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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

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Mining. a Quick-Acting Safety Cage

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 October 1897 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon a large nnmber of officials from the various mines along the line of lode and townspeople gathered by invitation at King shaft,…

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The Burra Mine

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 October 1897 · page 2

Many colonists who remember what the Barra mine did for the colony in years gone by cherish the belief that ere long the grand old property will…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 October 1897 · page 2

The mill last week treated 790 tons crodes, assaving from the trommels 11 4oz. silver, 224 per cent, lead, 16 per cent. zinc, returning 160 tons…

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MINING. The Junction North

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 2

ALTHOUOH the tanks and pumps are going continuously in the western crosscut at the 759ftjft., there is but little appreciable differcnce in the incoming water, which is still…

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American Miners Shot. Unarmed Foreigners Mowed Down

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 4

SAN FRASCISCO papers to September 16 brought by the Mariposa contain full details of the outrage on miners out on strike in Pennsylvania committed on September 10…

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Fatality at a Gold Mine

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 October 1897 · page 3

DETAILS were received in Madras on September 14 of a terrible accident, resulting in the loss of some 50 lives, which occurred at the Champion Reef…

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MINING. Block 14

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 October 1897 · page 2

Running five days last week the mill treated 2088 tons crades, producing 575 tons concentrates and slimes of good metal contents. The…

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Alleged Gold Robbery. Thirty Miners Arrested at Kalgoorlie. [By Telegraph.] Kalgoorlie

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 October 1897 · page 2

Thirty miners engaged on the night shift at the Leviathan battery have been arrested on a charge of stealing amalgam. The alleged robberies took…

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MINING. Block 10: Some Hands Temporarily Idle

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 October 1897 · page 2

THE additional section of the oredressing plant is so far completed that on Saturday the large mill was closed down for a few days in order to make…

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Social Life on the Arctic Goldfields

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 October 1897 · page 3

SAYS a Dawso City (Klondyke) miner (Mr. M'Kay), who has just reached the outer world:—The social side of Dawson City never sleeps. It shows…

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The Klondyke Goldfields Ice-bound on the Yukon. Impending Starvation in Dawson City. [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 October 1897 · page 2

Intelligence has been received to the effect that none of those who started for the Klondyke goldfields via the Yukon River after the middle of July…

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The Lucknow Strike. [By Telegraph.] a Consignment of Fifty Miners from Bendigo. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 October 1897 · page 2

Fifty miners left Bendigo last night for Lucknow to fill vacancies caused by the strike there. These men have been engaged by the agents of the…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Victorian News. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 October 1897 · page 3

It is rumored that relations are strained between the Berry Consols and Madame Berry West Company, in the Ballarat division, relative to the…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 October 1897 · page 2

THE mill did fair work last week, treating 830 tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 11 8[?]z silver, 23 per cent, lead, and 16 6 per…

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The Lucknow Mines. Sydney

Western Grazier · Saturday 23 October 1897 · page 3

About 40 miners have left Bendigo for the Lucknow mines, to replace those now out on strike. It is reported the men will received 7s a day, and the…

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MINING. The Junction North: Prospects Continue Very Satisfactory. Hauling Ore Resumed

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 October 1897 · page 2

FOR some little time haulage of ore has been stopped at this mine through the roadway in the shaft being used for baling purposes in controlling the heavy inrush of water…

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Victorian Mine Accidents. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 October 1897 · page 2

F. Frige, a miner, was killed by a fall of earth in the Long Tunnel Extended mine, Walhalla, on Saturday. On the same afternoon William…

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MINING. The British

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 October 1897 · page 2

The mill during the past fortnight, with only 16 hoars' stoppage, did fair work, treating 3188 tons crude ore, returning 662 tons first concentrates,…

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A Gold Standard for India. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 October 1897 · page 2

The Council of the Viceroy of India declares thad the creation of a gold standard for India is approaching final success…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 2

The mill did fair work last week, treating 850 tons erode sulphides, producing 182 tons concentrates and 22 tons slimes, the latter being retreats from the buddles, the whole…

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