Newcastle Coal Exports
The approximate quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the month of July, 1889, was 240,829 tons. For the corresponding period in 1888, the quantity was 22,823 tons…
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Mining & the mines, 1889
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Mining News. Parkes
Splendid stone is being obtained by Barnett and party at Wapping Butcher. From the lode, 126ft from the surface, already something like 500oz of specimen have been obtained, and a large lot is in…
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THE Ilawarra Mercury has the following:—The terrible colliery accidents of late have not been without their effect. Immediately after the Bulli disaster a Royal Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Junction Mine. Another Rich Discovery. ADELAIDE, Friday Night
Another rich discovery of carbonate of load and native silver is reported from the Junction mine, whose shares are rising…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The English Channel Tunnel Works. Searching for Coal
SINCE the last report on the boring operations at the Channel Tunnel works was made to the shareholders of the South-Eastern Railway Company, great progress has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Untooroo Copper Mine. Offer to Buy Refused. ADELAIDE, Friday Night
Shareholders of the Untooroo copper mine have determined not to sell their property, for which £25,000 was offered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Kookarabookra Goldfields
BELIEVING that a number of your readers will be interested in a description of the above rapidly rising goldfields, I take the liberty of furnishing you with the following…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Mines Regulation Act. the Penalties Absurd
THE Illawarra Mercury says: The absurdity of the penalties sometimes imposed under the Coal Mines Regulation Act was again strikingly exemplified at Newcastle on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining News. Parkes
The following telegram has been received by the Mines Department from Warden Sharpe at Parkes: "On Saturday last some very rich stone was discovered in Barnett's lease at the Tichborne, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. the Gippsland Coal Deposits
The Coal Commission [?]ommencsd taking evidence on Friday, when Mr. Reginald Murray, Government Geologist, was examined at length. He gave a history of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Metropolitan Coal Company of Sydney
THE third annual general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on June 25, Sir James Fergusson, Bart, M. P., presiding. The Chairman said the directors…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Mining. Sydney, Saturday. SILVER
THE mining market was fairly active to-day, silver being the only stocks acted upon. Broken Hill stocks show very little change, and prices remain firm at former quotations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mount Kembla Strike. The Miners' Demands Acceded to
AFFAIRS at Mount Kemble now wear a brighter aspect, the matters in dispute having been amicably settled. Dr. Robertson visited the mine during the week, and had an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal and Coal Miners. Colliers' Strike in Somerset
THREE thousand miners left their work on Thursday, June 21, and commenced the long expected strike, which has resulted from the refusal of the masters to grant the men's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The German Coal Strikes
As an instance of the enormous expenses which have been caused generally throughout the empire by the late strikes in Westphalia and other colliery centres of Germany,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining News. Wilcannia
Reports from Milpariuka slate that owing to the scarcity of water at Stringer's Hill the miners, although sinking, are unable to wash the dirt. Several leases have been pogged out at Nuggety…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The proposal recently made by Miss Alice Cornwell, a well-known Australian speculator, to establish a mining trust in London to look after the investments…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Demonstration of North[?]mberland (England) Miners
The twenty-seventh annual gala of the Northumuberland Miners Association has been held at Blyth, about 10,000 persons taking part in the proceedings, which were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter and Donation from the Minister for Mines
The following letter has been received by Mr. Win. Case, chairman of the fund, from Mr. Sydney Smith, Minister for Mines:— "August 2nd, 1889…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Meeting of the Broken Hill Miners. A Strike not Probable. ADELAIDE, Monday Night
A mass meeting of the miners was held at Broken Hill yesterday, to consider the question of the proposed strike, and the opinion was generally expressed that a strike is not…
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