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A correspondent wrote:—Coal dust is not explosive. I have had much to do with coal dust and shot-firing in gassy mines. I have fired shots where there has been a large quantity of coal dust without any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the past year 84,113 tons of qaartz was crushed on the Gympsie Goldfield for a yield of 86,832 ounces of gold. The dividends paid during the year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since my last communication we Lave been favoured with a splendid fall of rain., which will have a very beneficial influence on the mining as well as the agricultural and pastoral interests. The dams are now all full, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Sariny Corner correspondent says: I sometimes think that speculators imagine this oountry is a failure for silver mining, outside of Sunny Corner and Silver King minos. But what keeps the country…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →SPECTAL.—Correspondents are reqnosted to write on one side of paper only, and to use ink. It is a cruel infliction on editorial eyes and time, and still more cruel to compositors, to place "copy" before them in the form…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →COPELAND.—Since my last report we have had several nice showers of rain, and the batteries have been able to do a little crushing. The Belmore p.c. (Beverage and mates) obtained 80½oz of gold from 24½…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →During the past year good dividend-paying gold claims have continued to attract support; but there has been no speculative mania exhibited in any direction during the year, though one or two short spurts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We should be sorry for the general reader who, if asked what was the best romance that had been published in recent years, failed to unhesitatingly answer that it was without…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Gresley Lukin and Co. have the following report from the manager of the Pinnacle Group Silver-mining Company, Limited, under date 26th ait :--" The continuance of the wet…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pinnacle Group Silver-mining Company, Limited, under date 26th December.—The continuance of the wet weather and the holidays have prevented much work being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MITCHELL, Monday.—The secretary of the Miners' Union reports: At 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon when the change of shifts took place at the Sunny Corner Mine, the mining manager informed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following report, which has recently been furnished to the Government of western Australia, has an important bearing upon the auriferous character of the rocks found in some parts of that colony:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRAIDWOOD, Saturday.—The monthly gold escort left here on Friday with 650oz of gold, 500oz of which were sent from Araluen aud the remainder from Braidwood. The whole amount was forwarded by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Master of the Melbourne Mint has issued a return, showing the total quantity of Victorian gold received in the Mint during 1885. The return is as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. T. Conolly wired to us, as follows, from Bingera :—The Australian Diamond Mining Co. has completed a washing up of eighty-seven loads from the Monte Christo mine, and obtained 1131 diamonds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BINGERA, Saturday,--The Australian Diamond-mining Company have just completed their washing lip of 87 loads from the Monte Christo mine, obtaining 1131…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Australian Diamond Company have just completed a washing-up of 87 loads of waslidirt from the Monto Christo mine, obtaining 1131 diamonds, weighing 208½ carats. Six men only were employed for 10 days in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MUDGEE, Monday.—A report has reached here that a reef of considerable thickness, showing good prospects, has been discovered on the private land of Mr. Jennings, in Cudgegong, on the Sydney-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victory Gold-mining Company, Limited, Charters Towers, Queensland, December 26:—In the underlie shaft the reef is 18 inches in thickness, of fair quality stone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alexandra Hill Gold-mining Company, No Liability, Charters Towers.--The mining manager, under date December 26, reports:--" Since my last report we have extended No. 3…
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