Mining Items
Crushings at Charters Towers are reported in the COOKTOWN HERALD of June 30 as follows:—Venus Machine: 1000 tons, St. Patrick's Block, 2346oz 2d wt 12gr; 20 tons, Clara, p.c., 176oz; machine…
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Investigations of Mining in California
MR. G. Thureau, who went from Victoria to California for the purpose of obtaining information on mining subjects, for the Sandhurst School of Mines, has forwarded the following notes of his researches:—…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Palmer River Goldfield. (From Our Correspondent.) Maytown, July 2
WEATHER here continues very dry; only a few light showers have fallen since March, though at Cooktown and vicinity during past month they have had very heavy rain. Continuous dry weather at this…
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A thanksgiving service was held on April 23, in the Independent Chapel of Chapel at Cymmer, Wales, for the deliverance of the five miners who were entombed in the Tynewydd colliery. A congregation of 1500…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country and Mining News. PARRAMATTA July 23
HOSPITAL BAZAAR.—A movement is now being started by several ladies and gentlemen of our town to raise funds for the Parramatta Hospital by having a fancy bazaar, and there it no doubt of its success, provided no obstacle is thrown in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Outrage on the Northern Gold Fields. COOKTOWN, Tuesday, 9.44 a.m
The fooling at the great insecurity to life on the northern goldfields continues to spread and this morning news has been received of another act of daring and crime, within a short distance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Mining Accident at the Kumara, N.Z. Four, Men Buried Alive
A SERIOUS mining accident occurred on the Kumars lead on the 8th instant. Four men have been buried through the ground caving in. The claim was being worked by Cooney, Kelly, Killey and Quinlivan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Palmer Stiver Goldfield. Maytown, July 2
WEATHER here continues very dry; only a few light showers have fallen since March, though at Cooktown ana vicinity during past month heavy rain very. Continuous dry weather at this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important Mining Discovery in Victoria. Beech Worth, Thursday, 10.14 a.m
[?] mining discovery is reported here as having been made at Sandy Creek. A quantity of gold has been found in a granite dyke, and it appears that the lend is permanent…
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Some most satisfactory results have been obtained from mining in the gold claims at Hill End, and business there is decidedly brisker. Beyers and Holtermann's crushing of 926 oz. from 112 tons of stone was a most unexpected result…
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A fall of coal occurred in the pit of Roche-ia-Moliere, near Saint-Etienne (Loire), on the 8th instant, by which three workmen, Brossard, and the two brothers Peyron, were cut off from all…
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The following letter has been addressed to the Melbourne ARGUS by Mr. A. M' Ausland, from Tuena, near Goulburn:â"Sir,âI trust you will excuse my troubling you, as being a New South Wales man it…
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THE first ordinary general meeting of the above company was held at the head-office, Watt-street, on Tuesday forenoon. There was a good attendance, and D[?] Richard Harris, chairman of directors, presided. The advetisement…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mines Ato Mining. Mining Warden's Report. (From the Annual Report of the Department of Mines, N. S. W. Lachlan District. (Mr. Warden Dalton, P.M., Forbes.) (Continued.) Emu Creek and Tyagong Goldfields
DURING my visit to the Emu Creek Goldfield, in April last, knowing that the working shaft, situated upon the quartz workings held by the Grenfell Consols Company, on O'Brien's Hill, had been sunk to a…
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NORTH Williams G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports for the fortnight ending July 21 as follows:—"Shaft has been completed to 700 feet from surface, and the drive south at 690 feet commenced, and 15 feet driven by contract…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Signals for Mines
Some time ago the Government offered a reward of £100 for the best apparatus for signalling in mines, and they appointed a Board to examine and determine the merits of the various inventions that might be submitted. The…
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The "Star of Peace" claim, Hill End, has cut first-class stone in the hanging: wall vein at a depth of 690 feet, nine inches thick. The depth of this find will be of great importance to the Hill should it prove…
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AT the half-yearly meeting, held on Thursday in the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. M. Metcalfe in the chair, the following report was read, and adopted unanimously:— The directors have pleasure in submitting the following report…
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Mr. W. H. J. Stee, Inspector of Mines, reports [?]llows to the Government this afternoon:—"The Start of Peace, Hawkins' Hill, have struck payable gold at a depth of 690 feet. the vein is Sin thick."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mount Perry Copper Mining Company
HALF-YEARLY report to be presented to the general meeting of shareholders on Monday, 30th July:— The directors of the Mount Perry Copper Mining Company (Limited) in submitting to shareholders their twelfth half-yearly…
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