Mining Accident
A shocking mining accident occurred at the White Feather Main Reef, Kanowna (W.A.), on Monday morning. During a change of shift, four men, F. Osmetti, D…
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Mining at Bungowannah
A Sydney syndicate has been boring for some time past on Mr. Grieve's estate at Bungowannah. The bores have gone down 50ft. through gravel all the way…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining at Sandy Creek
Considerable interest, is centred in the Argo mine, writes the Herald, the system under which it will be worked being largely experimental. For not only will the old…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Lord Salisbury in the Gold Diggings
Nothing in Australia appealed to Lady Hopetoun so much as teh hovel in which the Marquis of Salisbury, then Lord Robert Cecil, lived whilst he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cold in Coal
The curious announcement that a piece of auriferous coal from Gippsland has been found may perhaps lead to diligent fossicking among the coal scuttles of…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Department of Mines
The annual report of the Department of Mines was laid upon the table of the Legislative Council last week. It fs a very voluminous document, and in it the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Story of a Lost Mine
A Bonanza for which men have searched in vain has a romantic history, if history it may be called for which no man can vouch the truth, even while…
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At tho Daylesford Police Court on Thursday Charles Cameron, about 20 years of age, a resident of Bendigo, was charged with offering spurious gold for…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Mining Legislation
Mr. Hurley is anxious to elicit from the Minister for Mines information relative to the enactment of a measure which would require companies which treat ores…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Klondike Goldfield. Rush From Dawson City to the New Field. Great Richness of Ore Body
A special despatch forwarded from the San Francisco Call from Victoria (British Columbia), on July 3, states :— " The steamship Tees, which returned from…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Traveller. the Largest Gold Mine in the World
The mine in question is the Simmer and Jack. This property is situated on the main reef, eight miles from Johannesburg, and one mile from, tho little mining village of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining at Bungowannah
A company has been formed for the purpose of working the alluvial deposits on an area of 146 acres of Mr. Grieve's Bungowannah estate by dredging. The capital is…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →The Last of a Rutherglen Mine
The Great Northern Extended mine, Rutherglen, having sold its land is now in. its penultimate stage. The mine—with which the name of the Hon. John A. Wallace…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Law Report. Friday, August Ii. Banco Court. (Before the Chief justice, Mr Justice Owen and Mr Justice Simpson.).ACTION for Withdrawal of Land for Mining Purpose
Mr Pilcher, Q.C., and Mr Ferguson, instructed by Mr C. G. W. Croaker, appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr R. B. O’Connor, Q.C. Mr C. B. Stephen, and Mr Canaway, instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Remarkably Rich Find of Gold. Sydney
A remarkably rich find of gold is reported from near Glasson's Gate, in the Orange district. Six pounds and a half weight of gold was taken from one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reserve From Sale for Mining Purposes. District of Gundagai
With Mount Adra holding, resumed area No. 64A. No. 29,755 County Wynyard, parish Ellersie[?] area about 200 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →A Mining Horror. Tragedy in Wales. London, August 18
The whole community Has been thrilled with horror by the news of an appalling mining disaster in Wales. The scene of the catastrophe, which is of a…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Lucknow Gold Mines
Mr. C. Wharnford Lock, who has been for over four years superintending the Lucknow Gold Mines, leaves for England this week. He states that it is to reef…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Fountains of Liquid Gold
Talk of the romance of gold-mining, why there is more excitement, and wealth too, in a single oil-well than in half a dozen ordinary gold mines, said a man who had "made his…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Water Eats Gold
It is not generally known, even in California, that millions of dollars in glittering sold are annually taken from rude heaps of base-looking quartz by the…
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