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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1889

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Amongst the Mines. (By Our Mining Reforter.) the North Mine

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 April 1889 · page 2

AT the North Broken Hill there is very little fresh to report. At the 300ft. level they haye discontinued the crosscut, which was being driven in a westerly…

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Amongst the Mines. (By Our Mining Reporter.) Block 14

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 April 1889 · page 2

ONE thing in regard to Block 14 which has forced itself upon my observation is the sign of daily increasing prosperity observable all over the mine, from the…

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Miners' Association

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 April 1889 · page 2

THIS evening at the usual hour and at the usual place the weekly meeting of the Miners' Association will be held. It is very probable that the business to be…

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Amongst the Mines. (By Our Mining Reporter. the Silver Crescesnt

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 24 April 1889 · page 2

THE Silver Crescent mine has suspended all active operations for the present: and, so far as I can glean, there is, for the immediate future, a very gloomy…

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Miners' Hospital Bazaar

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 April 1889 · page 2

THE general committee of the Miners' Hospital Bazaar committee met at the Mechanics' Institute last night to report the progress being made with the…

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Queensland's Gold. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 April 1889 · page 3

The total gold output of the colony for last quarter was 184,931czs. Of this only 1201ozs. is reported to have been obtained from alluvial workings…

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Barrien Miner. Thursday, April 25, 1889. The Mine Valuations

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 April 1889 · page 2

MESSRS. CUE AND ISAAC, the municipal valuators, had a very large price for their work, but that work was far more extensive than very many people…

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A Sterling Discovery. the Bonanza Branch of the Main Lode. (By Our Mining Reporter.)

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 April 1889 · page 2

FOR some considerable time past it has I been customary for a certain class of people to howl down the mines upon the field which are not in a direct line between…

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Sunday Work Question. Coal Lumpers Want Double Pay. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 April 1889 · page 3

The coal lumpers have notified their employers that after to-morrow they will require to he paid 3s. per hour for working between 6 o'clock on Saturday nights…

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Caloola Tin Mine

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 2

CROSSING'S tin dressing plant at Albion Town, near Waukaroo, as announced a couple of days ago, has been running on ore from the Caloola mine, near Euriowie…

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Alleged Mine Salting. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 2

In the Equity Court yesterday in the case Merton versus the Directors of the Tarangaba Gold Mine Company, affidavits were read praying for the making void of…

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Amongst the Mines. the Bonanza. [By Our Mining Reporter.]

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 2

LAST Thursday evening there appeared a very favorable report upon the Bonanza mine in the MINER. I had carefully examined the property prior to writing that…

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Rising Sun Mine

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 2

THE half-yearly report of the Hising Sun S.M. Company has been published by the directors, and copies reached Broken Hill this morning. The directors' report…

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The Silver King Mine

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 2

NEWS has reached Broken Hill that the Silver King mine has been shut down. This property is one of the best known in the Purnamoota district, and was about…

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Miners and Printers. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 3

The miners' district officers at Newcastle recommend the forwarding of £30 per month to aid the printers who are out on strike at Brisbane…

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The Junction Mine. Half-yearly Report

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 2

THE directors of the Junction mine have issued their half-yearly report and balance sheet, from the former of which the following is taken:—"During the half-year…

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Amongst the Mines. [By Our Mining Reporter.] the Central

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 May 1889 · page 2

MY last report upon this property appeared in the MINES on April 6th last, and then I dealt somewhat exhaustively with the claim in question. I then…

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The Umberumberka Mine

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 May 1889 · page 2

THE half-yearly reports and balancesheets of the Umberumberka S.L.M. Company are not so satisfactory as could be wished. About 3000 tons of ore has…

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Amongst the Mines. [By Our Mining Reporter.] the Bonanza

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 May 1889 · page 2

THIS mine is rapidly forcing its way into prominence, partly on account of its value as a silver-bearing mine, partly because of an attempt to "bear" the market when…

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Bunchikana Tin Mine

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 May 1889 · page 2

THE general meeting of shareholders in the Bunchikana Tin Mining Company was held on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. C. Proud presiding. The balance-sheet showed £90…

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