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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

1,077 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 54

Barque Ludwig Burned. Coal Cargo Destroyed. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 5

The captain of the German barquentine Ludwig, bound from Natal to Adelaide, landed, together with his wife and two children, and seven of the crew, in a ship's…

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Castle Wellington Silver and Tin Mining Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 6

MR. H. MARSHALL, manager, reports, March 29th:—Battery Mountain, Menollow and party have sunk a gutter 3 feet; present depth, 15 feet. Last 3 feet shows good…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1891 · page 3

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Wednesday evening, in Mrs. Ralph's Hall, Mr. H. Hanlon in the chair…

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Greta. Trouble at the Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1891 · page 8

At the Greta Colliery the usual quarterly cavil was to have taken place on Saturday afternoon, but on the opening of the meeting it was decided not to cavil for places until…

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International Miners' Congress

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1891 · page 5

PARIS, Tuesday.—The Minors' Congress opened at Paris to-day. The delegates represent 600,000 miners in Britain and on the Continent…

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San Francisco Coal Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1891 · page 6

BY the R.M.S. Alameda the following coal circulars from San Francisco are to hand:— February 14th: During the week…

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Miners' Meeting. New Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 April 1891 · page 7

A meeting of the above morning was held on Tuesday night at Adamstown. There was a poor attendance. Mr. T. Hitchcock was in the chair…

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Gold in Manicaland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 April 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The official reports which have come to hand respecting the much-canvassed goldfields discovered in Manicaland, South Africa, state that their…

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The Castle Wellington Silver and Tin Mining Co

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 April 1891 · page 5

A MEETING of shareholders of the Castle Wellington Silver and Tin Mining Company was held at the Royal Exchange Hotel, Hunter-street, at half poet 2 o'clock,…

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Coal in British Columbia. Strike at the Wellington Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 12

ONE of the principal incidents of the coal trade of 1890, says a San Francisco paper, was the great strike in the Wellington mine, Vancouver…

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The Maitland Colliery. a Large Contract

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 3

THE Maitland Colliery, near West Maitland, is now in full swing, and coal is being put out as fast as possible. The seam is very thick, and is supposed to be identical with…

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San Francisco Coal Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 3

THE San Francisco Journal of Commerce, in its annual review for 1890, contains the following remarks on the coal trade at that port:—For a great part of the year coal was…

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International Miners' Congress. Want of Harmony

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 5

PARIS, Thursday.—The sittings of the International Miners' Congress opened on Tuesday last, and continued yesterday and to-day, but the harmony of the meetings has…

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The Mining Congress at Paris. Eight Hours Work in Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1891 · page 5

PARIS, Sunday.—The Miners' Congress has closed. The delegates adopted an amendnment of the English delegates, declaring that a general strike in Great Britain and…

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Miners Entombed for Nineteen Days

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1891 · page 8

FIVE of the miners who were entombed through the flooding in the colliery at Jeansville on February 4 have been rescued alive. The work of pumping out the water was still…

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Colonial Mining Exhibition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.—The proposed Colonial Mining Exhibition, in connection with the opening of the new building of the Imperial Institute, is to be abandoned, in…

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Mining Disaster in Staffordshire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—A terrible colliery disaster has occurred at the Apedale coal-mines, Staffordshire. The calamity was due to an explosion of gas in the mines, by which 10…

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(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) Miners in Pennsylvania

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 April 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—It is feared that the general strike of miners in Pennsylvania, ordered by the American Labor Federation, in support of the demand for the eight-hour…

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Delaney's Dyke Gold-mining Company, Limited

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 5

Manager's Report, 31st March:—The total quantity of stuff, including trial lots, crushed during the month was 870 tons, the yield of gold being 41½oz usual quality, and 30½oz…

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Coal Trade Brisk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 5

LONDON Saturday.—German companies are buying enormous quantities of coal in England and America, with the object of breaking the German coal ring…

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