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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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TOOWOOMBA, Sunday Night. Affairs in the Colliery District

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 3

Affairs are reported to be in bad plight at the villages of Blackstone and Bundamba, in tlie colliery district surrounding Ipswich…

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BRISBANE, Sunday Night. The State of the Capital. Another Calamitous Flood. Coal Runs Short. The Streets in Darkness. Several Drowning Fatalies. More Bridges Washed Away

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 February 1893 · page 3

Heavy rain, accompanied by a gale, again set in on Friday night, and continued on Saturday. Its effects were soon felt in a renewal of the late…

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MINING. [By TELEGRAPH.] Tin Find in Queensland. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

Tin has been discovered on the Emerald. Three claims have been pegged out, and the prospects of the rush are reported to be good…

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2nd EDITION Miner Office, 4.30 p.m. Late Cable News. Mining Disaster in Austria. LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 3

Telegrams from Austria report a serious mining disaster at Skalitz, which resulted from an explosion of gases due to defective ventilation…

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A Colliery Strike

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 February 1893 · page 2

MR. G. HENDERSON, secretary of the Illawarra district, A.M.A., has communicated with the Barrier district in reference to the dispute at the…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 2

THE leases covering portions 20 and 27, parish Robe, held by W. A. Turnbull and anorher, are cancelled The directors of the Broken Hill…

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Barrier Miner. Saturday, February 25. the South Mine

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 2

WITH its neighbor, the Central, so long idle and with operations suspended on the other side of it also, it is hardly to be wondered at that the…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 February 1893 · page 3

AN experimental plants to cost £1200, is now being erected at Block 10, after plans prepared by Captain Warren, for the treatment of the…

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Gold in the Far North. Phenomenally Rich Stone

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 February 1893 · page 4

OUR Adelaide correspondent telegraphed on Saturday that it was reported there that a gold find had been made in the MacDonnell Ranges, in…

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The Big Mine. 10,000 Shares on the London Market, The Banks Responsible. [By Telegraph.] Adedaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 February 1893 · page 4

A cable message received at the Advertiser and Express office is to the effect that 10,000 Broken Hill shares have been placed on the London…

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Gold in the Far North. Phenomenally Rich Stone

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 4

OUR Adelaide correspondent telegraphed on Saturday that it was reported there that a gold find had been made in the MacDonnell Ranges, in…

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The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— the Big Mine. 10,000 Shares on the London Market. [By Telegraph.] Adedaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 4

A cable message received at the Advertiser and Express office is to the effect that 10,000 Broken Hill shares have been placed on the London…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Koh-i-Noor Company. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 March 1893 · page 2

At a meeting of shareholders in the Koh-i-Noor Gold and Silver Mining Company, the report and balancesheet were adopted. Mr. Badgery,…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 March 1893 · page 2

THE fifth half-yearly meeting of the Yongaleatha Marble, Flag, and Flux Company was held at Broken Hill Chambers, Adelaide, on Tuesday. Mr…

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The Proposed Colliery Suspension. LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 March 1893 · page 3

A conference of the bodies affiliated with the British Miners' Federation has rejected the advice of the executive in favor of a month's suspension…

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Mr. John Howell. Presentation by the Associated Mines. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 2

The executive of the Broken Hill Associated Mining Companies assembled yesterday afternoon, at the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Central Company. Statement by the Chairman. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 2

A special meeting of shareholders in the Broken Hill Central S. M. Company was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of rescinding certain…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 2

The following leases have been cancelled:—T. Wheatley, 83, Picton; C. Porter, 31, Sebastopol. The manager of the Victoria Tower…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Two Miners Killed at Bendigo. A Third Expected to Die [By Telegraph.]

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday Afternoon. Two miners, named James O'Brien and Oliver Glanville, were killed by an explosion at the 680ft. level of the…

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The Late Strike. The Victorian Miners' View. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 March 1893 · page 2

The Victoriaa Miners' Conference, at Creswick, yesterday afternoon, passed a resolution in which it expressed admiration for the conduct of…

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