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JUDGING from the reports that have reached us from time to time during the past year, we have reason to believe that our mineral products for 1876 will show a conaiderable decrease as compared…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →STAR of Peace G. M. Co.—Under date 21st February, the mining manager reports as follows:—"The present depth of the main shaft is 648 feet; the vein has been taken down this morning, which is fully 7 inches wide in the north end,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A VISIT to the Snowball Copper Mine is rather lengthily narrated in the Gundagai Times, of the 10th February from which we take the following:— "Snowball is situated on the south side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →We are advised by our telegraphic correspondent at Warwick, to recommend the miners of New South Wales to be extremely cautious before they join in the rush recently set in for the supposed payable…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Clutha and Tokomariro Coal Field.-- This field is situated on the sea cost from the Clutha to a little beyond the Tokomairiro River, and is distant from Dunedin between 40 and 60 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Between eight and nine o'clock one of those shocking colliery explosions, which are unfortunately at this time of the year too frequent, occurred at Abertillery, Monmouthshire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →A BILL is now before the Legislative Assembly "to incorporate No-liability Mining Companies," in which the interest of miners and of those who desire to invest money in mining enterprise is much…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The weather continues dry end hot. The country looks very patched, and should rain not come shortly the remits will be very serious. The Progress Committee held their third quarterly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FRUIT GROWERS MEETING.—On Saturday afternoon tue fruit growers of the County of Cumberland held their first annual meeting at the School of Arts. The name of the society is known by "The flying fox destroying association"…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A VISIT to the Snowball Copper Mine is rather lengthily narrated in the Gundagai Tiwiss, of the 10th February, from which we take the following:— "Snowball is situated on the south side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This ban notion brought by A. J. Hogg and Co, of Hong Kong, against the Bulli Coal Company, to recovered £1200 for monies doe for work and labour performance in carrying coals to Hong Song. The defence is that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE report of the Vegetable Creek Tin Mining Co. for the past half-year states that 309 tons 14 cwt. of ore was dispatched from the mine during the six month's, and'23 tons l8 cwt. remained on hand. The cash in hand on 30th…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following is the latest official report of Mr. W. M. Mowbray, dated Thornborough. February 5, 1877, to the Minister for Mines, Brisbane:—"Sir,—I have the honour to submit by report on the progress of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE WEATHER, & C.- Since my last communication I am happy to say we have has a most blessed change in the weather. On friday, the 23rd, wer were cisited at about 5 o'clock, p.m. with a most delicious thunder shower. For…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I have been prospecting for the past two years in New South Wales and this colony. I have prospected a distance of 800 miles from Gulgong to this place; I have been in this locality for nearly six…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE PALMER.—The alluvial on this field has hold out better than was generally anticipated of it, but the Chireso are arriving in increasing numbers, some 1400 having landed at Cook town…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE following is the latest official report of Mr. W. M. Mowbray, dated Thornborough, February 5, 1877, to the Minister for Mines, Brisbane:—"Sir,—I have the honour to submit my report on the progress of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Twenty years ago the deepest mining shafts in the world reached only about 2000 feet below the surface. The very deepest, we believe, was a metalliferous mine in Hanover, which bud been curried down to a depth of 2290 feet. The…
Continued on Trove, page 269 →Dr. Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the Polytechnic Institution of Vienna, when a member of the Austrian Novara Expedition, made a geological…
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