A Nevada Mining Cam[?]
Candelaria is without doubt the roughest and most uncomfortable mining camp in Nevada. The houses, what there are of them, are poorly built, and the cold…
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Mining & the mines, 1881
28 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 2
Terrible Colliery Enplosion in Wales
ANOTHER of these disasters, fraught with so ranch grief to scores of families, has added a fresh chapter to the melancholy colliery annals of the Rhondda Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mount Poole Gold Discovery
THE discovery of gold at Mount Poole, in the Grey Ranges, is an event which (says the Australasian), it the first indications are supported by later results, is sure to exert a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Antimony Mines, Near Armidale. (By a Practical Miner)
FOR a long time past reports of large deposits of antimony in our immediate viciuity have been circulated, and a large amount of desultory work ill the shape of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Of Interest to Miners
A subject of great interest to miners and others engaged in excavating is referred to by the Melbourne Daily Telegraph:--"It will be remembered," observes the journal from which we quote…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Revival
THOSE of our readers who are interested in gold mining, aud who have been reading the reports which appear in the leading journals of the other colonies, will readily agree with us in thinking that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Modern Gold Mining
A SHORT time ago, at the theatre of the Society of Arts, London--Mr. Francis Cobb in the chair-- and interesting paper was read by Mr. Alfred G. Lock, F.R.G.S., on "The Causes of Success and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Deepest Coal Pit in Britain
AFTER six years of patient toil, involving a deeper descent into the bowels of the earth than has been reached by any similar effort, the Ashton Moss Colliery Company have, within…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold-bearing Country Near Walcha. To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN—As a person of considerable experience in mining matters, I should like, with your permission, to make public a few remarks concerning the district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bismuth Mines Near Glen Innes
WE have received the following communication from Mr. S. Woolfson, a gentleman who appears to have made geology an especial study, and whose opinions on the mineral-bearing nature of various…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deep Boring for Gold
THE diamond-drill has made a conspicuous success. We recently reported that in the Crown Cross United mine at Stawell the diamond-drill was set to work at a depth of 1,322 feet, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Britain Mine. (To the Editor.)
SIR--,In your last issue mere appeared a statement from your Vegetable Creek correspondent, that Fraser and party made a gap in the property of the Great Britain Tin Mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining in South Australia
FROM an exceedingly interesting account of the progress of the colony of South Australia since its foundation, scarcely fifty years ago, published by the Adelaide Observer in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Ashantee Gold Axe
THE British and African Steam Navigation Company's royal mail steamer Volta, Captain Baker, arrived in the Mersey on June 25 from the west coast of Africa, after a rapid passage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An English Gold Mine
WE have of late heard a good deal of gold mines, aud most attractive speculations some of them should be, to judge by the advertisements ; but we doubt if many will prove as profitable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tin Mining on the Y Waterholes
"MINER'S RIGHT''sends the following communication to the Mail:-- During the latter part of last year, matters mining were very slack on this place, and it was…
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THE Sandhurst correspondent of the Argus gives the following details of the terrible mining accident which occurred in that locality on Monday last, briefly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sad Mining Accident at Sandhurst
A SHOCKING mining accident, which caused the death of two miners, occurred at an early hour on Wednesday morning at the south shaft of the Catherine Reef United Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wild River Tin Mines
THE Government Printer of Queensland has recently issued report of the Rev: J. E. Tenison Woods, E.G.S., F.L.S., on the Wild River and adjacent tin mines. For the subjoined extracts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grand Gold Discoveries at Temora
A Telegram to the S. M. Herald from Temora dated Wednesday says:— "This morning another discovery was reported on the well-known ground of Penuman and…
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