Can Gold Be Made?
The idea of the alchemists that gold can be made of other material has been po[?]poched for centuries, yet there are mer[?] scientific attainment now living who ha[?]…
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Mining & the mines, 1896
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Mining
The celebrated Rand (South Africa) roof extends for fifty miles, and has been proved for half that distance not to contain a fault. The quality of the ore is remarkably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The West Australian Goldfields. the Water Supply
ESPERANCE, Wednesday.—News has arrived of good rains on the Dundas-road. At Dundas 33 points fell, at the 100 miles 38 points at Norseman 25, at Macpherson's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mining Conference
THE representatives present at the mining conference must be given credit for enthusiasm and energy. There is scarcely a delegate who has not an original idea to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal Goldfields
It would seem as if the gold yield for the year 1895 from the Transvaal will touch about £8,000,000 in value. This does not seem very far short of the largest quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bowral Free Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, February 22, 1896. the Mining Conference
WHEN the delegates from the mining centres of the colony met in Sydney the other day, it was feared from the eagerness of every member to orate and air…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lady Jepsey Gold Mining Co
The advertisement of this mine which is now being floated will be found in our business columns. It is situated near Tenterfield in N.S.W. It has a very influential…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Appalling Colliery Disaster
The little mining township of Brunnerton, situated about seven miles from Greymouth, on the west coast of the South Island, was on Thursday morning the scene of an appalling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Governors on the Coal Crisis
MOST emphatic were the Governors of New South Wales and Victoria in showing the reasonableness for a conference between the miners and the colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Coal King. (To the Editor of the. Scrutineer.)
Sir,—As the Premier seams to have succeeded in getting all the coal owners to agree to meet him, and the miners' delegates. It is, I think worth while in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ths Coal Trade
IT seems likely that the present crisis in the coal trade will be the last that will ever take place through a strike of coal miners in the Newcastle district. Not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Gulgong
We have frequently expressed the opinion says the Mudgee Western Post of last Friday that if ever Gulgong experienced a permanent revival of fame for its gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Catterthun Gold
A further attempt is to be made to recover the gold from the sunken steamer Catter- thun. Bad weather has caused the abandooment operations upon two occasions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Crisis
THE end of the Newcastle strike appears farther off than ever, and the distress in the district is heartrending. As has been all along anticipated the coal miners when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LETTER. Department of Mines And Agriculture, Sydney, 22nd June, 1896
Sir,—I am directed to inform you that the Analytical Chemist has examined the beet which you submitted to this Department on the 5th instant, and reports that it contains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold
THE gold returns of the colony are a very important item. There has been no falling off in the general returns for a long while, but again, there has been no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mines Regulation Bill
AT last the Coal-Mines Regulation Bill seems to have a chance of becoming law. There has been a curious fatality hitherto about the measure. The first Bill was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Discoveryat at Spring Field
WE understand that a very promising goldbearing reef has been discovered on Mr. Faithfuil's property at Springfield, and that a local syndicate has been formed to work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mount Morgan Mine
THE most famous and the most puzzling of all gold mines is the Mount Morgan, Queensland. It is supposed to be the product of a thermal spring, and is simply…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Marvellous Escape of Two Miners
A miraculous escape from death of two miners named George Garnet and Peter M'Cann occurred at the Elsinore Valley (near Inverell) tin mine on Saturday…
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