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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

1,106 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 56

Miners' Meeting. Sea Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 8

THE regular monthly meeting of the member of the above lodge was held at the Merewether Hotel, on Thursday night last. Mr. Joseph Halliday occupied the chair, and…

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Mining Exhibits for Chicago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 7

AT a meeting of the committee on mining for the Chicago Exhibition, it was announced that Mr. Joseph E. Carne, F.G.S., curator and mineralogist of the Mining Museum of…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 5

Block 10, Campbell's shaft, is down 22ft below the 600ft level, and is still going through sulphide ore of average grade. The south drive in the west crosscut is in 40ft,…

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Miners' Meeting. Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1892 · page 5

THE usual monthly meeting of the above lodge was held in Williams' Hall on Saturday evening last, Mr. J. Harkin in the chair. Mr. J. Curley, miners' general secretary, was…

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West Australia. Gold Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1892 · page 6

The total amount of gold exported last quarter was 9309oz. LIGHTING BY ELECTRICITY. The City Council has accepted the…

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East Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1892 · page 5

A NUMBER of the miners who were employed in the East Lambton Colliery, which ceased operations rather suddenly a week or two ago, intend suing the tributors for their…

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Miners' Meeting Glebe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1892 · page 5

THE regular monthly meeting of the members of the above lodge was held on Monday evening last. Mr. John Lloyd occupied the chair…

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West Australia. the Fraser Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1892 · page 6

Latest reports from the Fraser mine state that everything is going smoothly. A 20-head battery was running all last week. A NEW BANK BUILDING…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Tuesday. Visit to Sydney of the Minister for Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1892 · page 5

The Minister for Mines, Mr. Hodgkinson, starts for Sydney by the Victoria on Thursday, where he will remain a month. PARLIAMENTARY…

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Lambton Police Court. Tuesday, April 12. (Before Mr. R. I. Perrott, P.M.) East Lambton Colliery Wages Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1892 · page 3

MESSRS. BUNN, Fairfull, Arston, Stobbart, and Walker, were sued by Alexander Fairfull. Thomas Firth, Jonathan Shields, and Thomas Brough, miners, for the sum of…

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The Central Mine. Mr. R. C. Baker's Denial. ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 5

MR. R. C. BAKER, the Adelaide director of the Central Mine, denies the statement in the Barrier Miner that the profits of the mine have gone to repairing a creep the…

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Correspondence Examination of Collieries. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 7

SIR,—In the columns of the Newcastle Herald I see an account of one John Phillips having been summoned by Mr. Humble, inspector of collieries, for a breach of the…

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Miners' Meeting. New Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 7

THE monthly meeting of the above lodge was held on Wednesday night at Gray's Hotel, Adamstown, Mr. W. Cowan in the chair. Mr. James Curley, who was present, was…

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Latest Mining. SYDNEY, Sunday. Adelaide Share Market. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 4

Both exchanges were closed on Saturday, and little business was dones in shares. Several lines changed hands:—Broken Hill at £5 12s and at £5 12s 3d; Junction North,…

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Greta. COLLIERY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1892 · page 8

The above colliery has worked four days during the past week, and should the vessels now in port be in readiness to load, another five days may be anticipated for this week,…

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Spontaneous Combustion of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 April 1892 · page 4

THE hypothesis that the ship Theophane has been burned owing to the spontaneous combustion of the cargo, has nothing to support it except the…

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Latest Mining. Adelaide Share Market. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 April 1892 · page 5

The Exchanges were closed to-day, but a fair number of brokers assembled, and some business was transacted at small prices. SALES…

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Mining Accident at the Dudley Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1892 · page 4

CHARLES PALMER, 22, a miner, while occupied in the Dudley mine yesterday met with a painful accident. While working a quantity of coal fell on him, and he sustained a…

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Pennsylvanian Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1892 · page 7

THE, annual output of anthracite or hard coal in the United States is 40,000,000 tone (writes an American correspondent). It is entirely…

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The Miners' Delegate Board. the Wallsend Levy Dispute. Four Lodges Suspended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1892 · page 5

THE quarterly meeting of the delegates from the various miners' lodges in the district was continued yesterday in the Rouse Assembly Rooms, and concluded at half-past 4 o'clock…

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