Electric Light in Mines
The ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, one of the leading American scientific journals, said:— The electric light has now been in use in a considerable number of mines in Europe long enough to…
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Mining Accident
BATHURST, Friday.--On Wednesday, a fall of earth occurred at the Sunny Corner mine, by which two men were seriously injured. A miner named Farrington and his mate were buried, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dromedary Gold Mikes
On the journey from Moruya to Bega, the Dromedary Mountain gold mines may he visited. Here the crushing plant is seen worked solely by water-power, tho water being brought a distance…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Great Northern Coal Co
In our advertising columns, to-day, appears a diagram showing a marvellous seam of coal, discovered in the Great Northern Coal Co.'s property. In the Sydney Exchange ia a full-sized diagram of this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kurilla Mine, S.a
Operations on this property, which have been suspended for months, have been resumed, Mr. J. Anthony and Captain W. Mitchell having taken the responsibility of working the mine for a time until…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Temperature in Mines, &c.—I
Kindly allow me to reply to the strictures of Mr. Knoblanche on. my letter having reference to the above subject, of which other engagements have prevented an earlier notice. Passing by the…
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CARCOAR, Thursday.—It is reported that Rowe and party, of Gully Swamp, have struck a vein on their leased land, which is the best yet discovered in that locality…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MINING. Credulity of Speculators
When Mr. Kerry produced his specimen of golden quartz recently in Melbourne, and stated that he with his little hatchet had knocked it off a body of stone in one of the gullies of New Guinea, he found dozens of…
Continued on Trove, page 189 →South Australian Copper Mining
A prospectus of a new company has been submitted to the British shareholders to purchase and take over from the liquidator as a going concern, the whole of the assets arid liabilities of the Corporation…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Miner. The Sunny Corner Mines.—III
The situation of Mitchell, better known as " Sunny Corner," at the head of Daylight Creek, has already been described. Its origin is known, but the nature and extent of its development are matters of colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Gold Discoveries in the Kimberley District
The report of the Government Geoligist of Western Australia, which has come to hand, contains the following reference to his discoveries of auriferous country in the Kimberley district, to which a rush…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Lock-out of Coal Trimmers. NEWCASTLE
Messrs. Russell and Co. have locked out the coal trimmers belonging to the recently-formed Union. It appears that on Monday morning they found that out of six vessels being "trimmed"…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining in New South Wales
THE Department of Mines—nominally under the management of the Minister, but really under that of the painstaking and zealous Undersecretary, Mr. Harrie Wood—has shown a[?]desire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining News. Prospecting Near Gundagai
GUNDAGAI, Saturday.—All the shares in the prospecting company formed by Kieran and Slattery for the purpose of testing the quartz reefs at Mount Parnassus have been taken up, and work will be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest Mining News. Victorian Items
STAWELL.—News has been received here of a rush which has set in at Miamia Flat, about five miles west of the town. Prospects of 10dwt have been washed to the dish, and a number of shafts, are now going…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mount Brown Goldfield. The Under-Secretary of Mines has received the- following report from Mr. Warden King:— Milparinka, July 2, 1885
" Sir,—I have the honor to report that during, the past month another party at Mount Brown has struck water at a depth of 210ft, and being unable to overcome it, and having exhausted their means, have…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Coal Trimmer's Dispute at Newcastle. Newcastle
The coal trimmers' dispute begins to assume a serious aspect. It appears that a number of non-union men went on board a vessel yesterday morning and commenced trimming her, at which action the members of the union took up the…
Continued on Trove, page 192 →Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.)
SPECIAL TO CORRESPODENTS.—We are now revising the lists of country correspondents, and ask that all letters sent bear the name in full of each correspondent. The signature is for editorial guidance only…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →N. S. Wales Returns of Gold and Silver for 1884
The report of the mining department says that in most of the districts the effects of the late drought seriously retarded mining operations during the first half of the year, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Gundagai
The shares in the prospecting company formed by Kieran Slattery for the purpose of testing the quartz reefs at Mount Parnassus have been all taken up, and work will be commenced at once. A number of other miners are prospecting…
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