The Catterthun Gold
THE divers engaged at the wreck of the Catter hun are still hopeful of recovering the sunken treasure. Operations at the wreck have been hampered by [?] weather…
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Mining & the mines, 1896
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Fatal Mine Accident. Death of John Pearce
JOHN PEARCE, the miner who was injured by a fall of earth in Block ll on Saturday night, died to-day in the Broken Hill Hospital. On being received in the institution…
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Is May last it was announced that kaolin had been struck in the west crosscut south of M'Bryde shaft, block ll, at the 500ft., but the material proved low in silver…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Meetings. The Junction North and North. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Thursday Afternoon
An extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Broken Hill Junction North S. M. Company was held to-day. It was decided to carry on the present company till…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Big Mine. The Half-Yearly Meeting. Statement by the Chairman. The Outlook for Dividends. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday. [?]
The half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company was held yesterday afternoon. The chairman of directors, the Hon. D. E. M'Bryde, presided…
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The mill ran smoothly for the past fort-night with but comparatively few stoppages, treating 2499 tons crude carbonates, returning 846 tons concentrates, assaying 65…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Mining Accident. The Inquest on John Pearce
AN inquest was held to-day before Mr. Makinson, P.M., and a jury, upon the body of John Josiah Pearce, who died in the Broken Hill Hospital yesterday, in…
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A MAN named Smith was admitted to the hospital on Saturday night, suffering from an injury to the leg received while working at Block ll of the…
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Philip Holland and Son recently discovered a well defined quartz dyke near Oakleigh. A ton of the staff crashed has yielded over 50oz, of gold…
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ABOUT a dozen miners left for West Australia last night. They were mostly good, practical men, who had been working in the mines here since…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The English Coal Trade Trouble. LONDON
The Board of Conciliation, consisting of representatives of the coal miners and the [?] owners, which was constituted at the close of the last…
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Frederick Harris, a miner, employed at the Magdala-cum-Moonlight mine, Stawell, has been killed by a fall of stone in the property…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →3rd Edition Miner Office, 6 p.m. Latest Cable News. The Belgian Coal Trade. LONDON, Sunday Evening
Two coal-mines at MonS, in Belgium, have been closed owing to the increased cost of labor, and as a consequence 600 men have been thrown out…
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A MAN named Smith was admitted to the hospital on Saturday night, suffering from an injury to the leg received while working at Block ll of the…
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THE Minister for Mines (Mr. Sydney Smith) expresses much gratification at the passage of the Miners' Rights Bill (Mining Act Amendment Bill) through…
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ABOUT a dozen miners left for West Australia last night. They were mostly good, practical men, who had been working in the mines here since…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bairns Mines Tuesday, August 4, 1896. Locking the Darling
SOME time ago Parliament referred to the Standing Committee on Public Works an immature proposal for the construction of locks nnd weirs on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cable News The Belgian Coal Trade. LONDON, Sunday Evening
Two coal mines at Mons, in Belgium, have been closed owing to the increased cost of labor, and as a consequence 600 men have been thrown out of employment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining [By Telegraph.] a New Find in Victoria. MELBOURNE
A rich reef has been discovered near Seymour; it is expected to yield from 15oz. to 20oz. to the ton. Seventy men are already on the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Catter Thun's Gold. And a Monster Shark. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A wire received from the captain who is in charge of the operations for The recovery of the gold from the Catterthun wreck is to the effect that…
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