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134 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 7
A serious rising has occurred among the Malay miners employed at the Raub gold mine at Pahang, in the Malay Peninsula. Thirteen policemen have fallen into the hands…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →“Most people suppose,” says an assayer, ‘that all gold is alike when refined, but that is not the case. An experienced man can tell at a glance from what part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →There's the girl with the smiling face, The girl with the witching eye, There's the girl with stately grace, And the girl that is modest and shy;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the year the Broken Hill Proprietary paid in divudends £1,152,000 or 24s per 8s share. The aggregate of dividends, since the middle of 1886…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GREAT NORTHERN.-- Main north-west roof drive extended 36ft; greater part of this distance showing washdirt just below the points of the back laths of average…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious explosion has occurred in a colliery at Kribe, in the United States. It has been ascertained that over 70 of the miners entombed, have perished. A hundred have…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Lockout Company had a return of 6oz. 13dwt; which brings the total up to 28oz. for three weeks. The All Nations Company have let a contract for the sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Magenta Company finished a crashing of 20 tons for a yield of 8oz., and another 20 tons for a little over 7oz. The stone was taken out of the upper slopes,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Perhaps it would interest your readers to know something of the most renowned college in the world. Americans claim that some of their schools are far ahead of this one ; that…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →QUEEN'S JUBILEE.--Cut better stone in the [?]inze from 212ft. level; reef about 2ft. thick, showing very good gold. Nice reef in north drive, lower level (205ft.) but poor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tears and years ago, away back in the early days, or as the old hands are so [?]ond of remarking, â in the early fifties,â some enterprising prospectors discovered that gold…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Gold is so very tenacious, that a piece of it drawn into wire one-twentieth of an inch in diameter will sustain a weight of 500 pounds without breaking…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →QUEEN JUBILEE.--Bottom level -- Reef about [?] wide; now carrying payable gold. Winze will be connected with level by Saturday night. Lode in winze Sit;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The first of these valuable properties, which are to play such an important part in the history of the north-eastern portion of the colony, which I visited was that of the…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →CHILTERN QUARTE.--Making good progress with tross-cut; country dark b[?]ne [?]late, intermixed with quartz leaders, having an easterly underlie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A little to the eastward of where the Rather-glen Gold Mining Company have with each goof will driven in their pegs and started to work is a claim called the Rose of Sharon. It…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →PRENTICE [?]--Sunk and timbered 25ft total 18ft. still singing through good working clay, and quite dry. QUEEN'S JUBILEE.--Main level about 12…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the extreme western edge of the gold field at Rutherglen two more companies have driven in their pegs and have got to work. These are the North-Eastern and the Hunter’s…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →A strike on a great scale seems to be impending in the coal trade. The coalminers to the number of 380,000 are handing in notices that they will cease work on March 12, in…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The work done by the Prentice Freehold Gold Mining Company since its flotation is something of a marvel of expedition, thoroughness, and excellence of detail. Under the able…
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