Beach Mining
Mr. Robert Young writes:—The cheapest way to prospect the beach is by a light boring apparatus, capable of being worked and carried anywhere by, at most, three…
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Illawarra · Mining & the mines
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Mr. Robert Young writes:—The cheapest way to prospect the beach is by a light boring apparatus, capable of being worked and carried anywhere by, at most, three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. George Pratt, of Paradise, was seriously injured by a fall of coal on Friday morning last. The injured man was holeing on a very dangerous face, and had just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME fossike[?]s on private land at Murrumbateman have found nuggets and fine gold by occasional searching with a pick and dish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Joseph Creer, superintendent of the Labor Bureau, considers that we are "on the edge of a genuine gold boom." During the last six months the Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Benjamin Gray, the well-known mining engineer, whose inventive genius has been pretty well tested in this district, has, we are informed, eclipsed all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Austinmer mine has worked every day this week, and it is hoped the pit will continue to work, as the dull times can driven some men away to the goldfields…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work at the pit has been slack for [?]he last fortnight—only 5 1/4 days. The [?]utput of large coal for the same time has been 2331 tons, besides slack, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Milton Times of Saturday in a report of the proceedings at Brooman on the arrival of Mr. M'Mabon, the proprietor of the land on which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Legislative Council on Tuesday devoted almost and their entire sitting to the Mining on Private Lands Bill, when the unusual spectacle of a debate on the third…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Austinmer mine has not worked during the week. Another reduction is sought to be imposed, but it is not finding acceptance with the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Sydney correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch says:—The revival of the goldmining industry just now is causing some little excitement in Sydney, Not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I note in your issue of the 21st a paragraph as follows:—"The Austinmer mine has not worked during the week. Another reduction is sought to be imposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports from Monkerai state that Moore and party have struck a rich gold reef at 80th. About 400z. have been taken out. There are a lot of rich…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Mines yesterday received the following telegram from Warden Clarke, of Braidwood:—"Referring to a report in Tuesday's Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In to-day's issue of the Mercury I notice Mr. J. Mitchell takes exception to what I wrote concerning the above mine on the 20th inst. I received the information…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"History repents itself." This is constantly being proved, and the reader of the following will note how the history of nearly half a century ago is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MAISTER EDITOR,—When readin' your paper the ither day I saw Mr. Mitchell's letter compleenan' about yer correspondent sayin' anither reduction was sought tae be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It will be recollected that early in March, a select committee, consisting of Messrs. Slattery, Cook, Edden, Nicholson, M'Court, Melville, Cann…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Bulli correspondent" writes :— Operations at the Austinmer mine were resumed on Tuesday last, the usual price of 1s 6d per ton for filling coal and slack…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Edden: Especially if a reduction, is wanted :—I do not object to the men making the very best of their bargain. I have always recognised that the…
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