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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1894

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 3

A piece of stone weighing Sozs., from William Stammers and party's claim, Barlow's Rill, Gooley's Creek, near Flier's Creek, was crushed yesterday at Carcoar, and yielded loz. 13dwt. of gold…

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

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 6

The adjourned debate was resumed on the question, on the motion of Mr Suitor, that the Coal Mines Regulation Bill be "now read a second time,"…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 3

The Mount Morgan Company crushed 6828 tons of stone last month, for a yield of 9615oz. of gold. The export of gold from Perth for the quarter ended September 30 was 62,8460z., valued at…

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The Aladdin Lamp Gold Robberies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 7

Richard Barrett, a miner, who is alleged to have been concerned in sensational gold robberies from tho Aladdin Lamp mine, Lucknow, near Orange, was placed on his trial at the Criminal Court,…

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The Lucknow Gold Robbery Prisoner Sentenced. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 5

IN the Criminal Court to-day, Richard Barrett, who pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing from the Lucknow Mine, was sentenced to 12 months…

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Letter to the Editor. Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 October 1894 · page 1

SIR,—I see in your issue of to-day a letter signed "Justice," iu which the writer, seriously I think, puts forward in the name of Justice a view of the matter, which is an inversion of the…

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Mining

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 2

S[?]xby Boyle and party, Wangat, are continuing to work on payable stone in their last level towards the western boundary, and they expect to get a…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 2

A contemporary says: On Saturday your correspondent visited Messrs. Warren and Larnach's claim, which is situated about a mile and a half from Newbridge. On making inquiries as to the…

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Letter to the Editor. the Greta Miners and "Justice."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 3

SIR,—The letter of your correspondent signing himself "Justice," has set me cogitating a little over the eccentricities of human nature in general, and as exemplified…

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The Greta Mining Trouble

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 October 1894 · page 2

MR JOHNSTON, who is connected with the Cardiff Colliery, arrived in Greta on Saturday with Mr Connelly, of the Greta Miners' Lodge, to confer re the…

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The Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 October 1894 · page 2

SIR,—"Justice No. 2" in your Monday's issue is evidently a "scab" at heart, and too much beneath contempt to deserve serious notice, yet some things in his letter prompt me to ask him a question or…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 October 1894 · page 3

A nugget of pure gold, weighing 12oz. 12dwt. and worth £50, was found yesterday in the Tanagulla district by a party of three minors. The nugget was found on the surface near Ironbark…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 October 1894 · page 3

A long abandoned claim at Temora has furnished stone yielding 2oz 6dwt of gold to the ton. The party working there is small, and there is said to be a large body of quartz easy to get at…

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Letters to the Editor. the Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 October 1894 · page 4

SIR,—In your impression of the 16th. I observe a letter from an individual signing himself "Peter Simple" criticising the poor deluded Greta miners. "Simple Peter" (a more appropriate appellation)…

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Australian Gold-mining Companies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 2

The following new mining companies have been registered :—Bayley's Golden South, with a capital of £50,000; the British Australia Syndicate, with a capital of £50,000 West Australian Finance…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 5

Messrs. Cook, Moir, and other Broken-hill men have discovered a reef at Black Flag, near Collgardie which promises well. Development is being vigorously pushed on…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 1

Returns issued yesterday show that the dividends paid by Victorian goldmines for last quarter are over £80,000 loss than in the similar quarter of the previous year. In the yields there is a decrease…

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Letters to the Editor. the Greta Miners and "Justice."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 2

SIR,—For the life of me I can make neither head nor tail of the allusion made to me by "Justice" in his latest manifesto to your readers "on behalf," as he puts it, "of the honest, ill-Used working men of…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 October 1894 · page 4

The discovery of valuable diamonds is reported from the Kangaloon fields, near Bowral. A nugget of goid weighing 33oz. was found last week by John Bullen at Warratta, in the Wilcannia…

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Letters to the Editor. the Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 October 1894 · page 1

SIR,—The letter of Mr. J. Connelly in your Friday's impression effectually states the case for the miners of this colliery, and should be an ample reply to all who may have (honestly, perhaps)…

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