Mining
The Goldfields Commissioner on the West Coast has reported recently that the failures there are mainly companies that have not worked their ground, and have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1885
433 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 22
Colliery Companies
The half-yearly report of the Wallerawany Company shows a loss of £454. The half-yearly report of the Burwood colliery shows over £65,000 sunk in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stockton Coal Company
The half-yearly report of the Stockton Coal Company shows that work in the mine is being rapidly pushed forward, and an output of 100 tons per day could…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. The Bulli Coal Company
The Bulli Coal Company have declared a dividend of 12½ per cent. per annum on preferential shares and 10 per cent. on signal shares…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maryville Colliery Company
AT the annual general meeting of this company held yesterday the directors' report for the year ending 30th June, 1885, was read. It was was follows:—"The directors have much pleasure in presenting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gympie Mines
The Government Geologist and Inspector of Mines has been engaged for the past fortnight in examining the various mines at Gympie, with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Burwood Coal Company
THE second half-yearly meeting of the Burwood Coalmining Company, Limited, was hell on Friday, Mr. M. C. Cowlishaw presiding. The report showed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annual Demonstration of Miners
ON Wednesday, June 10, the fourteenth annual demonstration of the North Yorkshire and Cleveland miners was held in a field at Loftus. There…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Colliery Explosion—loss of 140 Lives
ON June 18 a terrible explosion occurred in the Trencherbone seam of the Lumbs pit, at the Clifton Hall Colliery, near Manchester. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burwood Colliery
REFERRING to a telegram which appeared in our telegraphic column a few days ago, commenting upon the heavy expenditure incurred at the colliery during the last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weekly Coal Returns
WE have lately experienced considerable difficulty in obtaining the weekly coal returns from the various offices. While in some cases they are courteously supplied on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Mines
The Minister of Mines has gone to Wingen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sales of Coal Scrip
Sales of Wickham and Bullock Island shares were effected to-day; 20s and 19s 9d were paid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Meeting
THE Duckenfield and Back Creek miners held their monthly meeting on July 13th, 1885, in Mr. Thomas Sharp's Hall Minmi, at 10 o'clock a.m.; Mr. John Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland v. Newcastle Coal
The British-India Company's steamer Cloncurry, which arrived recently with immigrants, is now loading 1700 tons of coal here for Batavia. Hitherto the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Voice from the Mine. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
"Sir,—Speak of a man as you find him." Not only to single individuals does this old English proverb apply; with propriety may be said to speak of any class of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Fatal Colliery Explosions. The Clifton Hall Colliery Explosions
THE first estimate of the loss of life by the explosion at the Clifton Hall Colliery proves to have been under the mark, more men having gone into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Apedale Colliery Explosion
A fatal colliery explosion occurred on June 20 at the Burley Pit of the Apedale Colliery, near Stoke-on-Trent, owned by Messrs. Stanier and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Silver Mines
A rich silver mine is reported fifteen miles east of the Seelheim diggings Queensland. The ore is valued at £20 a ton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Durham Colliery Disaster. Recovery of the Bodies
AFTER a longer period than was expected, owing to the great obstruction that was met with by the explorers, some of the bodies of the men killed…
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