Mining Reports
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 August 1876 · page 6
NORTH Williams G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports under date of 31st July:—"420-feet level: At the rise, a little mundic is showing in the middle of the large body of stone, this will be followed. and I trust may lead, to a…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 August 1876 · page 6
AT the half-yearly meeting of the Star of Peace G. M. Co., held yesterday, the report was adopted. Mr. B. Molyneaux and Dr. Brereton were elected directois, and the…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 175
ON Tuesday evening, in the Legislative Assemby, Mr. Hurley, member for Hartley, asked the Minister for Mines the number of applicants who have applied for permission to mine for coal within a radius of twelve miles of Sydney…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 3
A DEPUTATION of coal miners, consisting of secretary of the Mines' Association; Mr. W. Davies, chairman of the Miners Association; Mr. Enoch Davies, treasurer of the the Miners Association; Mr. Thomas Price, from the A. A…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 3
NOTICE is hereby given that the sums undermentioned will be [?]aid to the persons who shall within twelve months from the date hereof discover and make known to the Minister for Mines the discovery of a new gold-field, as hereunder…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 19
During the past week a nugget of gold weighing six ounces has been purchased by the Oriental Bank, Braidwood. This interesting stranger was brought to light at Little River…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Mines and Mining. a New Use for Tin. (From the Royal Cornwall Gazette of —9th April.)
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 18
THIS tin share market is influenced by the price of metal, and that appears to be stationary, and not likely soon to advance unless the ma-hinists use the Manganese Bronze, which consists of 88 per cent of copper…
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The Protestant Standard · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 8
FOR some time past a correspondence has been carried on in the columns of the Sydney Morning Herald, relative to the depth at which workable seams of coal…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 7
SCHEDULE of APPlications under 28th section Mining Act,1874, for permission to mine under streets and reserves within a radius of 12 miles of Sydney:J.S.Gordon-Reserves. Botany Bay, Sydney…
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Evening News · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 5
THE twenty-seventh half-yearly meeting of the Peak Downs Copper Mining Company was held on Monday, Benjamin Buchanan, Esq., in the chair, when the directors submitted the following report of the Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Country and Mining News. Manning River. July 29
Evening News · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 2
We have had daring the put fortnight same of the Severest weather ever experienced on the Manning. Rain, accompanied by piercing cold wind, has prevailed during the whole of that time, rendering all out-door employment impassible…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 10
We have had during the past fortnight some of the severest Weather ever experienced on the Manning. Rain, accompanied by plercing cold wind, has prevailed during the whole of that time, rendering all out-door employment impossible…
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Evening News · Monday 7 August 1876 · page 2
A telegram was received in Melbourne from "Wood's Point on Friday last stating that at the Jeriche Police Court on the previous day, in the case against Messrs. Donald M'Calla, Bennett, and John…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 August 1876 · page 6
THE abjourned half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Vale of [?]ydd Coal Mining Company was held on Monday at the company's office, Bank-chambers, when the directors' report and balance-sheet was [?] and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 August 1876 · page 6
SIR,—As promised in my letter, vide the Herald of the 19th June a[?]d 12th July. [?] submit the following estimate of the cost of working coal from a colliery on the shores of Port Jackson. Assuming (1) the shaft to be 1800 feet deep,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1876 · page 5
BEYERS and Holtermann's Co.—The general meeting of shareholders was held yesterday, when the report and balance-sheet were adopted. The company had in hand on 30th June the sum of £2263 l5s. 5d…
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Evening News · Friday 11 August 1876 · page 2
The Newcastle Pilot reports on good authority, that a payable seam of coal hat been made on land formerly leased by Mr. C. J. Stevens, at the rear of the Stockton Tin Works; and subsequently transferred to…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1876 · page 3
SIR,—If any proofs were wanted to show the difficulties attending mining legislation, there must have been ample evidence of it on Thursday night, when Mr. Lucas introduced to the Assembly a short bill of one clause to amend…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1876 · page 5
SIR.—Will you kindly allow me to say that "4s. per ton," in the l0th line of my letter in to-day's Herald, should have been "4s. 6d. per ton." By adding the items together it will be seen there was an omission…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1876 · page 3
SIR,—The short amending bill of the Mining Act of 1874 introduced by the Minister for Mines caused an amusing discussion in the Legislative Assembly on last Thursday evening, and as on that occasion Mr. Farnell, an…
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