Lost in a Somerset Goal Mine
Some years ago it was my lot to accompany my father nightly through a well-known Somersetshire coal mine, our duties being to visit the air passages and roads generally to…
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Mining & the mines, 1895
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New Mining Companies
The Liberty Consolidated Gold-mining Company is offering to the public shares to the amount of £140,000. The shares in the Hainault Goldmining Company have been allotted…
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The World's Mines Congress, now sitting in Paris, has approved of a scheme for limiting the out-put of coal by working four or five days weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Hews by Cable. London, Tuesday. West Australian Mining Industry Criticised
The Investors Review states that within the past fourteen months no fewer than seventy-five West Australian mining companies issued prospectuses. The total capital Bought by sixty-four companies…
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Our Barraba correspondent writes on June 1: At Crow Mountain, grass and water are very scarce. At the diggings one or two new claims shewed good prospects last week. The owners are very sanguine…
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The British and Western Australian Agency, with a capital of £41,000, has been registered. The company was formed to take over and work mines in Western Australia…
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Mr. Naggar, who alleges that he has the power to discover gold by a species of divination, has organised a party who are sinking on a site distinctly out of all the known lines of reef at Wyalong. The…
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At a meeting of shareholders of the Port Phillip Gold-mining Company a resolution for the reconstruction of the company was carried. Extra capital to the amount of £20,000 in to be…
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The international conference of miners held in Paris has resolved by a majority in the proportion of 872,000 to 96,200 to support the principle of eight hours being made a statutory day's work. The…
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The Mount Morgan Company has declared a dividend for the month of May of sixpence; per share, absorbing £25,000. At Asheroft's Huntingdon mill, Wyalong,…
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The Blue Hanuan's Gold-mining Company, Western Australia, which has been formed with a capital £125,000, is offering shares to tho public to the extent of £90,000. The New Gold Hill Mining…
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The Great Reefs Company, Coolgardie, with a capital of £60,000, has been registered. The scheme for the reconstruction of the Glenrock Mining Company, Limited, has been adopted by the…
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A fire broke out at a colliery near Breslau, Gorman}, while 400 miners were at work underground. Only forty have been rescued up to the present, and it is feared many lives have been…
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All the miners who were imprisoned in the workings of the colliery near Breslau have been rescued with the exception of 15 men who were suffocated by the fumes…
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A new find is reported to the north-east of Wyalong surveyed township by Wilson aud party. The locality lies between the John Bull claim and the Called Back, the reef consisting of highly…
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Representatives of the press have been invited to inspect the new find at the Londonderry mine, C[?]olgardie. They found that on Monday morning rich gold had been struck in the south drive, at…
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It is reported that rich alluvial has been struck near Lake Cowan, 60 miles south, of Coolgardie, on the road to Duadas. The Banks refuse to give any information, although it is generally believed that…
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Gratitude, says some one, is the memory of the heart. A reflective, thinking, inquiring life is really the most exalted existence…
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The Bathuret Gold-mining Company, with a capital of £60,000, has been registered to acquire tho Kilkivan mine in the Gympie district, Queensland…
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Specimens of stone from the prospectros' claim at Mudengandra, near Albury, are estimated to yield from Coz. to 10oz. per ton, but as no stone has yet been crushed or assayed these calculations are…
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