The Wadnaminga Gold Field
The gold prospector in Sooth Australian territory deserves more sympathy than he, judging from past experience, is likely to receive. He plods away daily month after…
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Mining & the mines, 1897
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MINING. The Junction North
THE shipments last week comprised approximately 270 tons milling ore to Block 14 locally, and 100 tons shipping salphides to Port Pire. Exploratory worK underground…
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A BOY named O'Dea, aged about 16, met with a serious accident at the concentrating works on the Big mine on Saturday evening. He was cleaning…
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At a meeting of the Old American Quartz Mining Syndicate, held at Player's Hotel last night, with Mr. R. Stewarb in the chair, it was resolved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BLOCK 12 FIRE. Chat with Mr. M'Bryde. Reassuring Statements. The Latest from the Mine and Elsewhere
HIGHLY satisfactory news continues to come from below at the Big mine this morning. Mr. Stewart, general manager, says that good progress is…
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The River Yukon is frezen over, and the conveyance of supplies to the Klondyke goldfields by this route has consequently been stopped…
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The mill had a consistent ran last week, treating 700 tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 27 5 per cent. lead, 6.9oz. silver, and…
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I HALTED at the gate of a pretty bush residence, which answered to the description supplied me, and asked of the lady whom I found enthusiastically…
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By an accident at a gold mine in Winras 40 men have been killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Crashed to Death in a Colliery. SYDNEY, Tuesday Evening
A Wollongong telegram reports that Benjamin Drew, an employee in the Mount Keira colliery, was shunting, and while detaching the waggon he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire at the Proprietary Mine. Outbreak in Block 12. Three Men Suffocated. Broken Hill
The town was again thrown into gloom yesterday by the whistle, sounding an alarm of fire in the Proprietary mine. Smoke came out in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Political. [By Telegraph.] Victoria. Tributors and the New Mining Laws. MELBOURNE
The Assembly met yesterday for about 20 minutes and adjourned until Tuesday next. Mr. Hamilton (Bendigo) said, when a few clerical errors…
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The River Yukon is frozen over, and the conveyance of supplies to the Klondyke goldfields by this route has consequently been stopped…
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A MEETING of the subscribers to the Stirling Goldmining Syndicate was held at the Miner's Arms Hotel last night, with Mr. Higgins in the chair…
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THE Chinese on the western side of the Malay Peninsula are putting into practice the old adage, "Necessity is the mother of invention" The latest…
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BLOCK 10, to September 8.—Campbell shaft—615ft. level: Nothing new at this level; sulphide stopes continue to yield ore of usual grade; assays, 17.9oz silver,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lucknow Strike. The Directors Decline to Interfere. Additional Police Sent to Lucknow. The Miners Indignant. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The Mayor of Orange has received the following cable message:—"My directors instruct me to acknowledge receipt of your cablegram, that…
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As our cablegrams have announced a crisis has arisen in the Pennsylvania coal strike. The latest despatch to the San Francisco Chronicle, received by the last American…
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The mill ran fairly well last week, treating 950 tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 122oz. silver, 24 per cent. lead, and 14 per cent, zinc, returning 190…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ven[?]lation in Mines. a Creswick Invention
MESSRS Williams and Gibson, of Coswick, claim to have solved the foolaird fibalty in alluvial mides. Instead of introducing vast volumes of air…
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