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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
316 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 16
THE coal trade, to say the least of it, is in a most uncertain position at the present time. It is whispered that the coal owners' offer to increase the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Henry III. issued the first current gold coin in England in 1217. It was of pure gold, passed for twenty pence, and was called a gold penny. The next…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Argus' Commercial Editor writes: The monetary news brought by the English mail is rather interesting, for it appears that not only bare considerable shipments of gold been received in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Payable alluvial gold is reported to have been discovered at Warraderry, near Grenfell. A company has been floated in Melbourne and Albury to dredge for tin at Basin Creek, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →" When we borrowed money for our bank in olden times in northern Arkansas, I used to go to the neighbouring town and get the gold. Then I had to carry it by stage over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The largest gold nugget ever found—the famous " Welcome Stranger," was unearthed by John Beason and Richard Oates at Dunolly, forty miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A discovery of gold is reported in the dry bed of a lake about 80 miles from Tarcocla (S.A.). Tareoola is situated in the far north-west of South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muth[?] of a storm are being again heard in connection with that very unsettled question, the price of coal at Newcastle, and the dependence upon it of theminer's wage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following is a list of the crushings by the Imperial Standard Co., Stewarts Brook, since the formation of the Co :—15 tons, 22 ozs. 5 dwts.;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kiyda R. Steage, writing of South Africa in the June St. Nicholas, tells of the discovery of gold in the Transvaal, and the growth of Johannesburg. A Germen named Mauch was the fleet to discover…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Great excitement has been caused at Ararat as the result of the discovery of an alluvial goldfield at Mount William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THAT some of the miners of the Newcastle district are worked up to a high pitch of exasperation by the persistent refusal of the masters to grant their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kiyda R Steege, writing of South Africa in the June. St. Nicholas, tells of the discovery of gold in the Transvaal, and the growth of Johannesburg. A German named Mauch was the first to discover…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GREAT excitement it has been caused at Ararat (Vic.) as a result of the discovery of an alluvial goldfield at Mount William. A rush has set in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the most memorable sights in Cornwall is an ascent of miners witnessed from one of the platforms of the main-engine. To the rhythmic beat of that strange machine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Engineering states that the price of coal at the pit's mouth varies a good deal in the different centres of production. The lowest point appears to have been touched in British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One gets tired of saying that there is trouble in the coal trade. There never seems to be anything else. When the labour warfare has driven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord roberte fefuses permission for miners to re-enter Johannesburg before September at the earliest…
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