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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

1,038 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 52

Californian Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1895 · page 4

Regarding the San Francisco coal trade at 20th June, Messrs. J. and W. Harrison's coal report contains the following:—Since the Mariposa left here have been the following arrivals from Newcastle,…

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Another Disaster at Broken Hill. Fire in the Block 11 Mine. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1895 · page 4

AT about 8 o'clock yesterday morning smoke was seen issuing from the timbers of the Block 11 mine of the Proprietary Company, to the east of Barry's big quarry. Flames…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Great Boulder Mine. The Israelite Bay Rush. Coolgardie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1895 · page 4

THE great boulder crushing resulted in the return of 1706oz of smelted gold from 190 tons of stone, or an average of nearly 9oz per ton. The mine is looking splendid. A trial…

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Coal Mining in the Transvaal, South Africa

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1895 · page 6

THE South African Minting Journal gives the following account of the mines of the Transvaal Coal Trust, located 16 miles east from…

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Mining Accident Relief Fund. a Victorian Proposal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1895 · page 3

AFTER the great disaster at the New Australasian Mine, Creswick, in December, 1882, a Victorian Mining Accident Relief Fund, amounting to…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Londonderry Consols Mine. Another Rush. Coolgardie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1895 · page 5

PERSISTENT reports have been circulated during the last few days of a big find at the Londonderry Consols. In consequence there has been a run on the shares, which have…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Thursday. the Coal Creek Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1895 · page 5

The visit of the arbitrators in the Coal Creek dispute to Korumburra has been postponed until next week. THE MINING DISASTER…

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Newcastle-wallsend Coal Company. Half-yearly Meeting. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1895 · page 7

THE half-yearly meeting of the New- castle-Wallsend Coal Company was held to-day. Mr. W. B. Walford, chairman, presided, and the…

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Brown's Collieries. the Doctor Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 5

A LARGE meeting of medical subscribers was held in Wile's Hall, Minmi, on Thursday night considerably over 300 being present. Mr. D. M'Dougall, chairman of the medical…

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The New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 8

AFTER being idle two months work was resumed at New Lambton on Thursday, The miners accepted a reduction and waited for a week for the pit to start. With the…

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Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 12

INQUIRER, Wickham:—The price of Newcastle coal in 1869 was 88 per ton. It remained at that figure until 1872, when a fall of 6d per ton took place…

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The Political Position. the Government Proposals. Royal Commission on Collieries. Sir Henry Parkes' Future. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 5

Now that the re-elected members of Parliament and some of the newly-elected members are beginning to assemble in Sydney, the clouds which surrounded the political…

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The Fire at Broken Hill Mine. Fighting the Flames. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 4

THIS morning there was practically no change in the aspect of affairs. At Book 11 the smoke was as dense as last night, and fresh rents opened almost as soon…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Hunter Mining District

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 5

THE Lieutenant-Governor has appointed Mr. George Rupert Evans to be Warden of the Hunter and Macleay and the Peel and Uralla mining districts, within the divisions thereof…

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Smelting Works at Lake Illawarra. a New Market for Southern Coal. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 5

MR. H. S. CHAPMAN, one of the directors of the Illawarra Land Co-operating Company, Limited, which obtained a concession from Parliament some years since to construct a…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Splendid Shows. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 5

FROM several parts of the Murchison field mining news of a most reassuring character is being received. All the parcels of stone treated by the Nannine battery yielded well…

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Coal Mining Statistics. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 July 1895 · page 5

THE following correspondence between Mr. Edden, M.P., and the British Board of Trade has taken place. Mr. Edden wrote in April to Mrs. Burt, M.P., the Parliamentary…

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Colliery Disaster in Prussia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 July 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.— A terrible disaster has occurred at a colliery at Cochum, near Dusseldorf, Prussia, where 30 men have been killed by an…

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Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 July 1895 · page 8

The developments at the Rocky River alluvial goldfield are creating much interest in West Maitland, as a party of residents have a good deal of interest in a claim on the…

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The West Australian Goldfields. a Big English Company. The Great Boulder Mine. Coolgardie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 July 1895 · page 5

THE first vat of ore for cyaniding was crushed at the Golden Bar mine on Saturday. From April 10th to July 20th the Great Boulder mine crushed 931 tons of…

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