Coal Lumpers' Union
A special meeting of the Sydney Coal Lumpers' Union was held in the Lord Nelson Hotel, Miller's Point, on Tuesday night. Mr. Johnson occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance of…
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Mining Intelligence
Lumpy Lead Gold-mining Company, Limited, Forest Beefs.--The mining manager, under date 25th instant, reports:--"The level east was driven 13 feet and struck the reef, total from jump-up 64 feet. It…
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The seventh half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the New Mount Hope Copper Mining Co. (limited) was held on Thursday. The directors submitted following report:—The total quantity of fine copper…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—The Government Geologist and Inspector of Mines has been engaged for the past fortnight in examining the various mines in Gympie, with a view to selecting the claims to receive…
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Messrs. Lynch and party have brought into town [?] of gold weighing 55oz. 4dwt. from The Women's [?] Mount M'Donald. Messrs. Cro[?] Brother [?] town to-day a parcel of gold weighing [?] [?]…
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Recently the Minister of Mines received a telegram from Wilcannia, inquiring whether there was a reward for payable gold obtained at Mount Browne at a greater depth than 150ft…
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The total value of the minerals raised in the colony during last year was £3,003,831. Of this amount no less a sum than £1,303,077 was derived from coal, of which the output was 2,749,109 tons. No pages of…
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On Saturday Mr. Melville visited his electorate and was accompanied by Mr. Farnell, the Minister of Lands, who availed himself of the opportunity to revisit the commonage—an area of reserved land…
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The directors report of the Maryville Colliery Company was adopted at a meeting of the shareholders on Friday. The company appears to be steadily progressing, though still in its infancy. An output of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Silverton Mines
We quote the following from the Silver Age of July 18:—"After an anxious fortnight of very trying work, Mr. Fitzgerald Moore, mining engineer to the Pinnacles Company, has been reluctantly forced to suspend smelting…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— The diamond drill party at Cape Patterson reports having penetrated a seam of coal 1ft 11in thick, evidently the same seam as that which was met with in the previous bore…
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A COMPANY has been formed for the purpose of testing quartz reefs at Mount Parnassus, all the shares of which have been taken up, and work has commenced. THE result of the recent clearing up at the New Era…
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The manager of the Sunny Corner Silver-mining Company, Limited, reports under date 28th instant, that five smelters are now at work reducing at the rate of 100 tons of ore a day; a sixth furnaco is approaching completion, and, a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Temperature in Mines, &c.—II
Some Continental geologists, conspicuous amongst whom were, two French engineers, Ilelesse and Daubree, some, few years ago carried out a series of synthetical inquiries into the…
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BRISBANE,Thursday. —Splendid specimens of quartz were exhibited on Wednesday in Townsville from the Try-no-more claim, in Etheridge. Gold shows right through the stone, which will give…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday.—There is great disagreement among the members of the A.A. Miners Mutual Benefit Society on the subject of their medical attendant. At a meeting on Wednesday night, Mr…
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A cablegram has been received from the German Government Smelting Works at Friburg, advising the gross result of ten tons of ore ex the Pekin as being about £600…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mining News. Silverton Items
The Broken Hill Prospecting Company held its first meeting in Silverton on July 16, when it was reported that the whole of the shares had been allotted. The mining manager read a report of the…
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Reports received from the mining manager of the Basaltic Gold-mining Co., show that for the week ended July 25, the shaft has been sunk and timbered a farther depth of 8ft, making a total depth of 108ft…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News from the Colonial Goldfields. (The latest information concerning mining shares will be found in our Telegraphic and Commercial Reports.) New South Wales
GALLY SWAMP.—A correspondent states that the report of curshing in our issue of July 18, of 7 tons of stone which yielded 18oz gold, referred to a crushing from Rowe and Co.'s leased land. That land, he…
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