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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1890

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Victorian Gold Returns. MELBOURNE, Saturday (night)

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 3

The following are the principal gold returns for the fortnight:—Maryborough —Working Miners, 192oz.; Sandhurst— Shamrock, 220oz.; Rose of Denmark,…

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The Block 10 Mine. Work to Be Stopped. Melbourne, Saturday (afternoon.)

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 3

The latest official advices from Block 10 state that it is the intention of the manager to discontinue work in the north drive and wait until the water is drained…

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

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 2

THE work of developing this mine is being carried on in a legitimate fashion. There is at the present time nothing to warrant a boom on the company's stock, neither…

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Mining Notes

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 2

THE amount of gold received at the mint in Melbourne for the year 1889 was 761,615,91oz., and the value of gold coin and bullion issued therefrom during the…

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The British Mine. An Attempt to Rig the Market

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 3

THIS morning early an effort was made by some of the share jobbing fraternity to create a false boom in British stock. A report was most industriously circulated…

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Barrier Miner. Monday, January 20, 1890. The Mining Inspector

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 2

A FORTNIGHT ago Government advertisements were inserted in the MINER inviting, applications from persons qualified for the position of…

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Barrier Miner. Tuesday, January 21, 1890. Mine versus Town

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 2

ONE question—the most important question of all which the forthcoming municipal elections are to decide is whether the mine element in the…

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Mining Journalism under Suspicion. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 3

At the Middlesex Sessions, Messrs. Clade Marks and S. Woolf, joint proprietors of the Mining Record, and J. Marix, of the Financial Times, were charged…

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The Junction Mine. The Directors Reply to the Miner. MELBOURNE, Wednesday afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 3

The Board of directors of the Junction mine announce, in reply to the BARRIER MINER'S recent criticism, that the delay in starting their smelters is due entirely…

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Mining Notes

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 January 1890 · page 2

OUR Melbourne correspondent advises that the Argus S.M. Co. has now been completely floated. A meeting of the directors was held on Monday, when it…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 5 p.m. The Lambton Colliery. NEWCASTLE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 January 1890 · page 3

The manager of the Lambton Colliery has refused to allow a joint inspection of the mine. The colliery his just resumed work after having been idle for a week…

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Miners' Disease

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 3

WE are in receipt from the author, Dr. N. Sisca, of Victoria, of a copy of a little work just published entitled "Miners" Disease; What it is, its Causes, and…

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The Coal Lumpers' Dispute. Warburton and son Still Boycotted. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 3

Nothing further of a definite character has occurred to alter the position of the parties in the dispute now existing between the coal lumpers and Messrs…

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The Junction Mine. MELBOURNE, Saturday afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 3

The manager of the Junction wires that in sinking the winze the chloride shoot at the 150ft. level was found very rich, native silver showing. He is…

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Argus Mine

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 January 1890 · page 2

CERTAIN very fine-looking specimens have been shown to us as coming from this property, which adjoins the Eaglehawk claim on the east, and, as will be seen by…

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Mining Notes

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 January 1890 · page 2

MR. HENRY MORRIS wired from Wilcannia late on Saturday evening as follows:— "The 5 tons quartz from Watson and Ritching's claim, Cawker's Well, gave…

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Black Prince Mine

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 January 1890 · page 2

ONE hundred and nineteen bags of silver ore, weighing 5 tons 16cwt., value £61, left Silverton on Saturday for the E. and A. Company's Works, Port Adelaide…

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Angus Silver Mining Company, Limited

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 January 1890 · page 2

OWING to a large amount of dissatisfaction existing amongst shareholders regarding the present position of this company, a meeting of shareholders, convened at the…

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Black Prince Mine

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 2

A SECOND pardel of ore for this week of 84 bags, weighing 5 tons 8cwt., value £35, was despatched to Port Adelaide yesterday…

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The School of Mines. Appointment of a Drector

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 2

OUR Melbourne correspondent telegraphs that he has been informed by Mr. Dowling, late secretary of the Technical Board of New South Wales, that the…

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