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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1888

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Gold Company Floated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 5

The Red Rock Gold Company, Fairfield, has been floated in London for £40,000…

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The Yorkshire Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 11

A MEETING of the council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, and delegates from all the collieries in the county, has just been held at…

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Greta Miners. Miners' Check-inspectors' Report on Greta Collieries, B and C Pit, January 4th and 5th, 1888

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 5

B Pit, main intake for dips, 12,413 cubic feet per minute. South side split, dips, 4702'5 cubic feet per minute for 26 men and boys and 2 horses, allowing each 167 cubic…

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Hamilton. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 8

The usual monthly meeting of the A. A. Co.'s miners was held last Saturday evening. There was a very fair attendance. The general secretary was present. Mr. A. Curry…

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Colliery Companies in New South Wales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 5

THE Mining Journal gives the following particulars of two companies which have been formed in England to work coal properties in Now South Wales: The New South Wales…

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Select Poetry. Gold and Silver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 January 1888 · page 2

ALONG her father's field they strayed, All flecked with cowslips yellow, A little dainty gold-haired maid, A sturdy nine-year fellow…

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New Zealand Gold Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 5

The prospectus of the Bluespur Gold-mining Company, New Zealand, will shortly be issued. The capital of the company is fixed at £130,000…

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The Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 3

Up to the year 1827 the Government alone had the privilege or right to produce coal. In that year the right was conceded to the Australian Agricultural Company, lately…

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Northern Territory Copper Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 5

The Palmerston Copper-mining Company, with a capital of £160,000, has been registered…

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The Newcastle Coal Mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1888 · page 5

THE twenty-second half-yearly ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Newcastle Coal Mining Company, Limited, was held at the offices, Scott-street, yesterday…

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Miners' Delegate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 5

MINUTES of a special delegate meeting held at Newcastle on Wednesday, January 25th, 1888. Lodges represented: Borehole, Wallsend, Lambton, Co-operative, B.C. and…

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The Keira Mine Difficulty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 5

WORK at the Mount Keira colliery has been very slack lately, and to make matters worse, on Saturday last, pay day, some of the men got notice that they were to be put on…

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Western Australia. Perth, Tuesday. Reported Gold Discoveries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 5

A telegram has been received from Cossack, stating that gold has been found accidentally on the Mellina run, 60 miles west of Roeburne, by a boy…

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Copper Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 January 1888 · page 8

The North Australian Copper-mining Company has been floated…

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LONDON, Thursday. Welsh Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 January 1888 · page 8

Another important discover of gold-bearing reefs is reported near Barmouth, North Wales…

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VANCOUVER, Wednesday. Terrible Mining Explosion. Twenty-six Lives Lost

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 January 1888 · page 8

A terrible explosion has occurred in the Wellington coal mines at Vancouver, which has occasioned great loss of life. It has been ascertained…

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An Unprofitable Gold Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1888 · page 5

The Melbourne Age states that the London Chartered Bank has put in an execution and seized the plant and claim of the Bute and…

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Queensland Gold-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1888 · page 5

The Monte Christo mine, Queensland, has been placed on the market, with a capital of £150,000…

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Queensland Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1888 · page 5

The Economist considers that the prices paid by syndicates for the purchase of gold-mines in Queensland are extravagant…

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Gold in North Wales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1888 · page 5

It is stated that a quantity of goldbearing stone found by Mr. W. P. Morgan, near Dogelly, North Wales, has been crushed, yielding at the rate…

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