Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field
A CONNECTION has been made between the south shaft and the north-western drive from the winze sunk over 50ft below the 300ft level. A bulk assay of carbonate ore…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1890
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Experiments with Powdered Coal
ERASTUS WIMAN and others, says an American contemporary, are experimenting with a new process of heating iron with powdered coal instead of natural gas. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Mining Notes
THE Sunny Corner Silver-mining Company treated last week 430 tons ore for 1½ tons of bullion and 16 tons matte value £751, also 10 tons granular mixed metal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian News. New South Wales. the Western Miners
THE replies to the fortnight's notice given to the western colliery managers, requesting them at the end of that time to work under a uniform system, the same as that prevailing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Coal-mining Company. a Strange Story
SOME strange allegations were made at a meeting of shareholders in the Nattai Coalmining Company, held in Melbourne on Monday night. According to the story…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australian Mining Notes
THE favourable change in the workings of the Luck's All mine is regarded with satisfaction, Lithgow shareholders being confident that the manager will ultimately get the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Correspondence the Dispute at Wallarah Colliery. to the Editor
SIR,—In your issue of the 25th instant appeared an article which would convey to the mind of an ordinary reader more than one false idea; and, as is generally the case, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Western Australia. More Gold Finds
News from Pilburra gold fields states that two men were starting from Pilburra to Nyngalline a fortnight ago, and had gone a few hundred yards when their horses kicked up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gippsland Brown Coal. Discovery near Bairnsdale
A PARTY of prospectors, under the direction of the Lucknow, Wy Yung and Deptferd Prospecting Association, have (says the Melbourne Age) discovered a seam of brown…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday. Discharging Old Miners
A number of old men having been discharged from Moonta mines, a deputation from the Miners' Association waited on Captain Hancock, the manager, today, and asked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill
Work was interfered with at Block 10 mine to-day, owing to an accident to the boiler. Another boiler, however, was obtained from the Central mine, and work will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Plants
THE plant life of the coal ago was, in its way, very characteristic, but, at the same time, very different from that which is presented to our eyes to-day in our own, or,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Meeting. Stockton. Special Meeting
A SPECIAL meeting was held last night, Mr. W. H. Fox in the chair. The chook-inspactors' report hold over from last week was read…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Western Mines. The System of Working
WITH regard to the dispute with the miners, the managers of the Lithgow and Hermitage mines state that so far as the men working in their mines are concerned, there appears to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field
THE south drive and also the south shaft at the Central mine, 300ft level, which is being used to prospect the South Broken Hill property, has passed through the boundary into…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill
The week's run at the Junction mine is 261 tons treated, yielding 12,500oz silver. Thorne's dam, capable of holding over a million gallons, has been placed under offer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallarah Coal-mine
THE following communication is a statement, from the proprietors' point of view, of the dispute at the above colliery:— "Until the mine was partially opened, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greta. the Miners
The Greta miners have passed a notice of motion to be laid before the district, to the effect, "That in the event of fatal accidents occurring a levy of 6d per member be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Mining Notes
THE Lode Hill Tin-mining Company have got 10ewt of tin during the week; total at grass about six tons. Will bag up some, and forward to Sydney or Newcastle at the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loss of Sixty-four Lives. A Colliery Manager Censured
THE inquiry into the cause of the disaster at Mossfield Colliery, Longton, whereby 64 men lost their lives in October last, has been concluded. The jury found a verdict exonerating…
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