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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1890

1,777 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 80 of 89

Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1890 · page 5

I visited the Central mine to-day. The west crosscut at the 400ft level has been extended 800ft from the shaft, of which about 190ft is through solid ore. They are…

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Meeting of Associated Colliery Proprietors. Selling Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 5

A MEETING of the Associated Colliery Proprietors will be held in Newcastle on Tuesday next, when, among other mattes, a proposal to reduce the selling price of…

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Legislative Council. Coal-Mines Regulation Bill. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 5

In the Legislative Council to-night. Mr. W. H. SUTTOR moved the second reading of the Coal-mines Regulation Bill. Dr. GARRAN was of opinion that the bill…

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Shipping Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 4

The consignments of coal came forward in large quantities yesterday, 53 trains reaching the dyke for shipment, from the following collieries:—Wallsend 14, Co-operative 7, Brown's 6, Northern…

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Miners' Meeting. Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 5

THE monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Wednesday evening. There was a good attendance; and Mr. R. Mooney presided…

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Queensland. the Miners' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 6

The delegates of the Queensland District Amalgamated Miners' Association are now sitting at Gympie. Little but formal business has yet…

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Settlement of the Coal-trimmers' Difficulty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 5

The shipping firms have succeeded in coming to a satisfactory settlement with the members of the Coal-trimmers' Union, and work will be resumed by all the men this…

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The Late Strike. Mining Affairs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 5

WORK will be resumed at the A. A. Company's Collieries this morning. The horses having arrived from Stroud, were sent down the pits yesterday. In the Sea Pit many of…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 5

During the past week 138 tons of ore have been dispatched from the South mine, of which 123 tons were lead and silver ore, and 15 tons copper ore. The mine at present has…

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Western Australia. on the Goldfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1890 · page 6

From Fraser's Gold Mining Company the result of 14 days' crushing from 190 tons of stone, was 277oz of smelted gold and 184oz of retorted…

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Sunlight Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 5

The following report has been received from the mine manager of the Sunlight Gold-mining Company, Hillgrove:—No 3 level: Main drive on the lode has been…

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Lady Carrington Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 5

Mine manager's report, 10th November:—During past fortnight No. 3 tunnel extended through hard granite 11ft, making altogether 167ft. At No. 2 tunnel in…

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Australian Mining Notes. Oakey Creek Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 6

A TELEGRAM received in town on Wednesday evening from the manager of the Oakey Creek gold-mine, at Wattle Flat, stated that during nine…

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A Coal-mining Case. Coal at Port Stephens. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 5

BEFORE Mr. Johnson, S.M., at the Central to-day, Joseph Tarrant, a well-known mining agent, was charged, on information laid in Victoria, with having obtained…

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Baker's Creek North Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 5

Mine manager's report, 10th November:—During past fortnight main shaft has been sunk a further depth of 7ft, making 93ft from plat, and total depth from surface…

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Collieries of Donai (France)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 3

A RETURN of the collieries of Donai, in France, for the year 1889, has just been published. It shows that last year, in the Nord district, 4,719,423…

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Miners' Meeting. Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 5

THE ordinary monthly meeting was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. W. H. Fox was in the chair, and there was a very large attendance…

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The European Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 3

THE continental coal trade (says the Colliery Guardian for October 10) is again extremely animated everywhere. The Rhenish-Westphalian output of…

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Selling Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 4

THE announcement that at a meeting of Associated Colliery Proprietors, to be held on Tuesday next, the question of reducing the selling price of coal at this port is to be…

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English and German Coal Orders

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 November 1890 · page 7

THE trade in Westphalian coal at Hamburg seems likely to increase rapidly now that the prices have dropped to a more practicable level…

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