MINING. Consolation Gold-mining Company
A MEETING of the Consolation Gold-mining Company was held at Quinn's Southern Cross Hotel last night, with Mr. R. Stewart in the chair. Mr. H. Cumiug gave a resume of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1898
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Changing Silver Into Gold
BY the courtesy of Dr. Stephen H. Emmensthe readers of Pearson's Magazine are enabled ' (says Mr.'Herbert C. Fyfe in the March number) to look upon the features of one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By TELEGRAPH.] Mining Accident in Tasmania. Three Miners Killed. Suffocated by Foul Air in a Prospecting Shaft. HOBART
A terribly serious accident happened near Port Cygnet to-day. Three men named Edward Dillon, Edward Ryan, and James Wicks were working at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Disasters. a Bill to Establish a Relief Fund. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A bill to constitute a fund to meet the distress arising from accidents in collieries will be introduced in the coming sitting of Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Gold Returns. Complete Figures for 97. MELBOURNE
The gold returns issued by the Mint show that the March quarter had an advance of 4500oz. on the corresponding period of last year; the quarter's ligures were 203,800oz…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Lively Mining Meeting. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
A meeting of the shareholders of the Barambogie G. M. Company Chiltern, was held yesterday. The lease of the company was recently jumped by an ex-shareholder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal for the Navy
A RUMOR was abroad in Sydney early this week that the naval authorities had purchased 60,000 tons of coal. In view of the critical relations of the European…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Fatality in Tasmania. Hobart
Three men have been suffocated in a mine at Port Cygnet. Their dead bodies were brought to the surface after great difficulties had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MINING. The Edison Magnetic Concentrating System
THE concentrating piant owned by the New Jersey and I'cnnsyl vania Concentrating Company Is situated at the Old Ogden mines in New Jersey. Active operations with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strike of Miners. 50,000 Men Out. [Reuter's Message.] London
The expected strike of miners in South Wales has come to pasa. Fifty thousand men have struck, demanding an increase in the rate of wages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. [By Telegraph.] Klondyke Pooh-Poohed. MELBOURNE
An0 old miner who was among the first " rushers" to Klondyke has returned to Creswick, where he has lived for some years. He pooh-poohs the extravagant claims put in for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gas Without Coal. a New Illuminant. One Thousand Feet for a Shilling
AFTER recent events In Sydney the public are likely to look askance at inventions claiming to develop a high standard of illuminatlon at a very moderate cost. But a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Fall of Earth. Two Miners Killed. SYDNEY
George Kelly and Edward Trestrail, miners working in the Girilambone copper mine, have been killed there through a fall of earth…
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A miner named Michael Cain, while working in the Central mine early this morning, is supposed to have had a fit; at any rate, be fell down a chute a distance of 17ft. Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINING. The South
THE mill last week did fair work, treating 1527 tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 19.3 per cent. lead, 5 6oz. silver, and 15.1 per cent, zinc; also 128 tons zincs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] The Miners' Strike. LONDON, Monday Evening
The miners'strike in South Wales is extending. Eighty thousand men are now reported as "out."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Colliers' Strike. Many Collieries Idle. [Reuter's Message.] London
The miners' strike is gaining extended proportions. Practically all the South Wales and Monmouthshire collieries are now idle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINING. The North
The mill last week treated 66O tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 18 per cent, lead, 64oz. silver, and 163 per cent. zinc, returning 133 tons concentrates, worth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Sydney Letter. Purchases of Coal
At last the war scare is beginning to have some slight effect on colonial industry. It is stated that the Admiralty have purchased 60,000 tons of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] Imperial Coal Supply. LONDON
The Government of Natal, in South Africa, has offered to supply, free of all charges, 12,000 tons of coal annually to British warships coaling at Durban…
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