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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

1,640 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 56 of 82

The Barrier Mines. Their Output of Lead

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Broken Hill Proprietary and the Broken Hill Block 10 Companies are calling for tenders in London for the purchase of…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 5

THE open cuts in the Proprietary mine have now assumed very large proportions, and with only two exceptions the former extensive outcrops, which were such marked and…

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The Wickham and Bullock Island Miners. Settling the Four-inch Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 5

THE Wickham and Bullock Island miners held a meeting at Linwood yesterday for the purpose of further considering the 4in coal question. Mr. J. Wright presided, and there…

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Co-operation in Metalliferous Mining. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 6

Sir,—The present rather crippled state of the mining industry has caused serious thought as to the future of this staple industry. The drift of modern mining thought…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Mining on Private Property

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 5

THIS morning the Premier received a deputation of residents of the Goulburn and Braidwood districts, introduced by Mr. Rose, M.P. They presented a petition signed by 1000…

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Mining at Cobark

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 September 1893 · page 5

FITZGERALD and party have struck two new gold-bearing reefs in their lease. The prospects taken from the caps of both reefs are considered payable…

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Miners' Risks. Accident at the Hetton Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 September 1893 · page 5

ON Friday afternoon a wheeler employed at the Hotton Pit met with a nasty accident. The lad, whose name is Wm. Jones, resides with his widowed mother at Merewether, and…

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The South Wales Coal Miners. the Sliding Scale Abandoned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—Thirty thousand of the South Wales miners have decided to abandon the sliding scale, under which they have been working,…

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Miners Resuming Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—The miners on strike at Pontypridd, South Wales, have decided to resume work tomorrow…

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English Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 4

An English exchange dated July 28th, says: "The crisis in the coal trade will have a most material effect upon the trade of Hull. The outlook is so serious that one great firm of shipowners are filling…

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Miners' Meeting. South Waratah

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 6

THE miners employed at South Waratah pit held their monthly meeting yesterday morning at Adamstown. There was a large attendance, and…

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Mining at Broken Hill. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1893 · page 5

THE surface floors Of the Junction mine at M'Intyre's shaft present a very heavy appearance. Over 25 hands are engaged bagging are for shipment to Freiberg. To…

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Coal Trimmers' Wages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 5

A REPRESENTATIVE of this journal was informed yesterday that although there were scores of coal trimmers idling about the wharf a stevedore had been unable to…

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The East Lambton Colliery. Let on Tribute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 5

THE East Lambton Colliery, that has been let and re-let on tribute so frequently during its brief though interesting history, has once more changed hands. In reply to an…

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Western Australia Perth, Tuesday. Gold Escort

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 5

The escort left Southern Cross on Monday, carrying 7000oz gold. REVENUE RETURNS. The revenue returns for August have been…

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Mining at Broken Hill. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 5

IN Retoilick's shaft the existing drive is now being extended in a northerly direction leaving the footwall on the right, and a very much better grade of ore is being met with,…

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The British Miners' Strike Serious Rioting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday. — Serious rioting on the part of the miners on strike has taken place at Alfreton, a market town in Derbyshire. The police…

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Correspondence. East Lambton Miners. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 8

SIR,—It is high time that the case of East Lambton miners was placed before the district, and some effort made to obliterate the stigma that has been…

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Northern Institute of Mining Students

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 3

THE fortnightly meeting of the Northern Institute of Mining Students was held in the Hamilton Mechanics' Institute on Saturday, Mr. R. J. Jury…

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The Result of the Coal Strike. Other Works Suspended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—It is announced that owing to the scarcity and dearness of coal, occasioned by the miners' strike, the large workshops of the…

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