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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1880

573 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 29

Vale of Clwydd Coal Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 July 1880 · page 2

THE half-yearly general meeting of the Vale of Clywdd Coal Company was held on Wednesday in Sydney. The balance-sheet showed at credit of profit and loss…

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The Temora Goldfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 July 1880 · page 3

THERE is now doubt that a very extensive and valuable goldfield has been discovered at Temora, one that reminds us of the early finding of gold…

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Theft of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1880 · page 5

AT the Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. Buchanan, P.M., Adolphe Kuhdull, a German, was charged with having stolen half a ton of coal, valued at 5s, the…

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Miners' Meeting at Barrington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1880 · page 8

THE committee of the Miners' Association held a meeting at Mr. Kelly's Hotel, Copeland, on Saturday, July 15th, at 8 o'clock, Mr. A. Malcolm in…

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Coal Seam Near Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—A seam of coal, five feet thick, is about to be worked at Grafton. A Newcastle mining manager is there inspecting the coal, and reports…

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The Tomora Gold Rush

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1880 · page 4

THE now-authenticated news of the Temora gold rush having proved likely to be a payable and lasting one, has naturally had the effect of drawing persons to the…

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Latest from Tomora Gold Fields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Temora gold-field rush is considered equal to Gulgong ton years back. The reports of finds are highly favourable. The influx of minors…

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Gold Mining Leases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 July 1880 · page 2

A LIST of approved applications for gold mining leases of Crown lands in the Hunter and Macleay mining districts, is published in the Government Gazette of…

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The Temora Gold-field

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 July 1880 · page 3

TEMORA, Thursday.—The most important rush which has taken place in this colony, since that at Gulgong 10 years ago, is the Temora Rush which…

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Accident at the Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 July 1880 · page 2

ON Saturday last a miner, named Thomas Ramsay while working in the No. 1 tunnel of the Wallsend Colliery, had one of his legs Fractured, through a quantity…

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The Temora Gold-field

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1880 · page 3

COOTAMUNRA, July 28.—The all-porvading topic here is, at present, "gold, gold, gold." The Evening News says we have the "yellow fever," and if you were…

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Newcastle Coal Mining Company (Limited)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1880 · page 2

YESTERDAY, at noon, the half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the above Company took place at the Company's office, Scott-street, Newcastle, Mr. Beresford Hudson…

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The Temora Gold-field

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1880 · page 2

COOTAMUNDRA, Monday.—During the past day or two nothing in the shaped [?] mining discoveries has occurred wor[?] reporting from Temora. There are no[?]…

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Gold Mining Leases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1880 · page 2

PARTICULARS of sundry gold mining leases refused and accepted, in the Hunter and Macleay mining district, will be found in the Gazette of Tuesday last…

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The Temora Gold-field

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1880 · page 3

COOTAMUNDRA, Tuesday.—The mining dispute which took place at the upper township on Tuesday, has not yet been settled…

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Lambton Mechanics' and Miners' Institute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1880 · page 4

THE members of the above Institution held their twenty-fifth half-yearly meeting on Monday evening, July 19, 1880. There was a very good…

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Gold Discovery of 1851

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 3

THE select committee of the Legislative Assembly, consisting of Messrs. R. B. Smith (chairman), E. Baker (Minister for Mines), Copeland, J…

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TELEGRAMS. Discovery of Coal at Balmain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—A seam of coal, an each, thick has been discovered at Balmain, at a depth of twenty-four feet, while sinking a well…

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Correspondence Raspberry Gully Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 8

SIR,—As there has been much in the paper about the Raspberry Gully miners and others there, we think that it should not pass without a word…

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TELEGRAMS. Another Discovery of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 August 1880 · page 2

BATHURST, Saturday.—It has been reported this morning that gold in payable quantities has been found near a place called Broadwater, a short…

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