A Mine Ghost
For some time past the miners working in the pits at Abersychan and Cwmnontdder, near Pontypool, have been so terrified by sub[?]erranean noises, and the stories of extraordinary…
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Mining & the mines, 1871
43 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
Later From New Zealand. News From the Thames Gold-fields to the 13Th June. (From the Telegraphic Correspondent of the Auckland Herald.) Grahamstown, 10.59 a.m
The Caledonian are stripping the lode, which looks very rich. The Nonparcil have cleared up, and have for the month 904¼oz…
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A gentleman Who arrived in Sydney from New Caledonia, by the Havilab, on Saturday, has favoured the Evening News with the following report on the gold-fields there:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bingera Gold Fields. (From a correspondent of the Tamworth Examiner, July 1.)
No doubt you will wish to hear of the progrees of the Bingera quartz-reefs and I will therefore give you the results of a careful examination of them. The Star of Bingera Reef…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Californian and Australian Gold Yields
The Adclaide Observer says:—The following figures are supplied by the Californian correspondent of the Ballarat Star. It will be seen that no account is taken of the production of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bingera Gold-fields. (From the Tamworth Examiner, July 15.)
A gentleman who has just come from Bingera, and has visited the reefs there, has shewn us specimens of quartz taken promiscuously from the masses at the months of the several sinkings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meeting of the Hulfe Gottes Mining Company. (From the Newcastle Chronicle of Tuesday.)
The Hulf Gottes Mining Company held their fifth half-yearly meeting on Saturday last; there was a good attendance of shareholders present, and Mr. Francis James Shaw, Chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wallsend Coal Company. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders was held at the Exchange on Thursday, when the following report was adopted on motion by the chairman, Mr. R. Rome:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Coal Mine on Fire
Pittston, May 27.—The West Pittston coal shaft, owned by the Lehign Valley Railroad, and worked by Blake and Co., of New York, is burning. There is only one outlet. Part of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cow Flat Copper Mine. (From the Bathurst Times, Aug. 16.)
That there are rich deposits of copper ore in the Bathurst district few will deny, and perhaps it will be of interest to some to know something of the past and present prospects of Cow Flat Copper…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Comparison of Victorian with Newcastle Coal. (From the Melbourne Argus, Aug. 23.)
A report from the chief harbormaster on the coal from the Kilcunda mine, Western Port, which was recently tested on board H.M.C.S. Pharos, was laid before Parliament yesterday. Captain Payne stated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →He Wingen Coal Mine. (From the Upper Hunter Courier, Sept 5.)
The mine at Wingen is the property of the Rev. Mr. Nash, and is situated almost at the bottom of the Burning Mountain, from which it is separated by a small ravine and…
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The special reporter of the S. M. Herald, who has lately been " doing" Newcastle, contributes to the Herald of Tuesday an account of a visit he recently paid to Wallsend, from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improvements in Coining Gold
The coining of gold is the subject matter of an article in the Standard, from which we take the following:—"The gold coins of the country are not fine gold, but an alloy of copper with 916.6 parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Mining in Brazil
The present comparative inactivity in the Brazilian gold fields seems to be one of the periods of reaction which have occurred from time to time in their history since the discovery there of precious metal and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fearful Colliery Explosion Near Wigan
About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 6th September, a colliery explosion occurred at Messrs. Pearson and Knowlea's, Moss Pitts situated on Bryn Moss, in the township of Ince, and immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hulfe Gottes Silver-lead Mine, Isis River, (From the Travelling Reporter of the Town and Country Journal.)
This mine has a rough approach from the town of Murrurundi, twenty-two miles across the ranges that divide the Page ana the Isis Rivers, from which latter stream it is distant about five miles to the east. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tin Mines. (From the Armidale Telegraph, Nov. 11.) ELSMORE
At Elsmore Messrs. Brown, Barron, and Austen have commenced sluicing by throwing water to the top of Stannum Hill, 200 feet above the M'Intyre. They commenced last Thursday, a large reservoir…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, November, l8, 1871. the Exhaustion of Coal in England
OUR, readers will probably remember the stir that was caused in England five or six years ago by the strong representations of Mr. Stanley Jerons and others that the nation's supply of…
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If is computed that there are now 50,000 gallons of water entering Messrs. Pearson and Knowles's Moss Pits, near Wigan, each hour, the quantity having been increased by the addition of several…
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