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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,038 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 52
THE year 1880 produced many changes in the coal trade, and in view of the present state of things in the district the history of this particular period is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE North Boulder Company's mine, formerly known as Dickson's Eureka, is to be opened up, and machinery is to be placed on the property. Judging from the pile of ore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the end of this month the miners of the district will be called upon to elect their officers, and the contest for the general secretary ship promises to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A SPLENDID lot of slugs and small pieces of gold obtained by sieving the ore on the mullocky formation at I.O.U. was brought into town yesterday. It came from property held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An alluvial goldfield, 30 miles east of Pine Creek, at Ferguson, has been discovered. About 20 men, all Europeans, are working and getting good gold. A reef in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Royal Commission on the Coal Mines Regulation Bill, appointed "to make a diligent and full inquiry into the questions which arise upon the provisions of the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The German steamer Severus, which loaded frozen meat, &c., at Sydney, for London, came on to this port yesterday for the purpose of taking in a supply of coal for her bunkers for the homeward voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE coal trade continued to be fairly steady during the first half of 1879, and as the orders were evenly distributed among the various collieries, it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Writing of the Californian coal trade under date San Francisco, October 16, Mr. J. W. Harrison says:— Since the Monowai left the following vessels have arrived from Newcastle, N.S.W., viz: Lancing, 3136…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Arbitration Court appointed as a result of the 1880 strike marked an epoch in the history of our coal trade, and deserves more than passing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A SERIOUS accident occurred at the Wallsend Colliery yesterday morning to an old and respected resident of Brookstown, Wallsend, Mr. John Miller, seur., who is employed in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REPRESENTATIVES of the colliery proprietors and men of this district will meet in conference to-day, for the purpose of considering the state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ABOUT 1870, Mr. Skey, analyst to the Geological survey Department, made a number of experiments of importance in respect to the occurrence of gold These…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE alleged Helensburg burglars, Ross-bridge and Forbes, were at the Central Police Court to-day, charged with breaking and entering the counting-house of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The English, Scottish, and Australian Bank shipped gold by the steamer Menmuir to the value of £4929. The Commercial Bank shipped gold by the steamer Chingtu…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AMIDST the anxiety that prevails as to the future of the agricultural industry in this district, it is gratifying (writes the Clarence and Richmond Examines) to find some strong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE conference attended by representatives of certain colliery interests and the official representatives of the Miners' Association was not so…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN accordance with a resolution passed by the Miners' Delegate Board, the colliery proprietors of the district were invited to meet the miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CAPETOWN, Friday.—Whilst a large quantity of gold belonging to an African bank was being conveyed between the Transvaal Republic and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. Hinson BERKELEY, of this city, during a recent visit to Victoria found time to proceed to the Jumbunna Colliery, one of the best known mines in Gippsland. In…
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