Japan Adopts a Gold Currency. [By Cable.] London
Japan has decided to adopt a gold standard for currency…
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Mining & the mines, 1897
310 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 16
Mining Items
A report from Albany states that payable gold has been discovered 100 miles of that place. The Amalgamated Miners' Association sitting at Ballarat last week decided to ask the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold. Seventy-five Ounces in a Pocket Hardships and Misery. Impure Water the Bane of His Life
Mr. G. Bowles is a digger of the old type, and like a feather in a southerly buster, followed up the rushes since gold was first discovered on these shores. He tells our reporter that he has had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Guinea Gold-Fields. a Warning to Prospectors
Mr. Ernest Charles Lebb, who, after an 18 years' Australian residence, is now for the f[?]est time making a trip to the south of Townsville, on Wednesday supplied to the Melbourne Argus a few notes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Colliery Disaster
A colliery at Dover has become flooded, and eight miners have been drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gold Robbery
Detective Fr[?]cont boarded the Oceans at Plymouth and is making inquiries into the robbery of 5000 sovereigns from the vessel before she left Williamstown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Greta Mines
The Greta colliery has for some time past worked only very intermittently, and, as a consequence, the miners bad not had very satisfactory wages, and this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Stockton Colliery
Since the recent lamentable, as also purely accidental, disaster at this colliery, work has once more resumed its wonted activity, and an average of about 10 days fortnight can—bar accident…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mine Accident
At Bulli a set of waggons broke away from the South Bulli mine incline this morning at eleven o'clock, and crashed through the points at the railway station, blocking the line. The…
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A robbery of amalgam, valued over £400, was effected from a Bate at the Sir Henry Loch Company's mine, at Ballarat. The export of gold from Perth for February was 32,526oz. as compared with 17,932oz. for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The New Guinea Goldfields. a Warning to Prospectors
Mr. Ernest Charles Lobb, who, niter an 18 years Australasian residence, is now for the first time making a trip to the south of Townsville, on Wednesday supplied to the Melbourne Argus a few notes…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New Guinea Gold
WITHOUT being premature in forming and uttering an adverse opinion, we may yet justly say that the golden prospect of Western Australia has latterly become somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Matters at Stewart's Brook
A correspondent at Stewart's Brook writes us:—Mining matters here are very quiet just at present owing in great measure to the scarcity of water, all the batteries being idle for this reason. The Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Guinea Gold
Without being premature in forming and uttering an adverse opinion, we may yet justly say that the golden prospect of Western Australia lias latterly become somewhat…
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The new gold lead at Clermont (Q), is being actively developed, and about 700 men are now on the field, but a further rush is deprecated at present…
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On Friday Messrs. Cunningham and Curley made application for the Porcupine Recreation Reserve, Gunnedah, for lease for the purpose of prospecting for coal. This is a mountain overlooking the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Mining Expert
Knows what leads to follow and what to ignore; he knows also the dangers of mining and how to avoid thorn. Ho realises the importance of saving himself,…
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A payable gild reef has been found neat Mount-Tara, in Gippsland, giving ldwt to the pound freight of quartz. Further remarkable finds of gold bearing stone…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →On the Discovery of Gold in Australia
The steamer gets her anchor up, and pants across the main, The graceful clipper spreads her wings, and skims the liquid plain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inspection of Colliery Weighbridges. Complaints Against the Present System. Sydney
A deputation representing the Colliery Managers Association, Newcastle, consisting of Messrs. A. Brown. M.L.A. Alex, Ross, R. Thomas, and Thomas Crondace, waited upon the Minister of Justice…
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