The Queensland Opal Mines. London, June 23
A company has been formed, with a capital of £100,000, to work the opal mines in Queensland. Half the amount of the capital is to be raised immediately…
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Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company. Rockhampton, June 17
The balance-sheet of the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company for the half-year ended 31st May has been published, and will be read at the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on the 28th June. It shows…
Continued on Trove, page 1328 →Bob's Mine
Either from a spirit of grotesque humor, or because the name had once been appropriate, they had christened the place 'Arcadia'; but, as years passed on, it had daily become a greater…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Accident in the Minmi Colliery
NEWCASTLE Friday.---A miner named Adam White has a narrow escape from being crushed to death in [?]ne .Min[?]i co[?]ety yesterday, through a sudden fad of coal which knocked him down,…
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We are advised by our Albury correspondent that, "Messrs. Wealands and Co., working a reef near Black Range, obtained 55oz. of gold from a little over 12 tons of quart[?].."…
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The Under Secretory for Mines has received a report from Warden Parker, P.M., of Scone, concerning the Stewart's Brook goldfield, under date 15th. June. The workings are on the Denison goldfield, about 35 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 1345 →MINING Mudgee. JUNE 18
Beyond doubt, the sensation of the week is the finding of a monster nugget of gold, 347oz. in weight, at the Maitland Bar, on the Meroo, by a party of three named Thorpe, Holmes, and Leader, on Wednesday last. The spot where…
Continued on Trove, page 1346 →The Mount Morgan Mine. London, June 24
The Privy Council has refused Mr. Osborn's motion to consolidate the two actions involving the ownership of the Mount Morgan mine…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Accidents at the Minmi Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
Two accidents are reported at the Minmi Colhery, to men named Adam White and Samuel Wells. The first was knocked down by a sudden fall of coal on his breast and head, and had a narrow escape from being crushed to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →What Matters it Now if I Wed for Gold
Just a fair girl standing at eventide, Awaiting the morrow to be a bride; Yet the glist'ning tears in her sad eyes shine As she draws from her breast an old valentine…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Storuteller. To Call Her Mine. CHAPTER V. for Better, for Worse
The reason why farmers, gardeners, and cultivators of the soil generally are so fond of sitting down upon anything that offers, leaning against doorposts…
Continued on Trove, page 1333 →The Young Miners. (Written by a Mulgrave boy, 13½ years of age.)
After a smooth passage from the old country, an English and a Welsh boy arrived in Melbourne for the diggings. On landing they were met by a young man (quite a stranger) who…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Mining Notes on Mudgee, Hill End Gulgong, &c. I.
Within the short distance of 190 miles by rail from Sydney is to be found one of the vastest and richest mining districts in Australasia—a mining area supposed by many to be exhausted, but which in reality…
Continued on Trove, page 1317 →Cable News. Extraction of Gold From Ores
London, Friday.--Professor Cosmo Newbery and Mr. Vautin's process of extracting gold from ores by chlorination has been patented, and a company to work the patent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Purchase of Mining Property (By Telegraph)
ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The South Australian Mining and Smelting Company have purchased the Wirrialpa silver and lead property, nearly all the necessary capital being raised by English…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Colonial Mining Ventures. London, June 24
Mr. Edward Langton, of Melbourne, has contracted on behalf of Mr. Joseph Clarke, to sell a gold-mining claim on his Island Block Estate, at Moa Flat, in Otago, New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Southern Miners' Association
NEWCASTLE, Monday.--At a meeting of the co-operative miners on Saturday night, a letter was read from the general secretary, stating that the Southern Miners' Association…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Leases
The Minister for Mines (Mr. Abigail) yesterday had his attention called to the fact that 39 silver mining leases are held by speculators, who, while doing nothing with the land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Breach of the Goal-mines Act. an Unlocked Safety Lamp. (By Telegraph.)
WOLLONGONG, Monday,--The adjourned hearing of the case against John M'Lersh, a miner employed in the Mount Kembla Colliery, was resulted at the police court to-day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Explosion Near Glasgow
GLASSGOW, May 28.--A terrible explosion has occurred in Castor coal pit at Blantyre, a village in Lanarkshire, eight miles from this city. Two hundred and twenty miners are…
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