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Mining & the mines, 1884

2,053 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 103

News from the Colonial Goldfields. (The latest Information concerning mining shares will be found in our Telegraphic and Commercial Reports.) New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 24

BORDER MINES.—Telegrams from Albury report that the shaft of the Bordor Town Alluvial Co. has been bottomed at a depth of 107ft, on 3ft of washdirt, which is estimated to yield 8dwt to the lead…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Carcoar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 13

The monthly escort to day look 1100oz. of gold, which includes 320oz. from Brown's Creek. The legal manager of the North Whohawp mine. Ballarat, wires that yesterday Speedy and party nugge[?]ed 50oz…

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Country and Mining News. [From Our Correspndents.] Armidale. June 7

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 41

We have gat fairly into June and still had scarcely any weather that can be called wintry. The trotte set in for about a week and then gave way again to easterly, cloudy, drizzing weather. For enjoyment, of course, the grand…

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Casualties at a Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 June 1884 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Two accidents occurred at the Co-operative Colliery, Wallsend, on Saturday. A miner named Richard Hood was crashed severely by a fail of coal, aud had one of his legs…

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The New Gold Coin

Evening News · Monday 16 June 1884 · page 5

Our correspondent writes from London, May 9:—Before you receive this it is hoped that the cable will convey the intelligence of the defeat of Mr. Childers's proposal to debase the gold coinage with a…

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Mining Managers' Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 June 1884 · page 2

Basaltic Gold Company.--7th June--"The tunnel has been driven a total distance of 311ft up to date; an air shaft has been completed at a depth of 55ft, which now ensures a good current of air, and…

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Mining News Nymagee Items. Nymegee

Evening News · Monday 16 June 1884 · page 5

The output for the week ended June 14 was 236 tons ore smelted, producing 50 tons of fine copper, 40 tons of refined; despatched, 30 tons. A declaration of a dividend of 2s 6d in this mine has been received…

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Country and Mining News. ARMIDALE. June 7

Evening News · Monday 16 June 1884 · page 6

We have got fairly into June and still had scarcely any weather that can be called wintry. The irosts set in for about a week and then gave way again to easterly, cloudy, drizzling weather. For enjoyment, of course, the grand,…

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Mining under Buildings, Roads, and Streets. 2

Evening News · Monday 16 June 1884 · page 3

Under the Coal Mines Act 1876, it is provided in clause 38 that "Upon the affidavit of any person taken before any justice of the peace or commissioner of the Supreme Court for taking…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Emmaville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 June 1884 · page 6

Berry and party are raising splendid wash, and it is slated that a large sum has been offered for the claim. Flannery and party have two engines going constantly, which are gradually beating the water, and consequently they are…

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Mining Intelligence. Mining Managers' Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1884 · page 6

Jackson's Reef Gold Company, 16th June.--Cleaned 82 tons, yield 38oz. Great Cobar Copper Company, 14th June.--Copper despatched, 47 tons. Output from the ore…

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Fatal Explosion at a Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1884 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--A miner cam d Charles Shaw, working in the [?]e of D[?]nmark mine, Sandhurst, received fat[?] injuries this morning, He was smoking in close p[?]ox mity to a quantity…

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Another Mining Fatality. MELBOURNE

Evening News · Tuesday 17 June 1884 · page 2

A miner named Charles Shaw, working in the Rose of Denmark mine, Sandhurst, yesterday received fatal injuries. He was smoking in close proximity to a quantity of blasting powder, when…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Glen Innes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1884 · page 9

Payable tin has been found by M'Donald and par[?]y 12 miles from Deepwater. PARKES, MONDAY. The Parkes Quartz-crush[?]ng Company have again started…

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Mining Intelligence. Mining Managers' Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 June 1884 · page 2

Red Hill Amalgamated Gold-mining Company Tambaroota, June 14.--Since my report of the [?] we have crushed 44 tone of stone from the No. 1 vein at the 230 feet level for a yield of 93oz 3 lwt…

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A Big Copper Mine

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1884 · page 3

The Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining Company has fallen upon evil days. This great mine, situated on an island in Lake Superior, was the Transatlantic Burra Burra. The original £2 10s shares were for…

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Montezuma Mines. Brisbane

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1884 · page 3

Captain Bennett has left Townsville on his return trip to Melbourne. He reports favourably on the Montezuma and Argentine mines, and expects to be back Boon from Melbourne with capital to begin…

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Brickwood Tin-mining Co., Limited

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1884 · page 3

The mining manager reported on June 14 that he is pushing on the eastern drive, and thinks that the lead is likely to improve when he gets farther ahead. The yield of tin since last report is just under 2 tons…

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Pyrites and Silver Mining. Melbourne

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1884 · page 3

In reply to a communication cent through "the mineral surveyor of South Australia from a South American miner and assayer, inquiring as to the working of pyrites and silver mining, the Victorian…

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Mining News. Tasmanian Items. Hobart

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1884 · page 3

The Mount Victoria Co. has everything ready to start crashing. The Mercury Co. obtained was of amalgam from 40 tons of quartz. The Nightingale crashed 60 tons of stone for [?]of…

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