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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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The Victorian Minister of Mines, who believes that Extern Gippsland is destined to become an extensive goldfield when it is fully opened up to the prospector—and certainly recent rich discoveries there lend…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another rich strike was made in the Londonderry, Coolgardie, last week. Very rich gold was struck at the 200ft. level in the drive 90ft. from the main shaft. It looks as if this is another…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FINAL, returns of the ballotting among the coalminers in the Newcastle and Hunter. district, in connection with the query shall there be a strike, are expected to be in hand to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I am not surprised that correspondents should object to my letters on this subject, on the ground that they are not a categorical answer to their communications. What I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stewart's Brook Gold-mining Company's battery donned up on Saturday, resulting in 808 oz retorted gold from 240 tons of stone. Crushing continues, and there is abundant stone available. The Pride…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Harry Benjamin, who is interested in a roof at Stewart's Brook, in in receipt of a letter from the manager, who states that the reef has been knocked down, and has broken splendidly, It is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a meeting of the Delegate Board this morning, it was decided to ask the masters for another conference, failing which a fortnight's notice to work to be given from the 6th April…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE ballot of the Newcastle collieries has declared by a heavy majority in favor of a strike, but on Monday nothing further of importance transpired…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE crisis in the Newcastle coal trade has reached very acute stage. The lodges, by ft very large majority, have decided in favour of a strike, even…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A London syndicate has been formed to co-operate with the South Mount Lyell Mining Company, Tasmania, with the view of re-forming the company, and to provide capital for working the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Towong battery, on the Upper Murray, since the 1st June 1894, 1118 tons of stone have been crushed for 3553oz., of gold, or an average of over 3oz., per ton, The field is a highly profitable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I see that the coal miners of the Lower Hunter have carried the ballot in favour of a general strike, and that their leaders are holding the impending strike as a threat over the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Miners' Delegate Board sat in Newcastle on Wednesday deliberating until nearly 4 p.m., as usual with closed doors, upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The whole colony has been profoundly stirred by the terrible mining catastrophe at Brunner. It is the most disastrous calamity of its kind that has over occurred in New Zealand. Messages of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Antimony in the form of a large lode has been found this side of the Victorian border near Albury. Great excitement has been caused in Darling Ranges…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AN appalling disaster has occurred in the Brunner coal mine, near Greymouth, on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand. About…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir W. B. Perceval, late Agent-General for New Zealand, has accepted the position of managing director of the Consolidated Goldfields Company of New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Diamonds, it seems, are likely to be shortly added to the exports of Australia. The Australian Diamond Mines Proprietary, whose property is situated at Mount Derra Derra, New South Wales, about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A [?] reature of the Brunner mining disaster is its appaling completeness. Not a soul who was in the mine at the time of the explosion was saved. The work of recovering the bodies is being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The French authorities in Madagascar have refused to great British miners permits to prospect for minerals in the island…
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