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Mining & the mines, 1870

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Mining Items

Empire · Friday 28 January 1870 · page 5
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The mining news of the past month is not of a very excitable character. There has been a revival of rumours in connection with the presumed existence of payable quartz reefs in the district of Yass,…

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Mines and Mining. Dargue's Reef, Major's Creek

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 13

IN the last issue of the Town and Country Journal a description was given by our travelling reporter of Dargue's Reef on the Spring Creek-a tributary of Major's Creek. We now present an illustration of this…

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Deputation from the Gold-fields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 13

A deputation, consisting of George Alfred Lloyd, Esq., M.P.: W. Church, Esq., M.P.; and E. W. Emmett, Esq., waited upon Ministers, on Tuesday morning, at the Colonial Secretary's office, with reference to resolutions passed at a…

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Mining Gazette

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 9

FROM Araluen, the correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch sends the following report, dated January 20th:— Our monthly average yield of gold seems now to…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 13

The mining news of the past week is not of a very excitable character. There has been a revival of rumours in connection with the presumed existence…

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Shocking Colliery Explosion and Great Loss of Life

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 6

On November 15, an explosion took place in No. 5 pit of the Moss Hall Coal Company's collieries, at Platt Bridge, three miles frem Wigan. The shaft is two hundred and seventy-five yards deep, and has been recently constructed…

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Deputations. the Mining Laws

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 3

A DEPUTATION consisting of Mr. G. A. Lloyd, M.L.A., Mr. Walter Church, M.L.A., and Mr. E. N. Emmett, and representing the miners of Trunkey Creek, waited on Tuesday morning upon the Colonial Secretary, the…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion (From the Times November 19.) Wigan, Tuesday Afternoon

Evening News · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 3

A terrible explosion of fire damp occurred yesterday afternoon at the No. 5 pit of the Mose-hall Coal Company, near Wigan. At the time of writing eight bodies been brought to the surface, and although the…

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Carriage of Coal on the Western Railway

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 3

ON Tuesday afternoon a deputation, consisting of Messrs. J. M'Kenzie, T. Wilton, and R. Anderson, accompanied by Mr. J. H. Neale, M.L.A., waited on the Hon. J. Sutherland, Minister for Works, for the purpose of…

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A School of Mines for New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 14

ONE of these useful institutions is about to be established at Ballarat. The immense advantage which has accrued to the mining community of Victoria by the opening, some time since, of a…

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Trunkey Creek Quartz Mining Company (Limited)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 5

THE first half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the company's office, on Thursday, 27th instant. Mr. A. H. C. Macafee in the chair. The following report and balance-sheet were…

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Humoured Discovery of Gold in New Caledonia. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 January 1870 · page 2

SIR,—Permit me to trespass upon a small space of your issue with a few lines, which, I have no doubt, will prove alike to the mercantile as well as mining interests of the greatest importance…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1870 · page 3

IRONBARKS.—It is stated by the correspondent of the Western Examiner that the puddlers are setting to work in right earnest, washing the accumulated debris of the different portions of this gold-held. The cry is no longer…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion. (From the Times November 19.) Wigan, Tuesday Afternoon

Empire · Tuesday 1 February 1870 · page 4

A terrible explosion of fire damp occurred yesterday afternoon at the No. 5 pit of the Moss-hall Coal Company, near Wigan. At the time of writing eight bodies have been brought to the surface, and although the…

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Peak Downs Copper Mining Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1870 · page 3

THE fourteenth half-yearly meeting of the ahareholders was held in the Chamber of Commerce, at noon yesterday. The Secretary having read the advertisement cinvening the meeting, and the report and balance sheet, the…

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Cudgegong Cinnabar Mining Company (Limites)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1870 · page 3

REPORT of the directoia at the second half-yearly general meeting, held at the office of the company, Spring-street, Sydney, on Monday, the 31st day of January, 1870, at 3 o'clock:—…

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A School of Mines for New South Wales

Empire · Tuesday 1 February 1870 · page 4

One of these useful institutions is about to be established at Ballarat. The immense advantage which has accrued to the mining community of Victoria by the opening, some time since, of a…

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Mining Items

Empire · Friday 4 February 1870 · page 3

According to the South Australian Advertiser, the gold news at Adelaide is really getting sensational. There are various exciting accounts of the returns from the crushing of South Rhine quartz or…

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Mining-items

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1870 · page 4

According to the South Australian Advertiser, the gold news at Adelaide is really getting sensational. There are various exciting accounts of the returns from the crushing of South Rhine quartz or…

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