Grains of Gold
An injury repaired is a benefit to two. A good life is far more eloquent than a good sermon. We do nothing well till we learn our worth,…
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Mining & the mines, 1899
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Poetry. Erin's Harp of Gold
When Erin's sons went out to war, In ages long ago, A minstrel left his forest home To lead them on the foe…
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The mail steamer Msripos[?], which left to-day for San Francisco, took away £150,000 worth of specie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mining Sharemarket
There is a good deal of excitement in the mining sharemarket, and, as usual, a large number of persons who set out with the idea of becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Sydney Letter the Gold Robbery
THE reported theft of 5000 sovereigns from the Alameda has stirred the imagination of numbers of the people far more deeply than the Bill debate,…
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A Chinese miner named Chang Sing, aged 90, was killed by a fall of earth at Queenstown, Victoria. A fall of coal has taken place in Clifton colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →East Greta Colliery Disaster. Presentation of the Certificates for Bravery
It is now nearly five months since the Mines Department decided to present certificates to the miners who took part, last November and December, in the recovery of the bodies of Gronow, Montcrieff,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Diamond Mine Explosion. [By Cable.] London
Owing to a dynamite explosion at Kimberley diamend mines, Cape Colony, three Europeansaud 17 natives were killed…
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A PUBLIC ball will take place at Mr. D. Fibbins's residence on Friday, the 23rd instant, when an enjoyable night should be spent by…
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A terrible colliery explosion has taken place at Halifax, Nova Scotis. Ono hundred, and sixty miners are entombed. Thirty corpses hare already been recovered from the workings…
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The Queensland gold yield for May was 87,228 z., a comparative increase of 13,228oz. There are now five pits in the western coal district the miners of which have given notice to cease work…
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Look before you leap; otherwise you won't recognise yourself afterwards. Talent never makes the same mistake twice; genius never makes it at all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Mining Tragedy
The Nova Scotian mine, though flooded is burning fiercely. It is feared the emtombed miners have perished…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prospecting Vote. Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney, 10th June, 1899
Sir,—I am directed to inform you that, in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines aud Agriculture has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Mining Specialist
Mr. Stonier, of New South Wales, has been appointed mining specialist in India…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Notes
Lease ready for delivery : Portion 76, 4 acres, county Durham, parish Oidcastle. We remarked in a previous issue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Sydney Harbour
The manager of the Sydney Harbour Colliery. Balmain, reports that the shaft has reached a depth of 1,000 feet…
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Mr. Stonier, of New South Wales, has been appointed mioing specialist in India. Admiral Pearson has agreed to try Collie (W.A.) coal for the vessel of the Australian Squadron…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Notes
We remarked in a previous issue that a couple of miners up Ellerston way were prospecting for opal. We have since been shown a couple of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South African Gold
If, the annual gold production of South Africa rose to £30,000,000 gross—it is not yet £10,000,000—and if two-fifths of this, or £12,000,000, were net profits fairly…
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