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Mining & the mines, 1881

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Mining Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 4

AMRLIA GOLD-MINING Co., TEMORA.—This company has its shaft down 80 feet, and are going through very hard greenstone. This, the mining manager expects, will take them on to the reef, immediately upon which the same…

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Mining Mems

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 9

A QUARTZ reef has been found at Mount Wheeler, near Cawarrol, Queensland. Mining in Tasmania is attracting much attention at the present moment…

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Latest Mining Telegrams

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 11

A payable quartz reef has been found at Mount Wheeler, near Cawarrol. The Bine Peter claim, at Broughton, crushed 260 tons for 734oz…

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Sir John M'donald and the Miners

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 9

LONDON, January, 11.—Sir John A. M'Donald, Premier or Canada, has addressed, a. letter to the miners of Staffordshire, remonstrating with them for…

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Mark Twain on Gold-bearing Springs

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 113

"I have just seen jour despatch from San Francisco, in Saturday's Evening Post, about 'Gold in Solution' in the Galistoga Springs, and about the proprielor having extracted 1000 dollars in gold of the utmost…

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Gympie Mining. One Mile

Evening News · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 4

Two hundred and eighty-one tens of stone, from the North Glanmire Company's mine, yielded 392oz 18dwt of smelted gold. This gave a dividend of 4d per scrip…

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Late Mining. Montreal. January 8

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 101

We are just getting over our interregnum. The holidays only expired on Friday, and the nearly three weeks' spell was taken advantage of on all sides. A few of the claims have done a little this week, Macgregor's, the…

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Mining Items. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 22

GIRILAMBONE COPPER-MINE.—Captain Dunstan has inspected and reported upon this mine, and akthough we poasess no means of access to the report we have every reason to believe that it is very…

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The Minister for Mines and the Pastoral Lessees

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 94

At the recent election (writes "Capricornus," in the Herald), candidates of all shades of opinion and degrees of knowledge concurred in stating that the rents of squattages were much too low, and…

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Mining Notes from Hill End. Hill End

Evening News · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 4

Good gold baa been found in the Crudine Creek, £38 worth of gold haying been produced by Elkin, the prospector, in 10 days. The run of gold appears to go into Mr. Stephen O'Brien's private…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury. January 11

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 January 1881 · page 38

L[?]ROCENCT.—Francis Qainlan was brought up at the local police court on Saturday, charged with larcency as a bailee. Mr. Mutthews, proprietor of the Temperance Hotel, gave evidence to the effect that he had taken the…

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The Coal Miners' Strike Extending—serious Riots. London, January 15

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1881 · page 3

The immense strike among the coal miners of Lancashire is daily becoming more serious. It has now extended all over the mining districts. A serious riot has taken place in one of the…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1881 · page 7

The Milburn Creek Copper Mining Co., near Carcoar, is now in full swing, both with their mine and their smelting furnace, under the management of Captain Reynolds. The coal miners' quarterly delegate meeting was held at…

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No-liability Mining Companies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1881 · page 3

The bill recently introduced by Mr. Terry into the Legisslative Assembly, for the incorporaition of no-liability mining companies, is substantially the same as the measure introduced by that gentleman with the same object during…

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Milburn Creek Copper Mining Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1881 · page 3

A series of papers and correspondence in reference to a claim of the Milburn Cr[?]k Copper Mining Company has just been printed and laid before Parliament. It appears that the Secretary for Mines (Mr. E. A. Baker) being…

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The Berrima Coal Mine

Evening News · Thursday 20 January 1881 · page 2

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. W. Davies, Myers, and Wilshire, waited on the Secretary for Public Works this morning, to lay before him the advantages likely to accrue should the Government…

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Colliery Riots

Evening News · Thursday 20 January 1881 · page 2

LONDON, January 18.-Serious riots have occurred at Wigan…

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Mining Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 January 1881 · page 4

UNION JACK G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports: —"Good progress is being made with the works at the mine. During the past week the main shaft has been sunk a further depth of twelve feet, making 125 feet feom the…

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Great Loss of Life by an Explosion in a Wales Colliery

Evening News · Thursday 20 January 1881 · page 3

Cardiff, December 10.-A great explosion occurred this morning at Penny Graig, a new colliery in the Rhonda Valley. It is believed that 87 persons perished. An exploring party discovered…

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Gympie Mining. One Mile

Evening News · Thursday 20 January 1881 · page 2

The first trial crushing of 80 tons of stone from, the North Columbia Co.'s mine yielded 88oz l0dwt of retorted gold…

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