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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining & the mines, 1899
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Mining at Black Rance
The Record mine, Black Range, has finished the erection of the whim, and three shifts are to be put on immediately. The wash is 4 feet thick, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Copper Mine Flooded. Six Hundred Lives Lost. London, September 3
A terrible catastrophe has happened at a copper mine in the island of Shikoku, Japan. By some accident the mine was flooded, and 600 miners perished…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Klondyke Gold Field. Reported Discovery of Another Rich Field
‘Since my last writing,’ says the Victoria (B.C.) correspondent of the ‘Sydney Morning Herald,’ under date 25th July, ‘another g[?]d field is reported to have been discovered in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Colliery Clock
Not many years ago a well-known firm of clockmakers in Newcastle were commissioned to erect a turret clock on a large building in a small colliery district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kruger's Advice to Miners. London, September 13
President Kruger advises minors to remain in the Transvaal. He promises that they shall be protected, and that if war breaks out they shall be allowed time to leave the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sensational Mining Incident. Two Men Killed by Foul Air
A mining fatality is reported from Waters boles, seven miles from Bairnside, on the Nicholson River. Two miners, Jno. Peach and Richard Tudgey, working in an alluvial…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wreck of the Thermopylae. Two Well-known Racehorses Lost. 10 Boxes of Gold Valued at £50,000 Saved
A private cable message was received in Melbourne early on Wednesday morning announcing that the Aberdeen White Star line steamer, Thermopylae, 3 711 tons register, Captain W. Philip,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rutherglen Mining Notes
THE erection of the electric plant at the Great Southern. No. 1 is approaching completion, and will be put to the test next week. Its use is expected to effect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Mining Notes
MR. J. A. Wallace, M.L.C., Mrs. and Miss Wallace, with Sir Frederick Sargood and Lady Sargood, attended the christening of the Kiewa pumping plant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Mining Notes
THE Barambogie holed through to the new timber shaft last Saturday, and the shaft is now being got ready for use. The mine is still being worked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Rand Mines
A difficulty has already been experienced by President Kruger in working the four Johannesburg mines, the possession of which he assumed in order to raise funds, by…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →New South Wales Gold Yield
The Deportment of Mines has compiled the usual monthly return showing the yield of gold [?] the colony during tho month of September. The return shows that the gold produced…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Sinews of War. Seizure of Gold by the Boers
In addition to the seizure of four of the principal mines on the Rand- the Robinson,; the Bonanza, the Ferreia. and the Crown Reef- the Transvaal Government has…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Mining at the Black Range. the Record Claim. a Splendid Prospect
A visit to the Record claim on Tuesday and an inspection of the underground workings was a surprise, for up to that time the mining reporter of The Banner had no idea of the…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The Alameda Gold Robbery. Possible Early Solution. a Clever Gang of Safe Robbers
Owing to a number of sensational disclosures that have recently been made, the detectives are renewing investigations into the Alameda gold robbery. It is believed that in a short time the thieves will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Production
GOLD production has more influence upon market prices than most people are perhaps aware, and for this reason it behoves the Government to in every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Johannesburg Goldfield. Marvellous Mining Record
A writer in the Argus, who has lived in South Africa, and has since been in Victoria and West Australia, makes the following contribution :-…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Rand Mines. London, October 8
Another desperate effort to raise money has been made by the Transvaal authorities, who thereby have accentuated the fact that a state of war prevails at Johannesburg…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Gold Dredging. Deputation to Mr. Fegan
An important deputation was introduced to Mr. Fegan, Minister for Mines, on Wednesday, by Mr. Hurlsy, M.L.A., in connection with the granting of leases for dredging for gold. Among…
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