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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1890

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The North Queensland Mines. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 2

Twenty-two cwt. from the Orchid mine, near Mackay, returned at Footscray 118oz. 5dwt. gold. No. 1 North Phoenix, treated 2400 tons for 1126oz…

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(By Our Mining Reporter.) The Central

Barrier Miner · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 2

Rumor with its hundred tongues was again busy late last night and early this morning, relating how the lode had been struck at the 400ft. level of this mine…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Block 10. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 2

The manager of Block 10 reports, under date March 20:—"Bulk assay from bagged ore yesterday, 265oz. silver and 8 per cent. lead; to-daa (Thursday), 196oz…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] New Gold Mining Venture. SYDNEY, Thursday afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 3

The Bright Smile Gold Mining Company, Thames, New Zealand, was placed on the Sydney market to-day…

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Notice to Mine Managers

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

All Mine Managers are hereby notified that, to insure insertion in the BARRIER MINER of their usual periodical reports of the progress of the works under their charge, the information must hear the full title…

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Mining Notes

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

A meeting of the Rob Roy S.M. Syndicate was held at Elliott's Hotel last night, Mr. J. M'Gregor presiding over a small audience. The chairman reported that…

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The Waukaringa Mines. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

The fortnight's crushing of the Alma and Victoria is 208ozs. from 400 tons…

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The Gympie Mines. BRISBANE, Saturday afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 3

News from Gympie states that ten mines were flooded during the recent heavy rains.. In most cases the managers by puddling prevented the shafts from…

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A Coal Discovery. SYDNEY, Saturday afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 3

Coal has been strucK at Moorebank Estate, near Liverpool, at 2450ft…

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(By Our Mining Reporter.) The Imperial

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 3

I saw Mr. Elsbury, of the above mine, this morning. He informed me that the west crosscut from the main shaft at the 400ft. level was how in 68ft., and that…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Jiunetion North: Increase of Capital. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

At an extraordinary general meeting of the Junction North Company yesterday afternoon an increase of capital from £100,000 to £180,000 was authorised…

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Mining Notes

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 March 1890 · page 2

The mine manager of the Baker's Creek Company telegraphed on Friday morning: Night foreman just reported cut good stone Barnfield's Tunnel. Have waited…

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Notice to Mine Managers

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 March 1890 · page 2

All Mine Managers are hereby notified that, to sore insertion in the BARRIER MINER of their usual riodical reports of the progress of the works under charge, the information must bear the full title…

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Women in Mines. LONDON, Sunday (midnight)

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 March 1890 · page 3

The International Labor Conference, which is sitting at Berlin, has passed an emphatic resolution against the employment of female labor in mines…

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The Central. (By Our Mining Reporter.)

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 March 1890 · page 3

"THERE is nothing fresh," remarked Mr. Thomas when I interviewed him this afternoon. The west crosscut at the 400ft. level is in 52ft., and progress is…

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Broken Hill to Mona Lena. The New Sliver Find. (By Our Mining Reporter.) No. I.

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 March 1890 · page 2

IT will be recollected that a paragraph appeared in the MINER a few months ago to the effect that an immense silver-bearing ironstone lode had been discovered…

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A Coal-mining Dispute. SYDNEY, Tuesday afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 March 1890 · page 3

The miners at the Wallarah colliery, near Newcastle, are on strike because the manager refuses to give the district hewing rate…

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Notice to Mine Managements

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 March 1890 · page 2

All Mine Managers are hereby notified that, to insure insertion in the BARRIER MINER of their usual periodical reports of the progress of the works under their charge, the information must bear the full title…

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Mining NOtes

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 March 1890 · page 2

A cable message in the Register announces that the shares in the Glen Osmoud Silver and Lead Co. of South Australia has been allotted…

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Mining. (By Ocr Minig Reporter.) The Imperial

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 March 1890 · page 3

The western crosscut at the 400ft. level at this mine is now in 73ft. froni the shaft. A vein of galena 3ft. wide has been passed through, a bulk assay from…

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