Government Coal Supply
THE Railway Commissioners have accepted tenders for 1890 for the supply of coal on the railways, and they have utilised the fact of the opening of the Illawarra line by…
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Mining & the mines, 1889
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The Railway Coal Contracts
THE acceptance by the Railway Commissioners of tenders for the supply of coal to the railways for the coming year has resulted in certain developements which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Mining News. the Barrier Field
ANOTHER large [?]ugh has been exposed in the fourth floor in the main stope of the Junction mine, equally rich in native silver to anything that has yet been exposed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Greta. Colliery News
THE pit worked ten days during the last fortnight, and the total pay amounted to over £2000. On Saturday the miners received £1 3s 4d each as payment for the…
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THE Australian Star contained the following telegram of the state of the coal trade in the Illawarra district:—"The coal trade is exceptionally slack just now at most of the…
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Latest sales were: Glanmires, 85s 6d; Brokens, £81 10s; Block 14, £10 9s 6d; British Block, £5 18s 9d; Junction £7 3s 6d; Norths, 43s; South, paid, 87s; Central,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Mining News. the Barrier Field
AT the Pinnacle Consols mine the winze has been sunk 25ft. The drive on the course of the middle lode is in 60ft. There is good ore showing on the football. Nine tons ore…
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A MEETING of the above was held at Smallshaw's Hall on Monday night. Mr. A. Page occupied the chair. The minutes of the last general meeting,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Railway Coal Contracts. The Metropolitan Coal Company. SYDNEY, Tuesday Midnight
MR. GARVAN has given notice that he will to-morrow ask the Colonial Secretary :—(1) Have the Government entered into a contract with the Metropolitan Coal Co. for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Coal Sales Association
OUR Sydney correspondent states that at a meeting held yesterday of representatives of the Associated Proprietors with representatives of other calliery companies in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Mining News. the Barrier Field
A CONSIDERABLE quantity of ore is being raised at the Pioneer mine. At the Gemmine No. 1 lode has been cut in the crosscut about 20ft from the chamber. It is 18in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Collieries of the Northern District. Associated and Non-associated. All Now in the Association. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night
A MEETING of representatives of the associated and non-associated collieries of the Northern district was held to-day to consider the question of the amalgamation of all the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Curley and the Mining Bill. to the Editor
SIR,—In your issue of last Friday, Mr. Curley, late general secretary, rushes into print, so far as I can gather from his letter, for the purpose of shuffling off his own…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broken Hill Mining. Sensational Rumours About Block 10. ADELAIDE, Tuesday Night
The diamond drill at Brisbane Block is down 1854ft and passing through material carrying a good quantity of zine blende, and averaging from 2 to 40zs of silver per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Fire at a Colliery
ABOUT 1 o'clock on the morning of October 26, a fire was discovered at the pit head of Dutbury Colliery, near Chorley, U.K. The outbreak is supposed to have been caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Meetings the Glebe
A SPECIAL meeting of the Glebe miners was held on Monday evening in simpson's Hall. Mr. John Lloyd occupied the chair. Minutes of the previous meeting were read…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Monkwearmouth Colliery Explosion. the Inquest. Important Evidence
THE inquest on the body of Louis Walters, one of the three men injured by the explosion the Monkweermouth Colliery on the 6th instant, and who died a week afterwards,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Correspondence the Durham Colliery Case. to the Editor
SIR,—It only shows you there is nothing perfect under the sun. If there is a right side to a case, a lawyer will urge upon a Judge a wrong one for it. It is rather strange…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Mining News. the Barrier Field
AT the Imperial mine the main shaft is down 392ft, and the manager expects to commence opening out at the 400ft level in about three weeks, by which time the shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland. Taxing Gold Mines
Mr. Glassey, M. P., at a banquet at Goodna, in the course of his speech intimated his intention of ascertaining the rate of wages paid to Mount Morgan miners. He…
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