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Mining & the mines, 1885

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Silver Star Mine, Sunny Corner

Evening News · Friday 28 August 1885 · page 3

Messrs. Gresley Lukin and Co. have advices from the Silver Star Mine, Sunny Corner silverfield, as follows :—Daring the fortnight the tunnel has been extended 26ft, making the total length of the tonne…

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Mining News. Poet Darwin Silver Ore

Evening News · Friday 28 August 1885 · page 6

Those who take an interest in the future of the rapidly developing silver mines of Australia will, doubtless, recollect recent references in our columns to the alleged extraordinary find of silver at Port…

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Great Wentworth Palls Coal and Shale Mining Company

Evening News · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 6

Mr. John H. Mulbolland, of Waterloo-chambers, 458, George-street, Sydney, reports that the original owners of this property, comprising 640 acres of coal and shale land, situated in the parish of Jamieson…

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The Great Wentworth Falls Coal and Shale Mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 8

Mr. John H. Mulholland, of Waterloo-chambers. 458 George-street, Sydney, reports that the original owners of the above property, comprising 640 acres of coal and shale land situate in the…

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Mining Litigation

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 448

Strange though it may seem, it is nevertheless a lact that mining in Australia cannot be carried on without litigation. Each field which is opened produces its crop of rich cases to be harvested by the members of…

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Discovert of Coal at Bowen

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 13

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A third seam pf coal, 5ft thick, has been cut at Bowen by the drill. The coal is of a good marketable quality…

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Coal Strike at'Wollongong. WOLLONGONG

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 13

The dispute between the miners and masters of Mount Kembla Colliery still continues. Dr. Robertson, managing director of the company, arrived from Sydney on Thursday, and inthe evening, through…

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Latest Mining News. Silverton Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 13

SILVERTON, Thursday.—The Day Dream smelter is running' satisfactorily, and refining has begun Mr. Weldon.calculates that the bullion on hand for a twelve days' run—36 tons—contains over half a ton…

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Sunny Corner Shyer Mining Co

Evening News · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 6

The manager reports that during the fortnight ended 22ad instant, fire furnaces were continuously in blast, reducing 1409 tons of ore, averaging 40oz of silver per ton…

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Mining Notes. a Visit to Sunny Corner

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 19

I HAD heard and read so much of silver-mining in America, and had been so accustomed to hearing our own industries deprecated hy those who hail from the Old and New Worlds, that I gladly made one of a party to "take in"…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 24

M'PHERSON RANGES.—Via Lismore, Richmond River, it was reported early in the week, and afterwards contradicted, that a prospector named Green is in that town with specimens of quartz…

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Mining News. English and Australian Copper Co. (By Cable)

Evening News · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 6

LONDON, August 28.—The directors of the English and Australian Copper Company having considered the question of tranferring their smelting works from Port Adelaide to Newcastle, where greater…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Mount M'donald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 14

The other share in the Balmoral tribute changed hands last night for the same price as the first, viz.: £350. A crushing of 32 tons of this stone finished up yesterday for 68oz. of gold…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.) Special to CORRESPONDENTS.—We are now revising the lists of country correspondents, and ask that all letters sent bear the name in full of each ALBURY. August 25

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 15

DALLET THE GREAT has spoken, and although he did not touch on subjects that would have been more than particularly interesting to a border township, yet on the whole his explanation of the past, present,…

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Great Wentworth Falls Coal and Shale Mining Company

Evening News · Monday 31 August 1885 · page 6

Mr. John H. Mulholland, of Waterloo-chambers, 458, George-street, Sydney, reports that the original; owners of this property, comprising 640 acres of coal and shale land, situated in the parish of Jamieson,…

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Conference of Miners

Evening News · Monday 31 August 1885 · page 6

A national conference of miners, attended by delegates representing 152,000 men, was opened in Manchester on July 8. The principal subject for discussion was the state of wages…

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Dynamite in Mines

Evening News · Monday 31 August 1885 · page 6

Mr. E. Bloomfield Rees concluded in Sandhurst, last week, a series of experiments made at the request of the Noxious Fames Board, with regard to the fumes arising from the use of dynamite in mines…

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The Strike at the Mount Kembla Colliery. Meeting of Miners. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 August 1885 · page 8

For some day's past it had been notified that a mass meeting of miners would take place to-day to express sympathy with and to render support to the Mount Kembla miners. The men on strike, numbering about 180, marched into the…

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Sunny Corner Silver Mining Co

Evening News · Monday 31 August 1885 · page 6

The manager reports that during the fortnight ended 22nd instant, fire furnaces were continuously in blast, reducing 1409 tons of ore, averaging 40oz of silver per ton…

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Mining News. English and Australian Copper Co. (By Cable)

Evening News · Monday 31 August 1885 · page 6

LONDON, August 28.—The directors of the English and Australian Copper Company having considered the question of tranferring their smelting works from Port Adelaide to Newcastle, where greater…

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