Mines at Coen
A Cooktown telegram states that Captain Richards has gone to Coen to inspect the mines there on behalf of a Sydney company. An assay from the stone in…
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Mining & the mines, 1885
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The New Zealand Import Duty on Coal
IN our issue of Saturday, the 27th ultimo, we gave extracts from a New Zealand cablegram received by one of our leading merchants, to the effect…
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WE had the gratification yesterday after noon of perusing a cablegram from New Zealand to a merchant of this city, announcing that the Government of that colony had…
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The stone crushed at Charters Towers for the month of June amounted to 5230 tons, yielding 10,907 oz. of gold. The returns for the half-year, from 32,200…
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The Coal Lumpers' Union have notified to the managers of the shipping and coal companies that no work will be done in future, except in cases of emergency,…
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The Gladstone colliery at Katoomba was formally opened on Saturday; 200 guests left Sydney by special train…
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IN our advertising columns will be seen the prospectors of the above company, which contains the fullest information with reference to this important enterprise now about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. The New Guinea Gold Hoax
The finding of the nugget gold in New Guinea proves a hoax, the nugget having been purchased from a jeweller. At a meeting of the shareholder of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Mining Manager Missing
Mr. R. M'Crindle, legal manager of seven companies, mysteriously disappeared from his office in Bourke-street a few works ago, and told his clerk that he…
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THE above miners met on Tuesday evening in Stoker's Hall; Mr. H. Agnew in the chair. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed…
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PORT DARWIN, Wednesday.—The escort last week brought 1350oz. gold from up country…
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A YOUNG miner named George Callender was severely burned in Wallsend pit yesterday morning. The usual carelessness, dealing with powder with his lamp shaking…
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RICH chlorides have been struck in Hamilton's block, Pie's Creek. Assays made at Tent Hill gave 65 per cent of silver. A very rich lode has been found ten miles east…
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A SPECIAL meeting of the above body was held at the Black Diamond Hotel on Wednesday evening last, the president, Mr. S. Tarrant, in the chair, when the new rules…
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IT appears, says the "Banking Record," that for the six months ended 30th June the receipts of gold at the Melbourne branch of the Royal Mint were 412,[?]84,600ozs., being…
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The prospectus of the new Burrangong Gold-mining Company was issued to-day, showing a capital of £17,500, in 35,000 shares of 10s, of which 15,000 will…
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AN accident of an alarming character occurred at noon on June 3 at the Margaret Pit, one of the group of Lambton Collieries owned by the Earl…
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At a rich gold-bearing reef near Canowindra 10 tons of stone crushed in the mortars yielded 1½ozs to the ton…
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THE half-yearly meeting of the officers and members of the Miners' and Mechanics' Institute was held in their building on Monday, the 13th inst, at…
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A large party visited the kohinoor Diamond Mine on Wednesday, and inspected the washing operations and the paddock from which the dirt was taken…
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