputy-Superintendent of Navigation, dealing with the shipping of the port for the year just concluded, is chiefly interesting as showing the effect of the coal strike upon the trade of…

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Golden Mile Mines. Fuel-getters' Demands. Owners Refuse Men's Terms. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 7

A disquieting situation exists in regard to the fuel supply for the mines on Golden Mile. The whole of the mines are entirely dependent for fuel upon three firewood companies, which…

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Mining News. Around New South Wales Fields. a Splendid Crushing

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 52

Messrs. Frazer and Ward, working in the Cemetery line of reef, Peak Hill, have had a very satisfactory clean-up, getting from a parcel of 38 tons 114oz of smelted gold. Fifty-two…

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Mining. Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 9

The Sydney Stock Exchange will resume business this morning, after adjourning over the Christmas and New Year holidays. The Mount Lyell Company has despatched…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 11

[Business will be resumed on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day.] Mount Lyell has consigned 1865 tons of blister copper during the current half-year…

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Gold Shipments. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 9

The Morea, which left Fremantle last Monday week, shipped three boxes of bar gold, valued at £12,060 8s 11d, for Calcutta, two boxes valued at £10,043 13s for Bombay, and twenty…

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Fatal Mining Accidents

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 3

Two fatal mining accidents are reported from Kalgoorlie. Three men were working in the Golden Horseshoe mine, when a stage, which had given way under a fall of rock,…

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Coal for the West Coast

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 4

The ships Rajore, Tasmania, and Henrietta, the four-masted barque Metropolis, and the four-masted barquentine Beethoven are amongst the…

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Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 9

Mr. Maurice M'Keown, who has been manager of the Phillips River Gold Mine, Ravensthorpe (W.A.), has been appointed mill superintendent of the B.H. North mine, in…

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Mining. the London Market

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 11

LONDON, Wednesday.--Among the closing quotations on the London Stock Exchange yesterday were:-- North Broken-hill, b 83s 9d, s 86s 3d;…

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No Accommodation. Clifton Miners' Grievance. Clifton

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 8

The prospects of the coal and coke trade in this portion of the district appear to be exceptionally bright, but a large percentage of the earnings go to other townships, for the…

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Alleged Theft of a Gold Watch

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 6

A youth named Arthur Lynch was charged at the Central Police Court this morning with having stolen in the declining of Robert Henry, a farmer, of Wallaroo, area Cowra, a gold…

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Entombed in a Mine. Eight Men in Grave Peril

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1911 · page 7

VANCOUVER, Wednesday.--An explosion has occurred in the Nova Scotia Steel Co.'s mine, near Sydney (N.S.), with the result that eight men have been cut off from the…

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