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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

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A Mine Outrage. At Lansell's Red, White and Blue. Dynamite Used. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 11 June 1898 · page 1

A dastardly outrage was discovered at Lansell's Red, White and Blue mine, Bendigo, this morning. An attempt was made during the night to destroy the poppet legs with…

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MINING. The British

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 June 1898 · page 2

DURING the past fortnight the mill dealt with 4317 tons crude sulphides, producing 844 tons concentrates, including 136 tons from the buddies, worth in bulk approximately…

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MINING. Ray's Luck G. M. Co

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 June 1898 · page 2

MR. T. MURPHY has received a wire from the directors and legal manager (Mr. Wilson) informing him that they will arrive in Broken Hill to-morrow morning by the…

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MINING. The North

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 June 1898 · page 2

THE mill last week dealt with 655 tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 21.8 per cent. lead, 5.8oz. silver, and 16.8 per cent. zinc; producing 158 tons concentrates, worth…

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MINING. Ray's Luck G. M. Company

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 June 1898 · page 2

A LARGE meeting of shareholders in this company was held at the Denver City Hotel last night. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Seedsman were present, and gave many details…

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Coal Miners' Troubles. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 June 1898 · page 2

The Stockton miners' lodgo has carried a resolution in fnvor of an extra 3d. per ton being paid for coal hown at night. Mr. Sydnoy Smith (Minister of Mines) hopes…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Menzies Barossa Mine. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 June 1898 · page 2

At a meeting of the Menzies Barossa mine shareholders yesterday, a statement was read on behalf of Mr. Menzies that he believed still that the mine was a valuable property,…

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Wrstralia's Gold Product

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 June 1898 · page 3

THE following interesting table will show the amount of gold raised altogether from the various districts into which the auriferous areas of West Australa are divided. It will…

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A Mine to Blow Up the Czar Discovered. London, June 15

Western Grazier · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 3

During the visit of the Czar of Russia to Tsarkaye, near St. Petersburg, to witness the consecration of a church, a wine was discovered directly…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Chillagoe Field. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 June 1898 · page 2

Mr. R. L. Jack, the Queensland Government Geologist, has returned to Townsville from Chillngoe. Interviewed of the former place, he said that, in his opinion, the reports…

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MINING. The South

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 June 1898 · page 2

THE mill did fair work the past week treating 1773 tons crude sulphides, assaying 30 6 per cent. lead, 6.4oz. silver, and 15.5 per cent. zinc, producing 515 tons concentrates,…

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The Mystery of the Old North Mine. (From the Liverpool Courier). CHAPTER I. a Lonely Traveller

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 June 1898 · page 1

IN the year 1870 a woman, young, beautiful, but worn and ill, dressed in rather shabby widow's weeds, soiled and travel stained, with a baby about six weeks' old, was travelling…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Payable Mining. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 June 1898 · page 3

Six tributers working a shallow block at Lanberry's, Ballarat, have divided £70 between them as the result of a week's world. They struck three nuggets, weighing 73, 56…

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A Colliery Accident. Fall of Coal. One Miner Killed. Others Injured. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 June 1898 · page 2

Whilst several miners in the Wallsend Colliery were engaged yesterday filling coal an extensive fall of ground occurred, partially burying William Webster, who died shortly…

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Cheap Copper Mining

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 June 1898 · page 2

WHAT is possible of achievement in the way of profits in working a low-grade copper mine is shown in the last report of the Tharsis Copper and Sulphur Company. At…

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The Mystery of the Old North Mine. (From the Liverpool Courier). Chapter Iv. Little Robin's Adoption

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 June 1898 · page 1

WHEN his wife asked him the dreadful question, "Will you kill me, too?" her husband knew that she suspected he bad killed someone, ard that the stain of murder was upon…

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Barrier Miner. Friday, June 24, 1898. State Coal Mines

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 June 1898 · page 2

IT was a coincidence that while on this side of the world a number of members of Parliament were urging upon the Government of this colony to acquire a[?]…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 June 1898 · page 2

THE new mill last week ran steadily, treating 1630 tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 11oz. silver, 18 per cent. lead, and 16 per cent. zinc, producing 323 tons…

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[By Telegraph.] Coal for the Americans. a Steamer at Newcastle. Firemen Demand Higher Wages. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 June 1898 · page 2

A strike occurred yesterday on board the steamer Nyanza, lying at Newcastle, loading large coal for Manilla intended to replenish the bankers of the American warships. The…

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A Gold Mine Offered to a Borough Council

Barrier Miner · Monday 27 June 1898 · page 3

AT the last meeting of the Concord Borough Council a novel proposition was submitted in a letter, which read:—"Tuena Post-office, Now South Wales, May 18,1893. To his…

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