Mining Items
A telegram from Cooktown, dated October 31, says— The Victoria, steamer, left for sydney this afternoon with 11,000 ounces of gold. Four crushing machines left to-day for the Palmer and Hodgkinson…
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A Bin for Coal
AN unfortunately too common manner of keeping fuel, whether coal or wood, is to have it in a pile out of doors, and unsheltered. To allow such an indispensable article for household use and comfort to lie about exposed in either…
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A PUBLIC trial of several sizes of Clarke's patent pulsometer pump taok place at Duke's Dook, Melbourne, in the presence of a number of gentlemen, amongst whom were several well-known mining managers. The pump,…
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THE Royal Commission which was appointed early in last year to inquire into "the spontaneous combustion of coat in ships, and the causes and remedios thereof," held its sittings under the presidency of Mr. Childers,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Country and Mining News. Rylstone, November 7
HORSE STEALING on saturday october a in [?] of the name of Thomas Washburne was brought before the Rylston bench of magistrates, charged with the above offence. It appears that Washburne, who is [?] in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country and Mining News. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Rylstone. November 7
HORSE-STEALING— On Saturday, October 28, a man of the name of Thomas Washburne was brought before the Rylston bench of magistrates, charged with the above offence. It appears that Washburne, who is a stranger in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Brookong Goldfield
Telegram from Mining Registrar at [?] to Under Secretary for Mines, Sydney, 9th November, 1876:-" Brookong goldfield likely to be fairly re[?]rative. Prospector's claim at one hundred and two feet, fourteen penny weights to load, about three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Has Demand for Coal Really Fallen Off, and Price of Coal in Sydney Harbour. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In the extracts and comments on the Statistical Regaister of 1875, in your issue of October 25, under the heading "Coal," you state that there is a decrease of 51,092 tons of coal in the total outout of the mines of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Discovery of Coal in [?]. I
A discovery has teen made of a very valuable seam of coal at Coleraine, where a shaft has been [?]on private land to a depth of 50ft. The report [?] to the [?] Department. staten that a bed of lignite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Reports
NORTH Williams G. M. Co.—The mine manager reports, on November 13, as follows:—"420-feet Lovel; South stopee at top workings have been finished. The lode in north drive in stapes is to-day a little thinner, averaging…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Summary
[?] There is very little to report in mining matter, except with regard to gold, the pursuit of which metal is being assiduously carried on in the various auriferous districts, and gold-fields, and is being attended with considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Price of Coal in Sydney Harbour. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—I beg you will allow me a small space in your journal in reply to Mr. Bigga[?]'s letter appearing in your issue of 15th instant. He states that "Southern Coal is delivered into the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Goldfield at Urana. Urana, November 10,1876, [Report concerning the newly discovered Goldfield at Brooking Run parish of Burth[?]rwa]
"To the U[?]nder-Secretary, Department of Mines,-"I visited the Brookong gold diggings on the 8th instant. The ground is situated about 3 1/2 miles from the Round Swamp, in a north-easterly direction, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines and Mining. Mining in Japan
VERY little is known about the origin of mining in Japan; It is, however,a fact that several-mines were being worked during the latter part of the eighth century (Japanese period Dia-Do); and the large number…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The New Gold-field at Brookong
WE have been favoured by the Minister for Mines with the following report respecting the discovery of a new gold-field at Brookong:— "Urana, November 10, 1876…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Items
The Magpie quartz ranges, in the neighbourhood of Beechworth, appear to be turning out gold in payable quantities at last. The local paper says that large quantities of all round stone gives a return of 8dwt to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Newcastle Mining Affairs
In a recent issue we stated that a rumour was current that the Waratah Coal Company contemplated giving notice of their intention to withdraw from the Northern Coal Sales Association. This notice was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Trade for 1875
THE report of the Department of Mines for 1875, and the Statistical Register for the same year, agreed in representing that the quantity of coal raised had shown a decrease of 51,000 tons. This unsatisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 656 →British Mining Statistics for 1875
The reports to the Home Office of the inspectors of mines throughout the United Kingdom for the years 1874 and 1875 have just been issued. They are divided into two sections, those which deal with the mines classed under the…
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