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The event of the week has been the cleaning up from Hazelhurst's crushing 147 loads from his claim, yielding 1197oz. retorted gold. This represents about three months' work, and this yield, over 8oz. per ton, is the highest…
Continued on Trove, page 770 →The three-masted schooner Gold foundered off the Sisters, north of Flinders Island, on Sunday last. The crew took to the boats and landed at Goose Island. The vessel had a cargo of piles from the Clarence River,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →W. R. Smith (Lower Araluen) has written to us as follows: Having seen a few weeks ago in the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL an invitation to minors generally to ventilate their grievances though…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Sluicing on Nicholson's Tribute, Duncan's Creek, going on as usual. A new face was started last week, which will give deeper ground and a greater depth of wash. Work on the leader is suspended for the present; no men available…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A very important and interesting report on the circumstances connected with the explosion of fire-damp which took place on August 13, 1886, in the Crumbouke Mine, st Wood End Pits, Bedford Colliery, Leigh, Lancashire, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Business in the mining market will not be resumed until to-morrow. A correspondent writes in connection with the Fairfield goldfield near Tenterfield:—"The great delay in granting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the 3rd inst. the cable announced that the price of copper was likely to advance as stocks were decreasing. The price for Chilian quoted at that date was [?]£3[?] 10s. From the Mining…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining business on 'Change will recommence to-day, after the Easter recess. The hon. secretary of the Stock Exchange reports the crushing of the Band and Albion Gold Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A public meeting of the inhabitants of Botany was held under the auspices of the Progress Association, at the School of Arts, last night, for the purpose of ovoking the sympathy of the residents of the district, and devising means for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →If there is one department which more than any other is in need of [?] and prompt reform it is the Mine Department. To no branch of the public service could the pruning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Since the last report there have been few fresh finds or special outputs recorded from the various mining centres. During the past week operations generally have experienced the usual quietude of Eastertide, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The following quotations were received in the mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Wallsend Coal, [?] Central Broken Bill Silver (12s. paid), 5s.; Band [?] Albion Gold, 80s. The afternoon sales were:—Cen[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEVER, as journalists, has a more tragic and terrible necessity been laid upon us—never has the iron pressure of an overwhelming affliction more nearly paralysed the pen that chronicles—than in connection with what may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hon sec. Stock Exchange is in receipt of the following telegram from the secretary of the Golden Crown Gold mining Company, Gympie:--"460 tons stone yielded 792oz. gold,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the mining market yesterday the following quotations were received up to 1 o'clock:—Burwood Coal, 15s. 6d.; Band and Albion Gold, 79s., 74s. The afternoon sales were:—Band and Albums, 75s. 77s. and Novada Silvers,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The board appointed to inquire into and report upon the extent of injury caused by the sludge from mines and the last means of preventing or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very important and interesting report on the circumstances connected with the explosion of fire-damp which took place on August 13, 1886, in the Crumbouke Mine, at Wood End Pits, Bedford Colliery, Leigh, Lancashire, has…
Continued on Trove, page 823 →MUDGEE.--A splendid seam of coal has been discovered at Rawden, on the Mudges line. The coal is pronounced by experts to be superior to the Lithgow coal and equal to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A brisker mining business was noted on 'Change yesterday, particularly in Central Broken Hill Silvers. These (paid up) were quoted during the morning at 6s. 9d.; and at 5s. 3d. for 12s. paid up. The afternoon sales were:—…
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