Silver and Gold Found in England
The quantity of silver obtained in 1878 from British mines was 397,471 ounces, and most of the precious metal was found in combination with lead. The total value of the silver…
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Mining & the mines, 1880
99 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 5
Rich Find of Gold at Lucknow. (By Electric Telegraph to the Evening News.) Orange
After the report of the rich find of gold at Lucknow I visited that place, and found the report to be in no way exaggerated. The claim, which is called the " Long-looked For,"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Southern Coal Trade. (Illawarra Mercury, Jan. 13.)
The coal trade during last month has been pretty good at Bulli and Coal-Cliff, but somewhat slack at the two Wollongong mines. At the two former places, the work…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Attempt to Kill the Czar. a Mine of Dynamite Placed to Blow Up the Imperial Train. (From another paper.)
Moscow, Dec. 2.—After the arrival of the Emperor last night, and while the second train containing the baggage was on the way hither, an explosion occurred. One luggage…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Singleton Argus. Wednesday, February 18, 1880. Distress in the Colliery Districts
THE state of the coal trade has been so bad in the Newcastle district for some time past, that at length an appeal has been made to the Government for relief,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trade Outrages by Miners
The Sheffield Telegraph reports an attempt made on Tuesday night, Nov. 25, to blow up the house of a man named Taylor, in the employ of the Sheffield Coal Company, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, March 2, 1880. the Newcastle Coal Trade
As might have been foreseen, the agreement under which, since 1873, the working of the coal mines at Newcastle has mainly been regulated, is to come to an end. Though it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tin Mining at Stanthorpe
THE Stannum Miner, referring to the great advance in the price of tin in the London market compared with the low price of tin ore at Stanthorpe and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road on Quirindi Creek. Department of Mines, Sydney, 21st, February, 1880
Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 16th instant applying for the opening of a road at Quirindl Crock, about 6 miles east of the town of Wallabadah, I am [?]reeted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boggabilla Petition. Department of Mines, Sydney, 5th March, 1880
Sir,- I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, enclosing a petition form certain inhabitants of Boggabills, &c., for the opening of a road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Coal Trade. (By telegraph to Herald.) Newcastle
The Associated Colliery Masters have decided on reducing the price of coal and the wages paid to miners on and after the 12th of April to the following scale:—Best screened coal, 10s. per ton;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Compressed Air in Coal Mining. (Scientific American.)
The only mechanical coal digger that ever obtained [?]foothold in the great Pittsburg coal fields is that now at work in the mines of Henry B. Hays & Bro, near the city named. Its use is regarded with such…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Conference. (Newcastle Herald.)
Minutes of conference of miners' representatives, held at Waratah, on Saturday March 20th, 1880:— The meeting was opened by reading the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crushed to Death in a Copper Mine
The Bathurst Times reports that on Friday last a miner named Robert Swinbourne, met with his death at the Apsley Copper Mine, near Cow Flat. Deceased, with four mates,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bullion Gold Mining Company. (Uralla and Walcha Times, March 24.)
Some excitement was occasioned in Uralla on Wednesday last when it was ascertained that the Bullion Company had struck wash dirt in the shaft that was bottomed by their workmen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal-boring Operations at Moore Park. (S. M. Herald.)
Since we last referred to them, the adjustments of the coal-boring machinery at Moore Park, which was disarranged by the mishap of yesterday week, have, notwithstanding the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining on Church and School Lands
A case of considerable importance came before the Braidwood Police Court on the 5th March (reported in the Dispatch) as follows:— —P. O'Heir was summoned by J. Ellis, before…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mining Trade of Newcastle. (Newcastle Herald of yesterday.)
On Saturday morning last, a conference upon various matters in connexion with the coal trade, was held between the Associated Masters and the miners' representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Newcastle Coal Trade. (Newcastle Herald of Tuesday.)
On Monday morning when the back shift men went to work at the Lambton Colliery, they found a notice, posted by the manager, stating that, as the Associated Masters had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Trade at Newcastle
A large meeting of miners was held on Wednesday in the Crystal Palace Gardens at Waratah, under the presidency of Mr. W. Davies, president of the 'Miners' Protective…
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