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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Tasmanian Conference. HOBART

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 February 1895 · page 3

At the mining conference on Saturday the proposal to keep the Chinese off goldfields was negatived. Motions were carried in favor of the continuity…

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Gold Quartz As Metal

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 3

TEE Ballarat town council has much to contend against, and has borne its troubles with exemplary fortitude and resignation; but patience has its limits,…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Victorian News. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 3

Considerable anxiety is felt as to the future of mining at Maryborough owing to the fact that 70 hands have been paid off at the Grand Duke…

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A Coolgardie Sensation. Alleged Find of a " Mountain of Gold." Strange Story of a Slaughter of Blacks. [By Telegraph.] Perth

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 2

A strange story of the discovery of a " mountain of gold," combined with an even more extraordinary tale as to a wholesale slaughter of blacks, comes…

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Mines and Apostles. a Suggestion from Revelations

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1895 · page 3

THEY are building a new Church of England at Cue (Mnrchison, W. A.)— the Church of St. John the Evangelist. In the front wall of the Church…

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Barvier Mine[?] Thursday, February 14. Under One's Own Fig Tree

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1895 · page 2

Two days ago we printed an article in a measure despriptive of an experiment which South Australia is making in the way of an irrigation colony at…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Tasmanian Conference. HOBART

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1895 · page 2

The mining conference has concluded its sittings. Motions were carried in favor of a recommendation to the Government to introduce a clause in…

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General Cable News. The U. S. Gold Reserve. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 February 1895 · page 2

The balance of free gold in the United States Treasury is now reduced to 41,000,000 dollars, the lowest sum on record…

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A Missing Miners' Secretary

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 February 1895 · page 3

A FEW days ago it was telegraphed to the MINER from Melbourne that the secretary of the Chiltern and Rutherglen branch of the Miners'…

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MINING. The British

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 February 1895 · page 2

The manager reports for week ending February 13:—Blackwood (No. 1) shatt.—150ft. level: Main north drive driven 12ft., total length 167ft.; face…

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Coal Trade Crisis. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Saturday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 February 1895 · page 4

The miners employed in the New[?] castle Coal Company's collieries have taken a ballot as to whether they shall secede from the Amalgamated Miners'…

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Coal Trade Crisis. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Saturday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 February 1895 · page 1

The minera employed in ene Newcastle Coal Company's collieries have taken a ballot as to whether they shall secede from the Amalgamated Miners'…

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MINING. Block 14

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 February 1895 · page 2

The development at the 200ft. is likely to assume larger proportions than was anticipated. When first exposed the sulphide portion of the lode was…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Mount Lyell. HOBART

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 2

Messrs. Bowes Kelly, Jamieson, Syme, and Reid, directors, have returned from a visit to the Mount Lyell mine. They state that the…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Reported Rich Discovery in Queensland. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 February 1895 · page 2

A rich discovery of alluvial gold is alleged to have been made in the vicinity of Rockhampton. A party has brought in SOJZ of gold from the…

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Hoarded Gold Among Natives

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 February 1895 · page 3

IT mus[?] be futile (remarks the South African Financial Record, Johannesburg) to seek to estimate, because there are no statistical facilities for…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] a Find at Stawell. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 February 1895 · page 2

What appears to be a rich reef was discovered yesterday at Stawell by two men who came upon the cap of the reef while sinking at a depth of about…

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Mine Accident

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 4

IT is reported that E. W. Stuchbury, employed as a laborer at the Junction mine, met with an accident this afternoon. He was engaged in…

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MINING. The Junction North

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 2

Naturally the long-suffering shareholders are anxious to know what the Junction North directors intend doing, especially in view of the activity now…

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Mine Accident

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 February 1895 · page 1

IT is reported that E. W. Stuchbury, employed as a laborer at the Junction mine, met with an accident this afternoon. He was engaged in…

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