MINING. Our Melbourne Letter. MELBOURNE, May 2
That platinum find at Colac, in this colony, is hanging fire. Two days after I had written my last letter to you it was emphatically affirmed that platinum had…
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Mining & the mines, 1890
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N.S.W. Parliament. Broken Hill Water Supply Bill Introduced. Lingering in a Debtor's Prison. Shirking the Mining Bill. SYDNEY
In the legislative Assembly last night a number of new bills were introduced, including a private bill to enable the Broken Hill Water Supply Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Baker's Creek Mine Jumped. SYDNEY
Three parties have pegged out the property of the Baker's Creek mine at Hillgrove, but it is believed that the companies title is quite secure…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[By Our Mining Reporter.] The Purnamoota District
Three years back the various silver shows in the Purnamoota district attracted almost leading attention, but latterly very little is heard in mining circles of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Yilgarn Goldfield. PERTH
It is reported that 120oz. of gold has been brought into the town from the Central mine at Yilgarn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Explosion and Fire. LONDON
A disastrous colliery explosion has occurred at Leigh, in Laucashire, followed by a fire. Three hundred men working below are being rescued through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold in Ireland
Gold has been discovered at Dannode, County Cork, Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mining Exhibition. Postponed till July. [By Cable.] London, Thursday (midnight.)
At the joint, request of the Australian Agents-General the opening of the Mining Exhibition has been postponed till the middle of July…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Management. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner
SIR,—The circular which the Pinnacle Tribute directors have just issued to the shareholders is one of the most barefaced and extraordinary pieces of injustice the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1St. Edition. Barrier Miner. Saturday, Mat 10,1890. Duty of Mine Managers to the Public
A CERTAIN prominent mine manager in Broken Hill has publicly stated his opinion that whenever rich develop ments are made, orany misfortunes met…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[By Our Mining Reporters] The British Mine
The slip of ground which has oocurred in this mine is not, in the manager's opinion, very serious in itself, but must necessarily interfere with the progress of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill South Mine
The depth now attained in the main shaft, commonly known as Boughtman's, on block 8, is 401ft. A rumor was in circulation this morning that the lode had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Additional Mining Reports
Mr. G. D. Gibson, who has filled the position of chief mining reporter for the Silver Age for the past two years, has been appointed on the mining staff of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. [By Cable.] Silver Bullion. LONDON
It is understood that the caucus of the Senate of the United States has abandoned the proposals made by the Republican caucus recommending the purchase,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[By Our Mining Reporters] The Central Mine
A personal inspection of the above mine this morning shows that the main west crosscut at the 400ft. level has entered the body of compact ore recently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. [By Cable.] Gold Exploration. LONDON
The reports which have reached London as to the richness of recent finds in the northern part of Western Australia have induced speculators to enter on a project…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Notes
The platinum mine said to have been discovered near Colac has received a further damaging blow from Mr. Cosmo Newbery, to whom samples of what was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Block 10. (By Our Mining Reporter.)
As will be seen by the official assay returns published elsewhere, a considerable improvement has taken place in the north drive at the 300ft. level. The ore,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[By Our Mining Reporters] The Junction
THIS mine may not be inaptly described as the pons asinorum of the Barrier. That is to say, it is perhaps the most difficult of all our mines of which to obtain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Mine Accident. Two Men Killed. a Fall of 200 Feet
THE Broken Hill Extended mine was early this morning the scene of a shocking double fatality. Two men, named respectively William Henry Holder and…
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