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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

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The Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 October 1895 · page 2

ALTHOUGH in some respects the commercial and industrial outlook is not unpromising, the coal trade of New South Wales could scarcely be in a worse position, and there seems to be…

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Gold in Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 October 1895 · page 5

Mr. J. C. F. Johnson, M.P., of Adelaide, has written to the Times replying to some adverse criticisms by a writer from Cape Colony upon the goldfields of Australia. Mr. Johnson denies that…

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Gold in Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 October 1895 · page 7

Mr. J. C. F. Johnson, M.P., of Adelaide, has written to the Times replying to some adverse criticisms by a writer from Cape Colony upon the goldfields of Australia. Mr. Johnson denies that…

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The Dudley Coal Co

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 October 1895 · page 5

In the matter of Abbott and others against the Dudley Coal Co., before the Chief Justice, in Equity to-day, on a motion by the plaintiffs for a final foreclosure order against the Company for…

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Thursday, October 17, 1895. the Coal Trade and a Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 October 1895 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the Plattsburg Borough Council was held on Tuesday evening to consider the best means of removing present and averting future difficulties in connection with…

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The Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 3

Work will be resumed at the colliery on Wednesday, after a cessation extending over five weeks…

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The Grata Colliery

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 2

It is officially reported that work will be resumed at the Greta Colliery on Wednesday next. There are at present two ships in the harbour for this coal, viz., the King…

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The Coal Trade and a Conference

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 4

A SPECIAL meeting of the Plattsburg Borough council was held on Tuesday evening to consider the best means of removing present and averting future difficulties in connection with…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 October 1895 · page 4

A party of experienced miners are prospecting for alluvial gold a few miles out on the Meirose-road, Condobolin, with encouraging prospects of success. Cash and party are putting through a small…

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The Gold Mines of South Africa

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 October 1895 · page 3

For almost a year the world has been slowly growing more and more excited over the gold mines of South Africa. Within a year mining shares that were issued at £1 per share, and…

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Letter to the Editor. the Lower Hunter Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 October 1895 · page 6

SIR,—In reference to the coalmining industry of New South Wales, there seems to be just now among press writers, more particularly in the metropolitan morning…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 October 1895 · page 2

A new find reported from Golden Ridge has induced prospectors to peg out the whole of the adjoing country. The locality is 12 miles south of East Kalgoorlie, and is attracting a good deal of…

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The Waratah Coal Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 October 1895 · page 5

The shareholders of the Waratah Coal Company held their half-yearly meeting to-day. The Directors in their report stated that since the last general meeting they had declared a…

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The Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 October 1895 · page 4

IT is satisfactory to note that some further move in addition to that at Plattsburg is being made to bring about a conference between the persons chiefly concerned in the…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 October 1895 · page 5

About £700 worth of beach gold has arrived at Maclean for transmission to the Mint from the Jerusalem Creek field. Advices from Gympie report that Jones's…

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Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Co

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 October 1895 · page 5

The half-yearly meeting of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company (Limited) was held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. There was a good attendance, and the chair was occupied…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 October 1895 · page 2

It is reported that alluvial has been discovered on Westerndorf's estate, Elm Park, Jindera, near Albury, at a depth of 22 feet at the head of the gurly running through Mr. W. Turner's Stony…

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Mining Speculation in South Africa

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 October 1895 · page 3

Advices from Capetown states that the agent of Mr. J. B. Robinson, in large mineowner in South Africa, has narrowly prevented the jumping of 1000 claims on the Rand goldfield. The claims…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 November 1895 · page 1

THE STEWART'S BROOK GOLDFIELD. Mr. Harry Benjamin, of West Maitland, has just returned from one of his periodical visits to Stewart's Brook, and reports that the field is in a…

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Better than Gold

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 November 1895 · page 7

There are but few things in this world more highly appreciated or eagerly sought after than gold. Why ? Not because it is au attractive colour; not because it weighs more that any other…

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