Coal
What price Ould Ireland ? Just when the Welsh miners have put a deadlook on the coal industry at that side of the world, and the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1898
716 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 12 of 36
The Shale Mines
The A.K.O. Company have just completed loading a cargo of shale, somewhere about 4000 tons having been dispatched, so that the stack on hand has a diminished appearance. A number of hands at this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opening a Whisky Mine
One [?] morning, just about dawn, to August, 1885, the steamboat Twilight was making her way cautionary on the Missouri river. Suddenly there was a jar, the boat bulged up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Burraga Copper Mine
On account of the prolonged drought the management of the Burraga copper mine has been compelled to knock off a large number of carriers who were drawing wood. The mines otherwise are working…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining News
There are altogether about 200 people employed in and about the smelting works at Dapto. Last week the prospectus of a company, to be called the Cobar Smelting and Exploration Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wattle Flat Mining
Milling is almost at a standstill here owing to the want of water. There are now five batteries hung up on that account. Numbers of local miners have gone off to try their luck in the various wet creeks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney sittings. the Coal Trades
There is a very active demand for coal for American ports. It has apparently been stimulated by the war. Many chips have been field…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Weighing Question. a Serious Outlook
The prospect of amicably settling the coal weighing difficulty docs not appear particularly bright. Both in the Newcastle and Illawarra districts the miners appear to be almost unanimous in their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Bags of Gold Dust. Robsers Hidden Treasure
The [?] " Lost Cabin of Mount Hood." Oregon, has been found, but its [?] wealth still remains unearthed. The wealth consists of two [?] of gold dust hidden by a stage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Splendid Coal Discovery. in Ireland. 2,500,000, Tons Available. London. Wednesday afternoon
An excellent coal field has been discovered in the County Antrim, Ireland. It is estimated that two and a half million tons of coal are available…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Golden Klondike. an Enormous Rush of Gold Seekers Going In. Sound Advice From an Inhabitant
In the rush towards the golden fields of the Klondike, there are thousands who are ill-fitted to stand the strain of hardship and exposure, which are inseparable from that trip. Illness,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annandale Copper Mine
Work at the Annandale Copper mine is proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily. The furnaces are going day and night, and the second track of copper will probably be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold and Blood
MANY years ago I knew a man who expanded a great part of a large fortune in buying gold, in coin and in bars. This he melted, and with human blood and other unique ingredients, laboured…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Guinea Intelligence. Rich Gold Discovery. Murder and Cannibalism
News has been received from the Gira River, New Guinea, of a fresh discovery of gold, the prospector getting loz. per day. Fourteen Bambare (New Guinea) prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Concentrates
A rich vein of gold-bearing country has been struck in the Drysdale claim at the 275ft level, and ore broken is being bagged. Bilago tributors have this week despatched…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The [?] World Disaster to Klondyke Miners Overwhelmed by an Avalanche. Nearly 200 Men Buried. Wellington Friday
News by the Vancouver steamer states that a terrible calamity occurred at Chilkoot Pass, on the road to Klondyko, on April 3. When between 150 and 200…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Concentrates
The following applications for gold-mining leased have been refused:—M.O'Shea, Sofala, 5 acres Back Creek, Crudine; G. Goldspink, Tuena, parish of Yarraman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fall in a Mine
Our Sydney correspondent notifies us that Mr. David M'Geachie, manager of the Killingworth mine, fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 200 feet, yesterday and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal-weighing Difficulty. Vote of the Miners' Lodges
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.-- Most of the miners' lodges have now voted on the report of the subcommittee of the miners' delegates dealing with the weighing question ; and, as far as can be ascertained,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Concentrates. Rockley
Four tons of stone from Quinn's " No Objection " claim at Rockley treated at the Gilmandyke battery, yielded 17dwts per ton. The concentrates and blanketings are…
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