These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
47 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
Pursuant to notice, a public meeting was held at the Court-house, Clarence Town, on Saturday, 2nd instant, to appoint a committee and devise other means for collecting a sum to defray the expenses of a party to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The directors of the Phœnix Mining Company have receives official intimation that the lease of the eight acres has been granted, to take effect from the 1st December. The tenders for sinking, the shaft were examined last week by the working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The continued dry weather is anything but satisfactory to a number of our miners. Many works which require constant water are now lying idle; the owners, having long since done all that could be done in the way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the introduction of the clause respecting the sale of two-acre allotments on gold-fields, numbers have availed themselves ot the opportunity of securing a homestead, and to the occupation of mining may now be added…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The present dry weather is causing great dullness on parts of the diggings. Mount Jones, so recently a busy [?], swarming with industry, both European and Mongolian, is now deserted, presenting to the spectator a mass of rubbish, stones,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The second half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders in the Melbourne and Newcastle Minmi Colliery Company was held on Saturday at the offices, 79½, Collins-street west; Mr. C. N. Thorne in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After a long continuance of dry weather, we were favoured with a fall of rain on Friday last. Tn the afternoon it came down very heavily until sunset, when suddenly it cleared away. On Sunday evening it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. JOHN MACKENZIE, one of the Government Examiners of Coal Fields, whose confirmation of the opinions of the Rev. W. B. Clarke as to the age of the New South Wales coal, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A very great deal of extra labour was occasioned by the late floods to the river claims. Some of them at Maitland Point were so run together that it would require a geometrician to find the exact boundaries of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining affairs are about the same. There is plenty of water to wash and sluice with. Mount Welsh Tunnel, which has being lying idle for upwards of a year, has again had operations commenced in it. Young & Co…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several shafts were started lately on the northern side of Doherty's Hill, by Chinamen, but after getting down a considerable depth they appear to have given up, probably waiting for the Phoenix shaft to bottom. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the past week the preliminary surveys for another tunnel under Sydney Flat have been taken by the projectors, James and Co. It is intended to commence the adit with an open cutting into the gully nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The additional gold-fields regulations made in February last have supplied a want long felt on this goldfield, viz., the securing of a sufficient amount of worked and abandoned ground to guarantee the requisite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Chronicle reports that no less than 13,162 tons coals were exported at Newcastle from the 29th April to 6th May. Of these the A. A. Co. shipped 4355 tons, the Minmi Company 3227, the Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very serious accident occurred here on Friday morning last to a miner at Maitland Point. In company with some others he was working a claim by a shaft and driving. About eleven o'clock one of his partners was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few months ago the company who own the race from Mount Welsh to Tipperary extended it, with the permission of the Commissioner, to a dry lagoon about a mile and a half further eastward, and also made some very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →25TH MAY, 1864.—Frosty nights have now set in, with delightful sunshiny days. A little rain would now be of service, not having had any since the floods. In your issuo of the 14th, mention is made of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Itmaybe remembered that for some yearspast exertions have been made to discover gold deposits on the Darling Downs, in continuation of the various New England gold fields. None of the discoveries made, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of those gutters which are generally found by accident in the most unlikely places was hit upon a week or two ago on the ridge behind Mr. Brown's paddock, towards Kentucky Creek. The sinking is from 8…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pho[?]nix Company's shaft is, to the relief of the contractor, through the rock, There has been upwards of 40 feet of hard blue rock to blast through. In several weeks the progress made has been but 18 inches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →