Miners' Delegate Meeting
MINUTES of a special delegate meeting held at Newcastle, October 16th, 1889. Lodges represented : Borehole, Wallsend, Lambton, Co-operative, Back Creek and Duckenfield,…
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Mining & the mines, 1889
1,641 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 83
Newcastle-new Wallsend Coal Company
On 14th inst. manager reports on the Killingworth Pit: Main shaft, total depth of 352 feet, and sinking proceeding rapidly. Buildings in connection with boilers going…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] Terrible Colliery Explosion. Seventy Miners Entombed
LONDON, Wednesday.—An explosion occurred to-day in Mansfield Colliery, near Stafford. Seventy miners were down the mine at the time. Three corpses have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Meetings. the Borehole Lodge
THE usual monthly meeting of the Borehole Lodge, postponed from last Saturday evening, was held on Wednesday evening at the Mechanics' Institute. There was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CABLEGRAMS. Explosion in a Mine
LONDON, Wednesday.—A terrible calamity is reported to have occurred at Longton, in Staffordshire. Sixty men have been killed by an explosion which took place in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Mining. Adelaide, Thursday. Mining Items
No work is being done in the upper levels of the Junction mine, and no ore is being broken there until smelters at Port Adelaide are ready to treat it, First-class ore is being…
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A company is being formed to work the Enkaby silver-field, South Australia, with a capital of £75,00 , in £1 shares. Application for shares close on Thursday next…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field
CONSIDERABLE interest is being taken in the new development at the City of Berlin mine, near the Acacia dam. It is traversed by a large mineralised quartzite outcrop, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field
THE diamond drill at work on the Brisbane Blocks has now entered solid material again. A few days ago the drill entered a cavity of considerable extent, judging from distance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sand-drift Question. Deputation to the Minister for Mines. SYDNEY, Friday Night
A DEPUTATION from the Newcastle Borough Council, comprising the Mayor (Alderman Buchanan) and Aldermen Moroney and Thorn, was this morning introduced to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Pritchard Morgan's Welsh Gold Mines
THE results of the gold crushing at the gold mines, North Wales, during August were examined on September 6 by the Government assayists. The yield gives an average of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Collieries. Their Rise and Progress. [No. I.] The Newcastle Wallsend Mine
IT is our intention in the present series of articles to give the public some interesting particulars of the most important collieries at work in this district. The information—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Eukaby Silver-mine
LONDON, Friday.—The shares in the Great Eukaby Silver-mining Company in South Australia have been over-subscribed. The capital is £75,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Explosion at Hexham Two Miners Injured
ON Saturday two sinkers named Wilson and Anderson, while engaged in blasting operations at the new shaft being sunk near Hexham, were severely injured by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field
THERE is no truth in the reported falling off in the appearance of the stopes at the Junction mine. Large quantities of first-class ore are being broken, with an abundance in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Broken Hill Mining. Rich Ore struck at Brisbane Blocks. ADELAIDE
It is reported that the diamond drill in Brisbane Blocks have struck wonderfully rich ore. The find is of great importance, as it proves the value of a big mine at depth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Appalling Explosion at Mauricewood Colliery. Sixty Miners Entombed
THE Scotsman of September 7th, gives the following particulars of the colliery disaster at Mauricewood pit, Midlothian, in which sixty men have lost their lives:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Disappearance. a Colliery Manager Levants
YESTERDAY afternoon the colliery manager of one of the Wallsend mines, famous for the striking propensities of its men, hurriedly left the district, owing, it is alleged, to his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →San Francisco Coal Market
Latest advices state that the market for coal is very lively and brisk, and prices are advancing. The market may be expected to advance from this on. The local market is pretty well cleaned up,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Check-inspectors' Report. Wallsend Colliery. September 30th, 1889
No. 2 tunnel, at 8 a.m., surface pressure, 30 66; temperature, 67 degrees. VENTILATION. No. 1 Split.—Intake: Air current velocity,…
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