A Rival to Coal Gas
IT is understood Mr. Kerr, M.H.R., who bought the Hooker gas patent over New Zealand for £5000, has been offered that sum for the Auckland right alone. The…
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Mining & the mines, 1887
26 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
The Extraction of Gold from Pyrites
A PLANT—for the extraction of gold from pyrites, recently porfected by Messrs. Cosmo Newbery aud Vautin (says the Melbourne Argus), may now be Been working daily at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Fairfield Mines
THE following communication, addressed to a gentleman in Grafton, was written by a friend who took some time recently making an inspection of the Fairfield mines, and coming from one who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Man[?] River Gold Reefs. Splendid Specimens of Gold
WE were yesterday shown, by Mr. John Tayler, jun., some splendid specimens of gold-bearing stone, obtained from the Prospector's claim on the Little Dora reef. The owners (Messrs. Taylor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Colliery Disaster. 85 Persons Buried Alive. 56 of Whom Are Married Men with Families. the Mine in Ruins
SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—We learn by telegram that a terrible disaster occurred at the Bulli co[?] caused by an explosion of fire damp. Eighty five miners who were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Colliery Catastrophe. the Last Awful Scenes. [By Telegraph to the Evening News]
BULLI, Friday night.—The stenes attendant upon the recovery of the bodies of the victims of the horrible explosion in the Bulli Company's mine, are harrowing in the extreme. All day long the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Colliery Disaster
SYDNEY, TUESDAY.—It is believed that all the bodies have been got out of the Bulli colliery. The mine having been inspected officially, is now closed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Examiner. Published on Tuesdays and Saturdays, at Grafton Saturday, April 2Nd, 1887. the Bulli Colliery Disaster
THERE are special risks attendant on coal mining in all parts of the world, and much as these may have been reduced by the introduction of the Davy, safety lamp, science has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold on the Beach
SEVERAL parties of mea are engaged working on the bench a few miles south of the Clarence Heads, and, it is said, are obtaining good prospeots and fair wages. The most likely country in the vicinity…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fairfield Goldfield
A CORRESPONDENT writes us that Messrs. Wm. Gollan and Petersen's claim is showing well, and widening out to about four feet, and the main shaft is now down 43 feet, with splendid well defined walls,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Settlement of Lands and Development of Goldfields
SIR.—If you would allow me space in your columns, I would like to say a few words about the settlement of lands in the back districts, and the development of our goldfields. It is a well-known fact…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Saturday Morning, 18Th June, 1887. Aids to Mining
AUSTRALIA owes much to mining. The discovery of gold brought population, settlement and wealth to these colonies which, without it, they would hare lacked for a hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Coal
A SMALL sample of the coal being obtained at the Coldstream was submitted by us for examination by Mr. T. D. Hamilton Foster, science teacher of the Board of Tecnionl Education here, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Rights as to Commonage
SIR.— After recent articles and letters in your columns as to what the miners should have and what they now have to submit to under the present Mining Law, I, as a working miner, and suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Tuesday Morning, 26Th July, 1887. The Mining Vote
PARLIAMENT has voted the sum of £15,000 to further aid mining development as a prospecting vote. Larger sums have been voted before, but in these times half a loaf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Croydon Goldfield
IN a private letter dated Croydon, June 9th, which has been placed at our disposal, says the Queenslander, Mr. C. Reese, of this city, states that since his previous note he has had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Upper Orar[?] Farmers and Miners Progress Association
A GENERAL MEETING of the Association was held at Mr. Rudder's, Coramba, on Saturday, when over 20 persons attended, and two new members joined. The President (Mr. J. Sweeney) was in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Saturday Morning, 10Th September, 1887 Mining in 1886
THE report of the Department of Mines for 1886 has but recently been issued, yet it is a publication, which is always looked into by us with much interest. There is some reason…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Geology of the Vegetable Creek Tin-mining Field
WE hare received from the Under-Secretary for Mines a neatly-printed report dealing with the geology of the tin mining country at Vegetable Greek, and a description of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Croydon Goldfield
MR. HENRY B. RINNS, who for some years was a resident of West Maitland, has written to a friend in Maitland, an account of the Croydon goldfields, Northern Queensland,…
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