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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

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The Moving Coal Mines. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 February 1896 · page 2

The coal mines at Gouffre Mountain, in the department of Gard, in the south of France, are now moving faster; and it is feared that they will…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 February 1896 · page 2

The stopes is the western development at the 500ft. are comparatively unaltered, strong faces of friable sulphides being everywhere exposed in…

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The Central Mine

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 February 1896 · page 2

According to a Melbourne wire, the Sulphide Corporation (Ashcroft's process), in whose interests the Central Broken Hill mine was acquired, has,…

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MINING. The Junction North

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 February 1896 · page 2

Stoping is proceeding along the footwall side of the lode at the 520ft., and the timbers are close up to the Junction boundary. The lode is being…

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The W.A. Mining Act. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 February 1896 · page 2

The new Mining Act of West Australia has received the Royal assent…

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MINING. Block 14

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 March 1896 · page 2

The mill last week treated 1860 tons crudes, producing 665 tons concentrates and slimes of the usual fair assay value. The dispatches to Port Adelaide for…

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A Miners' Grievance. The Sunday Night Shift. Meeting of Underground Workers

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 March 1896 · page 2

A MEETING of underground workers in the Proprietary mine was held in the Cosmopolitan Hall yesterday evening, at 4.30 o'clock, to consider the…

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Newcastle's Troubles. Mass Meeting of Miners. A Minimum Hewing Rate Demanded. Preparations for a Strike. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 March 1896 · page 2

At a mass meeting of Newcastle miners on Saturday a resolution was passed authoring the secretaries of lodges to make a demand on the…

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Serious Mining Accidents. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 March 1896 · page 2

By an explosion of firedamp in the Golden Age mine at Scarsdale, Paton, W[?]igley, and Roberts, miners, were badly scorched, and had a narrow…

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The Mining Conference. Return of the Delegates

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 March 1896 · page 2

MESSRS. M'Glinchy and E. L. Irwin, who represented the Broken Hill and Mount Brown miners respectively at the Mining Conference in Sydney,…

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MINING. The South

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 March 1896 · page 2

The mill last week treated 1127 tons crudes, assaying from the trommels 26.8 per cent, lead, 5.5 oz. silver, and 17.1 per cent, zinc, producing 312 tons…

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MINING. The Junction: Extensive Sale of Second-grade Ore

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 March 1896 · page 2

THE stopes in the western develop ment at the 550ft. have now assumed such extensive proportions that any account of their appearance must only…

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3rd Edition Miner Office, 6 p.m. the South Mine. Half-yearly Meeting of Shareholders. Sale of Three Blocks Authorised. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 March 1896 · page 4

The fifth half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company was held this afternoon. Mr. J. F. Levin, M.L.A, chairman…

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MINING. The North

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 2

In order to get a more complete separation of the contents of the sulphides, experiments and adjustments to the machinery have been continuous, until now a product…

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The South Mine. Half-yearly Meeting of Shareholders. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 1

The fifth half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company was held this afternoon. Mr. J. F. Levien, M.L.A., chairman…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 March 1896 · page 4

ORE dispatches for the past week totalled approximately 850 tons, of which 506 tons were forwarded to Port Pirie to Messrs. G. Wills and Co. and…

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Rifle Shooting: The Gold Medal Contest

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 March 1896 · page 2

There was another good attendance at the rifle range on Saturday afternoon, when another round for the Rifle Club's annual medals was fired…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 4 p.m. Colliery Explosion. Seventy-one Lives Lost. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 March 1896 · page 4

Brief particulars are to hand of a dreadful explosion, followed by a fire, in a colliery at Kattowitz, in Austria. The miners working underground at…

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MINING. Ore Exports

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 3

The, Broken Hill Proprietary dispatches to Port Pirie for week ending March 4 were 2213 tons oxidised ore…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 1

ORE dispatches for the past week totalled approximately 850 tons, of which 506 tans were forwarded to Port Pirie to Messrs. G. Wills and Co. and…

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