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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1890

1,777 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 89

Colliery Enginemen's Protective Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 6

A MEETING of the Colliery Enginemen's Protective Association was held at Tattersall's Hotel on Saturday night. The chief business was the consideration of an offer made to one…

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San Francisco Coal Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 3

TRADE circulars contain the following:— "March 8th: Since the sailing of the last Australian mail steamer there have been the following arrivals from Sydney and…

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Coal and Shale near Capertee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 3

SAYS the Mudgee Independent:—"Sydney syndicates and private speculators have taken a sudden fancy to the Capertee as a coal and shale ground, and some lively scenes have…

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The Cullen Bullen Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 3

THIS mine (says the Lithgow Mercury) is now held on tribute by Mr. L. B. Blackwell, C.E., who was for a considerable time engineer to the Cullen Bullen Co. Mr…

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A Mine Worth £300,000 in Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 8

TWO sisters, Jane Wright and Julia Bowden, and their husbands, recently triad their right, in the Queen's Bench to certain seams of coal valued at from £200,000 to £300,000…

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Gold-mining in Wales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 3

MR. PRITCHARD MORGAN, M. P., is intensely annoyed at the delay which has occurred in the trial of the action brought against him by the law officers of the Crown with…

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South Australian Coal Reserve

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 6

THE Surveyor-General of South Australia has recommended that the Government should declare the area of land surrounding the Lake Harry bore as a reserve, so that the…

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Australian Mining Notes. the Barrier Field

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 6

THERE is no longer any room for doubt concerning the importance and value of the development which took piece at the Central mine 400ft level on Thursday night. The…

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Western Australian Goldfields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 6

DURING the present week 1000oz of gold has been brought into Roebourne from Nynlagine. The steamer Albany left the Cossack on Saturday with a large number of diggers…

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Coal in Gippsland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1890 · page 7

ON Thursday morning several members of the Victoria Coal Commission started on a three-days' tour through some of the coal bearing districts of South Gippsland with the…

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Australian Mining Notes. DEEPWATER

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1890 · page 6

Recent developments at the Castle Rag Proprietary mine show largely increased rich deposits. Edgar Hall, late manager of Sunny Corner, has arrived to take charge of the…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Tuesday. Stoppage of a Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1890 · page 5

Work has been suspended at Glanmire South mine, Gympie, owing to a fire on Saturday destroying the engine and winding gear…

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Pennsylvanian Coal-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1890 · page 4

IN a recent issue we published a letter from Mr. EVAN DAVIES, a miner who left this district two years ago and proceeded to Pennsylvania. The…

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Bonang Gold-mining Company. Report for Week Ending May 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1890 · page 5

The following works have been carried out during the week at the mine:—New main shaft: This work is still progressing very satisfactorily, although the ground has…

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Greta. Miners' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1890 · page 3

The usual miners' meeting was held on Tuesday evening. The only business of importance was a communication from the general secretary, enclosing names of…

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Miners in Silesia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The miners' strikes in Silesia have ended, the masters having concoded the demand of the men for eight hours…

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Australian Mining Notes. QUEENSLAND

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1890 · page 6

THE Brisbane Stock Exchange has received a telegram from the general manager of the Queensland Smelting Company, Maryborough, stating that I ton 18cwt of ore from…

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Another Colliery Disaster. a Lancashire Pit on Fire. 350 Miners Entombed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—A terrible colliery disaster is reported from Leigh, in Loancashire. One of the pits in the neighhour-hood caught tire to-day, and cut off the egress…

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Amalgamated Miners Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 7

MINUTES Of committee of management meeting, held May 8th, 1890. Present Messrs. J. Thomson (president), A. Cook, J. Duke, W. Blakey, W. Hunter…

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Miners' Meeting. Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 8

A SPECIAL meeting was called last night for the purpose of taking a vote to fill the vacancy in the committee of management. Mr. W. H. F[?] was in the chair…

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