Germany and the Australian Gold Market. London, January 11
The Economist mentions as a rumour that Germany contemplates the purchase of gold in the Australian market…
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Mining & the mines, 1873
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MINING. (From the Evening News of Monday afternoon.)
The mining manager of Omadale G. M. Co. reports as follows:—Since my last report the work has been confined to No. 3 shaft. In driving east the reef is still looking well. I am of opinion the stone would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suicide of a Mining Speculator. (From the Bendigo Advertiser, Jan. 7.)
A deep and painful sensation was aroused in Sandhurst yesterday when it became known that Mr. Robert Currie, draper, Bridge-street, had been fonnd dead in the closet of his yard with his head all but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Fraud by a Mining Promoter. (From the Evening News of Tuesday.)
Timothy Hanney was charged upon the information of Thomas Hale, J.P., with having obtained from him by means of false pretences the sum of £100. Mr. S. C. Brown appeared for the prosecution, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Mining Bill. Public Meeting at Hill End. (Abridged from the Hill End Observer, Jan. 11.)
A public meeting of miners and others interested in the Tambaroora and Hill End mining districts was held at the Metropolitan Hotel, Hill End, on Jan. 9. Mr. C. J. Nichols occupied the chair…
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No work—consequently no news—all idle; same old cry—no surveyor. Mr. Hinsch (Giant's Den), is discharging his men, preparatory to going to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, January 18, 1873. Intimidation at the Collieries
THE miners at Newcastle are taking a course that will justly, if persisted in, deprive them of all sympathy or support. As it appears to us, they took an unwise step at the beginning of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lock-out at the Newcastle Collieries. (From the Chronicle of Thursday.)
Rumours were brought into town yesterday morning that it was expected the Wallsend miners were going to the Lambton Colliery to demand that the miners at work there should turn out. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal and Iron. London, January 14
Coal and iron are advancing in price in consequence of a strike of miners in Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining News. Mining Share Market. (From Wednesday's S. M. Herald.)
We have to report a further decrease in the demand for shares. In gold the business of Tuesday was lighter than it had been for months. Browns at 14s 9d to 15s, Beyers and Holtermanns at 69s, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Monster Meeting of the Newcastle Miners. (From a correspondent.)
On Thursday one of the largest gatherings of the mining community, ever assembled in the Newcastle, district, met on the hill near the gasworks at Honeysuckle Point, for the purpose of considering the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINING. (From the S. M. Herald, of Tuesday.)
Rebecca G M. Co., Wattle Flat.—The mining manager, under date the 9th inst. reports as follows: —"We are pushing on with the work with good speed. The stone is changing very much in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining News. Mining Share Market. (From the S. M. Herald, of Friday.)
The disposition to invest in shares is daily becoming less. A few favourite claims always find a market, but the progressive mines meet no favour unless they are in the proximity of some well tested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bendemeer Tin Mines. (From a correspondent of the Murrurundi Times.)
Watson's creek is about fifteen miles from Bendemeer. The creek runs nearly north and south, between granite hills. It would be more suitable to call it a swamp, with a creek or stream running…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINING. (From the S. M. Herald of Friday.)
The legal manager of the Eureka G. M. Co. has received the following telegram from Hill End:— "Eureka Crushing, 7 tons 5 cwt., gave 4 ozs. 3½ dwts."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lock-out at the Newcastle Collieries. (From the Chronicle, Jan. 21.)
We understand that the horses are now taken out of all the collieries, and there appears to be a determination now, both on the part of the masters and the men, to bold out, and not give in. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining News. Mining Share Market. (From the Evening News of Monday afternoon.)
The business done in the stock and share market to-day is as follows:—Shale and Oil shares, 31s, Mount Perry Copper, 20s, 21s; Normanby Copper, 9s 3d; Peak Downs, £4?, £4½, £4 6s 6d, buyers 4,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, January 23, 1878. Sir James Martin's Colliery Bill
IN referring to the colliery disputes at Newcastle, we have pointed out that although the miners have a right to discuss with the owners or managers the terms upon which they (the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINING. (From the Herald, Tuesday morning.)
98 lbs. of stone from the Goulburn G. M. Co.'s claim, tested by Mr. Watt, yielded 1413 grains of gold, or at the rate of 67 oz. 5 dwts. 17 grs. per ton. Messrs. Melhado and Curtis report having received…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Molong Consols Copper Mining Company, Copper Hill, Molong. (From the correspondent of the Western Examiner.)
This company's mine, better known as Old Copper Hill, is situated about 2½ miles from the town of Molong, on the Wellington road. A visitor to the mine would be greatly surprised to see the large…
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