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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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The Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1893 · page 4

AN inquiry into the results of the coal trade of New South Wales for the year 1892 shows that a great falling off has to be recorded. While the…

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The San Francisco Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1893 · page 7

THE curtailment of shipments of Newcastle castle coal to San Francisco has not been altogether without effect on the market, the demand at mail dates…

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Western Australia. Perth, Tuesday. Three Thousand Ounces of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1893 · page 5

Specimens of gold weighing upwards of 3000oz, which were brought in from the Coolgardie goldfield by Mr. Sylvester Brown on Saturday, are now being exhibited at the…

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Broken Hill Mining. Progress at Junction North. Broken Hills

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1893 · page 5

AT the Junction North mine up to date something like 120 tons of argentiferous garnet sandstone have undergone the leaching process, with apparently satisfactory results, the…

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The Southern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 6

THE weather being fine, work at the damaged jetties at Bulli is now progressing satisfactorily. So eager are the Woonona Colliery officials to again…

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Durham Colliery Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 4

THE Act enabling the Scottish Australian Mining Company, Limited, to construct a railway from their Durham Colliery to communicate with the Great Northern Railway…

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Leigh's Creek Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 2

LEIGH'S CREEK coal is being gradually distributed through the northern townships (writes a correspondent to the South Australian Advertiser), and…

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A Large Coal Cargo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 4

Last month the steamship Lord Erne, belonging to Messrs. T. Dickson and Co., sailed from Barry Dock for Bombay with the largest cargo of coal which has ever passed out of Barry, the actual quantity on…

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Coal Shipments at Cardiff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 4

During one week last month the coal shipments of the port of Cardiff, Wales, amounted to 267,741 tons. The trade of the lute Docks was as follows:—Coal, coke, and patent fuel shipments, 151,367 tons;…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 5

CENTRAL work in various portions of this mine have been proceeding as usual. There are no special developments to report. Two hundred and fifty-five tons of silicious ore…

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Coal Supply of Victoria. In the Event of a Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 6

WITH a view of obtaining some information as to the probable effect of a maritime strike or the laying-up of vessels, in the coal supply of Victoria,…

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The Co-operative Miners. The Manager Refuses to Meet the District Officers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1893 · page 5

THE only new feature in connection with the present aspect of the difficulty among the workmen at the Co-operative Colliery is that yesterday the manager refused to meet the…

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Miners' Risks. Accident at Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 June 1893 · page 4

YESTERDAY morning a miner named Isaac Hutchinson sustained a severe fracture of the right leg just above the ankle by a fall of coal in the Lambton mine. It appears…

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Browns' Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 2

The Duckenfield and Back Creek lodge of miners held their usual monthly meeting on Thursday evening in T. Sharp's hall. Mr. J. M. Gray presided, and there was a good…

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The Miners' Delegate Board. The Co-operative Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the delegates from the various lodges in the Miners' Association was held yesterday in the Rouse Assembly Rooms. Mr. Adam Cook, the…

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Miners' Meetings. Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Wednesday evening, Mr. D. Mason in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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The Greta Colliery. Cessation of Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 5

ON Thursday morning Mr. Cater, the manager of the Greta Colliery, informed the representatives of the miners that he had received word from the directors that the…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 11

THE chief mining event of the week has been the action of the proprietors of the Co-operative Colliery in giving the miners 14 days' notice that half…

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Select Poetry. Phantom Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 10

IT has been said in legends of old Where the rainbows rest lies hidden gold; And a small boy born in that simple time Had heard the tale in a nursery rhyme;…

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Railway Coal Line in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1893 · page 2

A DEPUTATION from the Kilcunda, Wollomai, Nyora, and adjacent districts waited upon the Premier and Minister of Railways on Wednesday, and asked for the construction…

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