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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

363 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 17 of 19

The French Miners

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 November 1891 · page 3

The colliers' strike in France is assuming wide proportions. Four thousand miners captured the Liden Mine and destroyed a great quantity of property. Two attempts…

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Mining. CARCOAR

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 November 1891 · page 2

A correspondent writing from Galley swamp says:— Considerable friction has arisen between the miners and pastoralists of this locality, owing to the latter having…

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Pith of Parliament. a Mining Expert for Tasmania, to Represent the Industry Here. Judge McFARLAND. His Case Considered. a Department of Industry the Chicago Scandal. Whence Came the Codlin Moth? Artificial Rain. an Antarctic Expedition. Our Railway Passes. Who Travels on the Nod ? Mining on Private Property. the Electoral Bill. the Second Reading Carried. Sydney, Tuesday night

National Advocate · Wednesday 25 November 1891 · page 3

In the Assembly to-night, in reply to Mr. Tonkin, Mr. Slattery said it was the intention of the Government to send a competent person to represent the colony's…

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The Nymagee Copper Mines

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 26 November 1891 · page 3

Consequent on the low price of copper the directors of the Nymagee Copper Mine have decided to reduce the rate of wages. If the reduction is not accepted they intend closing…

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Mining Reports

National Advocate · Thursday 26 November 1891 · page 2

The manager of the Sunny Corner Silver Mining Company reports that the ore treated for the week ending November 10th was 1095 tons,…

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Argentine Silver Mining Co. (Q.)

National Advocate · Thursday 26 November 1891 · page 2

The manager reports :—November 14. Silver Mount Tunnel has been extended a further distance of 8ft 6in. Face is still in quartz of a kindly character and…

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Melbourne's Coal Imports. Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 30 November 1891 · page 3

Having found it cheaper to import coal from Newcastle to Melbourne, and then convoy it where needed, than to pay freight from the collieries at Lithgow,…

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Mining. Mount Macdonald

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 30 November 1891 · page 2

Mining matter are looking up somewhat in this locality. The manager of the Mount MacDonald Gold-mining Company reports that he is busy erecting the second…

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A Mine Seized

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 1 December 1891 · page 3

Eighty thousand strikers have seized the mines at Rivedelsier, France, and threaten death to those who may attempt to expel them…

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The African Explorer. Nymagee Mines. Lecture in Sydney. Reduction in Wages

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 1 December 1891 · page 3

Mr. H. M. Stanley, the African explorer, arrived in Sydney yesterday, and last night delivered his first lecture. He things that the Australians more closely The employees of the Nymagee Copper Mine have agreed to a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages…

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Aids to Mining. Prospecting Grants in East Maquarie

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 1 December 1891 · page 2

Mr. Sydney Smith, M.P., has received a letter from the Minister for Mines, approving of assistance being granted out of the Prospecting Vote to the following lease holders:—…

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Mining Fatality

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 2 December 1891 · page 2

Two miners named McNuity and Shaw, have been suffocated at Mt. Carrington mine, near Tenterfield, by foul air…

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Aids to Mining

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 2 December 1891 · page 2

In yesterday's Free Press we published a wire to the effect that several grants from the prospecting vote had been made to miners in the East Macquarie electorate. The…

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Mining at Peak Hill

National Advocate · Wednesday 2 December 1891 · page 2

The Proprietary Company have just completed a crushing of 174 tons of stone for a net return of 113 ounces of smelted gold. The prospects of this…

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Bathurst Free Press "Magna est veritas et proevalebit." Saturday, December 5, 1891. The Gold Discovery

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 December 1891 · page 2

By refusing to adopt the report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire in to the claims of Messrs. Tom and LISTER as the first discoverers of payable gold in…

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Frightful Colliery Explosion.—Eighty Miners Killed. London, December 6

National Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1891 · page 3

A colliery explosion, through firedamp, has occurred at St. Ettienne, in France. Eighty miners are said to be killed…

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Mining News

National Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1891 · page 2

The Golden Crown Claim, Caledonian Hill, Parkes, has crushed 94 tons at one of the local batteries, and obtained gold weighing l43ozs. At the Sunny Corner Silver Mine,…

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Latest Cablegrams. London, Monday. Terrible Colliery Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 8 December 1891 · page 2

One hundred and eighty persons have been killed by a colliery disaster in Poland…

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The Mount Morgan Gold Mine the Present Workings

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 December 1891 · page 2

The Mount Morgan Gold Mine has been so thoroughly prospected by tunnels, crosscuts, shafts, and winzes down to about 300 feet from the original summit,…

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Peak Hill Mining

National Advocate · Wednesday 9 December 1891 · page 2

The recent improvement in the Proprictory property will (says the Peak Hill Times) doubtless have a stimulating effect on every part of the Hill. It is a difficult…

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