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Mining & the mines, 1892

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Ships Gold Cellars

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 8

In these days of heavy gold shipments the specie-room on the steamship is a very important institution, It is located in an out-of-the-way place…

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The Broken Hill Silver Mines

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 3

DURING the year, the Broken Hill Proprietary paid in dividends £1,152,000, or 24s per 8s share. The ageregate of dividends, since the middle of 1886. is £3 304,000,…

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Dispute in the New South Wales Coal Trade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 3

SERIOUS complications are expected in connection with the Northern coal trade over the proposals of the associated masters to reduce the selling price of coal from 11s. to…

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The Coal Question at Newcastle. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 3

THE position with regard to the miners at Newcastle remains unchanged, It was at first, feared that a strike on a large scale would take place, but matters appear to…

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Colliery Explosion in America. Two Hundred Miners Entombed. New York, Jan. 8

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE was received to-day from Krebs, a mining town in Indian territory, to the effect that a serious mine explosion has taken place there. A large number of…

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Alleged Theft of Gold Leaf. Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 3

THE Culcairn police last night arrested a young man named Charles Shand Middleton, alias Charles Craig, who was wanted on a charge of stealing a quantity of gold leaf and…

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The Mount Morgan Mine. Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 4

The average number of men employed At Mount Morgan during the last four years has been 1400 annually. The gross amount of gold produced since the…

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Land Notes. (Gazette No. 17, Jan. 9.) Gold-field Revoked. Cootamundra Land District

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 4

Part of reserve from conditional purchase within Temora gold-field, county Bland, pariah Trigalong, area 29 acres 2 roods 10 perohes. That part of Temora Gold-field…

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Land Information. (Gazette No. 17, Jan. 9.) Gold-field Revoked. Land District of Cootamundra

The Cootamundra Liberal · Friday 15 January 1892 · page 3

Part of reserve from conditional purchase within Temora goldfield, county Bland, parish Trigalong, area 29 acres 2 roods 10 perches. That part of Temora Gold-field…

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Mining Application

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1892 · page 6

NOTICE is given that the undermentioned goldmining leases have been declared void, the lessees having failed to execute and take delivery thereof when called upon to do so:…

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Gold in Venezuela and Guiana

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 4

THE goldfields of Venezuela and Guiana ore sufficiently well established to entitle them to a forward place among the auriferous territories on the earth (says the Melbourne…

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The Difficulties in the Coal Trade

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 4

In the course of an interview on Friday night, in regard to the threatened coal strike at Newcastle, Mr. J. F. Burns said :—…

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Sensational Experience in a Bendigo Mine. Bendigo

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 2
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THE lives of three miners named Moses Coon, Alfred Williams and J. Eddie, were saved to-day by the efficient safety appliances used at the Great Extended Hercules mine, Long…

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Mining. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1892 · page 2

THE following are the sales reported by the Sydney stock brokers:—Proprietary—buyers £6 13s, sellers £6 14s Block 10—buyers £10 13s, sellers £10 14s…

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Mining. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1892 · page 2

THE following are the sales reported by the Sydney stock brokers:—British—buyers 18s 6d British N[?]w—sellers 18s…

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The Broken Hill Proprietary Mine. Adelaide

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 February 1892 · page 4

MR. Howell manager of the Broken Hill Proprietary mine, is in Adelaide on a holiday. He states that he fears nothing about the water supply for the mine. The Acacia dam…

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Mining. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1892 · page 2

THE following are the sales reported by the Sydney stock brokers:—British—sellers 10s 6d Proprietary—sales £7 4s…

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Terrible Mining Accident. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 3

The most shocking accident that has ever occurred in the Barrier district was wired through from Tarrawingee Flux quarries to Broken Hill early this afternoon. The only…

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The New Gold-saving Process

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1892 · page 3

MR. Ccsmo Newbery waited upon the Minister and Secretary for Mines on Friday (the Melbourne Daily Telegraph says), and gave further information relative to his visit to…

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