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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

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Proposed University School of Mines

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 4

IN connection with, the policy of extanding technical education. Mr. Perry has made considerable suggestions for the establishments of a School of Mines at the Sydney…

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MINING. Prospectors' Samples

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 4

ON August 28 Mr. Cann wrote to the Department of Public Instruction suggesting that, instead of proipectors' and other samples of minerals having to be sent round to Sydney…

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Ballarat Gold Jubilee. Demonstration by Pioneers

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 5

A JUBILEE demonstration in commemoration of the first discovery of gold at Ballarat on September 1, 1851, was held at the Alfred Hall at that place on Monday night. There…

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Able to Go Back to Work. More Praise for Bile Beans. A Miner's Advice to Miners

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 2

MR, WEEB, we are glad to state, has recorered from his two months' severe illness, and is able to resume his work, but had it not been for the timely…

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MINING. Block 14

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 September 1901 · page 2

THE plant, working the ordinary two shifts daily last week, dealt with 969 tons sulphides, which yielded 337 tons fair concentrates and slimes. The shipments to Port Adelaide…

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A Mine Manager Robbed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 September 1901 · page 2

J. M. Thurston, mine manager, from Croydou, Queensland, staying at a leading city hostelry, vacated his bedroom yesterday morning and proceeded to hse bathroom. On…

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The Rating of the Mines. Ex-Mayor Wright in the Box

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 September 1901 · page 3

Ex-MAYOR WRIGHT had to bear the brunt of the battle for the defence in the Eq[?]ity suit in Sydney. His examination was a long and tiresome one, involving the minutest inquiry…

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State Politics. Coal Mines Wages Act

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 September 1901 · page 2

MR. FEGAN, M.L.A, has introduced in the Legislative Assembly a short measure designed to prescribe the days for the payment of wages in coal mines and shale mines. It…

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C[?] Miners in New Zealand. WELLINGTON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 September 1901 · page 2

The New Zealand [?] show that [?] [?] are [?] in alluvial mi[?] in the [?]…

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The Opal-mining Industry. Another Meeting at White Cliffs. [By Telegraph.] White Cliffs

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 September 1901 · page 2

A meeting of the outside blockholders of White Cliffs was held at the Opal King Hotel last night to consider the best course to adopt with reference to the proposed abolition of…

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The Rating of the Mines. The Equity Suit. The Reading of a Balance-sheet. Counsel Begin their Addresses. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Evening

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 September 1901 · page 2

The Equlty oult Block 14 Company v. the Municipal Council of Broken Hill was resumed this morning. The first witness was E. J. Brown, one of…

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Alleged Gold-stealing. Bendigo Miners Searched. Local Indignation. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 3

As the day-shift employed at the Clarence United mine were coming off work yesterday they were sea[?]ed by two detectives, in consequence, it was explained, of reports that…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Sydney Share Market. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 2

Owing, in great p[?]t, to the rise in lead, Barrier stocks are advancing strongly on the Sydney market…

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The Rating of the Mines. Addresses of Counsel. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 1

Mr. Pilcher concluded his address in the Equity [?]it by ci[?]ng several cases decided in Victoria and this State, in which the decisions had been against the municipalities on…

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The Rating of the Mines. The Equity Suits. Addresses of Counsel. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 2

The hearing of the Equity suit Block 14 v. Broken Hill Municipal Council was continued throughout yesterday. The greater part of the day was occu[?]ed by Mr. Langer…

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Explosion in a Welsh Colliery. Twenty Miners Entombed. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 2

An explosion occurred in the Llanbradoch colliery, Caerphilly, in Wales, yesterday. Twenty miners were entombed. Rescue parties quickly got to…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Coal in Queensland. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 2

A big seam of good quality coal has been struck close to deep water at Port Clinton. The bore struck the seam at a depth of 47ft, and the bore is now down 62ft. and is not…

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A Mine Manager's Liability

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 3

THE Hillgrove police court was engaged all one day last week with the [?]earing of several cases against Edward M'Nan [?], manager of the West Sunlight Beef Company, No…

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Rating of the Mines. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 2

Mr. Hamilton yesterday continued his address for the defendants in the Equity suit Block 14 v. Broken Hill Municipal Council, and bad not concluded when the court rose…

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The King's Bluff Goldfield

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 2

Our correspondent writes:—The increasing output of ore and the systematic way in which the leading mines are being worked fully justifies the confidence held as to the…

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