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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1889

281 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 15

The North Mine. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 March 1889 · page 3

The telegram concerning the very unsatisfactory condition of the North mine, posted at the MINER, branch office this morning, created an immensesensation…

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Mount Browne Gold. WILCANNIA

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 March 1889 · page 3

News comes from Mount Browne that the Sons of Freedom party have washed 37 loads of earth for 28ozs. of gold. Their shaft is down 180ft, and it was at…

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The Eaglehawk Mine

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 2

IT is a rule with the mine managers that when one of them leaves a property of which he has had charge, it is his right to call upon the association to send three…

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The North Mine. Water Coming in Freely

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 2

NOTHING fresh in the way of development in regard to the North mine has occurred yet. The crosscut is being continued, and water is coming in very freely. This fact…

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Barrier Miner. Saturday, March 16, 1889. Mining Prospects

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 2

WE have to face the fact, unpleasant as it may be, that all is not so well with the Barrier mines as we usually try to persuade ourselves it is. To…

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A Coal Ring. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 March 1889 · page 2

Steps are being taken to form a gigantic syndicate, with a capital of one hundred millions, to acquire the collieries in the north of England…

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Lady Ethel Mine

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 March 1889 · page 2

THE manager reports that the latest news from this mine, with samples of ore from the shaft, are very encouraging, some stones of very high percentage of copper…

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The South Mine

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 March 1889 · page 2

MR. J. J. WESTON, legal manager of the Broken Hill South Silver mine, wrote in Sydney as follows with reference to telegrams announcing the discharge of…

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Coal Mining. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1889 · page 3

The Coal Association has resolved to agitate for the imposition of a protective duty upon coal and the increase of the coal prospecting vote to £20,000…

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The Burra Mine

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1889 · page 2

IT was announced some time ago (writes our Burra correspondent) that the Burra Copper mine had been sold to an English syndicate in London for the sum of…

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Miners' Rights. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1889 · page 3

A little time back the manager of the Linwood Colliery discharged a man for disobeying orders. The man was afterwards elected by the Miners' Lodge…

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Mining Directors

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1889 · page 2

BAY, [?]iniler, if You had the chance of framing your own destiny, what would you be while wandering round on this terrostral mud heap—a prince of the blood,…

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The Mining Laws

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1889 · page 2

SIR HENRY PARKES has apparently at last awakened to the knowledge that a great change in the mining law of the colony is required with as little delay as possible…

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Amongst the Mines. [By Our Mining Reporter.] the Victoria Cross

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1889 · page 2

AT this mine nothing of any importance has recently occurred. The work is confined to the main engine shaft, which is in very hard country. It is not known…

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The Balmoral Mine

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1889 · page 2

A SHORT time ago it was announced that five tons of representative ore had been shipped from the Balmoral mine for treatment at Port Adelaide by the English and…

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The New Era Mine. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1889 · page 3

The New Era Gold Mine was offered for sale yesterday. There was only one bid, and that was at £300. The property was, therefore, withdrawn. Investors…

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Amongst the Mines. [By Our Mining Reporter.] Block 11

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1889 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the No. 11 block is as much a part and portion of the Proprietary mine as any other owned by the company, still it has come to be spoken of as almost…

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Copper Mine Closed. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1889 · page 2

One hundred men will be discharged to-morrow from Mr. D. Lloyd's Burraga copper mines owing to the depression in the market for the metal…

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The Gem Mine

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 March 1889 · page 2

THE engine and winding gear lately erected on the Gem (late the Bobbie Burns) mine made a trial start on Friday last. Everthing went smoothly and well,…

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The Press and the Mines

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 March 1889 · page 2

IT is understood that those in charge of the Broken Hill North mine have removed the embargo placed upon representatives of the Press in so far as to…

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