Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

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

Mining & the mines, 1893

870 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 44

Mining at Wattle Flat

National Advocate · Monday 2 January 1893 · page 2

SOME crushings have been put through to finish up the year. Mackie and Company crushed 24 tons from the Frenchman's Reef for 20 oz. of gold…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Broken Hill Mines. More Work with Less Men

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 3

The manager of Block 14 Mine at Broken Hill asserts that more profitable work is now being done by 400 men than was done by 683 men before the strike…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

A Burraga Bubble. Another Small Gold Rush. Proved Not Worth One. Burraga

National Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1893 · page 2

Yesterday there was a considerable amount of excitement in Burraga, owing to the rumor being circulated that payable gold had been discovered eight…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Gold Mining Leases

National Advocate · Friday 6 January 1893 · page 3

The following applications for gold-mining leases in the Bathurst mining district are notified as having been approved :—C. H. Clarth, Trunkey two applications of 8 a…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Broken Hill Mines

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 6 January 1893 · page 2

The report from Broken Hill Proprietary Mines shows that during the past half year 78,000 tons of ore were treated, producing 9,650 tons of bullion, and 2,310,000 ounces…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Bathurst Free Dress. "Magna est veritas et proevalebit." Friday, January 6, 1893. A School of Mines

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 6 January 1893 · page 2

The board appointed by the Minister for c Mines to consider the question of establishing a separate school of mines in connection with the Department have re-…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mining. Peak Hill

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 2

The Proprietary Mine is a no liability company of 80,000 shares, of which 20,000 are contributing. All these shares have bean held by a few people who always had…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Question of a School of Mines

National Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 2

THE report of the Board that was recently appointed to report on the question of establishing a School of Mines in Sydney, has been furnished the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Nationalizing the Mines

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 9 January 1893 · page 2

A resolution in favor of nationalizing the main instruments of wealth and production will be submitted a mneting of the Broken Hill unemployed to-day…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Peak Hill Gold Field. Highly Payable Ore. Important Silver Discovery. 1700oz SILVER 10oz Gold. Peak Hill

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 9 January 1893 · page 3

The Peak Hill Proprietary Company has cut an immense body of highly payable ore in the tunnel which is being driven through its property. Assays made on the mine…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Victorian Gold Yield

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 2

The Victorian gold yield for 1892 was 671,348oz., as agained 628,996oz for 1891, or an increase of 42,352oz…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mining. MUDGEE, Satruday

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 10 January 1893 · page 2

A miner named James Smith obtained 50oz. of gold in one day recently from a rotton vein at Little Nuggety Gully, Pyramul…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mining Casualty In Cornwall

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 3

The Wheal-Owls Mine in Cornwall has been flooded, and 25 miners drowned…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Mining. the Silver Find at Peak Hill Further Rich Assays. Peak Hill

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

The silver find is still good, and several assays prove the value of silver to be from 500 oz to 1600 oz, and of gold from 130 oz per ton. The value of ore per ton is £800…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Cobar Copper Mine

National Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 2

The Cobar Herald says —" At an adjourned meeting of townsmen held on Friday evening last to consider what offer for the Cobar Copper Mine on tribute should be…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mining at Peak Hill Encouraging Prospects. Coming Crushing. From the Proprietary Mine. Peak Hill

National Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 2

The directors of the Peak Hill Proprietary Mine inspected the property to-day. The lode in the tunnel is now over eighty feet wide, and shows a prospective…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Mining Disaster. London

National Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 3

News of a terrible mining disaster comes from Cornwall, where an old shaft mine near Penzanee burst. The result was that the new shaft was flooded, and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Mining. CONDOBOLIN

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 3

A reef containing gold has been found on the river bank, in the middle of the town, and a claim has been pegged out, and is being worked…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Mining Exchange

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 2

The preliminary meeting of the shareholders in the Australian Mining Exchange decided that the company should be voluntarily wound up…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Peak Hill Gold Field. Highly Payable Ore. Important Silver Discovery.0 1700oz. SILVER 10oz. GOLD

The Bathurst Post · Sunday 15 January 1893 · page 5

PEAK HILL, Saturday.—The Peak Hill Proprietary Company has cut an immense body of highly payable ore in the tunnel which is being driven…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →