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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Mount Morgan Resuming, Work. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 27 August 1901 · page 2

It is reported that the Mount Morgan G. M. Company has decided to restart most of its works as soon as they can be get ready. Meu are to be put on at once with this end in…

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A Scotch Colliery Disaster. Fourteen Miners Buried. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 2

The Moorland colliery, in Filesbire, Scotland, has subsided, burying 14 of the colliers in its workings…

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The Rating of the Mines. Ex-Mayor Dunstan Gives Evidence. More Mine Managers Examined. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 2

Yesterday was devoted in the Equity Court to the further hearing of the suit B. H, Block l4 v. Municipal Council of Broken Hill…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Metal Market. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 2

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company has received the following metal quotations from Lendon:- Bar silver (standard), 2[?]. 2 15-16d. per…

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MINING. Prospecting in Queensland. Indications of Coal. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 2

An exhaustive geological survey of all the opal fields in Queensland will be commenced shortly. A prospecting party in the vicinity of Cape…

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A Welsh Colliery and Steel Amalgamation. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 2

Crawshaw's steel works and collieries at Merthyr, Tydvil, in Wales, are amalgamating with the works of Guest, Reeves, and Douglas, at Cardiff, in…

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Fatal Pall in a Mine. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 2

Richard Pimlott, aged 53, was killed in the Star of the North mine, St. Arnand, by falling from a ladder…

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Mine Accidents at Leigh's Creek. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 2

Daniel Saunders fell down a shaft at a copper mine at Leigh's Creek and broke his collarbone. Another man sustained severe injuries to his head through being struck by…

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The Rating of the Mines. The Competency of the Valuers. Messrs. Souter and Stephens Examined Mine Managers' Evidence. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 2

The Equity suit, Broken Hill Block 14 Company v. the Municipal Council of Broken Hill, was continued yesterday. Henry Goss, mine accountant in the service…

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A Scotch Colliery Disaster. Further Subsidences. Some of the Rescuers Perish. [Reuter's Message] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 2

Five of the entombed colliers at Fifeshire, in Scotland, have been rescued alive, but continued fresh subsidences of the moorland have interfered with the…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 3 P.M. the Rating of the Mines. The Equity Cases. Plaintiffs' Case Closed. Jabez Wright in the Box. [By Telegraph.] Stdney, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 4

In the Equity case Block 14 v.the Council William John Barnett, mining engineer, mid he inspected Block 14 mine two years ago. It was a difficult matter to get at the…

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Financing a Mine

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 3

THE action of Harris v. Bromley and others, after a trial extending over reven dava, was concluded In Holbourne thia week before Mr, Justice Holroyd, who, without calling on…

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MINING. Block 10

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

BUNKING, two shift[?] dally for the week the plant dealt with 2829 tons [?]ulphid[?]. This produced 425 tons concentrates, bulking 33 45oz. silver, 63 61 per cent, leal, and 18 8…

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The Scotch Colliery Disaster. More Men Rescued. [R[?]uter's M[?]g[?]] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

Three more miners have been re[?]cued from the colliery at Fife[?]hire, in Scotland. One had been imprisoned for 36 hour[?]. All hope of rescuing the remaining eight…

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The Rating of the Mines. The Equity Suits. Alderman Wright in the Box. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 1

Alderm[?]n Jabe[?] Wright's cro[?]s-examin[?]tion occupied all this afternoon in the [?]quity Court in the min[?]s' rates cases, and Mr. Hamilton (counsel for the defend[?]nts) said…

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The Rating of the Mines. The Equity Suits. Ex-Mayor Wright in the Box [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Evening

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

Very [?]low prog[?]ess was made with the hearing of the suit Broken Hill Block 14 Company v. the Municipal Council of Broken Hill in the Equity Court this afternoon…

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The Rating of the Mines. The Equity Cases. Plaintiffs' Case Closed. Jabez Wright in the Box. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 4

In the Equity case Block 14 v. the Counci[?] William John Barnett, mining engineer, said be inspected Block 14 mi[?]e two years ago. It was a difficult matter to get at the…

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The Chillagoe Mines. Mr. Stewart's Resigeation Accepted. Correspondence Published. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 5

The resignation of Mr. Alexander Stewart of his connection with the Chillagoa Railway and Mines, Limited, has been accepted, and some correspondence that has passed between…

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Magnetic Zinc Separation. The Mechersich Process. The Plant on the Sulphide Corporation's Mine

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 5

SINCE the Wetherill machines began to work in America great attention has been given to the subject of magnetic separation as applied to the refractory Broken Hill ores. These…

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Barrier Miner. Saturday, August 31, 1901. What Should the New Mine Taxation Law Say?

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 4

IT will be remembered that it was lately here contended that, in view of the keen distress existing in Broken Hill, and in view of the fact that mines now working…

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