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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1880

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

Gold Mining News

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1880 · page 2

TEMORA, Tuesday.—Keating and Hayes unearthed yesterday one hundred and ninety three ounces. One of the nuggets weighed one hundred and one ounces…

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Mining Notes from Tomera

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1880 · page 2

TEMORA, Monday.—There have been some grand returns from the local claims, Two hundred and sixty-eight loads from Power and party's paddock yielded at the…

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[From the Sydney Papers.] Large Yield of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1880 · page 2

GRAFTON, Monday.—Winkler and Ward have returned from Solferino, and report that they have crushed 1½cwt. of stone from the Garibaldi claim, and…

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The Melbourne Coal Contracts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 December 1880 · page 2

THE Argus, in reference to the above, says :—" The competition between the owners of mines on the one hand and the proprietors of steamships on the other has…

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Mishap on the Newcastle Coal Co.'s Line

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 December 1880 · page 2

LAST evening a collision occurred on the above line near Tattersall's, owing to a train of empty waggons being run into by a train of waggons filled with coal…

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Scottish Australian Mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1880 · page 3

THE half-yearly meeting of the above Company was held at the City Terminus Hotel, on Oct. 29; Mr. A. W. Young in the chair…

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Lambton. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1880 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the above minors wait held in Stoker's Hall, on Wednesday evening last, Mr. Thos. Smith in the chair. The minutes of last meeting…

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TELEGRAMS. Lithgow Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Large quantities of coal have been sent from the Lithgow Mines lately, but are now stopped for want of trucks…

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Reduction of Miners' Wages at the Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 4

WE regret to learn that the miners employed at the above colliery have received notice that, in fourteen days from date, their wages will be paid in…

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Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 4

WE learn that a collier named Robert Lindsay was severely injured by a skip at Mount Pleasant Colliery, Illawarra, on the 22nd instant. He was trying to get…

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The Coal Trade and the Scottish Australian Mining Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 4

SOME short time ago, we referred in the leading columns of this journal, to the very unsatisfactory state to which the coal trade of this district had been…

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Glebeland. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 2

The quarterly meeting of the above miners was hold in the Protestant Hall, on Monday evening, December 20, 1880, Mr. C. Jones in the chair. The minutes…

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Little River Gold Field

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT has kindly forwarded the following item of news from the above place:—"If you can kindly spare a small space, I should like to give the…

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