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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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The exact figures in connection with the ballot taken on the strike question are stated to be—For, 2611; against, 478. The delegates refuse to give authoritative information with regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Noggrigra Creek, on the Yugilbar run, some 25 miles from Drake, a cinnabar lode has been discovered, and has been traced for a considerable distance on the surface. Samples brought up by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The crushing from the New Chum mine, Mount Elliott, near Albury, has just been cleaned up, giving a yield of 2421 oz. of gold from 14 1/2 tons of stone, averaging nearly 17oz. to the ton. The reef…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—At the present time the miners working in the Wickham and Bullock Island colliery are waiting until April 19, when their 14 days' notice of stoppage of work will expire. It will then devolve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →M'Gander and party, about three miles from Wyalong, after 10 months' labour in prospecting, have been rewarded by finding a nice ironstone reef, with about 12in. average width of stone. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good news comes to hand from Whispering Gully and Upper Wangat, concerning the mines in those localities. M. Donald, Kelly and party, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is pitiful to see the penalties which folly has to pay. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for another…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Barraba correspondent writes: Mining news is quiet this week. At Crow Mountain, McKenzie'd claim is showing good specimens. On Thursday last at "Woods' reef, Qninn's 1 1/2 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A party of five gold miners working near Mary-borough, Victoria, have made £80 ouch in the last four weeks. A nugget of gold weighing 20oz. 3dwt. was found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 2000 minora and others attended at Lambton Park on Monday at an aggregate meeting to finally decide whether the proposed strike would be proceeded with. The proceedings afforded ample…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →It is common talk that the miners employed at the Wallsend Colliery have withdrawn their notice of an intention to strike, so that they, at least, will act as sensible men and remain at work…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I have, on perusal of the coast papers, seen notices of beach-mining, asserting that thousands of miners could earn good wages if a proper method for saving the gold could be devised; and I also…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are informed that the mines at the Bulby are likely to turn out well, and that a new impetus has been given to operations there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There seems but little prospect of the miner obtaining the precious metal in anything like payable quantities in the Copeland district, despite the great anticipations at one time felt of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company was held at the Exchange this morning. Mr. J. F. Burns presided, and in moving the adoption of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Caledonian Mine, Yalwal, is running through stone, yielding between 50az. and 60az to the ton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Assembly to-day the Premier siated that he did not take it that the resolution affirming the tenure of office of the Agent-General to be five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Acting upon a request received from the Miners' Association, Newcastle, Messrs. Edden, Fegan, Dick, Ellis, and Watkins, M.L.A., to-day interviewed the Premier, with a view of securing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last week Messrs W. Fisher (of Brandon) and J. Richardson (of Raymond Terrace) passed through Dungog en-route for Upper Wangat to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →M'Kenzie and M'Nair's claim at Barraba has yeilded at the rate of nearly lOOoz. of gold for every day they worked it last week, and the reef is looking as good aa ever. Some of the miners are…
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