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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

1,077 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 54

Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1891 · page 5

A decided improvement has taken place in the prospects of the British mine. On the eighth floor, or 56ft above the main level, they have run a crosscut west, which showed…

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Tasmania. Hobart, Wednesday. Alleged Gold-stealers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 5

On the arrival of the steamer Te Anau from the Bluff, two men named Troy and Trehay were arrested, charged with stealing gold to the value of £160 from their mates…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 5

The South mine is looking better this week than last. 330 tons of ore were dispatched to the smelters during the week. It averaged from 60oz to 89oz of silver and 45 per…

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Worth his Weight in Gold. Chapter Xv. Conclusion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 2

They never told Helen the painful circumstance of Gelert's death. The secret of the diamond image is a secret still, for no human eye has…

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Miners' Meeting. Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 8

THE regular monthly meeting was held last night in the Temperance Hall. The chairman (Mr. W. H. Fox),having recovered from his late sever illness, was…

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Gippsland Coal. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 5

ANOTHER large deputation waited on the Government to-day, to ask that more encouragement be given to Gippsland coal, either in the way of an import duty, low,…

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Gold-dust Darrell; OR The Wizard of the Mines. CHAPTER I. Life and Death at the Golden Gate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 2

IT was a scene of savage splendor— a gambling den of San Francisco, in the fourth year of the gold fever. The famous Texan, Colonel Jack…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 5

Another rich find was made at the Consols mine to-day. Up to about 4 o'clock to-day about a ton of native silver glance iodides, sulphide of silver, and other argentilerous…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. Demurrage on Coal Trucks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 5

THE Railway Commissioners brought an action in No. 2 District Court to-day against Thomas Saywell, for the recovery of £30 demurrage on sixty railway trucks sent down…

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Coal in India

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 12

THE work of the Bengal Nagpore Railway is making rapid progress. It is understood that the Indian Government propose to construct a branch line between Palamow and…

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San Francisco Coal Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 6

Mr. J. W. Harrison, writing under date Sin Francisco, January 12th ult. reports:—"Since the sailing of the last Australian mail, there has not been an arrival of coal…

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San Francisco Coal Receipts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 6

The total importation of coal to San Francisco during 1890 amounted to 1,096,498 tons, while that of the previous year was 1,146,937, which shows a falling…

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Gold-dust Darrell; OR The Wizard of the Mines. Chapter Iii. the Tragedy of the Eagle's Pass

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

It had been the intention of Major Dashwood and Griffith Craig to start on their journey to their mines on Feather River, early on the day…

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Australian News. New South Wales. the Southern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 2

MR. J. B. NICHOLSON, secretary of the Illawarra Miners' Union, has written to the Sydney Trades and Labour Council to say that last week he paid strike-pay to 160 men,…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 5

The week's run at Broken Hill mine was:—Ore treated, 5006 tons, yielding 1024 tons of bullion, containing 1g3,691oz of silver. Block 14 run: Ore treated, 447 tons,…

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Lady Carrington Gold-mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 5

The manager of the Lady Carrington Gold Mining Company, under date February 9th, reports:—The furnace has been completed, and the fire was lit in it this afternoon…

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Gold-dust Darrell; OR The Wizard of the Mines. CHAPTER I[?].—(Continued)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 2

'Lawrence was not given to premonitions or superstitions of any kind,' muttered the latter, looking at the ring in a doubting, dreamy way…

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The German Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 5

GERMANY has become a coal-exporting country of some importance, 7,685,485 tons of coal and 849,820 tone of coke having been exported during the ten months ending…

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Gold-dust Darrell; OR The Wizard of the Mines. CHAPTER V.—(Continued)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 2

Still feeling disinclined to go upstairs immediately, he lounged carelessly on through the hall. It was much longer than he had thought,…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 5

The Junction North main shaft is down 418ft, and water has increased considerably, which is being taken advantage of by Block 14 company. Veins of quartz, cubical galena,…

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