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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1890

1,777 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 83 of 89

Golden Crown Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1890 · page 5

The manager of the Golden Crown claim at Bear Hill, under date November 15th, reports:—"During the week the north drive has been driven a further distance 8ft…

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Lady Carrington Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1890 · page 5

Mine manager's report:—November 19.—Mine manager has solved the problem of economically treating and extracting gold from antimony. Treated one ton and a half…

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A Mining Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1890 · page 5

AT the Sydney Central Police Court on Wednesday, Joseph Tarrant was charged with having obtained from George Oswald Hyde, certain valuable securities by means of a false…

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Selling Price of Coal. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1890 · page 3

Sir,—I noticed in your issue of yesterday a letter from "One that likes justice," who appears to be under the impression that it is the…

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Miners' Risks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1890 · page 5

A MAN named Osborne died at Waratah yesterday from the effects of injuries received in a small coal-pit near Tighe's Hill some three weeks ago. The poor fellow was…

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Miners' Meetings. Co-operative

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1890 · page 6

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Thursday evening, Mr. C. Richardson in the chair…

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Proposed Mining Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. W. Knox, of Melbourne and Broken Hill, has suggested to Sir Frederick Abel, C.B., organising secretary of the Imperial Institute, that a…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1890 · page 5

I visited Block 10 to-day. There is hardly any change to report, except an increase in the size of the stopes, which continue to turn out high-class ore, over 600…

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Greta Collieries Limited

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 November 1890 · page 6

AN extraordinary general meeting was held in London, on October 16, to pass a formal alteration in the articles of association. After the…

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Colliery Enginemen's Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 November 1890 · page 8

AT a meeting of the above union, held on Saturday, the 22nd instant, at Tattersall's Hotel, delegates were received from the Newcastle and…

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Tasmania. Testing the Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 November 1890 · page 6

The Sydney-built topsail schooner Beagle, 81 tons, has been chartered to load coal at Devonport, for Melbourne, by Messrs. Henry Law and…

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Coal in Maitland District

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 November 1890 · page 8

THE prospecting for coal with the aid of the diamond drill, which (says the Maitland Mercury) has been carried on in this district by the Melbourne…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. Gold for London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 November 1890 · page 5

The Parramatta, which left yesterday for London, took £454,000 in gold. BUTCHERS' STRIKE. The master butchers decline to meet the…

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Port Stephens Mining Case. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 November 1890 · page 7

THE case against Joseph Tarrant, mining agent of this city, was continued to-day in the Central Police Court, before Mr. W. Johnson, S.M…

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Miners' Risks. Accident at the Co-operative Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 5

AN accident occurred to-day at the above colliery, whereby a young man named Vincent Stone, son of Mr. George Stone, of Wallsend, sustained a severe injury. It…

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The Suffolk Short of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 4

Messrs. Money Wigram's well-known steamer Suffolk, now bound from Puget Sound to Melbourne, has put into the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, for coal. The steamer is in command of…

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Fall Down a Mine. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 5

THOMAS LITCHELL, a miner at Wallaroo, had a bad fall to-day. He was placing a pump at the 150 fathom level, when the timber gave way, and he fell several fathoms. When…

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Mining in Western Australia. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 5

The Exchange mine at the Southern Cross crushed 20 tons of stone, yielding 5oz of gold per ton. Some magnificent gold specimens have been…

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The Mining Exhibition. the Newcastle Exhibits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 7

THE British Australasian, of September 25th, speaking of the International Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, held at the Crystal Palace,…

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Australian Mining Notes. Oakey Creek G.M. CO

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1890 · page 6

MINING manager Oakey Creek Goldmining Company, No Liability, wires, under date November 22nd:—"Crushed 58 tons for week; lifted…

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