The Price of Coal
THE S. M. Herald writes on January 1st:—The reduction in the price of coal at Newcastle from [?] to 10s p[?]r ton f.o.b will come into operation today. During the three months which have elapsed…
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Mining & the mines, 1892
38 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 2
Finding the Gold
Is was dark, and down a retired street in Paris a man rode along on horse back. Suddenly the horse stopped as if frightened. Then a man rose from the payement in th[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Tar Varnish
IN an exhaustive review of coal tar as a varnish, lately published, M. Lunge has called attention to the fact that the above form of varnish is simple in its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Under Sydney
RICH seams of coal within a mile and a half of the General Post Office from another natural advantage of which Sydney may now boast. Thanks to that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Remarkable Coal Discovery
THE following extracts from the report of Mr. W. H. Bauds, Assistant Government Geologist, show that the coal discoveries in the Pott Curtis district are the most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed Newcastle Coal Trust
THERE is a general rumour that a Newcastle Coal Trust is to be formed with a capital of £2,500,000, including most of the principal collieries, with the exception of Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Good as Gold
Tere's the girl with the smiling face, The girl with the witching eye, There's the girl with stetaly grace, And the girl that is modest and shy;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coraki Coal Mine
SHAREHOLDERS in the Coreki Coal Mine are very naturally becoming somewhat dissatisfied with the slow progress of the work in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rivertree Silver Mines
IT was on Sunday afternoon that Sergeant Oliver and I started from Wilson's Downfall. The Undercliff and Rivertree road branches off to the left at the village of the Downfall, going from Stanhorpe;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coraki Coal-Mining Company
THE folio wine report, addressed to the Directors of the Coraki and Richmond Hill Coal-Mining Company, has boon forwarded to us for publication…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Coraki Coal Mine
THROUGH the courtesy of Captain Storey, we availed ourselves of an opportunity of personally inspecting that property known as the Richmond Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Annual Report of the Mines Department
THE report is a very voluminous one, and contains a quantity of statistics showing the work dons by the department in 1891, which generally shows an increase on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Discovery
THE fact that a mine of coal of very fair quality for steaming purposes, has lately been found in the Straits of Magellan should be of more than passing interest to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Gold-saving Appliance
THERE was on view by-invitation lately at Messrs. Park and Lacy's Ore-treatment Works, Pyrmont, a new gold-saving appliance, the invention of Messrs. Reading and Rigby. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charters Towers Gold Reefs
A TELEGRAM from Charters Towers, last week, gives particulars to show that this old field is far from worked out yet. It states 150oz. 13dwt. 18gr. of gold were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining for Fossils in the States
THE American papers given an account of some remarkable finds of fossil remains that are now being made. There is one gigantic lot (says one paper) now awaiting to be transported from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Proposed Coal Trust
A MEEETING of directors of coal companies of Northern districts was held in Sydney last Thursday afternoon, to consider matters relating to the trust company proposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining—Lismore—Casino and Ballina District
FROM the annual report of the Minister for Mines, we take the following further extract from the report of the District Warden (Mr. E. Jones):— PLATINUM…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal on the Richmond
IN his report to, the Minister for Mines, Mr. T. W. E. David, Geological Surveyor of the Mines Department, after giving analyses of a number of samples from various, mines, adds the following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Coal Mining
IN his report to the Mines Department the District Warden (Mr. E. Jones) thus refers to the coal-mining now being carried out in this district:…
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