The Echunga Goldfield
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Echunga goldfields are being prospected in accordance with a motion passed at the last session of Parliament. The Government geologist has…
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Ventilation of Collieries. WOLLONGONG
Mr. Rowan, inspector of collieries, proceeded on Thursday in the local court, against the manager of the Mount Kembla Colliery, under the Coalfields Regulation Act, for having had deficient ventilation…
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On Monday, December 21, a conference of miners, delegates was held in Hamilton (Scotland), Mr. R. C. Robertson, Slamannan, presided. It was moved by a Motherwell delegate, seconded by a Larkall delegate, and agreed to,…
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Mr. Lysaght, M.L.A., introduced Mr. Loughnan and Mr. Brissenden to Mr. Garrard to-day to get the Government to resume land near the Mount Keira Colliery line, to give communication alleged to be…
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Pinnacle Group Silver-mining Company, Silverton, Limited.--The mine manager reports, under date February 3 :-- "Raising ore from the slope of good quality. Assays show an average…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Discovery at Herberton
TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.--It is reported from Herberton that gold has been discovered in the scrub 40 miles from there by George E. Clarke, the prospector of Charters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ventilation of Collieries. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wollongong
Mr. Rowan, inspector of collieries, proceeded to-day, in the local court, against the manager of the Mount Kembla Colliery, under the Coalfields Regulation Act, for having deficient ventilation in the colliery. The defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lambton Miners' Strike. a Mass Meeting. Newcastle
A meeting of the Lambton miners on strike took place at 8 o'clock this morning on the Lambton Reserve. About three hundred miners were present. Mr. Agnew occupied the chair…
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The Lambton miners held a meeting on the reserve on Wednesday. Air. H. Agnew occupied the chair. The secretary read a letter from the Ferndale hodge, with donations to the amount of £5 5s 6d to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Carcoar
At the Gally Swamp, Roberts and party finished a crush ng to-day with their own battery of 70 tons of quartz, which yielded 65oz. of retorted gold, the result of one month's work for three men. The quartz was taken from the…
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TOWNVILLE, Thursday.--Reliable news from Georgetown is to the effect that the new Croydon goldfield has been greatly overrated, and Mr. Warden Samuel, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MINING Mines and Minerals
The occasional publication of works intended for the instruction of those persons who are labouring to develop the mineral resources of this colony and other parts of Australasia, affords pleasing proof that the…
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A case of considerable interest was tried before A. A. Turner and J. Williams, J.P., at Wollongong, yesterday. The Inspector of Mines for the Southern District…
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Oh, were I a flake of the polar snow Afar in the gloom of a polar sky, I'd float to the breast of my warm, sweet love, A nestle and melt and die…
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Everything is in readiness at the site for the Broken Hill smelting furnaces, and the arrival of machinery is now anxiously awaited, so that the work of putting the furnaces into smelting order may be pushed on. It was known last…
Continued on Trove, page 355 →Mining. Silver Mining in South Australia
IN consequence of the recent discoveries in silver at Robertstown and Black-hill, about 300 mineral leases, covering 24,000a. of land have been acquired from Government in the hundreds of Bright, Ba[?]dina, and Bundley. A new…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Silver Mines of New South Wales. the Barrier Ranges Silver Mines
The main centre of the Barrier Ranges Silver Mines, as most of your readers know, lies about 700 miles W.N.W. of Sydney, close to the South Australian border, and about 300 miles from Adelaide. I will not go into details as to when…
Continued on Trove, page 355 →Important Mining Case
In the Supremo Court on Monday, before their Honors the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Faucett, and Mr. Justice Windeyer, in Banco, there was heard a case (Murphy v. Cooke) stated by Mr. Warden Brown, of Silverton, who…
Continued on Trove, page 355 →Mining. Albury Items
ALBURY, Thursday.—Rumors are current thai a new reef has been discovered in an abandoned claim on the Hawksview station, about seven miles from Albury, on the New South Wales bank of the river…
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TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.--The reef in the Durham mine at Georgetown is now 12ft, thick showing gold freely in the mundic. The Lord Byron claim has resumed work…
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