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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

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Mining [By Telegraph.] a Northern Territory Mining Project. Port Darwin

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 June 1896 · page 2

Mr. Bradshaw, a local resident, is applying for a lease of 20,000 square miles of land in Carpentaria with special mineral concessions. It is…

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The Coal Trade Crisis. [By Telegraph[?]] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 June 1896 · page 2

There does not appear to be the slightest prospect of an early settlement of the coalminers' strike in the Newcastle district…

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MINING The North

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 June 1896 · page 2

Banning four days and 11 hours the mill treated last week 450 tons erodes, returning 105 tons concentrates, assaying in bulk 68'5 per cent…

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Barrier Miner. Tuesday, June 30, 1896. Coal and Silver

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 June 1896 · page 2

"THERR seems to be no prospect of an early settlement of the cool miners' strike," a telegram ran yesterday. The Newcastle miners evidently…

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The Mining Registrar. Successful1 Protest Against Removal

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 June 1896 · page 4

WHEN Mr. Hammond, the mining registrar and warden's clerk for Broken Hill, received a notification from the Public Service Board that his offices…

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Fearful Colliery Disaster. One Hundred Men Entombed in Pennsylvania. Ko Hope of Reseue. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 June 1896 · page 2

A brief despatch from New York reports that a terrible disaster has occurred in the Wilks Barre colliery, in pennsylvania…

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Mining Disaster in America. Collapse of a Mine Roof. 100 Miners Entombed. London, June 29

Western Grazier · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 2

The roof of the W[?]ksbare mine, in Pennsylvania, has collapsed. A hundred miners are entombed in the workings, and their reseue is…

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The Labor Market. Statement by Victorian Miners

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 2

AMONG the Victorian miners Who Were brought over to Broken Hill were 74 from Maldon, in the Bendigo district; and two of them last evening presented…

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Mining [By Cable.] The White Cliffs Opal Mining Company. The Shares Allotted. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 2

The shares in the White Cliffs Opal Mining Company, formed to work the blocks acquired) at White Cliffs, N.S.W., have been allotted…

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The Mining Registrar. Successful Protest Against Removal

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 1

WHEN Mr. H[?] the mining registrar and warden's clerk for Broken Hill, received a notification from the Public Service Board that his offices…

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Mining Fatality. a Fall Down a Shaft

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 2

A SHOCKING mining disaster occurred yesterday afternoon in the Maybell district. It appears that Mr. John W. Harris, licensee of the Criterion…

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The Coal Trade Crisis

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 July 1896 · page 2

MR. WISE, secretary of the Barrier branch of the A. M. A., has received a copy of " a special appeal to the miners and other trade unionists in…

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Mining [By Telegraph.] The Victorian Mining Kevival. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 July 1896 · page 2

An influential English syndicate has been granted a lease of 8000 acres at Talbot for mining purposes. The principals are understood to be the…

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Bairns Mines Thursday, July 2, 1896. the Pope's Latest Encyclical

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 July 1896 · page 2

POPE LEO XIII, has signalised the celebration of the anniversary of St. Peter, whose successor in the primacy of the Chriscian Church he claims to…

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MINING The Junction North

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 July 1896 · page 2

STOPING is resumed at the back of the 470ft., where friable ore in fair quantity is being mined from the fifth floor towards the Junction boundary. A little seconds is being…

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Mining Fatality at Eldorado. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 July 1896 · page 2

In the Kneebone mine at Eldorado yesterday afternoon, two miners named W. Smith and W. Temen were engaged at the 90ft. level in putting in new bearers in a pump…

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The Coal Trade Crisis. Mr. Reid Invites Another Conference. [By Telegsaph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 July 1896 · page 3

The Premier (Mr. Reid) has issued an invitation to the Newcastle colliery proprietors asking them to again meet him in a conference on Monday next with a view to a…

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Regulation of British Coal Mines. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 July 1896 · page 2

The Coal Mines Regulation Act Amendment Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons last evening without a division. The principal object of the bil…

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A Mining "Float"

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 July 1896 · page 3

ADOLPH DE IA COUR RUSSELL, merchant, of Melbourne, was instrumental in selling a West Australian property to European capitalists; and the latter, not being…

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Mining [By Telegraph.] Rewards for New Fields. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 July 1896 · page 2

With a view to assisting towards the profitable absorption of the unemployed the Minister for Mines has offered £500 as a reward for the discovery of a new reefing…

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