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Mining & the mines, 1886

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The Lithgow Valley Colliery. Lithgow, This Day

Globe · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 5

A very successful concert was given hero last night by the Lynch Family of B ell ringers, in aid of the widows and orphans fund now being raised here, and a…

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South Cumberland Coal Company

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 485

The ceremony of turning the first god for the shaft of South Cumberland Coal Company was performed on Wednesday by Mr. R. Wisdom, M.L.A., in the presence of a large body of shareholders. The land held by this…

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Mining at Gympie

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday. -- The Glanmire Company crushed for the fortnight 251 tons of quartz, which yielded 344oz., and since cleaning have obtained 50oz. in specimens…

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Nundle Mining Items

Globe · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 3

Our Nundle correspondent supplies us with the following items of Mining news from his locality:—. Messrs. Bakewell and party, working at…

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Quicksilver Mining Co

Evening News · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 4

London, March 4.—The company which was lately registered with a capital of J400,000 for the purpose of taking up and working certain estates in Queensland for quicksilver has been floated…

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Mining in Queensland

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Friday. -- The Mount Albion claim, on the silver field near Herberton, owned by John Moffatt and Co., was jumped yesterday by James Dodd. The case will be…

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The Lambton Miners. NEWCASTLE, March 4

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 13

The Lambton miners held their usual meeting on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. H. Agnew occupied the chair. A motion to send two representatives to each lodge in the district and lay the case before them,…

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The Miners' Demonstration. Newcastle, This Day

Globe · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 5

The Miners' Demonstration takes place to-day. The members mustered in the reserve at the top of Wall-street shortly after ten, and marched to the Newcastle…

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Mount Kembla Miners. WOLLONGONG, March 4

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 13

A slight difficulty appears to be cropping up at the Mount Kembla Colliery. A short time ago what is known as the "long-wall system" was introduced, several men outside the regular employes at the…

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Mining. Cooktown, This Day

Globe · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 3

Maytown mining: The Winnifred claim crushed 5½ tons for 4oz. per ton…

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MINING Important Stockbroking Case

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 511

An important stockbroking case was decided by Judge Dowling, in the District Court, the other day. The action arose out of the fall in silver-mining shares. The plaintiff, Mr. Joseph Palmer, a stockbroker, sued the defendant to…

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Latest Mining News. Braidwood Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 14

BRAIDWOOD, Tuesday.—Some splendid prospects of gold have been discovered by a party of miners a few miles north of Nelligen, near Cockwhy Creek. Several beautiful nuggets have been brought to…

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Late Mining. Mount M'donald

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 510

The tributors in the Eureka lease have found a new and well-defined reef 2 feet wide at a depth of 100 feet in the hanging wall of No. 4 shaft. The gold is well distributed throughout the stone. This reef splices on to another one…

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Quartz-mining in Upper Temora. FEBRUARY, 27

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 511

The past history of quartz-mining in Upper Temora must excite astonishment amongst men conversant with the mining records of Victoria, where there are instances of speculators expending as much as £10,000 each in a mine,…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 15

SPECIAI.—Corespondents are requested 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…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 24

TEMORA. —The escort last week took 640oz gold. PARKES.—J. White and party have cleaned up after crushing twenty eight loads, which yielded the respectable return of 70oz 16dwt. This claim adjoins…

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The Silver Mines of New South Wales. the Carrier Ranges Silver Field

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 511

Travelling over a range of hills distant about a mile and a half due east of Silverton, along what is known as the Old Thackaringa-road (which, is the main road of traffic between Silverton and South Australia), is the property…

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The Title of the Mount Morgan Mine. the Morgans Retain Possession. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday. -- The case of the Mount Morgan Mine dispute was resumed to-day before the Full Court. Arguments were beard on either side, and were…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 14

Gympie crushings: 250 tons from Ellen Harkins' mine resulted in 468oz. of smelted gold. 967 tons of quartz from No. 3 and No. 4 North Glanmire gave 2275oz. of amalgam; 251 tons from the North Glanmire, 671oz. of amalgam;…

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The Hermitage Colliery, Lithgow

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1886 · page 6

The statement published in our issue of Friday, to the effect that the Government had refused to take the coal of the Hermitage Colliery, Lithgow, for railway purposes, is, we are assured on the best authority,…

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