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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

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Mine Accident at Mitchell's Greek. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 2

George Fahy, a miner employed at mitchell's Creek Freehold Gold mine, has been carried into the hospital at Wellington, soffering from a broken…

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Killed by a Fall of Earth in a Mine. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 2

A telegram from Coarten Towers reports a fatal accident in the Long Tunnel Be ward claim. Constable Booth was in the level looking at the…

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Mine Accident in Sicily, Forty Miners Killed. London, Sept. 27

Western Grazier · Wednesday 29 September 1897 · page 2

Forty mi[?]s have been killed in a sulphur mine in Sicily by a full of earth…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 29 September 1897 · page 2

APPLICATIONS for the following M.Ls, have been lodged with the mining registrar:—H. J. Wiseman, portion 104, parish of Nadbuck, 40…

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Miners Bound for Klondike. Sydney

Western Grazier · Wednesday 29 September 1897 · page 3

A number of minors bound for the Klondike goldfields have booked passages by the Alameda…

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MINING. The South Mine

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 2

MR. H. BARRON RODWAY, of Adelaide has issued another circular in connection with the management of the South mine. He says a large number of…

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Killed by a Fall of Coal. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 2

Thomas M'Clory, a miner working in the Wallsend colliery, has been crashed to death by a fall of coal…

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The Mining Exhibition. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 4

Sir Somers Vine arrived by the R.M.S. China this morning for the purpose of interviewing the marions Governments on the subject of the colonies' representation at the…

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Fire at a Lucknow Mine. £1000 Damage Done. Due to an Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 4

The engine, machinery, and sheds of the Wentworth Extended mine at Lucknow were totally destroyed by fire to-day. She fire was due to an accident. The damage is…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 2

DESPITE numerous stoppages last week the mill treated 870 tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 11.77oz. silver, 23 per cent. lead, and 17 per cent. zinc,…

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Fall in a Colliery. No One Injured. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 4

A fall occurred in the Wickham and Futlock Island colliery, Newcastle, this morning. One hundred and twenty miners were in the pit at the time of the…

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The Mining Exhibition. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 1

Sir Somers vine arrived by the R.M.S. China this morning for the purpose of interviewing the various Governments on the subject of the colonies' representation at the…

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Fire at a Lucknow Mine £1000 Damage Done. Due to an Accident [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 1

The engine, machinery, and sheds of the Wentworth Extendel mine at Lucknow were totally destroyed by fire to-day. The fire was due to an accident. The damage is…

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Creep in a Coal Mine. Sydney

Western Grazier · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 2

A creep occurred in the Wickham (Bullock Island) Colliery this morning. There were 120 men below at the time, but all managed to reach…

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The Export of Gold

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 4

THE R.M.S. Alameda, which left Sydney on September 27 for San Francisco, took away 80 boxes of gold specie to the value of £400,000. The Union Bank of Australia…

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Fall in a Colliery. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 1

A fall occurred in the Wickham and Bullock Island colliery, Newcastle, this morning. One hundred and twenty miners were in the pit at the time of the…

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MINING. The Junction North

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 2

A decided improvement ia now noticeable in this mine's oblique western crosscut at the 750ft. The hard sandstone bar, quite 12f[?]. wide, which lately proved so troublesome,…

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Rising in New Guinea. Police and Mining Camps in Peril. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 2

News has been received at Cooktown of a rising of natives of New Guinea, near Mount Victoria. A party of miners was surrounded by the natives, while the…

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The Welsh Collieries. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 October 1897 · page 4

A hundred thousand miners in S[?] Wales and Monmouthshire have given notice to the coalow[?] to terminate the present sliding scale of…

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MINING. Block 14

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 October 1897 · page 2

RUNNING wholly On this mine's sulphides, the mill last weet, without any stoppages, treated 2421 tons crudes for 680 tons concentrates and slimes of…

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