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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

46 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 3

Hillgrove Mines

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1892 · page 4

MINING MATTERS.—Water that had accumulated in Baker's Creek Mine has been baled out, and work resumed. The last cleaning up gave 802ozs. of gold from 341…

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An Unhappy Mining Company

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 2

An interesting Christmas entertainment, rivalling the pantomimes in its wealth of laughter provoking episodes, was given on December 30 at. the Claremont Hotel, Collins-street, Melbourne…

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Hillo[?] Mines

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 5

MINING Matters.—The Sunlight Co. are busy with the tramway, and the extension of No. 3 and 4 levels.—Sunlight West Co. are still driving along the lode from…

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The Newcastle Miners

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 2

IT is regretable to find that there seems every prospect of another struggle between the Newcastle miners and the mines owners. The cause of quarrel is connected with a reduction…

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An Old Copper Mine

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 5

NEARLY 50,000 tons of virgin copper were brought to the surface last year in the neighborhood of Lake Superior. These works are on the site of the long-disused mines, the history of whose…

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Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1892 · page 2

£2,500,000,000 is the nice little sum which represents the value of the gold yielded by the world since the discovery of America by Columbus…

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Curiosities About Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1892 · page 2

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…

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Hillgrove Mines

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1892 · page 3

Mining Matters.—There are no special changes to report at the Hopetoun group of mines. Bakers Greek Co.-have now got the new cam shaft fixed in the battery, and…

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Glen Elgin Gold Reefs

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1892 · page 2

HAVING just returned from a visit of inspection, to these important mines, a few of the leading facts may be of interest to your readers. THE GLEN ELGIN COMPANY…

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Appalling Colliery Disaster in France. Seventy-three Lives Lost

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1892 · page 4

A ST. Etienne message on 6th December stated:—A calamitous explosion of firedamp, involving, it is feared, the loss of between sixty and eighty lives, occurred…

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Recovery of Antimony and Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1892 · page 5

FOR years (says the Melbourne Age) endeavors have been made to find a process by which gold can be extracted from auriferous antimony ores without losing or sacrificing the antimony, but so…

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Glen Elgin Gold Mines

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 2

ON Thursday last Mr. F. A. Abigail, the managing director of the Proprietary Company, visited Glen Elgin, accompanied by Captain Cock, of Hill grove, aud Mr. Scantlebury, from Sydney, and…

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Grants for Mining

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1892 · page 2

MR. F. A. WRIGHT, M.L.A., informs us that the Minister for Mines has approved of the following further prospecting grants, to be expended in the Glen Innes electorate:--…

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The Traveller. A Land of Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1892 · page 1

China, to which the recent outrages on Christians are attracting increased attention, may well be termed the terra, incognita of even the most ambitions of western…

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Chloride of Gold for Snakebite

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1892 · page 2

So many deaths are caused by the bite of the cobra de capelle--especially in British India--that a communication just made to the Academy of Medicine by M. Rochard is…

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The Miner. Glen Elgin Gold Mines

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 April 1892 · page 2

THE Easter holidays furnished the with another opportunity of visiting my hospitable friends at Glen Elgin, and the weather being very favorable I enjoyed a complete pleasure…

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Monte and Gold Bricks

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1892 · page 2

Of the vast army of human beings who prey upon their fellow men there are none more dangerous or desperate and none who cope as successfully with the police as the…

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The Very Latest. Sydney, Monday Night. Mining Market.—Tin is worth 16s

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 May 1892 · page 5

The Championship.—The boat race between Stanbury and Sullivan, for the championship of the world and £400, was rowed on the Parramatta River to-day,…

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Gold in Madagascar

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 May 1892 · page 7

THE Madagascar News states that it is considered that nearly 1000oz of gold per week are sold in Antananarivo alone, and that the total…

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Miners Meeting at the Rocky

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1892 · page 2

A LARGELY-attended meeting of miners was held at the hall, Rocky River, on Saturday night last, under the chairmanship of Mr. A. P. Smith, president of the…

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