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Illawarra · Mining & the mines
31 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 2
We have to-day to perform the melancholy duty of recording the sacrifice of three more victims to anrisacra fames. Sergeant Gallagher brought information to town on Saturday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have to perform the melancholy duty of recording the death of three victims to auri sacro fumes. Sergeant Gallagher brought information to town Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It has been known and felt daring the last 3 or 4 years that the consumption of Australian coal was not increasing in the Chinese markets in anything like the same ratio as the English and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whenever a geological map of this colony shall be produced it will indicate an amount of mineral wealth sufficient to justify the anticipations of the most sanguine. Every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—I should like to know where is now the opinion of our geologists, who have all more or less declared that a freestone locality was not, nor ever would be, a gold producing country. I was always…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the company the following report was adopted:— The directors have now, in accordance with the deed of Settlement, to submit to the proprietors their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following report on these fields has recently been published in the 'Empire':— HAROLD M.LEAN, ESQ., TO THE HONORABLE JOHN ROBERTSON, ESQ., MINISTER FOR LANDS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In consequence of the excitement occasioned by the reports of a payable gold field being discovered at or near Wingecarribee. Mr John Mackenzie, the Examiner of Coal Fields for the Southern Districts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]been favoured with the follow[?] the Honorable the Secretary for Lands, on the gold workings recently discovered near Berrima:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The sources of wealth in the district of Orange would seem to be almost unlimited. Within half-a-dozen miles of our town to the eastward we have a gold-field, surpassing anything that has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following letter appears in the Herald:— Sir,—Having received several documents on the subject of a supposed gold-field between the head waters of the Nepean and Cordeaux rivers, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—As one of the committee for carrying out the intentions of the above society. I deem it my duty to make a statement of certain facts connected with the late melancholy accident to Mr. John Kluss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If our readers will refer to the Mining Journal of May 21,1859, they will find a leading article bearing as its heading, "Why must the Miner Perish in his Prime?" We then "particularise…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following Bill for the better recovery of Goal Miner's Wages and to amend the Coal Fields Regulation Act of 1863 has been introduced by Mr. Tighe into the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the subject of the utilisation of sewage and other mammal matters Unit our dwellings furnish appears increasingly, and not without reason, to occupy attrition, it is I think the duty of every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From the Otago Daily Times of the 18th we extract the following :—"The intelligence lately to land has dissipated the golden dream…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A writer in the Herald from Bowonfels, signing himself "James Connor," says:-" I observed in one of your late issues a note announcing the discovery of gold,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday evening Mr. Henry Beckett, F.G.S., of Wolverhampton, delivered a lecture in the Assembly Room, Mold, on "Geology in its application to the coal fields of North Wales." Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →M. Dumas and Benoit have been making some experiments in the French collieries on the application of electricity as an illuminating power in "fiery" coal mines. Voltaic electricity…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Darley. for the official assignee (representing the creditors of the above-named company), moved for the confirmation—under 17th section of the Joint Stock Company's Act, 2 Vic. No 19—of the report…
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