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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
431 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 22
The management of Brown Bros.' collieries at Creek and Duckenfield have made a proposal to the employes that they should accept terms which will mean a reduction of about 3d per ton to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report from Bungendore states that Mr Walker, a saddler, resident of Gundaroo, struck rich alluvial on Thursday while looking for a reef near Bywong. He brought samples of the alluvial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The utter break up of the Miners Association is fairly well proved by the decision of the Wallsend and Glebe lodges to sever their connection with it. Stockton,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Writing of the rich find of gold at Snowball, the Braidwood Dispatch says:—For years past rich pockets of coarse gold bare been found in alluvial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From coolgardie comes the following information:—A magnificent show of quartz is now on view at the bank of australasia from the recently discovered london mine in the twenty-five mile…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a miners meeting held in Greta on Friday, Mr. Unsworth in the chair, the question aa to what the lodge should offer Mr. C. Cowlishaw so as to secure employment was brought up and variously…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At Bushman's, near Parkes, the tributors have completed the crushing of 523 loads of quartz for a splendid return of 1868oz. of retorted gold, or about 3oz. lldwt. lOgr. to the load. The cake was 13in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The confidence reported as shown in the Dungog district as a mining centre by an export from Coolgardie promises to give a much needed filip to the industry there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The minors engaged at Back Creek and Duckenfield collieries have not accepted the reduction proposed by J. aud A. Brown. In the ballot taken it was decided by a majority of 77, in a total of 451,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grave apprehensions are entertained at the continuance of dry weather at Wyalong, the only crushing plant with a quantity of water being Cbannon's. West's is dry, and at (Sough's No. 2…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Barraba correspondent writes:— Some one entered Mr. Joe Emmet's claim (Woods' reef) on Sunday night, and stole a lot of specimen gold. It was well known for some time that Mr. Emmet is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday last Mr. Thomas Rostron came into Peak Hill and reported the discovery of gold in a quartz reef of Wilga Station, about 2½ miles southwest from the point where the western boundary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A new line of reef has been discovered 16 miles from Coolgardie, on the Southern Cross-road, by a party of Charters Towers miners. The find in pot of a sensational character. The reef is 3ft. thick,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COOLGARDIE. Wednesday.—Hayes's find at the White Feather is looking splendid at the deepest point, and recent work maintains the rich…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The gold find at Buckinbong, Narrandera, has caused a rush, and a number of new claims have seen pegged out. During the month of February, 64,005oz. of gold,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Premier mine, at Twenty-mile, Coolgardie, is sinking a vertical shaft, the same as on the east side of the reef, to strike water, and cut the reef at depth. As soon as this has been accomplished a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notwithstanding that the miners at Lambton accepted the reduction offered them they have not done a tap of work for seven weeks, and as may be imagined, much distress exists in their ranks,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIRTY-ONE minutes have been burned death by a fire in a mine in Spain in which they were working…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report from the Upper Murray states that the New Chum Company, at Mount Elliott reefs, have cleaned up, crushing 19 tons of stone, which yielded a return of 208az., or slightly less than lloz. to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The report by Mr. W. H. J. Slee, chief inspector of mines in the Drake district, states that the yield of gold for the Drake Division for 1894 was 6062oz., a considerable increase on previous years. This…
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