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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines
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A conference was held at the offices of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company this morning, after the arrival of the express from Adelaide, between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Cosmo Newbery, C.M.G, of the Technological Museum and Laboratory, Melbourne, who has been making inquiries on behalf of the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nearly 400oz. of gold have been obtained from the Ologan mine, in Merionethshire, North Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OPERATIONS were commenced this morning on the second contract under the recently introduced system of open cute. The high bluff immediately to the south…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is reported that a gold-bearing reef, from 4 to 14 inches wide, has been opened at Sudest, on the New Guinea coast. Good gold shows in it freely. Assays of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Junction Smelting Works, Port Adelaide, have been taken on lease by the Australian Smelting and Refining Company, Dry Creek, for three months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE shaft is now down 853ft., the men during the week having been principally engaged in timbering. Another contract has been tendered for to sink an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A NEST of nine furnaces at the Proprietary north smelters was shut down this morning for about half an hour to make connection with a new blower. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The mine is looking as well as ever. At 515ft. a plat is being cut preparatory to sinking a winze abont 200ft. south from Kelly's shaft and 50ft south west…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Miners' Federation, sitting at Stoke-upon-Trent, and representing 178,000 men, has decided to await the action of Parliament on the eight hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A nugget weighing 18oz., which was found embedded in quartz, has been brought in from the Annem field at Murchison…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The only mine which cleaned up last week was the Earl of Hopetoun, where 10 days' crushing of 250 tons gave 180oz. of smelted gold. The new reef so profitably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is now believed that the miners entombed at Bailieatone Colliery, Glasgow, will be rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This mine exhibits no change since last week. All its workings and ramifications therefrom are still looking healthy, and the requisite amount of ore wanted is to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. W. R. Knox, secretary of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, telegraphed on Monday to the Adelaide office of the company as follows:—"No…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since last week no change of any particular importance has taken place in the Central mine. At the same time the necessary quantity of ore for furnacing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Government has received a telegram from the warden at the Pillbarra goldfield, stating that rich alluvial has been discovered in the vicinity of Coongan[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Though there is nothing fresh in the way of discoveries to report in this mine, the property in all its various workings is looking well. The 200ft[?] level is [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Randolph Adams, one of the best, known American mine managers outside of Broken Hill, and formerally of Webb's silver mine, in the New England district,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →That some of the rarer metals are to be found on the Barrier field has in several cases already been satisfactorily proved, and that more of a similar character are…
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