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Mining & the mines, 1886

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Mining

Evening News · Thursday 27 May 1886 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

GUNDAGAI.—R. A. Cotton, manager of the Wagga Wagga Co's claim at Bongonglong, which is about nine miles from Gundagai, reports that he has cleared up after having crushed 100 tons which yielded 12dwt…

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Mining Topics

Globe · Thursday 27 May 1886 · page 3

Cumberland Coal and Iron Company.—At a combined general meeting of shareholders of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Mining Company, Limited, and the South…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 May 1886 · page 7

Transactions were brisk in the mining market yesterday, and shares changed hands somewhat freely, although no phenomenal alterations in values have to be recorded. In coal, Burwood were in demand at 14s., sellers demanding…

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The Lambton Miners. Newcastle, This Day

Globe · Thursday 27 May 1886 · page 5

The Lambton miners held a meeting yesterday to discuss the result of the aggregate meeting. Nothing of public importance transpired…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 May 1886 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The following extracts are taken from West Australian files with reference to the Kimberley goldfields, Cambridge Gulf:--…

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Coal. the Origin of Coal Seams

Globe · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 2

In the summer of 1855 I took a walk from Munich to Venice, and on my way through the Tyrol came upon a lake practically unknown to tourists, the Achen…

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Mining

Evening News · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

OFF TO KIMBERLEY.—The Gambier has left Keppel Bay (Q.), for Kimberley, with 103 passengers, 102 horses, and 250 tone of cargo. NORTHERN TERRITORY.—Silver lodes are being…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 8

Transactions in the mining market yesterday failed to evince any marked alteration in the tone of quotations. A considerable amount of business took place without showing material change in values. Up to 1 p.m. the following…

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An Island of Gold

Globe · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 5

Some of the good people of Broadsound (says the Mackay Standard of May 10,) have been somewhat excited lately over the reports of an island having been…

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Mining in the Logan District. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 7

BRISBANE, Thursday.--There is an announcement in the Telegraph to-day of a positive new goldfield in the Logan district, and an assay of quartz containing free gold and gold with iron…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 May 1886 · page 5

THE RUSH FROM QUEENSLAND. TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.--Captain Darke, of the steamer Catterthun, interviewed by a reporter of the Townsville Bulletin, stated…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 7
Also in Evening News

The smelting at the Broken-hill Proprietary Company's works is naturally evoking much interest. We gather from the local paper that it has not quite come up to the expectations of…

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The Lockout at the Greta Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 5

Writing with regard to the lockout at the Greta colliery, owing to which 300 men are now idle, a correspondent, says :--"On Wednesday morning, on the men assembling at the Greta colliery…

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MINING The Mining Leaseholder's Guide

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 1135

Mr. J. F. De Courcy Browne, M.L.A., late Deputy Chairman of the Mining Board of this colony, is the author of a work bearing the above title, of which, the third edition, a neatly-printed, handy, useful volume, is now in…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 15

Mining shares yesterday changed hands rather briskly, though no phenomenal variation in values was recorded. In Coal stocks, Burwoods weakened 3d.; Wallsends, Waratahs, and Wickham and Bullock Islands were firmer,…

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Mining Topics

Globe · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 5

Messrs. Gresley Lukin have wire advices from the secretary of the 3 and 4 Glanmire Gold-mining Company, Limited, under date 28th inst., as follows: "Cleaned…

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Mining Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 5

GUNDAGAI, Friday.--On Wednesday, at the Flocaston Freehold Gold-mining Company's claim, Simon Jones, a miner, had a wonderful escape from a frightful death. It appears that…

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