Queensland. Brisbane, Tuesday. Coal Discovery
The coal recently discovered at the Peak Downs Copper-mining Co.'s property at Clermont, has been tested on the Central Railway. The traffic-manager reports highly of…
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Mining & the mines, 1890
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South Australia. Adelaide, Tuesday. Copper Miners' Wages
The president and secretary of the Moonta Branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association waited on Captain Hancock to-day to ask that their wages might be increased…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field
AT Round Hill the main shaft is now down 516ft, but there is no change of importance in the character of the country to record. The intention is to continue sinking to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Meeting. Lambton
THE monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Wednesday evening in Ralph's Druids Hall; Mr. R. Mooney in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field
AT the War Dance Extended very good ore has at times been found in patches, but now the lode seems to have become regular. The depth from the surface is 140ft. The…
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ON several occasions there have appeared in our columns reports of the doings of the Royal Commission appointed in Victoria for the purpose of…
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ALTHOUGH there were 56 applicants for the position of inspector of metallic mines, not more than about 30 turned up to be examined on Wednesday. A few of these soon retired,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Coal Staiths
A further notice has been issued by the Railway Department, notifying that the Newcastle coal staiths, which were to have been removed this week, will be kept in use for shipping coal for one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Representatives. to the Editor
SIR,—By your issue of this morning, I see that the Greta Lodge has already nominated three gentlemen for the position of representatives in our Legislature…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Deepwater Tin-mining
MR. T. BIBBY, the managing director of Wellington Vale Deep Lead Tin-mining Company, Nine Mile, near Deepwater, has received a letter from the manager, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Meeting. A. A. Co's. Pit
A GENERAL meeting of the above miners was held last evening in Cobb's Hall, Junction. Mr. William Walton in the chair. The Chairman said it appeared that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian News. New South Wales. Miners' Accidents
A TERRIBLE accident is just reported from Stewart's Brook, near Scone. Three miners were blown up and terribly mutilated. One had his arms torn clean off. The men were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Development of the Lake Coal Measures. the Wallarah Coal Company. a Gigantic Undertaking. Future Prospects
PROBABLY it will surprise many people in this district to know that during the past 18 months a wealthy English company has acquired a large area of land within a radius…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field
SOME stone taken into Broken Hill from one of the claims taken up by the Caledonian Prospecting Association at Kooringberry gave at the rate of 7oz 1dwt 9gr of gold per ton…
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A MEETING of tradespeople and gold-miners was held at Dolgelly recently, to congratulate Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., on his return to Dolgelly after his long and serious illness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Composition of Coal
GOOD blast-furnace coal from Wales consists of about 88-13 per cent. of carbon, 4 51 per cent. of hydrogen 1-41 per cent. of nitrogen, 2-94 per cent. of oxygen, 1-01 per…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Utilisation of Coal Dust
THE Reading railroad officials, headed by President Corbin, recently visited the company's coal plant at Mahanoy City Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), to inspect a new process…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrible Colliery Disaster. Over a Hundred Killed. Heartrending Account
LONDON, Thursday.—A fearful colliery explosion occurred to-day at Abersychan in Monmouthshire. Three hundred miners are entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Mining. Queensland. Brisbane
A company, with a capital of £120,000, has been formed to work the silver mines at Killarney. The company has been formed to acquire and work 566 acres at the head of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill
The Broken Hill run for the week was 3223 tons of ore, yielding 133,484oz of silver. The Block 14 run was 910 tons of ore, yielding 14,1710z of silver. British Blocks, 742…
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