Shocking Mining Accident
A miner named Hudson was terribly injured on Saturday at the Silver Queen mine, Zeehan (Tasmania). He had charged two holes in the drive, and applied a light to…
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Mining at Black Range
The bore at the Black Range is down 250 feet, and is still in decomposed rock. It is understood that the Government Geologist is of opinion that the bottom is not…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Another Gold Robbery. Theft From the R.m.s. Alameda. Five Thousand Sovereigns Removed
Intelligence has been received in Sydney by the Union Steamship Company that gold to the value of £5,000 was abstracted from the strongroom of the R.M.S. Alameda, of…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The Vanderbilt Wedding Gifts Two Million Dollars Worth of Gold, Silver and Precious Stones
There is no word in the English language by which one can describe the Vanderbilt wedding gifts. One can only read the list and gasp. lt reads like a chapter in Revelations, as one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold Robbery on the Alameda. a Reward of Five Hundred Pounds Offered
Through the Sydney manager of the line, Mr F. W. Jackson, a reward is offered of £500 for information leading to the arrest of the thief or thieves of the box of gold from the mail…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Colliery Disaster. 160 Miners Entombed. 30 Corpses Recovered. London, June 16
A terrible explosion has occurred in a coal mine near Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia. One hundred and sixty miners were…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Colliery Disaster London, June 19
No more bodies have been recovered from the coal mine near Halifax, Nova Scotia, where a terrible explosion occurred a few days ago, by which 160 miners were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Valuable Mine
The Wyalong Argus devotes a lengthy article to Mr. F. Neeld, J.P., and his great mine. It is not always, nor often, that the discoverer of a field has the good…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Deep Lead Mine. the English Company Proposal. Special Meeting of Shareholders. Local Shareholders Object and Win
ON Wednesday afternoon the special general meeting of shareholders of the Corowa Deep Lead Gold Mining and Prospecting Company, called for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dredging Boom. Extending Into N. B. Wales. a Deputation to the Minister of Mines, He Promises Legislation. But Warns Them Against Over Capitalisation. Sydney
A strong deputation waited on the Minister for mines today in reference to the dredging operations on inland streams for gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Robbery
The Currie liner Ayres, direct from Batavia, brings a remarkable account of the loss of a box of gold, valued at £4,000, from the steamer Konigen Regenter, while…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Mining Mems
Baird and Wealands, who found a rich patch of gold bearing stone a few inches under the surface at Black Range last week, report having come across a small reef…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Mining Disaster. Fall of Earth in a Diamond Mine. Eleven Australians Killed. London, July 8
A terrible accident has occurred in the famous New Jagersfontein Diamond mine, at Jagersfontein, in the Orange Free State, 72 miles from Bloemfontein…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Colonel Picquart Declines a Gold Sword. London, July 9
Much admiration is felt at Bada-Pes[?]h for Colonel Picquart's noble and unselfish efforts on behalf of Captain Dreyfus, that resulted in his undergoing a long term of…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Latest Mining Sensa[?] a Big Rush to the [?]
The excitement over the [?] telluride ore, about 400 miles [?] Adelaide, still continues. Last [?] Commissioner of Crown Lands received [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Coal Strike
Arrangements have been almost completed for a conference over the Lithgow coal strike. One pit is working with non union labor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Yackandandah
A report from Yanckandandah says :—"Work continues brisk at Mr. Wallace's local sluicing claims. In the early part of last week a petition, praying the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Football. Mt. Elliott Miners v. WALWA
The return match was played on Saturday, 15th inst., between the above clubs on the Walwa ground. The Miners, arriving with five men short, had to build their team from…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Earthquake in Germany. Miners Entombed. London, July 15
An ea[?]quake bas occurred in West phalia, a noted mining district in Western Germany. A number of miners Lave been entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Gold in Fisheries
If the shooting rights of ordinary English land are a potential silver mine with an increasing yield (says the writer of "The £ s. d. of Spurting Rents," in "Cornhill")…
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