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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

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Grains of Gold

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1895 · page 4

It is a hundred times easier to inflict pain than to create pleasure. Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 March 1895 · page 6

At the Golden Bar mine, Coolgardie, last week this first cyanide plant in Western Australia was started. An English syndicate offers £567,000, or £2 per…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 March 1895 · page 3

News has been received from the manager of the Mount Barker silver mine, Broken River, near Bowen Body, (Q.) that 2ft. 6in. of ore has been found in No. 1 north level. The ore contains 70 per…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 4

Many claims at Wyalong are on rich stone, and reports from that field are generally satisfactory. At Pine Ridge Gerring and party have discovered a new reef 11in. in width, carrying good prospects…

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Newcastle Colliery Troubles. Secret Ballot for a Strike

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 2

DESPIRE the secrecy observed by the miners delegates regarding the business which occupied their attention at a conference on Saturday, it has been…

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Camberwell Common. Dept, of Mines ami Agriculture, Sydney, March 27th, 1895

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 2

Sir,—With reference to the letter from the Trustees of the Cambowell Common, forwarded by you to this Department on the 19th instant, I…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 2

Crow Mountain, where a rich find of gold recently took place, is about 65 miles from Gannedah. 17 miles from Barraba, and 25 miles from Manilla. For about seven months Messrs. M'Kenzie and…

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Mining. COOLGARDIE

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 5

The winding engine at Hanna's Hill Reward mine has been started, and is working well. Three shifts are employed sinking the main shaft, which…

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Mining at Barraba

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 5

Another 23oz. of cold were brought in on March 29 by M'Kenzie from Crow Mountains, near Barraba. This brings the total yield of this reef since…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 3

The prospecting party which went from Queensland to New Guinea has returned, as owing to the roughness of the country they could obtain no gold. About 70 tone of Hildebrandt's stone were crushed…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 6

During the March quarter 27O,948oz. of gold was received at the Melbourne Mint as compared with 253,O63oz. in the corresponding three months for last year…

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Mining on Private Lands

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 5

AT a late hour on Thursday night Mr Sydney smith introduced the mining on Private Property Amendment Act. The bill will give power to miners to…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 3

Judged by the way the shares move on the London market, it would appear that at least one of the Coolgardie bubbles has burst. Some extraordinary rumours have been published in England…

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West Australian Gold Mining. Fiasco in the Londonderry. Sudden Fall in Shares

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 2

SHARES in the Londonderry Goldmining Company, Coolgardie, have dropped to 15s. A telegram was received from Lord Fingall on the Ist…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 3

Our Barraba correspondent writes:—"Barraba, 8th April. At Crow Mountain a crushing was put through by the Try Again party: 5 tons yielded 42 ounces of geld. They have about 20 tons more of…

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Greta Miners at Road Work. The Camp. Hillsborough. April 6, 1895

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 April 1895 · page 2

Having finished a hard day's "graft" on the road, I now proceed to dust my packing case which does duty as a desk, and give you a short resume of matters out here and how things strike one. In…

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The Londonderry Mine

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 16

Cablegrams regarding the Londonderry mine on being made public caused a sensation in London raising share market. Shares fell to 15s, and it is stated as probable that some proportion of the…

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mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 2

It is stated that mercury in considerable quantities has recently been discovered in New Caledonia. The prospecting party which went from…

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The Singleton Argus Published Good Friday the Londonderry Mine

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 2

WHAT all experienced people expected has happened in West Australia. The sensational gold discoveries and the sensational floting of great mining…

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The Londonderry Mine's Shares Falling [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 2

SHARES in the Londonderry mine have fallen to 12a 6d…

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