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RYDAL, Wednesday.—A strike amongst the workmen employed at the Sunny Corner Co.'s Smelting Works is expected to take place next Monday. The company has notified a redaction in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation of working miners waited on the Minister for Mines to-day, to ask that the use of lithofractour in mines should be either totally prohibited or restricted in wet ground, as the fumes were highly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Chancellor of the Exchequer (remarked a London correspondent) has a hard task before him in his preparation of this year's budget. The revenue has lost its wonted elasticity. Toe supplementary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sunny Corner Silver Company have notified to a number of their furnace labourers and refiners their intention of reducing the rate of wages after next Monday, and in consequence there is some probability of a strike. Most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A deputation of working miners waited on the Minister of Mines to ask that the use of lithofracteor in mines should either be totally prohibited or restricted to wet ground, as the fumes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. W. H. Grainier, the inspector of mines for the Sandhurst district, has forwarded to the Victorian Mining Department a report in which he gives the results of some experiments recently made by him…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The mining manager of the Basa[?] Gold-mining Company reports for the week ending 11th April that the tunnel has been driven a further distance of 4 feet, making a total distance of 534 f[?] driven to date. The shaft has also been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious evidence has been afforded of the severe depression which prevails in Cornish mining. The usual shareholders' meeting at Cam Brea, one of the bast known tin mines in England, revealed the fact…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining affairs in the Araluen Valley (says the local Journal) appear to be proceeding happily, and few who have a desire to work are unemployed. Ground which has been abandoned by large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Touching the rumored labor difficulty at the Sunny Corner mine, we are assured that the wages paid to skilled miners at the works are equal to any in New South Wales, and higher than the average in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PAR[?] Wednesday.—A rush has set in twelve miles north of Parkes and about 100 men are on the ground. The red flag has not yet been hoisted. The prospectors have got as much as five grains to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A deputation from the Sydney Chamber of Commerce waitedupon the Colonial Treasurer, on Friday, to request that a portion of the harbor accessible to large vessels should be set apart for the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →In reference to the report, made by Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, Government geologist to the Government respecting my discovery of the occurrence of shoots of minerals in lodes, a copy of which report appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →At Mount M'Donald, Messrs. Woodward and party, tributors on the Woman's Loase, finished a crushing of 24 tons of stone for a yield of 49oz. 12dwt. of gold, and 2 tons of blanketing sanded yielded 6oz., making a total of 55oz…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The hon. secretary of the Stock Exchange reports the following crushing from the Band and Albion Mine, Balarat, vis.:—508 tons for 419oz. gold…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An explosion of gas occurred at 9 o'clock on the night of March 2 at Usworth Colliery, near Newcastle, by which a lamentable loss of life has been caused. The accident occurred in the west pit of the Maudlin seam. It appear that…
Continued on Trove, page 845 →A deputation of working misers waited on the to-day, to Minister for Mines to-day, to ask that the use of lithe- fracture in mines should be either totally prohibited or restricted in wet ground, as the fumes were highly…
Continued on Trove, page 838 →Notwithstanding that twelve mines are at work on the field, including the two at Burnell Creek, matters remain rather quiet, though eight of the mines are on gold. The population is slightly decreasing; but those of the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 814 →PARKES, Thursday.—Several well-known miners [?] here this morning for the new rush. It is situated [?]lve or thirteen miles from Parkes, and five miles from the old Eight-mile. The sinking is from 25ft to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Silver was discovered a few weeks ago ia the same district as the Fern Hill mine; the prospects as to the richness of the layers and their extent are very promising. It is easy to understand what enormous…
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