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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

341 stories in New England's papers · page 4 of 18

The Cremorne Coal Co

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 4

The company promoted fay Mr. Jas. Inglis to work the coal seams at Cremorne has been registered as the Sydney Harbour Collieries Company,…

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Mining in New England. Hillsrove Crushings

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 2

Baker's Creek—523 tons crushed for a yield of 576oz. ldwt. smelted gold. Sunlight G. M. Co.—572 tons crushed for 209oz. smelted gold, sad…

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Cablegrams. Sydney, Friday. A Big Mine Accident 25 Lives Lost

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 4

Twenty-five lives have been lost by a fire in a mine in the State of New Mexico. Sixty-fire other miners are entombed, and though rescue parties…

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Colliery Strikers

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1895 · page 3

A non unionist named Redfe[?]a, employed at the Co-operative Colliery, was thrown from a tram at Plattsburg on Saturday night by two unionists. A free fight followed, but all was quiet when the…

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An Ominous Outlook for the Newcastle Coal Trade

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1895 · page 6

WHAT is now generally known as the milling situation' is becoming every day an Lncreising source of anxiety, not only to the miners themselves,…

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Mining

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 4

Browning and party have again got up steam on the Tug-of-War claim, and intond giving the ground a further and thorough trial. There are rumours…

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Mining in New England

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 2

Tributors are now at work on the Garibaldi mine. They have started to slope from the 50ft level. At the West Sunlight the drive…

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Gold in British Guiana

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 5

THE knowledge of the presence of gold in British Guiana is rapidly becoming diffused outside of the charmed circle in which it has hitherto been kept, and greater and wider attention is now…

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Mining Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 2

A shocking mining accident occurred at a lead mine in Shropshire on Wednesday. The (ear connected with the cage became disarranged when a…

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Mining in New England

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 2

Tenterfield.—Porter Brothers at Drake completed a trial crushing of 10 tons at the Adelinn Imttery for 17½dwt per ton. This return is said to be…

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Alluvial Gold. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1895 · page 5

A RICH find of alluvial gold is reported at Junction Point, near Crookwell, onprivate property…

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Sunlight Gold Mining Company

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 2

The 12th half-yearly meeting of the Sunlight Gold-mining Company was held at the Chamber of Commerce, Sydney, on Thuradny 28th Feb. Mr…

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Drake Mining District

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 3

The following is the report of Mr. W. H. J. Slee, F.G.S., Chief Inspector of Mines, on the Drake district, as furnished to the department; "I do…

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Mining in New England. Hillgrove Crushings

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1895 · page 2

Baker's Creekl.—596 tons crushed for 706oz 16dwt smelted gold. Sunlight.—526 tons crushed for 222½oz smelted gold, and…

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Gold Crushings. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 5

THE crushings from the Wentworth and Aladdin mines, Lucknow, last month gave a yield of 16,442 ozs. of gold, or a little over half a ton…

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Miners Entombed. [By Cable.] London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1895 · page 5

Two hundred and thirty of the miners entombed in a colliery in Silesia have been rescued. There is no hope of rescuing the remaining 70…

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A Mining Disaster

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 March 1895 · page 4

Three hundred miners have been entombed by an explosion of fire damp in a colliery at Karwin, near Loppan, Sileaia. Two hundred and thirty of…

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Mining in New England

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 March 1895 · page 3

Baling operations have been commenced at the Hillgrove Freehold Messrs. Chesson, Butler, and Webste[?] being the successful contractors…

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Forty Miners Killed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 4

Forty miners have been killed in Indiana, America, by an explosion of fire damp…

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The Government Programme. Important Ministerial Statement. New Public Works.—conference on Ths Land and Coal Mines Bills.—the Financial Statement in Mat.—an Unmistakable Fbbetbade Policy. — Coupled with Direct Taxation.—a System of Rigid Eco. Nomy

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 March 1895 · page 2

After the tea adjournment in the Assembly on Tuesday night, the Pre. rnier made an important statement re. girding the course of public business…

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