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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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A seam of coal, 5ft 6in thick, has been discovered on a selection at Jumbunnaa East, in South Gippsland. The seam was exposed to a width of 20 inches, and prospectors put…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE has been a new development at the Silver Hill mine (late Copper Blow). Carbonate ore has been disclosed, containing 40 per cent. of lead and 10oz of silver per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Junction mine at the 300 feet level is looking well. There is a good body of ore, not unlike that sent to Dry Creek Smelting Works some time since, and which averaged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NRWCASTLE has long held the enviable position of having a larger export trade in coal than any other place south of the line. During the year ending December,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DEPUTATION consisting of Messrs. Stevenson, Scobie, Woodward, Travers Jones, Perry, and See, M's.P., and King, M.L.C., and a number of representatives of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN to-day's mining news we note that Mr. Brown, the discoverer of the rich auriferous country now about to be opened up on the' Malay Peninsula, has returned to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The mining manager reports still driving north at the 140 feet level. The stone in the face is 2 feet thick, and gold can be freely soon in the quartz, as we break down from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mine report for the week ending 21st September is :—The north-eastern level and crosscut have been driven 10 feet for the week, and the south-western face 6 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE quarterly meeting of the above miners was held on Wednesday evening in Conn's Temperance Hall. Mr. D. Mason in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The half-yearly balance-sheet of the. Moonta Mines shows a loss of £21,500, owing to the fall in the price of copper…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. POWER, resident director of the Australian Broken Hill Console mine, which is a London company, has received advices from the secretary in London to the effect that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN inquest on the body of Wiliam Williams, who was killed by a fall of coal in the Stock, ton mine on. Wednesday morning, was held before Mr. George Martin, J.P., the district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A GENERAL meeting of colliery officials was held on Thursday evening in Williams' assembly rooms, Hamilton. There were 29 delegates present, representing 13 collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT was generally expected that Parliament would be prorogued to-day, but Fate, in the shape of the Legislative Council, decided to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A new find of gold is causing much excitement in the Armidale district. The locality is two miles south of Bear Hill, known as Skipper's Gully, where formerly a solitary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the Lily Mine in the Thackaringa District, there are about seven tons of ore at grass, and sinking is being pushed ahead. All this ore has been taken out in sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thursday.—Gold to the axtent of £200,000 has been shipped to Rio do Janeiro, and a similar sum will be sent to the same country next week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Payable gold has been discovered at Gladstone at a depth of 26ft. The reef is 20in wide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Broken Hill run for the week was 135,000oz., the largest return to date. Block 14 run for three days 9400oz; British, 12,000oz…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Invite your friends and neighbours to see you wash clothes with Sunlight Soap. Let them see you soap the clothes well, then roll them up in a tight roll, and put under the…
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