Disastrous Colliery Explosion
A DISASTROUS explosion of fire-damp has taken place at a colliery at Taplitz, Bohemia. Seventeen bodies have been recovered. Thirty miners have…
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Mining & the mines, 1893
46 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 3
Gold Find in West Australia
Nuggets weighing two, three, five and twelve pounds of solid gold have been found on the Murchison gold field in West Australia. Larger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gundle Tin Mines
We have been favored with some information concerning the Gundle tin mines, by Mr. A. Rudder, who is at present managing the mines, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reported Gold Discovery. London
Great excitement has been created throughout America, by a reported extensive discovery of gold at a place Galled Ratportage, in Canada, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Gold Bonds. London, March 9
The Standard states that the United States Treasury is trying to sell 10,000,000 4 per cent, gold bonds in London at 116…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Fees
Mr. H. M‘Kinnon, speaking in the House last week on the Miners’ Rights Bill, said: The Secretary for Lands said he could only see one object the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrible mining Accident Two Men Blown to Pieces
AN Orange telegram states:—Another fatal accident took place at the Wentworth Proprietary Mine, Lucknow, on Saturday night, two men being killed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Australian Goldfields. Perth
The Union Bank, Perth, have now on view 2500ozs. of gold from Bailey's find, some 200 miles from Yilgarn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explosion of Fire Damp. 200 Miners Entombed. 50 Not Yet Rescued. [Special Message.] London, April 12
A terrible mining disaster has occurred in the working of the Great Western Colliery, Glamorganshire, Wales, by the explosion of fire damp…
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"Did I go down a diamond mine?" Well, not exactly. You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. I was taken to the mouth of the pit, but they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ranking Troubles. Bank Issue Bill Has Become Law. Reconstruction Schemes. Supplies of Gold Foe Leading Banks. [Special Message.] Sydney
The sitting of the Legislative Assembly which began on Tuesday afternoon lasted until 10 o’clock yesterday afternoon, by which time the Bank…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sketcher. Story of Tab Jonah Mine
‘I used to be a miner away down in the south-west corner ot Idaho.’ said Mr. Danford. We had a big mining camp down there [?] Topaz and Swuaw Creek. And it…
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Payable gold is reported to have been discovered at Stony Creek, near Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grains of Gold
More failures are to be attributed to efforts misdirected than to the want of exertion. He who is devoted to everybody is devoted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Coming Boom in Gold Mining
GOLD production is the most flourishing industry of Australia to-day ; the gold output is greater than when the boom was at its apex. It is the closing of silver and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Royalties
The Royal Commission on Mining Royalties, of which the Earl of Northbrook was chairman, have jus issued their report. They have found nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Discovery on the Richmond. Lismore
The Mining Warden at Lismore reports the discovery of gold in the vicinity of Ghostly Creek, Evans' Head…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Real McKay Antimony Mines
A CORRESPONDENT writes :--This mining property, located within easy access to the main Taylor's Arm road, as it is, has proved one of the most valuable in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipments of Gold. Sydney
The Arcadia for London took away 160,000 sovereigns, and the Mariposa for San Francisco took 76,000 sovs. MELBOURNE, Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Western Australian Gold-mining
A SPECIAL reporter of the Melbourne Standard furnished the following description of Coolgardie, the centre of the new gold-fields in West Australia. Coolgardie…
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