Ferndale Colliery Disastert
Following so closely af terylie colliery calamity at Lithgow, the flooding of Ferndale mine will no doubt' tend to awaken some doubts as to the safety of our coal mines generally. Hitherto…
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Ferndale Colliery Disaster
The disaster by fire at the Lithgow Colliery has been too soon followed by a terrible colliery catastrophe at tho Ferndale Colliery, Tighe's Hill, Newcastle. Throsby's…
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WESLEY TIN MINING Co. — Messrs. Watt and Dodds have received the following report from the mining manager: Williams and patty crushed up this weak and had 3 tons. They also sent 16 tons of…
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The following minute has been put on. record bythe Minister of Mines re the recent deputations that have waited on him on the subject of "Ventilation in Mines"—"At the recent interview with the…
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The soundness 'of. the defence made.by Mr. Copeland Minster of Lands, at his last nomination with regard to the appointment of Mr Fletcher as Minister.of Mines has very.soon,…
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Lubra Silver-mining Company (No Liability.) -- The mining manager telegraphs: -- "Quantity ore treated, five tons five cwt.; returns, six hundred and seventy-seven ounces of silver per…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Review. "Rainbow Gold."
Mr. Christie Murray has made steady way in the favor of the public since the publication of his story of "Joseph's Coat" a few years ago. The qualities of freshness and power in the…
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North Queensland Silver Mining Company.—March 11: The rains are done, and fine weather has set in. Charcoal is being delivered ready for a start at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ferndale Colliery Disaster. Newcastle, Friday Morning, March 19
Further investigations with regard to the Ferndale disaster prove it to be one of the most serious that have yet occurred in the collieries of the colony. It appears that Throsby's Creek passes over a portion of the mine, which…
Continued on Trove, page 640 →Mining by Weight
In consequence of the decision of the Minister of Mines to compel the managers of [?] employing more than eight men to pay their minora by weight of mineral out, Mr. Maokonzie, examiner of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →MINING The Mining Districts of New South Wales. EMMAVILLE
Emmaville is the centre of an important tin and silver bearing district, lying about 400 miles north of Sydney, and about 20 miles in a straight line from the Queensland border. The original name of the settlement was…
Continued on Trove, page 667 →Labour Conditions of Mining Leases
The following memorandum has been issued by the Under-Secretary for Mines to the wardens of goldfields throughout the colony:—"Non-observance of the labour conditions of mining leases.—The attention of the wardens…
Continued on Trove, page 668 →Country and Mining News (From Our Correspondents.)
SPECIAL—Correspondents are requested to write on one side of paper.only, and to use ink. It.is a cruel inflic-. tion.on editorial eye and time;and.still more cruel to' compqsitors, to place " copy 'before them in the form…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →News from the Colonial Goldfields. (The latest Information concerning mining shares will be found in our Telegraphic and Commercial ReportS.) New South Wales
COPELAND.—Our correspondent reports/.Mining matters a little brisker here, owing to soveral abandoned claims having been taken up, and the discovery of payable gold made in two or three of them…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Official Correspondence. Department of Mines, Public Parks Branch, Sydney, 19th March, 1886
Sir,—In reply to your communication of the 8th instant, urging the appointment of the three gentlemen particularized in the margin, nominated by you, (Messrs J. Meeks, M.P., T. Boland, and W. J. Rayner),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Adelong
The escort which left Adelong yesterday was very small, taking only 340oz 18dwt. lgr. BRISBANE, FRIDAY. Nos. 3 and 4, North Glanmire, Gympie, have declared a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mining Accidents at Sandhurst. (By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
The fatal mining accidents were reported at Sandhurst to-day. A miner named Joseph Pryor was knockod off a bucket while ascending the shaft of the New Chum mine yesterday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lithgow Colliery Disaster. Lithgow
The seat of the fire was reached on Friday, when the men found that it had such a hold of the main seam and the "slack," that it was almost…
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SOUTH CUMBERLAND COAL—At the first halfyearly meeting of the South Cumberland Coal Company, Mr. James Fletcher, M.L.A., presided. The report said that the sinking of a shaft had already…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Ballarat
New North Clunes Company, Clunes.—The main shaft has been sunk 7 feet for the week; the present depth below No. 12 level is 90 feet. The ground is much harder than it has been. The stapes and intermediate drives are…
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