The Singleton Coal Company
MANY of our readers will look at the above heading and suspect a joke perhaps. But there is certainly no joke about what is to follow. A Singleton…
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Mining & the mines, 1879
97 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 5
The Singleton Coal Company. (From the Singleton Argus.)
Many of our readers will look at the above heading, and suspect a joke perhaps. But there is certainly no joke about what is to follow. A Singleton Coal Company is no…
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WE understand that the breach existing between the Bulli Coal Company and their minors, who were recently locked out for the term of one month, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrington Reefing Country. Government Geologist's Report. Department of Mines, Sydney, December 20,1878
Sir,âI have the honour to inform you that pursuant to instructions I have examined the Back Creek, or Barrington goldfield and the adjacent country…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Weiberg the Gold Robber
For the subjoined statement, the Geelong Advertiser is responsible: "The man Weiberg, who is accused of having stolen the 5000 sovereigns from on board the mail steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The. Locked-out Miners at Bulli. (Evening News of Monday.)
There are no signs of the locked-out men giving way, but rather increase in strength and numbers. Three of the men who were engaged loading the company's steamers have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boorook Silver Mine
A CORRESPONDENT of the Border Post writes to that paper as follows:-"There is still a cry on this (Boorook) field for machinery, but it is apparently unheaded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Salt-mines of Cracow
THERE are no salt-mines in the world more interesting than those wonderful excavations in Austrian Gallicia at Wieliezka, [?]ar Cracow. Some believe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Discovery of Coal in Gippsland
What may prove to be an important formation of coal has lately been discovered (says the Argus of Feb. 15) on the selection of Mr. Peter Miles, at the Moe, close to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shocking Mining Accident at Sandhurst. (Argus, Feb. 15.) Friday evening
A dreadful accident, which resulted in the death of Mr. David Montgomery, mining manager of the United Hustler's and Redan Company, Hustler's Reef, occurred to-day at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Pitfall at the Wallsend Colliery. One Body Missing. (From the Wallsend Correspondent of the Newcastle Herald.) Wallsend
At about seven o'clock this morning the news ran like wildfire through the town that a heavy fall had taken place in that part of the pit known as the "back of the pump."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rosewood Goldfield. February 8
The rainy season is peculiar in its charac[?]ior, notwithstanding the heavy downpours reported from various places around us, up to the 5th instant people here began to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Gold in the Gippsland Mountains
The Victorian Secretary for Mines (says the Daily Telegraph of Wednesday) has been placed in possession of some very important information in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mass Meeting of Miners
The meeting of the men employed at the several collieries of the district, held yesterday, says the Newcastle Pilot of Friday, at the Crystal Palace Gardens, Waratah, was one of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Kaitangata Mine Explosion. the Jury's Verdict
The Coroner's jury before whom was conducted an inquiry into the terrible catastrophe at the Kaitangata coal mine, New Zealand, heard the last of the evidence on the 10th instant. According to a report in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rosewood Goldfield. March 1
No rain, although heavy falls have occurred all round us. Heat fearful…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Back Creek, Barrington River. [From Our Special Correspondent.] Mining
Matters are very lively at present. Some very good stone is being grassed at many claims. At No. 2, North Hidden Treasure, a drive is being put in at the 50 ft. level,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Gloucester Gold Fields. (Gazette Supplement, March 25.)
In pursuance of the provisions of the Mining Act of 1874, I, Sir Alfred Stephen, Lieutenant-Governor of the colony of New South Wales aforesaid, with the advice of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Back Creek, Barrington River. [From Our Special Correspondent.] Mining
Since my last the weather has been beautifully fine, thus facilitating the carting of stone from the various claims to the machines. At the Rainbow, the Mountain Maid stone is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. the Miners' Meeting at the Barrington. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In your issue of the 1st instant your Back Creek correspondent falls into error, as regards the election of the miners' league committee, especially when saying, "but a…
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