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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1894

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 September 1894 · page 2

The following wins from Mr. W. H. J. Slee, Chief Inspector of Mines, who is now inspecting the mines in the Western districts, was received yesterday by the Mines Department. Richard…

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Colliery Accident. Fearful Fall. A Brave Re[?]

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 September 1894 · page 7

WHILE the men engaged in sinking the now shaft for the Stockton Coal Company, Newcastle, which has for some time been in course of constraction…

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The Goldfields. Good News From Hargraves. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 September 1894 · page 5

A TELEGRAM was received by the Mines Department to-day from [?]argraves stating that a party had completed a crushing of 15 tons of quartz,…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 September 1894 · page 4

From the Manning River we learn that some prospectors are working for gold on the beach at Harrington, we understand, with more favourable results than those who are trying their luck at the…

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Mining. Wonga Wonga Crushing

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1894 · page 2

Yesterday, at noon, Messrs. Sa[?]y, Boyle & party arrived in Dungog with a cake of gold, the result of their late crashing at the Wonga Wonga mine…

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Rich Gold Discovery near Drake. Half a Pound in a Square Foot of Stone

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1894 · page 2

TENTERFIELD, Thursday.—Intelligence was brought into town to-day of the richest gold find ever discovered in this district. The locality is Kelly…

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Civil Business. Musgrave V. the Scottish Australian Mining Co

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 September 1894 · page 2

This case was continued from the previous day. For the defence, Charles Noble, an overman at the Lambton Colliery, stated he wag for twenty years in that position, and had been 27 years…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Civil Side. Tuesday, Sept. 25. MUSGRAVE V. the Scottish Australian Mining Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 September 1894 · page 2

This was an action brought by Robert Musgrave against the Scottish Australian Mining Company to recover damages for an accident alleged to have been caused to plaintiff through the negligence of…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 September 1894 · page 2

We had to-day an opportunity of inspecting at the Bank of Now South Wales a large cake of retorted gold, which had arrived in Maitland the previous evening. It was from the Wonga Wonga…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Civil Side. Tuesday, Sept. 25. MUSGRAVE V. the Scottish Australian Mining Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 September 1894 · page 2

This was an action brought by Robert Musgrave against the Scottish Australian Mining Company to recover damages for an accident alleged to have been caused to plaintiff through the negligence of…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 September 1894 · page 4

Much excitement exists at Tarnagulla, Victoria, over the discovery of golden stone in virgin country From a hole only a few feet deep £1000 worth of gold has been obtained. A specimen 51b. in weight…

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Australian Gold Mining Companies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1894 · page 7

The women Link Gold-mining Company, Yilgarn, Western Australia, with a capital of £90,000 has been registered. The prospectus of the Mount Charlotte North…

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Parliament of N. S. WALES Legislative Council. Wednesday. Coal Mines Regulation Bill

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 September 1894 · page 6

The Vice-President of the Executive Council moved the second reading of the Coal Mines Regulation Bill. He read certain passages from speeches…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1894 · page 3

Work on the Kangaloon diamond fields is about to be resumed. Mount Drysdale shares changed hands at Cobar yesterday at £500, and the declaration of a £20…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1894 · page 2

Latest reports from the Nariah alluvial rush at Wyalong are to the effect that a good wash has been struck at a depth of 42ft. by a party working on the adjoining claim to the prospectors; wash about 2ft…

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The Greta Coal Co

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1894 · page 7

The order made by the Court on the petition of Hudson Brothers, Limited, for the compulsory winding-up of the Greta Collieries Company, has been suspended for one week pending the arrival…

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Greta Colliery Difficulty The Delegate Board Refuses the Terms The Contractor's Views

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 September 1894 · page 4

The delegates from the various lodges in the Miners' Association held a special meeting in the Rouse Assembly Rooms, Newcastle, on Thursday, For…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 October 1894 · page 1

The Clarence and Richmond Examiner says:—Within the past. three months the mining industry has made important developments in this districts A rich reef wan opened between Bucca and Nana…

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The Greta Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 October 1894 · page 2

SIR,—I noticed when it was first reported that the Greta mice was to bo opened by the new owners at a hewing roto of 2s Gd per ton, your correspondent, who is, I believe, a union miner…

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Dredging for Gold

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1894 · page 3

The Nowra Leader says —There is at present a syndicate in Sydney amal gamated with the Horse Shoe Band Company (Shoalhaven River) which…

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