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Mining & the mines, 1886

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 15

SPECIAL.—Correspondents 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. New South Wales. (The latest information concerning mining shares will be found in our Telegraphic and Commercial Reports.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 24

PYE'S CREEK.—The Caledonia Silver Mining Company is beginning to look up. Mr. Quigley and Dillon are driving on the lode. She shows mettle from wall to wall, and widening as it goes into the…

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Mining Fatality. Mount M'donald, Wednesday, March 10

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 14

A Bad accident occurred here on Tuesday, by which a young man named John Mullin was killed, and another named Gus. Aubrey was injured. It appears that they were working by themselves, prospecting…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1886 · page 15

Mr. Gleadow applied for a suspension of operations at B. U. Gold-mining Company's ground this morning. The application was for six months. Warden Baker said that he always set his face against a six months' suspension, but…

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Colliery Catastrophe at Lithgow

Illustrated Sydney News · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 11

ABOUT 7 o'clock on Sunday night, 14th February, it was reported here that the Lithgow Colliery Company's mine was full of smoke, and that evidently something had occurred in the mine to set it on fire. John Doig,…

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Mining

Evening News · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 5

NELLIGEN—Small quantities of gold are still being got from the head of Cymalia Creek. Six experienced diggers have arrived, during the week, and are confident of success. The gold is reported…

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Mining

Evening News · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 6
Also in Globe

LANSELL'S No. 180 MINE—The last report received by George Lansell from mine No. 180, showed that in a fortnight 664 loads were crashed, yielding 884oz 16dwt, and from the Sandhurst mine 91 loads,…

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The Lambton Miners and Newcastle Coal Trimmers, [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 8

At the Lambton miners' meeting last night, Mr. Cremore, the Secretary of the Coal Trimmers Union, was received as [?] deputation to invoke the sympathy and assistance of the Lambton Lodge in connection with the dispute with Messrs…

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Discovery of Gold

Globe · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 5

The Minister for Mines has received the following report from Mr. J. P. Curran, mining registrar at Boorook, near the Qeeensland border:—"I have the honour…

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Mining Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 3

Lubra Silver-mining Company, No Liability. -- The mining manager writes under date March 6: -- "Since my last report the principal work done has been stoping on the lode. For this…

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News by Telegraph. Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 5

TEMORA, Saturday. -- The five tons of stone from Cassin's and Jackson's Hard to Find Reef, Barmedman, were treated at the South Australian Company's battery and yielded a…

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Mining Leases. Enforcement of the Labour Covenants

Globe · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 5

At an early date, it is the intention of the Hon. James Fletcher, Minister for Mines, to review some of the leases which are held by. mining speculators…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1886 · page 5

Lone Hand Co., Kingston.—During the week the works have been carried on with our usual system. There is nothing new to report in the mine; will crush a few tons of cement this week. The yield of gold for the week was…

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Mining

Evening News · Tuesday 16 March 1886 · page 3

CUMBERLAND (Q.).—Thus our Brisbane correspondent :—A telegram from Cumberland said that the Cumberland Prospecting Co.'s lease had cleaned up a crushing of some 800 tons for 1807oz of smelted…

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Mining

Evening News · Tuesday 16 March 1886 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

GOLD DISCOVERY NEAR BOOROOK—The Mines Department has been informed by the mining registrar in Boorook that a very rich deposit of gold has been discovered in Fairfield, on the private…

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Mining Topics

Globe · Tuesday 16 March 1886 · page 5

Same interesting figures regarding the Mount Bischoff tin mine are given by the Launceston Examiner. The company has just declared the hundreth dividend of…

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Gold Discovery Near Boorook

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1886 · page 5

The Minister for Mines has received the following communication from the Mining Registrar at Boorook in reference to the gold discovery made there: -- "I have the honor to…

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Wollongong Miners. WOLLONGONG, Tuesday, March 16

Evening News · Tuesday 16 March 1886 · page 5

Dr. Robertson has denied that the company had any desire to break the agreement. The dispute about the long wall workers has been settled, and the threatened strike has been averted…

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