Mining
The Hon. James Fletcher, Minister for Mines, has signified his intention of urging the Government to make an altogether new departure with respect to fostering and opening out the colony's mining…
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Mining Intelligence
Only nominal business was transacted in mining circles yesterday. The morning quotations were: Wallsend Coal, 39[?]; Nevada Silvers, 3s. 2d. The latter had risen to 3s. 4d. during the afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lecture. Coal Tar or Aniline Colours
Under the auspices of the Board of Technical Education a lecture was delivered in the Technical College Hall, on Friday, by Mr. Hugh Pollock, B.A., LL.B., on "The Coal Tar or Aniline Colours." The lecturer said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold-bearing Quartz at 901 FEET
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Considerable excitement prevailed in Ballarat at the news that the diamond drill had a second time struck gold-bearing quarts at a greater depth than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Royal Colliery Commission at Newcastle. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
The members of the Royal Colliery Commission, decended the Burwood pit yesterday, and examined the workings. Some of the members expressed their surprise at the splendid seam of coal being worked there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Kimberley Goldfields. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Now that the discov[?]ry of a goldfield in the Kimberley district of West Australia is exciting a good deal of attention in the southern colonies, a description of Derby and its neighbourhood, as also of the country on which gold…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mannahill Goldfield. (By Telegraph.)
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The Warden of the goldfields has supplied a report to the Government on the Mannahill Goldfields. He concludes : " I am of opinion, from my own…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining
It is one of the first principles of physical science that attraction varies inversely as the square of the distance. Thus if a body four million miles distant from the sun were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Trade Disputes
A special meeting of the miners' delegates from the lodges in the Newcastle district was held on Thursday to take action on the dispute at the Stockton Coal Co.'s pit, situated on the north aide of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Intelligence
A brisker business was noticed in the mining market yesterday. Up to noon the following quotations were received:—Broken Hill Silver, 41; ditto South, 10s, paid, 10s. 6d.; Nevada Silver, 3s 2d.; Sunny Corner Silver,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Ly-ee-moon Disaster. Distribution of Gold and Silver Medals
A large concourse of people assembled in the Exchange newsroom yesterday afternoon to witness the distribution of gold and silver medals to those who had rendered dlstinguiuhed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Mining leases
Knowing the interest you take in mining matters, induces me to request that you will insert the following, relative to gold mining leases in your valuable paper:—…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Coal Miners' Dispute at Lithgow. Lithgow, July 2
Nothing definite has been arranged with regard to the dispute at the Eskbank, Zig-Zag, and Yale of Clwydd collieries. The men are still on strike. The Lithgow Valley Company's miners started work again this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 96 →Newcastle Colliery News
The Colliery Commission has been visiting the mines in, the Newcastle district this week. On Tneaday the members visited the BurWood Company's pit at the Globe…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →MINING The Kimberley Goldfields
The following description of country from Cambridge Gulf to the Kimberley goldfields has been furnished by a returned digger to a Melbourne contemporary :— From the port to the Government Wells, where there is…
Continued on Trove, page 74 →Mining. the Kimberley Goldfields
THE excitement in regard to the new goldfields at Kimberley continues, and diggers are leaving from all the colonies to join those already in their search for gold. On Saturday two large steamers, the Catterthun and the Simla…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Miners' Disputes
The lockout at the Stockton mine continues without change. The miners to the number of about 150 are put on the union fund at £1 per week. They will meet again on Monday, when some change in the…
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CANOWINDRA.—Payable gold has been discovered on land, the property of John Paull, of Jack's Creek, in Sullivan's Gully. It averages from ten grains to one pennyweight to the dish. Three dishes were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Firewood and Coal
ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The employment of firewood instead of coal on the Government railways has led to some accidents. In one case the sparks set two waggons alight between…
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