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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1889

1,641 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 83

A Mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 June 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—At a meeting of the shareholders in the Bluespur Gold-mining Company, Lawrence (Tuapeka), in Otago, New Zealand, it was unanimously resolved to…

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Webb's Silver Mine. SYDNEY, Wednesday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 June 1889 · page 5

Professor Threlfall has engaged a first-class manager for Webb's Silver Mine from America…

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Mining News. Peel River

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 June 1889 · page 4

An Adelaide syndicate are endeavouring to float the Peel River Proprietary Gold Mining Company, no liability. The property consists of "Foley's" and "John Bull" claims, situate about 84 miles…

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Shooting Accident in Lambton Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 June 1889 · page 5

A serious shooting accident occurred yesterday in Lambton mine to David Davis, a shiftman. It appears that he was standing, with his face down, in the act of lighting a…

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Mining News. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 June 1889 · page 4

The excitement caused through the recent move in the market shows no signs of abating, and a very large business is being done through the Telegraph Department in consequence. At the…

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Miners' Risks. Blasting Accident at Wallsend. It Proves Fatal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 June 1889 · page 5

ON the 28th of Mar a miner working in the Wallsend Colliery, named Sydney Hancock, sustained serious injuries through a charge of powder, which he was pitting in for a blast,…

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Miners' Meetings. Stockton. the Report of the Watchmen. Precautionary Measures to be Taken

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 June 1889 · page 5

THE usual monthly meeting of the Stockton miners' lodge was held in the local Temperance Hall last evening. Mr. E. Toole occupied the chair, and there were fully 200…

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Miners' Risk. Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 2

AN inquest was held by Mr. G. C. Martin, Coroner, at Mr. Gunness's Colliery Inn, Wallsend, yesterday (Friday) morning, touching the death of Sydney Hancock, who…

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Transvaal Gold Shares

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 7

"THERE is a great depression in gold shares, which will alarm investors in England (writes Mr. Kynoch, M.P., in a just published letter from the…

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Coal for the Navy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 11

A MEETING of the Northumberland Steam Collieries Defence Association was held recently, when a deputation from Newcastle-on-Tyne, headed by Mr. Burt, M.P., and…

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Queensland. the Mount Morgan Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 6

The proceedings at the half-yearly meeting of the Mount Morgan Company, were purely of a formal nature. The chairman moved the adoption of the report and…

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Ambulance Mining Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 10

THE promoters of the ambulance movement now have the satisfaction (says the English Globe) of including the under-earth as well as the over-earth in their domain…

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Mining Near Tidal Waters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 4

NOTHING is easier than to be wise after the fact. Especially is this the vase with regard to the working of collieries. When the enormous forces…

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The Stockton Mine. Work Stopped. a Joint Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 6

ON the men assembling at the Stockton pit yesterday, they were not allowed to descend to work, the manager, Mr. Thomas, having wisely decided that while the men were in…

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Mining News. the Blue Spur Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 4

A London cablegram states that at a meeting of the shareholders in the Blue Spur Claim, situate at Gabriel's Gully, Tuapeaka, New Zealand, it was unanimously resolved to remove Messrs. Brown…

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Coal at Tomago. Boring Operations Successful. a Seam of 7 Feet Found

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 6

IT has long been known in mining circles that a splendid seam of coal exists in and around the district of Tomago, which is about six miles up the Hunter River, and persistent…

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The Stockton Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 June 1889 · page 5

THIS journal has been charged in some quarters where ordinary common sense might have been expected with publishing unfounded and exaggerated reports of the…

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The Stockton Mine. a Joint Inspection. No Work for Several Days. The Miners' Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 June 1889 · page 5

ON Saturday, the Government inspectors, with Messrs. Parkinson, M'Donald, and Pugh, the Check-inspectors appointed by the men on the previous day, made a thorough…

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The Mount Kembla Miners. 9 Hours or 8 Hours. A Ballot to be Taken

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 June 1889 · page 6

IT will be remembered that some few weeks ago a difficulty arose at the Mount Kembla Colliery with regard to the working of the front and back shifts. The management…

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Baker's Creek Gold Mining Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1889 · page 4

The mining manager of Baker's Creek Gold Mining Company telegraphs that 983oz have been obtained from a crushing of 105 tons. Have cut a big reef in the eastern crosscut from Barnfield's…

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