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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Coal-mining in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 7

THE Coalville Coal Company waited on the Railway Commissioners on Wednesday, and asked that the arrangement made with the company by the ex-commissioners should be…

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De Beers Diamond Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 11

A RECENT number of the Port Elizabeth Telegraph gives an account of the operations of the De Beers Consolidated mines for 15 months ended 30th…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 12

THE ranger at Echunga has reported the South Australian Commissioner of Crown Lands that two Splendid leader have been found…

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Gas in the Seaham Colliery. a Miner Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

ON the 6th inst. a miner named Hargreaves while holing ill a narrow place in the Seaham Colliery, accidentally ignited a blower of gas. Before he could get out he was burned…

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Mining in Tasmania

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 12

IN their review of the year 1892, the Hobart Mercury says: Discoveries have been made of coal at Mount Pelion (Barn Bluff), asbestos at Savage…

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The Wallsend Miners and the Agreement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 4

AT the quarterly meeting of the miners' delegate board yesterday, the new general agreement was discussed. As the district had decided to accept the document by a…

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South Australia. Adelaide, Friday. Gold Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

In a report to the Government, the inspector of mines deprecates any rush to the Exchange goldfield, as the vein is not likely to be permanent…

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Broken Hill Mining. The Work Progressing. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

THE week's run at the Proprietary mine was 7643 tons of ore treated, producing 203,400oz silver. The North Central has suspended…

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The Miners' Delegate Board. The Wallsend Lodge and the Agreement. Progress of the Gippsland Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

THE quarterly meeting of the miners' delegate board was continued in the Rouse Assembly Rooms yesterday. Mr. Adam Cook, the president, again occupied the…

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Meeting of the Wallsend Miners. Threatened Rupture with the Association. They Decide to Sign the Agreement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 8

THE usual monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the hall of the Wallsend School of Arts last evening. Mr. R. Puntes, occupied the chair, and Mr. Curley, the…

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Mining at Charters Towers. The Output for 1892. Larger Than Any Other Year. BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

THE following were the principal dividends for Charters Towers during the past year :—Victory, £97,000; Day Dawn, Block, and Wyndham, £50,000; Victoria, £41,000;…

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Mine Managers' Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 8

NEW Baker's Creek North Gold Mine Company, No Liability.—Report for week ending 9th January: We resumed work in 225ft level crosscut on Monday last, and have since…

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The Greta Colliery. Work Progressing Well

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 5

FOR the fortnight ending Saturday the Greta Colliery worked eight days, and there being four large ships in Newcastle and two in Sydney for Greta coal there should be a few…

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The Recent Mining Strike in Rhenish Prussia. Return of the Miners to Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 5

BERLIN, Saturday.—The extensive strike of miners at Saarbruch, Saar-Louis, and other places in Rhenish Prussia, which at one time assumed…

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Gas in the Seaham Colliery. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 8

Sir,—I notice in your issue of the 14th inst., under the heading "Gas in the Seaham Colliery," a paragraph giving an account of a slight ignition…

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Threatened Coal Famine in Odessa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1893 · page 6

AN Odessa correspondent, telegraphs, under date December 7 :—"In view of the threatened coal famine in this city during the winter, the municipal…

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Miners' Risks. Accident in the Northern Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 4

AT about 9 o'clock yesterday morning a minor named John Evans sustained a fracture of the collarbone at Teralba. He was working in the Northern mine, when some…

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The Southern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 7

CONSIDERING the time of the year the southern collieries generally are doing fair work—Woonona, Corrimal, and Mount Kembla doing best. The…

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Coal in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 3

BEFORE the diamond drill is removed from Apollo Bay the Minister for Mines has decided that another bore shall be put down at Wild Dog Creek,…

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Wallsend Miners. the Question of Separation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 8

A SPECIAL meeting of the above miners was hold in the hall of the Wallsend School of Arts yesterday morning at 10 a.m. There was a good attendance, the general secretary,…

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