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Mining & the mines, 1880

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The Miners Difficulty at Newcastle. [By Electric Telegraph.] Newcastle

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 November 1880 · page 5

An important meeting the Borehole miners was held at Ha[?] to-day to discuss the situation since they have been locked out for knocking off work and attending the…

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The Lockout at the A. A. Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 November 1880 · page 5

In consequence of the lockout at the A. A. Company's colliery yesterday the miners mustered at Williams's Hotel, Hamilton, this morning, and held a meeting on the subject. Nearly all the miners belonging…

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Late Mining. the Phoenix Smelting and Pyrites Works, Greenwich

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1880 · page 994

These works, which are now in course of completion on the Parramatta River, we learn are intended to afford an opportunity for miners and others engaged in mining pursuits to practically test the value of pyrites and mundic…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury. November 17

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1880 · page 38

BEEACH OF THE SHEEP ACT.—James Bell a farmer, residing in the neighbourhood of Wagra, was summoned by the Inspector of Stock, on Friday last, to the local police Court for a breack of the Sheep Act, in mustering sheep…

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Sketches in and Around Temora Goldfield

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1880 · page 24

A Golden [?]olo at Lower Tem[?] 2. The Main Street Lower Temora, 3. Premonitory Symtoms of "Yellow Fever." 4. One of the Public Institutions. 5. The First Police Station The Look-up. 6. The Union Mission Church…

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Sketches in and Around Temora Goldfield

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1880 · page 12

SINCE the star of the richness of Gulgong reached its zenith, gradually dimmed its brightness, and finally set be[?]eath the horizon of the past, there has been no such discovery of gold in New South Wales…

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The Novelist. the Miner's Right. a Tale of the Australian Goldfields, by Rolf Boldrewood. Chapter Xl

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1880 · page 30

All the" county people," who are just as much a caste sacredly set apart in Australia as in any other place, called upon Mr. end Miss Allerton with prompt cordiality. After a few days,…

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A New Goldfield. [By Electric Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Temora

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1880 · page 16

A GREAT rush has taken place to Green's Flat, on the Bethungra-road, 20 miles from Temora. There is a splendid road all the way. Harry Love, of the prospectors' party, reports having…

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Mining Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 November 1880 · page 4

The manager of the New Caledonian Reef, Temora, reports by telegraph:—"Struck reef, 72 feet; rich."…

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Mining News

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 November 1880 · page 3

Suburban Gold and Diamond Company (Limited). --The mining manager reports having lodged in the Commercial Bank, Queanbeyan, 22oz. 2dwt. retorted gold, being yield from 32 tons crashed…

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The Industries of the Colony. (By Our Special Reporter.) Xxiv. the Copeland Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 November 1880 · page 9

Six miles from Gloucester, a small township in the Port Stephen district, situated on the Australian Agricultural Company's grant of nearly half a million [?]cres, are the river and township of Barrington, from…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Evening News · Thursday 25 November 1880 · page 3

San Francisco, Cal., September 17.—A despatch from Virginia City says: "An accident at the Consolidated Imperial mine last night resulted in the death of nine men, and one other…

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English and Foreign Extracts. Gold in Sea Water

Evening News · Thursday 25 November 1880 · page 3

Gold, said Professor Egleton the other day at the New York Academy of Science, has hitherto been considered by chemists as one of the most insoluble substances in nature, but in reality it is…

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Hunter Coal-mining District. NOVEMBER 23

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 1022

Early on Saturday evening last whilst Mr. John Stoker, hotel keeper at Lambton, and his family, were attending to business, some one went up stairs and turned out all the drawers and scattered their contents about the rooms, but…

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Mining. Discovery of Gold in Victoria

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 10

THE following letter, in reference to the first discoveries of gold in Victoria, has been forwarded to the Chief Secretary :—"Tarnagulla, November 6, 1880. To the Hon. Graham Berry…

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Mines and Mining. Coalfields of New South Wales. VI

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 22

HE late Mr. W. Keene, F.G.S., Examiner of Coalfields, just after his arrival in the colony, and his first examination of the eastorn coalfield, wrote:—"The coal is a true coal, not lignite, or a deposit of the…

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Late Mining. Weekly Return of Gold, Copper, and Tin

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 1047

The gold received for coinage at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint daring the week ending November 25 was 1346-21 oz. The coin issued during the same period amounted to 20,000 sovereigns…

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Gold-field's Recollections. No. 10

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 17

ALTHOUGH what I am telling will be quite as much "recollections" to many of my readers as to myself, there are other many who had no opportunity of seeing the early management of…

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Mining Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 1031

A correspondent of the Tamicorth News reports to that journal that the reefs at Hanging Rock are yielding extraordinary rich patches. Mr. Joe Clark of the "Black Snake" p.c. obtained 60 oz. of gold, by his own labour,…

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Mining Mems

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 10

THE escort left Charters Towers on Thursday last with 6653oz. 12gr. of gold. THE export of coal from Newcastle last week amounted to 18,536 tons…

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