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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] The Maestries Mines. LAUNCESTON

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 May 1892 · page 2

Nine hundred tons of ore have been raised at the Maestries mine, Dundas, assaying 29oz. silver and 36 per cent. lead and iron; 400 tons have been…

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Stray Notes. Mine and Other Contracts

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 May 1892 · page 2

ON Wednesday I wrote a few notes based upon a letter headed "Work at the Mines," and signed "A Barrier Miner, of 10 Years Standing," which…

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West Australian Mining. PERTH

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 May 1892 · page 2

The officer in charge of the Government boring operations at the Collie coalfields reports that the bore has come upon a seam of coal 17ft. 3in…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] Gold Rush in Queensland

Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 May 1892 · page 2

The warden at Hazeldene wires to the Mines Department that much excitement has been caused by a discovery of gold at Percy River, and over 20…

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Mining Notes

Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 May 1892 · page 2

"The cheapness of siver has resulted," says the London Times of April 1, "in the closing of operations at the Aspen mine, Colorado, and the…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] The Hillgrove Mines. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 May 1892 · page 2

A trial crushing of 14 tons of stone from the Eleanora mine, taken from the winze at the 300ft. level, has yielded 5oz. 14dwt. of gold per ton…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] Victorian Mining. The Department's Annual Report. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 May 1892 · page 2

The annual (1891) report of the mining department has just been issued. In it the secretary (Mr. A. W. Howitt) says that "during the…

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Mining Note

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 2

The manager of the Tarrawingee Flux and Tramway Company reports that the quantity of flux sent away during the fortnight was 5536 tons,…

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Work at the Mines. The Contract System

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 3

As will be seen by the report elsewhere of a meeting of the underground branch of the A. M. A. held lest night, the Press was excluded on the motion of Mr. R…

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Work at the Mines. The Contract Question

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 4

IT has now been decided that a spacial meeting of the underground branch of the A. M. A. shall be held at the Town Hall, on Thursday night, at 7 30 p m., "to…

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The Water Supply. The Position of the Mines

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 2

AT the meeting of shareholders in Block 14, held in Adelaide on Monday (writes our correspondent) the question of water supply was frequently…

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[By Our Mining Reporter.] The South

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 2

The large carbonate lode between the hauling and main shafts at the 400ft. level of the mine is still showing remarkably well, the various faces…

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Mining Intelligence. The Queen's Birthday United. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 2

The prospectus of the Queen's Birthday United Gold Mining Company, Malmsbury, Victoria, has been issued. The capital is £150,000…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Our Mining Reporter.] Block 5

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 May 1892 · page 3

Block 5 is now one of the deepest shafts on the Barrier, and, though much prospecting has been done, nothing like a well-defined lode has yet been met with…

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Work at the Mines. The Contract System. Large Meeting of Miners. Agreement to be Strictly Upheld

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 2

The Town Hall was filled last night by a large and most orderly meeting of the underground branch of the A. M. A., called to consider the…

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Mining Note

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 2

It is reported in town that very good tin oxide has been struck at the 200ft. level in the Wheal Byjerkerno mine. This is below water level…

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The Hillgrove Mines. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 2

At the West Sunlight mine the winding plant for the tramway, has been finished and is being covered in. The permanent way has been laid half way…

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Work at the Mines. A. M. A. Officers Interview Mr. Lane

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 3

The officers of the A.M.A interviewed Mr. Lane this afternoon, and the result, as stated by the latter in an interview now being had with him by a MINER…

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Work at the Mines. Interview with Mr. Lane. Infringement of the Rules Denied

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 4

MESSRS. JOSIAH THOMAS, president, and Mr. A. J. O'Connell, secretary, of the Broken Hill branch of the A. M A. had an interview this afternoon with Mr. Z…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.]. a Good Gympie Yield. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 2

Four weeks' crushing from 757 tons at the North Smithfield mine, Gympie, yielded 1844oz. gold. A dividend of 2s. 3d. per share has been declared…

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