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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
863 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 44
COMMENCED this inspection on Monday, December 5th, 1887. We first visited Cope's heading, and the current of air passing was 11,180 cubic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A company has been registered, with a capital of £25,000, to work Blocks 8 and 9 of the Day Dawn Gold-mining Company, Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SOUTH African paper says:—"A true story, which sounds almost like a brilliant bit of romancing by Mr. H. Rider Haggard, also comes to me from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The strike among the miners in Pennsylvania is rapidly extending. At the collieries in the vicinity of Reading, 30,000 men have struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MINUTES of a quarterly delegate meeting held at Newcastle on Thursday, January 5, 1888. Lodges represented: Borehole, Wallsend, Lambton,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The above miners held their quarterly meeting on Wednesday evening in the Music-hall. There was a fair attendance, Mr. H. Hanlon in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A company is to be formed, with a capital of £200,000, for the purpose of working the Harrietville gold mine, Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A COLLIERY accident happened at Abernant, Aberdare, resulting in the entombment of 340 men. The winding gear broke, with the result that an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MINUTES of delegate meeting held at Newcastle Jan. 6th, 1888. All the lodges represented, along with the district officers, Messrs. Goundry, Hunter, and Curley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING the last few months of the year that has just passed away, our coal trade has been unusually dull. Indeed, it may be said that there has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PASTOR BRINCKER, a missionary, writes from Otyimbinguo to Berlin that five gold diggers had arrived there from Australia in August in search of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE annual summoned meeting of the Miners Home Lodge, No. 1175, G.U.O. of O.F., was held in the School of Arts, Wallsend on the evening of the 4th inst., there being a good…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Murray, of the Cape Times, has arrived in London from the South African gold fields He travelled from Johannesburg, in Swaziland, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN 1886 the diamonds from the Kimberley Mine produced £883,503, and those from the De Beers Mine realised £754,735, making a total of £1,638,238,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Times commends the enterprise shown by Mr. W. P. Morgan in developing the auriferous deposits which have lately been found at Dolgelly,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE National Miners' Conference (says an English paper) just held at Newcastle is likely to have a most important bearing on the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The North Australian Tin-mining Company is announced, for the purpose of working the tin-mining country at Mount Wells in the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The above miners held a special meeting last night at Mrs. Love's hotel, Mr. T. Frith in the chair. The Chairman in opening the proceedings,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A special meeting of the A.A. Co.'s miners was held on Tuesday evening. The attendance was but moderate. Mr. A. Curry occupied the chair, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SPECIAL, meeting of Wallsend miners was held on Tuesday evening, to consider the delegate business, Mr. R. Punton in the chair…
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