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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

1,077 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 54

Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 April 1891 · page 5

The new development of carbonate ore in the hauling-shaft of the South mine is looking most promising. Of course, not much work has yet been done, but the find goes a…

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Miners' Meeting. Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 April 1891 · page 8

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was held in the Wallsend School of Arts on Monday evening; Mr. R. Punton in the chair…

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Coal in South Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 April 1891 · page 8

THE bore at Leigh's Creek, South Australia (says the Mining Standard), is down about 1450ft. Progress has been much slower lately, probably on…

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The Proposed Colliery at the Southern Break-water

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 April 1891 · page 3

THE proposal of Mr. Alexander Lindsay to sink a colliery shaft on the railway reserve, at the side of the line leading to Nobbys, and near the…

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Coal-mining Near Health Resorts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1891 · page 4

RESIDENTS of Newcastle frequently have cause to lament that the chief industry of the place is one which blackens the fair face of Nature, and…

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Golden Hope Gold-mining Company (No Liability)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1891 · page 5

Manager's report from Dalmorton, dated 11th April, says:—"Cleaned up from 29 tons stone, 40oz 6dwt 18gr retorted gold. Assays of tailings go 1oz 7dwt 11gr to the…

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Peak Hill Proprietary Gold. Mining Co. (No Liability)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1891 · page 5

Manager's Report, 11th April.—Cut down No. 2 shaft to 135ft, obtaining 8 tons ors, good quality. No. 3 shaft: Sunk 6ft (total 96ft), reef 2ft wide; obtained 5 tons poor…

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The Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1891 · page 5

A SPECIAL miners' meeting was held at Page's Hall, Greta, on Tuesday night, for the purpose of discussing the reason why work could not be resumed after drawing the…

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Miners' Meeting. the Northern Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1891 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the Northern miners was held at the Cardigan Hall, Teralba, at half-past 6 o'clock last evening, with the object of discussing the suspension of the…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. the Gold Returns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1891 · page 5

The return of the Mines Department shows a decrease in the return of gold for the quarter ending March 31, of 17,800oz. GUILTY OF PERJURY…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1891 · page 5

On inspecting the South mine to-day, I found that much improvement had taken place in all its workings. At present the lode body recently discovered in the hauling shaft…

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Latest Mining. Sydney Share Market. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1891 · page 5

SILVER stocks generally opened lower this morning, but the market for Centrals and Souths improved slightly towards the close. Sunny Corners were in good demand, at 39s;…

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Stockton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 April 1891 · page 8

THE ordinary monthly meeting of this lodge was held last night. The chairman, Mr. W H. Fox, presided. The committee minutes were read and…

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The Proposed Coal-mine in the City

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 5

MESSRS. T. Thomson, the president, and T. Dix, the secretary of the Miners' Association, on being asked yesterday what they thought of the proposal to establish a colliery in the…

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The Miners' Association. Abolition of the Committee of Management

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 2

OWING to the amendments in the rules of the Miners' Association, submitted to the district by the Lambton Lodge having been declared carried, the committee of management has…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 5

The week's run of the Broken Hill Proprietary was 5472 tons of ore treated, containing 177,811 ounces of silver. Block 14 run, 818 tons treated, yielding 18,720 ounces…

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Fatal Colliery Enplosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1891 · page 8

A COLLIERY explosion occurred recently at Oak Farm Colliery, near Himley, Stafford-shire, and resulted in four men being badly injured. One of the injured men, John…

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Miners' Meetings. Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1891 · page 5

A MEETING of the above miners was held on Friday evening in Mrs. Ralph's Hall; Mr. H. Hanlon in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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Greta Colliery Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1891 · page 5

IT was generally believed, at the latter end of last week, that work would be resumed at the colliery on Monday. Mr. Cater proceeded to Newcastle, and laid the terms…

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Latest District News. Catherine Hill Bay. Work at the Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1891 · page 5

The week ending 18th April has been a busy one at the colliery. To meet the demands of their customers, the Wallarah Company have, in addition to their own…

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