The Annual Report of the Department of Mines
WE have the above report for 1880 before us, and from a perusal of its contents we gather that the Mining Industry of the colony may be termed…
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Mining & the mines, 1881
304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 16
The High Selling Price of Coal
A FEW days ago we republished the following telegram from South Australia taken from the Evening News of the 5th instant:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dispatch and Hamilton Miners. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)
SIR,—I crave space in your valuable journal to review comments made under the heading of "Hamilton Miners," in the Despatch of Saturday last. I should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal and Iron Trades. (Colliery Guardian, May 27.)
A MODERATE business has been done during the week upon the London coal market, but prices have slightly declined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Insurance Scheme
A MEETING of miners was held on May 16th, at West Bromwich, to consider the question forming a mutual insurance scheme between the employers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Electric Light in Mines
IT is announced that Mr. William Thomas, C.E., Byrn Awel, Aberdare, is about to make an experiment with the electric light underground, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold Discovery near Tamworth
WE have received from a Tamworth visitor several specimens of quartz from the gold-bearing reef, recently discovered at Swamp Oak, a few miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sale of Collieries in North Wales
THE Oak Pits Collieries, North Wales, which up to the time of their stoppage last year found employment for several hundred men, were on May 25 offered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Mining at Stewart's Brook
THE Maitland Mercury is informed that the prospectors at work at Stewart's Brook are still sinking on the reef, which is becoming richer and wider according to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Berrima Coal Company
FIVE of the directors met at the mine on Saturday, and transacted some important business. Assurances have been obtained from the Minister for Works that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(From the Sydney Papers.) Discovery of Gold at Nana Creek
GRAFTON, Thursday.—A second gold reef has been discovered at Nana Creek, 40 miles from Grafton. A piece of stone weighing 7oz, part of a large block, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Accident.—Loss of Six Lives
AN alarming explosion took place at the Lilydale Colliery, Budcknall, the property of Mr. Enoch Perrins, about eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Depressed State of the Coal Trade
The Colliery Guardian, of May 27, says:—"Owing to the continued depression in the coal trade, the Clay Cross Company have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Coal Mining Company
THE ninth half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the above company was held yesterday at noon in the company's office, Scott-street; Mr. F. Ash in the chair. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Delegate Meeting
MINUTES Of a special delegate meeting held at Lambton, on Tuesday, July 26th, 1881. Lodges represented: Borehole, Wallsend, Lambton, New Lambton, Globe,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Greta Colliery
THE Minister for Public Works states that the Great Northern Railway has been undermined by the workings of the Greta Colliery. Inquiries are being made with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Discovery of Coal
WHAT promises to prove the discovery of a valuable coal seam (says the Hobart Mercury of the 25th instant) has lately been made on a section of ground taken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Affairs at the Tin Mines
FROM a private letter received in Newcastle yesterday from Vegetable Creek, we learn that those engaged on the has mines are in a sad plight, No rain has fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hill End Goldfield—Past and Present
THE special correspondent of the S. M. Herald says:—Hill End is reached after a journey of about thirty miles from Bathurst, and the town at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Masters' and Miners' Association
WE have been favoured with the following letter for publication:— "Sydney, July 28th, 1881. "Mr. JAMES CURLEY, Miners' General…
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