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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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The Colorado Mines

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 July 1893 · page 1

The announcement made in the First Edition, that the Colorado silver mines—"every mine in the State"— had closed might naturally be expected…

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The Newcastle Collieries. The Wallsend Ceases Work. Further Dismissals at the Cooperative. [By Telegraph.] Newcastle, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 July 1893 · page 4

The Wallsend colliery will cease work tonight. The horses, tools, &c., were all brought up to-day. Two hundred and fifty miners will be thrown…

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[By Telegraph.] The Prospects of the Barrier Mines. MELBOURNE, Saturday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 July 1893 · page 1

It is now semi-officially stated that, so far as the Proprietary mine is concerned, there need be no apprehension of closing down. Silver will have to…

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The Newcastle Collieries. [By Telegraph.] Newcastle, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 July 1893 · page 4

The proprietors of the Lambton Colliery have given notice that they will secede from the Coal Proprietors' Association at the end of the year…

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[By Telegraph.] Stoppage of Queensland Mines. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 July 1893 · page 3

The Montalbion silver mines and smelting works, in the Herberton district, owned by an English company, have been closed—it is believed finally,…

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The Newcastle Collieries. The Wallsend Ceases Work. Further Dismissals at the Cooperative. [By Telegraph.] Newcastle, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 July 1893 · page 1

The Wallsend colliery will cease work to-night. The horses, tools, &c., were all brought up to-day. Two hundred and fifty miners will be thrown…

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The Newcastle Collieries. [By Telegraph.] Newcastle, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 July 1893 · page 1

The proprietors of the Lameton Colliery have given notice that they will secede from the Coal Proprietors Association at the end of the year…

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Colliery Explosion. 1[?]0 Men Entombed. [By Cable.] London, Tuesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 July 1893 · page 4

News has just been received of an explosion of fire damp in the Thornhill colliery, in Scotland. One hundred and forty miners were cut off from…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Wahai Mine. AUCKLAND

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 July 1893 · page 3

The Wahai mine has fur the past month crashed 1600 tons argentiferous gold stone, yielding bullion valued at £4600…

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The Colliery Disaster. The Entombed Miners Perish. The Pit on Fire. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 July 1893 · page 2

The whole of the 140 miners who, as previously cabled, were cut off by an explosion of firedamp in the Thornhill colliery, Scotland, have perished,…

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The Newcastle Miners' Attitude

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 July 1893 · page 3

The northern miners intend to abstain from assisting in any way the maritime bodies daring the strike (says a Sydney message to the Advertiser)…

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Colliery Explosion. [By Cable.] London, Tuesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 July 1893 · page 1

News has just been received of an explosion of fire damp in the Thornhill colliery, in Scotland. One hundred and forty miners were cut off from…

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The Silver Crisis. the Price of the Metal. the Colorado Mines. Four More Banks Suspend. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 2

There is no change in the price of silver. It is stated that there are now 314 mines in the State of Colorado closed…

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Mount Morgan Mine. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 July 1893 · page 3

The annual report of the Mount Morgan G. M. Company shows that the years dividends amounted to £300,000, and that the expenditure…

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Silver and Lead. [By Telegraph.] The British Mine. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 July 1893 · page 3

The local directors of the British Broken Hill held a meeting yesterday afternoon, when the aspect of affairs as changed by the improvement in the…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] One of the Unemployed. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 July 1893 · page 3

William Gibson, while in quest of employment, went to the new rush at Wood's Point. In a week he has fossicked £40 worth of nuggets…

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Barrier Miner. Wednesday, July 12, 1893. the Mine Landlord's Toll

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 2

THE miners of the world, those working in gold perhaps alone excepted, appear to be now almost everywhere sailing upon troubled waters…

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Accident at the Big Mine. Four Men Affected by Dynamite Fumes. One Serious Case

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 4

SEVERAL men working on contract in a tunnel off M'Culloch's shaft, at the Proprietary mine, became seriously affected by dynamite fumes to-day. It…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Reported Rich Find in West Australia. PERTH

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 2

News is to hand of extraordinarily rich stone having been found on Robertson and M'Farlane's lease, two and a half miles from Bayley's, at…

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The Huanchaca Mine. Broken Hill's Rival

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 July 1893 · page 4

A CABLE message published the other day stated that of all the South American silver mines it was expected that the Huanchaca alone would…

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