Mining Notes
A Moonan Brook correspondent writes:—Fuller's Reef has again commenced operations. The piping for carrying the air in the tunnel was…
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Mining & the mines, 1898
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Colliery Explosion in Prussia
A disastrous colliery explosion has taken place at Bochume, a town in Prussia, 85 miles from Duseldorf. Fifty-three miners were killed and 30 were injured…
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According to a New York telegram another lode at Kloudyke has been discovered by Frank Slavin, the Australian pugilist and two other miners. The lode is 18in. wide and freely aprinkled with…
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There was an increase of over 16,000 ounces in the quantity of gold produced in Victoria last mouth, as compared with the corresponding month…
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seventy-eight dead bodies have been recovered from the mine at Bochume, Prussia, and forty-six injured have been rescued, but thirty men are still in the mine…
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Shortly before one o'clock this morning two men named John McCauley and James Buckley whilst on the wharf at Circular Quay saw a man struggling in the water about fifty yards out, and…
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Further details of the collie[?] disaster at Boehum, in Prussia, shot that 78 miners were killed by the er[?] plosion, and that 46 men. som[?]…
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IN our business columns, will be found a notice on behalf of the "Golden Surprise Gold-Mining Syndicate, Stewarts Brook." The capital is £600…
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The British forces now in the Lagos Gold Coast district of the Hinterland number 6,000…
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IN our advertising columns will be found a notification with reference to the Golden Surprise Gold-Mining Syndicate which it is proposed to form…
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Never yet was Micro a mining disaster of any magnitude without several instances of individual gallantry in saving boys alone (says a writer iu Chums). As a colliery manager…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Singleton Argus Thursday. February 24th, 1898. Mining Development
THE Labor Bureau, in keeping, the unemployed down in numbers in the metropolis, recently resorted to the excellent method of freeing the city…
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ON Tuesday night, a meeting of the Wells and party syndicate was held at the Golden Fleece Hotel, when a number of the shareholders (including…
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THE ballot which has been proceeding among the miners of Newcastle for several weeks past on the question of calling out the Co-operative miners at…
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The production of coal in New South Wales was larger in 1897 than in any previous year, and exceeded that for 1896 by 474,074 tons. The first treatment of tailings at the Black…
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A rich find of gold is reported to have been made at Fenning's mine, Curecki Cr4eek gold field, near struck in the southern drive. The stone is…
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GREAT griefs are dumb, and little cares cry aloud. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.—Bacon…
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AFTER being hung up for nearly 15 months, the Stewarts Brook G.M. Co.'s battery started work again yesterday on a parcel of 85 tons of stone…
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A [?] find of gold has been made at the Jennings mine, Croki Creek, near Wingham, It is estimated the yield will go 40 ounces to the ton. There…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Mining Disaster Three Men Killed, and Several Seriously Injured. [By Telegraph] Broken Hill
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the British Mine at Broken Hill this morning by a fall of sulphides, weighing between 30 and 40 tons, killing…
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