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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 3 of 19

Mining. PAMBULA

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 3

A Pambula correspondent writes:— "Both crushing plants are now in full work, Gowing's being engaged on stone from the Great Western. Cowan's mill…

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Terrible Mining Accident

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 3

A terrible mining accident has occurred at Eaglehawk (Victoria) by which a miner named Thomas Cox has been entombed through the collapsing of a level…

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A Rich Mine

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 3

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Wentworth Goldfields Company, the engineer exhibited ore taken from the mine, assaying 15,000 ounces of silver to the ton…

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Mining Accident. Sydney, Thursday night

National Advocate · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 3

No sign has been discovered of the [?]im of the fearful mining accident which occurred yesterday at the South Devonshire Mine, Eaglehawk, Victoria…

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Mining. COBAR

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 4

A Mexican prospector named Marquis arrived here by the Louth coach yesterday, bringing some fine specimens of silver ore, taken from a reef in the neighborhood…

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Mining. Sunny Corner

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 2

The board of directors of the Sunny Corner Silver-mining Company, Limited, in Sydney, on taking over the management of the company from the Melbourne office…

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Mining. CANOWINDRA

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 4

Mining matters are rather dull. In the Blue Jacket Mine, Messrs. Mylecharane and Smith, proprietors, a good reef has been struck in the crosscut at the 300ft…

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Amalgamated Miners

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 2

23,854 members belonging to the Amalgamated Miner's Union, the funds of which amount to £26,443…

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Mining Investments

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 2

Mount Morgan shares are being sold at £5 59 and Broken Hill Proprietary at £12…

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Mining. PAMBULA

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 19 February 1891 · page 2

The Morning Star Company is pushing in vigorously under Mr. Hogue's directions, and expect to get the rich lode recently struck by Mount Grahan on the…

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A Duel and a Gold Mine

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 February 1891 · page 2

Colonel Allen and Dan Riley, the editor of the Wyoming Startler, were giving the tariff question a friendly airing, when the colonel called Dan a liar…

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Mining. Brown's Creek Gold-mining Co., No Liability

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 February 1891 · page 3

A correspondent who has just returned from Brown's Creek sends the following description of the above mines:—"The company's ground consists of 25 acres…

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Mining. Hill End

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 23 February 1891 · page 2

All arrangements have been made for Emmett and Hughes claim being worked by a company, half the interest having been purchased by Sydney gentlemen…

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Mining. Delaney's Dyke Company

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 4

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders in die Delaney's Dyke Goldmining Company, Limited, was held in Sydney on Monday. The report stated…

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Mining. Peak Hill

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

Warden Slee has given his award in the case J. G. Gough v. J. P. Paton, in which the former sought to compel the latter to transfer a twenty—fourth (24th)…

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Mining Registration

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 3

The Treasurer has promised to introduce legislation compelling all mining companies doing business to register under the one Act, on the same footing as the…

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The Entombed Miners

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

Later particulars are to hand concerning the terrible entombment of four miners for 19 days in a Pennsylvania coal mine. It seems that the men were clammed in a…

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Bathurst Free Press "Magna est veritas et prœvalebit." Saturday, February 28, 1891. Registration of Mines

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 2

SINCE the development of the rich silver deposits at Broken Hill, the question of the registration of New South Wales mines within the colony has more than once…

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Mining. Managers' Reports

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 2 March 1891 · page 3

Oakey Creek Gold-mining Co.—We are raising payable quartz in rise, north crosscut, and driving north on vein, reef 3ft thick, prospects at present fodwt to…

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More Gold

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 5 March 1891 · page 3

A rich cold discovery is reported from the Greenough district (West Australia)…

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