The Taradale Goldfield
ACCORDING to the Mount Alexander Mail, the Taradale goldfield is now trending toward Elphinstone, and there is little doubt that the opinion of…
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Mining & the mines, 1885
433 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 22
Coal Company
A company has been formed to work a coal discovery on the Normanby, 35 miles from Normanby…
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HOBART, Monday.—The Tasmanian Gold-mining Company's amalgam gave 238oz. of retorted gold, or an average of a little under 1oz. 5dwt. 14gr. per ton. A dividend…
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AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—It is considered certain the New Zealand Government will abandon the coal tax and make other modifications in their financial policy…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Mining Company was held to-day at the chamber of…
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Mr. Taylor, a director of the New Rangatira Gold mining Company, brought 183½oz. from the mine, situated at Yarrara, on Saturday, being the result of the…
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The Day Dawn Prospecting Claim Company Charters Towers, have crushed for the past fortnight 610 tons of stone, yielding 1341oz. of gold; and a dividend, of 3s…
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THE so-called "mystery" gold, which is said to be made of platinum, copper, and tin, and to be proof against the usual tests for gold, has created…
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The gold escort has left Thar[?]boro for Port Douglas with 1655oz. of gold trim the Hodgkinson goldfield…
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THE manager of the Monk-Wearmouth Colliery Company reports having received a telegram on Saturday last from Minmi, stating that the Government diamond drill…
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A reef has been discovered on Mr. B. Ross' property at Five-mile Creek, Gundagai. A rush has set in. The stone looks promising, gold being…
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A CURIOUS ceremony was performed at Travancore. The Maharajah was weighed against a mass of pure gold, which was then dispensed in charity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South Cumberland Coal-mining Company
At a meeting to-day of the newly-elected directors of the South Cumberland Coal-mining Company Mr. Jas. Fletcher, M.L.A., was unanimously elected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Discovery of Gold in New Guinea
The gold referred to yesterday as having been brought from New Guinea was the property of Kerry, one of the members of the Age party, and experts are unanimous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Delegate Meeting
MINUTES of a quarterly delegate meeting held at Newcastle on Thursday, July 2nd, 1885. Lodges represented—Borehole Wallsend, Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold in the North-west
IN the annual report of the Canadian Department of the Interior, it is stated that gold washing has been prosecuted on the North Saskatchewan River, in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Northumberland Miners and Free Trade. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—The miners in this part of New South Wales are great protectionists so far as their own employment is concerned, and loud in denouncing emigration, and from…
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THE above miner held their monthly meeting on Wednesday evening in Stoker’s Hotel. Mr. Hugh. Agnew in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Mining Fatality
Denny Ryan, a miner, was severely injured by a fall of earth in the old Bushman's Reef, near Parkee, on Saturday. Both his legs were fractured. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Discovery of Gold in New Guinea
EVER since New Guinea was brought prominently before the notice of the public by the action of Queensland in planting a flag at Port Moresby, and…
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