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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1890

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Terrible Mining Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 March 1890 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A terrible mining accident occurred at Lensborough, near Stawell, yesterday. Three men engaged in sinking a shaft for the Wimmera Gold-mining Company…

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The Colliery Strike in North Wales. LONDON, March 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 March 1890 · page 4

Ten thousand colliers in North Wales, who were on strike have temporarily resumed work on the old terms…

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The Tuena Goldfield.—A Good Yield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 March 1890 · page 2

THE following is from the Evening News:— An account of a yield of 92oz. of gold from 35 e wt. of quartz roads almost like some of the sensational news common in Bendigo in the early…

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The Tuena Goldfield

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 7 March 1890 · page 2

AN account of a yield of 92 oz. of gold from 35 cwt. of quartz reads almost like some of the sensational news common in Bendigo in the early times of…

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English Colliery Owners and the Men. LONDON, March 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 March 1890 · page 3

The colliery owners in the Midlands have offered to submit their books for inspection, in proof of their statement that an increase of 10 per cent. in wages is impossible, and have…

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Discovery of Coal at Dover. LONDON, Mar. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 March 1890 · page 4

A seam of coal 8ft. thick has been discovered at Dover…

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Regulations for the Inspection and Regulation of Mines other than Coal and Shale Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 March 1890 · page 4

AMENDED regulations have been issued in lieu of those published 11th August, 1876, and it behoves all owners of mines to post a printed copy of these regulations in the office and on a…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. LONDON, March. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 March 1890 · page 4

An explosion has taken place in the Acrfa Colliery, Cardiff, and hundreds of miners are entombed. The debris prevents immediate help being…

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The Victorian Mining Report

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 March 1890 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The report of the Mining Department for the last quarter of 1889 shows that the gold produced during that period amounted to 162,902oz, being the highest yield…

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Wallah Silver Mine

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 March 1890 · page 2

THE manager reports:—March 11. I have to report that since my last the 50 feet level on the course of the lode has been driven 6 feet. The lode formation…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 8

NOWRA, Wednesday.—Blackmore and party's manager reports the discovery of a 4~ft. reef, prospecting 1oz. to the ton, in the Shamrock nsw lease, south of the Star at Yalwal.—The…

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Extensive Colliery Strike Feared. LONDON, March 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 3

It is feared that 300,000 colliers will go out on strike on Saturday…

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Unpaying Mines made to Pay

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 6

The work of the treatment of refractory auriferous and other ores by the chlorination and other combined processes is proceeding with absolutely complete success…

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The Colliery Disaster in Wales LONDON, March 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 3

The fire in the Morfa Colliery, Cardiff, which succeeded the terrible explosion in the mine, has now been extinguished. Eighty-seven more bodies have been recovered…

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Cable News. General Strike of Coal-miners. LONDON, March 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 March 1890 · page 4

The colliery proprietors having failed to reply to the terms proposed by the Miners' Federation of Manchester, viz., a 5 per cent. advance at once, with another advance of the same amount in…

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Enormous Mining Strike. London, March 14

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 March 1890 · page 2

The mine owners in the north of England have given no reply to the last offer made to them by the men, viz., that the latter would be content with an increase of 5 per cent in wages now, and a…

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The Coal Miners' Strike. LONDON, March 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 March 1890 · page 4

The coal-owners have appointed a committee of their number to meet the delegates of the men now out on strike. The conference will take place on Thursday next. The prospect of an…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 March 1890 · page 4

UNLESS H. Copeland takes delivery of his mineral lease of 40 acres, parish Narrangarril, county Argyle, within the time mentioned in notice issued by the warden or other officer it…

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Breadalbane Gold-Mine

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 2

MR. DANIEL, GARRAD, one of the principal shareholders in the Breadalbane Gold-Mining Company, Victoria Flat, has just returned from a visit to the mine…

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The Coal Miners' Strike. LONDON, March 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 4

Owing to the miners' strike in the coal districts there are now half-a-million workpeople thrown out of work in Lancashire. Ten thousand cotton looms are idle. The supply of…

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