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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines
622 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 16 of 32
The Commissioner of Crown Lands received the following telegram this afternoon from Mr. Gee, warden of the goldfields, who went to report on the telluride find in the far…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WITHIN the last few days the announcement has been made in the Victorian papers that there is room at Broken Hill for at least a couple of hundred capable workmen. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ballarat gold returns for the half-year ending June show a falling off compared with the corresponding period of last year of from 35,000 to 33,000 ounces…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Argus, which arrived in Sydney yesterday from Singapore, reports that Mr. Lange, manager of the Sumatra Mining Company, was recently murdered by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daily trains, if the traffic calls for them, are to be run from Quorn to Leigh's Creek (S. A.) to carry people to the new goldfield. A Government telegraph operator has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Backhouse and Besford confirm the news sent from Worturpa goldfield. Mr. Backhouse says he arrived at Stubbs Bros. claim three hours before the warden…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the event of the colliery proprietors at Lithgow disagreeing as to the appointment of a local chairman for the proposed conference with the men on strike, the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible disaster has occurred at the New Jagersfontein diamond mine, at Kimberley, in South Africa. A fall of several thousand tons of earth took place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No change is yet reported from Lithgow The proposed conference is looked forward to with interest by the miners, who hopo that the meeting will ba held at Lithgow, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →.Many miners and others are gradually leaving for Worturpa. Today's train took a number, who took drays and prospectors' goods with them. The country all around…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Great Northern Gold and Copper Company has obtained 300oz. of gold from half a ton of quartz obtained from the Golden Bar lease, Rosewoed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Tnylor, Government Metallurgist, and a number ot mining experts inspected a new gold-saving machine, invented by Captain Joseph Morgan, one of the pioneer diggers of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tho gold output of the Witwatersrand mines in the Transvaal for the month of June was 445m763oz. This is a record…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The copper plates of the 10 head battery at the Kalgoorlie Mint mine have been stolen. It is estimated that the plates contained £500 worth of gold. They had not been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A portion of the sample of telluride broken by the warden at Stubbs' claim, Worturpa, was sent to the School of Mines, where it was assayed, the yield being 21oz. of gold to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE worst catastrophe that has occurred in Kimberley (South Africa) since the great fire at Da Beers ia 1886 (says the Cape Times of Juna 10) took place about half-past 9 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE plant, running three shifts last week with about eight boura' stoppages for ad justmenta and repairs, dealt with 1022 tons crude sulphides assaying from the trommels…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The gold output of the Witwatersrand mines in the Transvaal for the month of Jone was 445,763oz. This is a record…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The colliery proprietors at Lithgow have not yet replied to Mr. J. A. Hogue's letter in which thc Minister proposed the holding of a conference…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following is the second manifesto of the coalminers on strike at Lithgow:In June, 1897, representatives of…
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