Valuable Coal Find
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The management of the Hetton Colliery, Bullock Island, at a depth of 230ft. have struck a splendid seam of coal, and have now got 16ft, into it. It is…
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Mining Intelligence
In the Mining market yesterday business was rather more active, chiefly for silver stocks. The following sales were recorded at 1 o'clock:—Broken Hill Silver, 112; Sunny Corner Silver, 7s. 9d., 8s. At 4 o'clock: Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Ventilation of Mines. Managers' Fined. (By Telegraph.)
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- Two cases of considerable interest to miners occupied the attention of the local bench to-day. Mr. Jas. Fletcher, the manager of the Wickham and…
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Messrs. Watt and Dodds report the clearing up from the Kiandra Gold-mining Company's mine to be 1216oz. retorted gold for run from October 20, 1886, to February 12, 1887…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thr Bulli Miners. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bulli
The Miners' Union held a local meeting yesterday, and decided by ballot to resume work on condition that both the married and single men should be allowed to ballot for places in the mine. This was communicated to the masters,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Hepburn Estate Mining Company. a Serious Difficulty. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A deputation from the Hepburn Estate Mining Company waited on the Premier to-day in connection with a mistake made by Mr. Harrison, the officer in charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining. the Diamond Mines at Inverell
THE Government Geologist has furnished to the Under-Secretary for Mines the following report on the diamond-bearing formation in the Inverell district:—"Inverell, 31st January, 1887. The…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Gold-mining in Queensland. London, Feb. 17
The Central Gold-mining Company, Char ters Towers, Queensland, has been registered, with a capital of £300,000…
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The hon. secretary Stock Exchange reports the crushing of the Band and Albion Gold Company, Ballarat, for the week to be 327 tons stone,for a yield of 339oz. gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Emmaville Tin Mines. FEBRUARY 10
The above mining locality is situated about 25 miles in a north-westerly direction from Glen Innes, and radiates over an area of 30 miles from the Emmaville township. The working population at present is composed of 374 Europeans…
Continued on Trove, page 407 →MINING Concerning Old Fields
Old goldfielde are apt to remind one of yesterday's joint—the best appears gone, but there are good pickings left; and some fields recall the rush at an American table d'hote: all energetic concentration for…
Continued on Trove, page 407 →The Extraction of Gold from Pyrites
A plant for the extraction of gold from pyrites, recently perfected by Messrs. Cosmo Newbery and Vautin (says the Argus), may now be seen working daily at the Langlands' Foundry, Tarrabank. The roasted pyrites is first treated…
Continued on Trove, page 407 →Naval Depot, Sydney, 8th February, 1887. Navy Coal Contracts
TENDERS in triplicate will be received up to noon, 10th March, for the supply of best Steam Coal (Bulli or Wollongong and Newcastle districts) to H. M. vessels end transports at the following places, for one year, from 1st April, 1887:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bewildering Riches. a Cavern Lined with Gold and Precious Stones
The Laramie BOOMERANG said: On the northern border of the great National Park, where rise the towering peaks of the Snow mountains, there has long lived a man known as "The Wanderer." This man…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Miner. "Here's metal more attractive." —SHAKESPEARE. Mining Leases
We have received a letter from "Miner's Right," in which, he indignantly complains that, although land is taken up undermining leases, nothing is done with it by the lessees; and yet prospectors cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Department Mines, Forest Branch, Sydney, February 4, 1887. Leases for Eradication of Pricklypear
ATTENTION is invited to the Notice in the Government Gazette of 4th instant, culling for TENDERS, under the Pricklypear Destruction Act of 1886, for Leases, in five portions, of the Belford Timber Reserve (total, about 2810 acres), parish of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kimberley Goldfields. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
The latest Kimberley news states that rain has fallen for 60 hours, and the creeks and rivers are full. The population on the field is between 800 and 1000. Several reefs have been developed, while the alluvial…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Transvaal Goldfields
A Melbourne contemporary, of February 12, said: —We have before us some "Rough Notes of a Trip [in 1886] to the Transvaal Goldfields," written by Mr. R. Jameson, JP., of Durban, Natal. As so…
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The fourth half-yearly meeting of Webb's Silver-maning Company was held on Friday last, Mr. T. H. Kelly, chairman of the board, presiding. From the report we quote:--…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disastrous Colliery Explosion in Wales. London. Feb. 20
A disastrous colliery explosion has taken place in the Rhondda Valley, in Wales, by which 26 miners were killed…
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