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ON Wednesday last, a deputation of mining delegates representing Wallsend, and Co-operative collieries, waited upon the Minister for Lands to offar certain suggestions relative to the framing of a Coal Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A strike of Scotch miners is imminent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR Hill End correspondent reports by telegram:—"Rawsthornes and Porter's crushing is nearly finished. 553 oz. banked from. 243½ tons. Gillard and Jeffree banked 480 oz…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The manager of the Aurelian Quartz Mining Company, under date of June 20, advises:—The weather has been so wet, and the water consequently so quick, that we have made little progress, and have been swamped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram received from the-manager of Eisenstaedter's New Benca Tin Mines, dated 5th July, 1873, states: Start sluicing with two boxes, on Monday 7th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It must have long become apparent to many in the community that the industrial progress of the colony and the development of its resources have been much retarded for want of efficient legislation, which would be the means,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GULGONG.—The Gulgong Argus reports:—From the Red Lead we have a most encouraging account. From a shaft bottomed yesterday morning close by the fence, on Government ground, it is said that a prospect, with a good depth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The mining manager of Jeffree and Gellard's G.M.Co., under date of 5th July, reports the yield of the 16 tons of seconds to be 94oz 13dwt retorted gold. They had not time to retort the silver, but will do so on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have been favoured with the por[?]sal of a printed pro[?]pectus headed as above, and marked, "Private and Confidential." The Directors and Trustees of this proposed Company are thus set forth:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE week has opened with a great scarcity of buyers as compared with the number of sellers of mining shares. Gold stocks were particularly dull, and Carroll Beards the most firm of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Your telegram from Newcastle, a few days since, stating that a large vessel had been compelled to sail in ballast for Son Francisco, in consequence of being unable to load with coals, must have struck almost every one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following is the mining manager's report of the Williams' G.M. Co, for the week ending on 5th instant: —200 feet lovel; Stopes Nos 1 and 2 are being continued on as usual; the thickness of the lode being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE business done in the Share Market to day was quite trifling. In coal nothing, and in copper only Peak Downs at 24s. 6d. to 24s. Gold also difficult to quit; Beyers and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SUPPLEMENT to the Government Gazette, published yesterday contains the following proclamation by his Excollency the Governor:— " In pursuance of the provisions of the Gold-fields Act…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AS there has been a great outcry respecting the want of proper facilities for loading vessels coming to the port of Newcastle, the following information respecting the capabilities of the coal staiths at that port, as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE can say very little about the Share market to-day, except that it was excessively dull and quotations lower. There was a little inquiry for Peak Downs Copper, which was readily met…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TREATISES and reports on scientific subjects, when read to a Melbourne audience, are usually observed to have a sedative, not to say a somniferous, tendency. It would seem to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FOR many years previous to their discovery, quartz reefs were believed to exist adjacent to Sandy Creek; but notwithstanding this belief, and the many rich specimens constantly exposed during sluicing operations in…
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