Rix's Creek Colliery
THE following Petition speaks for itself :- 'To the Honorable the [?] General"The humble [?] of the undersigned [?]…
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Mining & the mines, 1883
45 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
Electorate of Gunnedah. Return of the Minister for Mines. (From our own Reporter.)
The nomination of a member to serve in the Legislative Assembly for the district of Gunnedah in the room of the Hon. J. P. Abbott, whose seat had become vacant by reason of his acceptance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Stock Movements and State of the Country. (Queenslander, January [?].) Palmer Goldfield. Dec. 18, 1882
There is every appearance of the wet season setting in. To-day there was a terrific wind storm, which demolished a few old tenements…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How Is Coal Formed?
Few things have been more vigorously debated than this question, and the scientific warfare is still proceeding. The latest contribution of actual facts found in coal beds,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Tararua Gold Robbery
The Melbourne Argus of Thursday gives the following particulars, from Adelaide, of the discovery of two more of the gold ingots stolen from the Tararua:—"Two more of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robbery of 500oz. Gold. (S. M. Herald.)
A clever capture of an alleged gold-robber was made by Detective Austin, of the Sydney force, on Saturday. It will probably be remembered that in June last year 500oz. of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Alleged Rich Gold Country. (New York Paper, Dec. 1[?].)
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25.—The Administration of Gov. Colquitt closed with an act characteristic of Georgia. A few minutes before Governor Stephens's inauguration,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Billy's Lookout Goldfield
The following report by Mr. Sharpe, gold warden, with respect to the recent discovery of gold at Billy's Lookout, has been forwarded to us for publication by the Hon. the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Association of Victoria. (From the Herald's correspondent.) Melbourne
A deputation representing the Amalgamated Miners' Association interviewed the Minister for Mines to-day for the purpose of presenting a large number of resolutions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Dubbo Coal Mine
No doubt many of our readers have been aware that for months past a company of gentlemen (comprising residents of Dubbo, Sydney, and Maitland) have been busily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Improved Process of Gold Melting in the London Mint
In the reconstruction of the machinery of the Mint, whick has been in progress during the last fifteen months, and is now just completed, the Piat oscillating crucible furnace has been adopted for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Extensive Defalcations by a Coal Manager. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Melbourne
Extensive defalcations have been discovered in the accounts of Thomas Church, manager of the Melbourne branch of the business of J. and A. Brown, shipowners and coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Miner's Opinion About Some of Our Gold Fields. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR—Having for some considerable time been prospecting in and about Copeland, and met with no success, I thought to take a ramble across the mountain towards the Little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anthracite and Ordinary Coal in Pennsylvania
The anthracite coal trade statistics of Pennsylvania show that the output for 1882 was twenty-nine and a-half million tons, being an increase of one million tons over the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Embezzlement by a Coal Manager. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Melbourne
Thomas Church, late manager of the Melbourne agency of Messrs. J. and A. Brown, coal and shipping merchants, of Newcastle, was charged at the City Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burning More Air with Coal Gas
As our readers know, several inventors, of whom Dr. Siemens seems at present the most successful, have made lamps expressly to burn coal gas, but with more common air supplied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Man[?] of Hours [?] Mining Company
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wangat Gold Field. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—As the public of this district looks to your paper as the leading local journal, and therefore expects to read the truth, I cannot allow a certain statement made in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russian Gold Mining
An English paper, Engineering, has given a series of articles on the gold mining enterprises carried on in Siberia. It appears that not a few of them, situated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poetry. Mine Shildren
Oh, dose [?]hildren, dose [?]hildren, dey boddher mine life[?] Vhy don'd dey keep quiet, like Gretchen, mine vife? Vot makes them so shook fool off mischief, I vunder, A shumping der room roundt mit noises like dunder [?]…
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