Mining Items
The greatest satisfaction is expressed among the Lucknow miners at Mr. Reid's consent to arbitrate. A company to prospect at Klondyke is being formed in Melbourne…
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Mining & the mines, 1897
310 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 16
The Klondyke Goldfields
Fishermen, according to their satirists, use a license to magnify the captives which fall victims to their alluring skill. And when it suits them, goldfinders indulge we fear in a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A Great Fire in a Broken Hill Mine. Three Men Suffocated. Many Overcome by the Fumes
One telegraph agents this morning sent us the following :— A big fire was discovered in the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, yesterday. Three men were…
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Intelligence has reached London to the effect that the mining population at Dawson City, the centre of the Yukon goldfields, is threatened with famine, The largest bores are closed and their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery-strike Tn the United States
The colliers on strike at Pittsburg. Ohio, Indiana, and Virginia have decided to resume work, a compromise in the hewing rate having been arrived at on the basis of 65 cents. per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Yukon Goldfields
The River Yukon is frozen over, and the conveyance of supplies to the Klondyke Goldfields by this route has consequently been stopped. There is a great scarcity of provisions on the fields, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Colliery Strike in Pennsylvania
A band of colliery strikers at Pittsbmrg, Pennsylvania, headed by 50 woman, many of whom had babies in their arms, cams into collision with the Sheriff's officers. The women were in astate of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Movements
Judging from tho news received per the English mail, says the Commercial Editor of the Argus, the gold movements were being closely watched in London at the beginning of August. The buying…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Disaster in India
Forty miners have been killed by an accident in the Champion Reel gold mine, Madras…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Mine on Fire. The Broken Hill Proprietary. Loss of Life
A fire broke out on Sunday in the big Proprietary Mine. About 7 o'clock in the morning the alarm was sounded, and people poured down to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Mining Industry. To the Editor
Sir,—Having had a long and varied experience in mining, and knowing that we have a district rich in mineral wealth, which is only partially…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Movements
Judging from the news received per the English mail, says the Commercial Editor of the Argus, the gold movements were being closely watched in London at the beginning of August. The buying…
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Forty miners have been killed by an accident in the Champion Reef gold mine, Madras. The patent cyanide rights for the colony of New Zealand have been purchased by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining at Stewart's Brook
A marked improvement in mining matters is clearly apparent in every part of the district. At Stewart's Brook it is owing to Adams's find on Carter's reef,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fire in a Broken Hill Mine
A big fire was discovered in the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, on Sunday. Shortly after six o'clock in the morning symptoms of fire were observed in the vicinity of Darling's shaft on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Grains of Gold
If angels had to live with some men, there would probably be more fallen ones. The worth of life is not to be measured by its average of happiness, but by its supreme…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Mysterious Affair at Lucknow. Dynamite Bombs Thrown at Lucknow Mine. Strikers Blamed for the Outrage. Orange
It is reported here this morning that an explosion of dynamite took place last night inside the enclosure at Lucknow mine, and that one man was injured. The night was very dark and rainy. It…
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The Victorian yield of gold for the last month was 66,493oz., making a total of 5O7,O16oz. for the first eight months of 1897. The Victorian Government has recently granted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Local News. Mining Notes
The New Royal Standard at Stewart's Brook cleaned up for its regular monthly crushing on Friday, obtaining 128 ounces smelted gold from 60 tons of stone. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Destructive Fire. Much Mining Property Destroyed. Orange
The engine, machinery, and sheds of the Wentworth Extended Gold Mining Company, Lucknow, were completely destroyed by fire between two and three o'clock this morning, resulting in damage…
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