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Mining & the mines, 1875

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The Proposed Collieries Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1875 · page 7

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr. John Woods, Mr. W. Davies, and Mr. Enoch Davies (representatives of the Northern Colliers' Association), Mr. Stevens, M L.A., and Mr. Cameron, M L A., had an interview with the Hon…

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Goal Miners' Deputation

Evening News · Thursday 18 March 1875 · page 3

The Chairman. Secretary, and Treasurer of the Miners' Protection Society, with Messrs. Camerson and Stevens, M.L.A.'s, waited upon Mr. Lucas, the Minister for mines, yesterday morning, as a deputation from the Newcastle miners…

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Mining Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1875 · page 7

NORTH Williams G. M. Co.—The mining manager sends the following report for fortnight ending 13th instant:— " South drive has been extended to 92 feet from shaft. The lode is 7 inches wide, and carries payable gold…

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Struck Coal!

Sydney Punch · Friday 19 March 1875 · page 4

PAUL PRY (the Modern): WHAT 'S THIS? BURNS GONE TO MELBOURNE! LAMBTON GONE TO MELBOURNE!! CRACKNELL GONE TO MELBOURNE!!! OH, SOMETHING MUST BE UP! THERE 'S MISCHIEF AFOOT! I MUST BE OFF TOO, OR THEY 'LL UPSET ALL. I 'VE BEEN DOING ABOUT THE MAILS, AND PERHAPS, SPOIL MY LITTLE ILLAWARRA COAL MINING GAME! [OFF TO MELBOURNE…

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Coal Miners' Deputation

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 9

THE Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Miners' Protection Society, with Messrs Cameron and Stevena, M.L.A.'s, watted upon Mr. Lucas, the Minister for Mines, on Wednesday morning, as a deputation from the Newcastle miners…

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Chinese Coal Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 26

American writers are urging capitalists to secure an intelsat in the Great Coal Belt in the vicinity of the Yangtze river, which passes through a coal region containing 400,000 square miles. It is…

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The Proposed Collieries Bill

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 371

A deputation, consisting of Mr. John Woods, Mr. W. Davies, and Mr. Enoch. Davies (representatives of the Northern Colliers' Association), Mr. Stevens, M.L.A. ; and Mr. Cameron, M.L.A., had an interview with the Hon…

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Mines and Mining. Dynamite. (From the Mining Journal (London) Nov. 21, 1874.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 17

THE immensely greator power of dynamite as compared with ordinary blasting powder has been so frequently referred to in the Mining Journal that it is unnecessary to repeat it, and it is now generally…

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Mining

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 8

HILL END.—The Times reports :—In Beyers and Holtermann's a gold bearing vein some 6 inches thick has been struck in the cross-cut east at 132 feet, and is being opened out upon…

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Mining Summary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 6

MINING affairs in the colony of New South Wales have been progressing steadily and satisfactorily since the date of our last report, when we announced that the drought, which had…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 18

We have nothing new to record as to local mining operations (says the Gundagai Times.) The claimholders on the old Kangaroo ground are working away, and Elliott and party have about 17 tons to grass, some of the stono…

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The Mining: Department

Evening News · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 4

The whole of the officers in the country districts who are connected with the Mining Department have been instructed to obtain and forward to Sydney specimens of all the minerals in their respective districts,…

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Machine for Saving Gold, Mercury, and Pyrites

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 17

THE Ballarat correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes:—Mr. Hugh Gray, machinist, of D[?]-street, has had the courage to place a model of a machine for saving fine gold, floured mercury, and auriferous…

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Country and Mining News. CAMDEN. Marhc 16

Evening News · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 3

DR. WALKER'S LECTURE.—On Monday night March 8, Dr. Walker delivered a lecture to young men on the expediency of continuing study after leaving school. He showed by his own experience that one is apt, to forget, after a course of…

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British Columbia Goldfields. (From the Home News.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 18

The [?] brigns some [?] intelligence of the gold-fields of British Columbia, with which a good many Australians have been more or less pleasantly and unpleasantly…

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Mining Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 March 1875 · page 5

CARROLL and Beard's G. M. Co.—Under date 17th March, the mining manager reports as follows:—"305-feet level orosscut, eastward; present distance of crosscut, eastward, 86 feet. 500-feet level erosscut, eastward; present distance…

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Mining Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 March 1875 · page 5

GREAT Victoria G. M. Co.—The manager reports receipt of the following telegram from the mine, dated March 19th: "Fifty-three tons of quartz yielded 187 oz, of retorted gold, exclusive of blanketings."…

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The Ohinemure Gold-field—New Zealand

Evening News · Wednesday 24 March 1875 · page 2

THE correspondent of the Auckland WEEKLY HERALD states that about 400 miners were on the ground anxiously awaiting the survey of the boundaries of the field as preliminary to the cessions of it by the natives…

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Mining Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 March 1875 · page 7

PAXTON'S G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports under date 20th March:—"Star of Peace Vein Workings: Stoping at 300, 310, and 320 feet levels, carrying four stopes to north and three to south; 15 tons raised. The stone in…

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Department of Mines, Sydney, 22nd March, 1875. Notice to Applicants for Gold[?] Mining Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1875 · page 6

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Leases have been forwarded to the Wardens of the respective districts named below, for delivery to the Lessees, and unless the Lessees pay the arrears of rent, if any, and tak[?]…

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