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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
63 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 4
The eighth ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Young Wallsend Coal Co. was held in the offices, Scott-street, Newcastle, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Blantyre miners have struck work in sympathy with the railway men. A sharp akirmish has taken place between the police and the strikers at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 6 o'clock on Thursday morning the residents of Tighe's Hill were alarmed by hearing a rumour that a serious accident had happened at the Pride of Ferndale Pit, and that one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Madras Mail, in the course of an article on ancient mines and mining in Mysore, says that wherever indications of gold have been found in that district there also are to be seen remains of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—Notwithstanding the complaint of the Greta colliery manager in Thursday's Mercury, it is very evident he can, and does, act the part of a tyrant now and again when the notion takes him…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A now gold rush has taken place at Sehothe's Creek, two miles from Wyudham, and about 29 miles of country have been pegged out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible colliery explosion has taken place at the Jasnovada Colliery, Azov, in the south of Russia. One hundred minors have been killed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The output of the non associated collieries during last year are now to hand, and, as will be seen, the total output of the district is considerably behind that of 1889. The returns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Battery Point Mine, where two men were buried yesterday by a fall of earth in the tunnel, is situated at the junction of the Lachlan and Burrowa Rivers, about 10 miles from here…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the inqeston the Mount M'Donald mining fatality a verdict was returned that death was caused by a drift in the tonnel, and that the said drift was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Minister of Railways in Victoria had a test made of the relative qualities of Newcastle coal and the coal obtained from the Gippsland mines in Victoria, and the following results were announced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young man named Alfred Polgreen was killed in the North Mine, Broken Hill, yesterday, through a heavy crossbar falling on to him…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible explosion took place in a coalmine in Nova Scotia on Saturday. At the time of tbe explosion there weres 1000 men below in the workings. It is estimated that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is stated, on what appears to be reliable authority, that gold has been discovered in the Departments of Hautes-Alpes and Isere, France, near the villages of Grand-Clos, Challanches, Allemont,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The unfortunate man Charles Purcell, who was so badly injured at the Richmond Vale Colliery on Thursday last, and at once removed to the Maitland Hospital, succumbed to his injuries in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is a perfectly true saying that " one half the people in the world don't know how the other half live," and perhaps, to enlarge upon. this, aren't particularly anxious to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further evidence was taken by Mr. John Gillies, J.P., at the West Maitland Courthouse on Thursday and yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of Charles Purcell, who sustained injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Joseph W. Morris, who has returned to his home in Boston, Mass., after an absence of three years, tells a startling story with regard to an outrage committed upon American sailors in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A well-known scientific gentleman has been experimenting on a metal resembling gold for nearly a year, and has now got it down almost to perfection. He stumbled on it at first accidentally while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four hundred strikers at Pittsburg mode an attack on the cokeworks, and, resisting dispersion by the Sheriff, fired upon his force, who returned the fire,…
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