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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

1,106 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 50 of 56

Correspondence. Small Conn and Small Coal. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 November 1892 · page 3

SIR,—That portion of the new agreement dealing with small coal should now be finally settled after the letter of the chairman of the Burwood Coal…

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Miners' Meeting. BURWOOD

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 November 1892 · page 6

THE regular monthly meeting of the members of the above lodge was held at the Albert Victor Hotel on Wednesday night last. Mr. M. Minto…

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Gas Explosion at Wallsend Colliery. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 November 1892 · page 5

WITH reference to the explosion at Wallsend Colliery on Tuesday, Mr. Melville to-night at Parliament House drew the attention of the Minister for Mines to the paragraph in the…

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Correspondence. Provision for Miners' Widows. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 November 1892 · page 3

SIR,—Eighteen months ago the miners of this district passed a new set of rules, one of which (No. 59), by a small levy of 6d per man, makes…

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Miners' Meeting. Sea Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1892 · page 3

THE regular monthly meeting of the members of the above lodge was held at the Merewether Hotel on Thursday night. Mr. Joseph Haliday occupied the chair, and there was a…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1892 · page 11

ONE hundred and seventy-one ounces gold were brought in from Nambucca Heads the other week. The monthly cleaning-up of the…

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Coal in Vancouver Island

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1892 · page 7

THE United States Consul at Victoria, in a recent report on British Columbia, mentions that coal is one of the chief products of the province, the export in 1888 and the three…

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Tin Mining in Cornwall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1892 · page 7

THE Dolcoath Tin Mine, Cornwall, has been in operation as a tin mine for 50 years. Up to the year 1890 the total production had been approximately…

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Cheap Land for Miners. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1892 · page 7

Sir,—We hear that the Governments of Victoria, South Australia, and Now Zealand have bought areas of suitable land with the object of cutting them up into blocks and…

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Sydney Coal-mining. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 November 1892 · page 5

THE second Cremorne bore, now being put down by the Department of Mines for the Sydney and Port Hacking Coal Company, Limited, on Cremorne Point, has reached a…

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Mine Managers' Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 November 1892 · page 8

Block 10 Mine, Broken Hill.—Week ending 12th November: Campbell's shaft sunk 3ft, making 68ft. Below 615ft level men now engaged timbering. At the 615ft level…

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The Coal Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 November 1892 · page 5

A REPORT from San Francisco, under date October 15, is as follows:—"since the sailing of the last Australian steamer the following vessels have arrived from Sydney and…

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The Referee's Court. Adjusting the Lambton Dispute. The Mine to be Inspected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 November 1892 · page 6

THE Lambton dispute with regard to the height of the seam in that colliery, was placed by the miners before Mr. J. N. Brunker, M.P., the Referee, in…

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The Newcastle Coal Trust. Letter to the "Economist."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 November 1892 · page 8

SOME weeks ago a cablegram appeared in our columns, announcing that a letter had been published in the London Economist with reference to the Newcastle Coal T[?]t. The…

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Work at the Southern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 November 1892 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Clifton on Monday states that the coal trade at the various south coast collieries has, happily, for the past week shown general…

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The Co-operative Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 November 1892 · page 5

THE following donations have been received by the miners of the Co-operative Colliery:— £50 from the Lithgow miners, £34 6s from the Sydney Trades and Labour Council, and…

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Accident at Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 November 1892 · page 5

An accident occurred yesterday at the Wallsend Colliery to a son of Mr. John Carter, of Wallsend. It appears that the youth was employed driving on one of the…

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The Maitland Colliery. In Liquidation. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 November 1892 · page 5

THE matter of the Maitland Coal-mining Co., Limited, came before Mr. Justice Manning in the Equity Court this morning, after having been postponed on several occasions. It was…

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Texas Copper Mining Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 November 1892 · page 5

Mr. N. Elliott, of the Texas Copper Mining Company, Queensland, has handed us the following result of assay on their sample of cake copper, as tested in London on 28th…

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Miners' Risks. Accident at the Borehole Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 November 1892 · page 5

AT 8 o'clock yesterday morning, a miner named Andrew Rennie met with a serious accident in the A.A. Company's Borehole Colliery. He was engaged working in his…

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