The Use of Gold
IN an article on economies in the use of gold, the Economist reviewing evidence given before the Gold and Silver Commission, points out that the business of…
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Mining & the mines, 1888
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Mining Boon
HISTORY repeats itself in the above, as in other things, and when matters in everyday life stagnate from the effects of had laws and other causes, Providence appears to come to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Does Silver Mining Pay?
"DOES silver-mining pay" is a question which possessess considerable interest at the time, when so much capital is being embarked in the pursuit. Unfortunately,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Reports
THE Chairman of the Board of the White Rock Company, in a letter to a Sydney paper, states that it is not their intention to publish sensational telegrams…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →White Rock Mine
MR. H. AUSTIN, chairman of the White Rock Proprietary Co., has supplied the metropolitan press with the following particulars regarding the work done on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Important Mining Case
MR. JUSTICE BOUCAUT has been engaged in the Supreme Court for five days with a case brought by J. Bagot and other mining speculators against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The White Rock Mines
THE first general meeting of the shareholders, of the White Rock Proprietary Silver-mining Company, Limited, was held at the registered offices on June 1st. Mr. Henry Austin, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nana Creek Goldfield
RUSSELL and party, the owners of the Caledonian Claim, Nana Creek, have sunk 60 feet, gold showing freely in the stone all the way down. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About Mining
THE celebrated lady mining expert (Miss [?] having returned to Sydney from a visit to [?] Fairfield Mount Morgan and Charters Towers, was interviewed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Mining Booms
COMMENTING on the "boom" in company promoting in Victoria, the Melbourne AGE observes:— "Speculation has developed to an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Mining Bill
THE Minister for Mines has introduced into the House a new Mining Bill, not for the purpose of being passed this session, but rather, we presume, for the purpose of having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Question
THE 'Mackay Argus says:—The impending miners strike that threatens to lay waste one of our most flourishing industries, is the all-absorbing topic at present. Masters and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Result of the Miners' Strike
THE strike at Newcastle has naturally made our neighbours consider the question of their dependence on New South Wales. New Zealand, Queensland, and Tasmania,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hydraulic Power in Coal-Getting
A CORRESPONDENT sends the following extract from Ironmongery of June 16 last:—"It will be remembered that about a year ago Mr. Ellis Lever offered a prize…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Promised Mining Bill
SPEAKING at Cobar recently the Minister for Mines said:—When he took charge of the Mining branch, he was accused of knowing nothing of mining. He thought he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Miners' Manifesto
MANIFESTO of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of the Newcastle District of New South Wales— To our Fellow-workmen of Australasia and the General Public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal on the Clarence
DAY after day the fact that the coal seams known to exist in the valley of the Clarence demand more than passing notice becomes more apparent. In…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Recent Gold Find
ADELAIDE, Thursday.—A Roeburn telegram states that a nugget, weighing 103oz 2dwt has been found by a man named Naughton. It consists of about 90oz of pure gold, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Discovery of Gold
ON Sunday H. M.S. Swinger arrived from Dinner Island, having on board six of the prospectors who went to Sud-Est three months ago in the Juanita, and we…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Perseverance
THE "Barrier Miner" says,-Mr. George Lansell has again been successful. It is wonderful to what an extent Dame Fortune smiles upon and favours this man. The…
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