Mines and Water Rates
The matter of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board against the Scottish and Australian Coal Mining Company, Ld., came before the Full Court to-day, when Mr. C. B…
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Mining & the mines, 1896
483 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 25
Mining Items
Miners are earning from £2 to £7 per week at the Back Creek rush, near Braidwood. A crushing of 24 tons from The Keep It Dark mine, Marble Bar, gave 24 ounce of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Ups and Downs of a Beach Mining Party. Maitland to Bungwall Flat
Early on the morning of Tuesday, the 11th February, a party of five left West Maitland for the purpose of giving a fortnight's trial to beach-mining in the neighbourhood of Port Stephens, taking…
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A remarkably rich quartz reef has been discovered at Rogers Hill, in the Ballarat district, by five brothers named O'Keefe, who have been out prospecting for a couple of years. Some specimens…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold-mining at Bendigo
Mr. Credington has placed on the London market 10,000 shares in the Bendigo Mining Development Company, Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letter to the Editor. Mr. Abbott and the Miners
SIR,—I see by your paper that our backwoods Solon has burst forth again, arrayed in all the glory of malice and goose quill to attack a body of men of whom he knows nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co
At the meeting of the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Co. to-day, Mr. Josiah Mullens was unanimously elected to fill vacant directorship caused by the death of the late Mr. W. B. Walford…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Friday, March 13, 1896. Nationalising the Coal Mines
A DISPUTATION representing the public meeting held in the Domain in Sydney last Sunday waited yesterday on Mr. Reid, and made the cool proposal that the Government should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mines Department
Our Moree correspondent writes us as follows: —The retirement of Mr. Harrie Wood from the Under-Secretaryship should mean the in-auguration of an era of progress in mineral…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mining Items
Warry and Stewart have crushed a large parcel of quartz at Mudgee for a yield of 18dwt. to the ton, and have arranged for 50 tons weekly to be crushed of the same claim. The proprietors have richer…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Letter to the Editor. the Newcastle Coal Trade
SIR,—I" reply to "Cornstalk," who writes in your issue of the 12th, lot me say that, as a Hunter River producer, my interest in the question of the Newcastle coal trade is just as…
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A meeting of miners was conv[?] by Mr Warden Garstang for Saturday afternoon last, and a fair number at tended. The Warden explained that…
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A meeting of miners war convened by Mr, "Warden Garstang for Saturday afternoon last, and a fair number attended. The Warden explained that he had received a circular from the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Threatened Coal Strike
MR THOMAS CROUDACE, general manager of the Burwood Company, has forwarded the following letter to Mr W. Williams, secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letter to the Editor. Mr. Abott and Tub Miners
SIR,— As I have not a mania for writing letters to the press I feel some diffidence in asking for feel compelled to do so, as he has evidently confounded me with some one else, and made a certain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Goldfields of Western Australia. a Maitlander's Opinion of Them
"Tis the strangest place on God's earth," is what Mr. Thomas Gray says of the wide tract of country in the land of the black swan that is known to the uninitiated as Coolgardie, but which in reality…
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Mr George Brooker, postmaster at Marrana Creek, on Wednesday unearthed a large piece of quartz about 8 inches under the surface, and which carried gold in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Coal Difficulty
IN responding to the toast of "Health and Prosperity to the firm of J. and A. Brown," on the occasion of the trial trip of the Champion. Mr John Brown…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Week's Mining
A dishful of dirt from the Eskdale field yielded 70oz. of gold. A 19 oz. nugget of gold has been found near Talbot, as well as a number of small pills of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Goldfields of Western Australia. a Maitlander's Opinion of Them
"'Tis the strangest place on God's earth," is what Mr. Thomas Gray says of the wide tract of country in the land of the black swan that is known to the uninitiated as Coolgardie, but which in reality…
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