Mining Topics
The Great Western Silver-mining Company, Limited. February 18, 1886.—The country passed through this week is softer and carries a little galena ore and…
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Mining Intelligence
Ravens wood Silver-mining Company, Limited.--The mining manager reports on February 6 as follows:--60ft. main level is now in a distance of 237ft. from crosscut; it is still looking…
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ADELONG, Thursday.—A new rush took place on Wednesday to the Gap Reef, near Adelong; a number of claims having been pegged out, owing to Dowsett and party having obtained nice gold in their shalt…
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Queen's Birthday Company, Dunolly, February 15, 1886.—North drive at No. 7 level has been put in a further distance of l8 feet; total distance from main shaft, 568 feet. The lode in the stopes between Nos. 4 and 5…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Lithgow Colliery Relief Fund. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In your report of the preliminary meetmg held at the Oxford Hotel yesterday afternoon to consider the question of raising a fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the men recently killed in the Lithgow coalmine…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Lambton Miners. Trades and Labour Council Meeting
A special general meeting of the Trades and Labour Council was held at the Swan-with-two-Nccks Hotel last night for the purpose of hearing and considering the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Speculation. He Would and He Wouldn't
In the District Court, on Thursday, before Judge Dowling, Mr. Joseph Palmer, a member of the Sydney Stock Exchange, sued Mr. John Upward, jun., of Audley-street, Marrickville, for £120, for breach…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Intelligence. Burrangong Gold-mining Company. (By Telegraph.)
YOUNG, Friday.--The new Burrangong Gold-mining Company, under date 19th inst., report having sunk 10ft. during the week, put on a 9ft. pump and lowered the lift 9ft. in the shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lithgow Colliery Disaster. Three Men Suffocated. the Mine on Fire
On Sunday evening it was reported that the Lithgow Company's Coal Mine was full of smoke and Mr. John Doig, the manager, with Charles Younger a banksman went to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Female Labour at Collieries
The London Mining Journal of October 10 has an article on the employment of girls and women at coal mines, which has long been a standing reproach to mine owners. The subject has also been taken up in a recent…
Continued on Trove, page 379 →MINING The Silver Mines of New South Wales. the Barrier Ranges Silver Mines
By far the most valuable mine discovered up to the present on this field is the Broken Hill, lying 16 miles E.S.E. of Silverton. Probably no mine ever found, not excepting the famous Mount Morgan Golden Hill, had…
Continued on Trove, page 407 →Colliery Catastrophe at Lithgow
THE terrible colliery disaster at Lithgow is one of the greatest catastrophes that have happened to this community for a very long time past. The important town in which it occurred may be…
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The seventh half-yearly meeting of the Ravenswood Silver-mining Company was held on Tuesday, February 16—Mr. Russell Barton presided. The report and the balance-sheet were adopted. It was…
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Gold in remunerative quantities has been discovered in the Floraston Leasehold Company's claim, near Guudagai, at the 100 feet level, which formerly yielded gold abestos. The serpentine rock has become transformed into pure…
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The adjourned meeting of the committee appointed for the purpose of raising subscriptions in aid of the sufferers through the recent explosion at Lithgow colliery took place yesterday afternoon, at the Oxford Hotel, King-street,…
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About 7 o'clock last night it was reported here that the Lithgow Colliery Company's mine was full at smoke, and that evidently something had occurred in the mine to set it on fire. John Doig, manager of the colliery, with…
Continued on Trove, page 381 →The Lambton Miners' Strike
A public meeting was held on Tuesday night in the Sydney Temperance Hall under the auspices of the Trades and Labour Council to allow the Miners' Association an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LITERATURE King Solomon's Mines
To write a story which should combine an account of almost extravagant adventure with the attraction of a treasure, great beyond the dreams of avarice, to be gained by its heroes, is no easy task in these…
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Nil Desperandum.—Gulgong, New South Wales, February 13: Washed:40 loads of pug from this drive for a yield of 12oz. gold; 120 loads were washed from Whip…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lithgow Valley Colliery Disaster. Lithgow, Feb., 19
The mine has been closed up with the intention of smothering the fire, but the general opinion of the oldest miners is that the method adopted will not be…
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