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Mining & the mines, 1887

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Miners' Delegates Meeting. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--A special meeting of miner' delegates was held yesterday, when a number of lodges were represented, A communication was read from the secretary of the…

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MINING Mineral Leases

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 362

Considerable dissatisfaction is still expressed at Emmaville and other tin-mining districts in New England at the delay in the issue of mineral leases. The inconvenience is decidedly oppressive to the…

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Late Mining. Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 361

The eleventh half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in the Kiandra Gold-mining Company, Limited, was held at the Company's office this week, Mr. A. H. M'Culloch, M.L.A., presiding. The report, which, together with the…

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Barrier Ranges Silver Mines. Broken Hill. Aug. 5

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 362

At the Broken Hill Mine 1046 tons of ore were treated this week, yielding 229 tons of bullion and 44,228oz. of silver. Five smelters are now running, but in the early part of the week there were four only. The bullion…

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To Call Her Mine. Chapter Xx.—the Third Dream

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 350

The wedding bells rang out as merrily for Mary as if she was giving her hand to an earl instead of a ruined farmer; as joyfully as if the whole of her life was planned for ease and laziness instead of hard work; as happily as…

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Tin Mining at Tingha. No. I.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1887 · page 362

In coming to this portion of the tin-field of New England we are brought face to face with some of the difficulties that beset mining progress in New South Wales, and they forcibly illustrate the incapability of our legislators who in…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 August 1887 · page 7

The hon. secretary Stock Exchange is in receipt of the following telegram from the secretary No. 1 North pho[?]nix Gold Company, Gymple :--" 1800 tons stone yielded 13340z…

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Bulli Colliery Disaster Fund

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 4

A meeting of the executive committee of the Bulli Colliery Disaster Fund was held at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, under the presidency of the Mayer. There were also present: The Hons. G. A. Lloyd and Macintosh,…

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Mining

Evening News · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

STEWART'S BROOK.—Mr. Nicholson, of West Maitland, has called at this office with a sample of quartz taken from a reef at Stewart's Brook, a place distant about thirty-nine miles from Scone, on the northern…

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Collapse of a Colliery Wall. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--Yesterday afternoon a portion of the wall forming the entrance to the new workings of the A. A. Company, under Suepherd's-hill, fell in with a great crash…

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The Broken Hill Mine. No. III

Evening News · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 7

We hare briefly referred to the general appearance of the underground workings, as seen from the drives and the crosscuts from Rasp's shaft. And, as we have mentioned. Hasp's is by no means the most…

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Mining

Evening News · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

EMMAVILLE, Tuesday.—The manager of the prospecting company in course of formation here, has received an advice from the Mines Department that 200 acres will be reserved for the company…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 8

The following quotations were received in the mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Burwood Coal, 20s.; Broken Hill Junction Silver, 22s. 6d.; Souths (paid up), 12s. 6d.; Central Broken Hill Silver (paid up), 16s. 3d.;…

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Discovery of Rich Gold

Evening News · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 5

HOBART.—A tremendous excitement has been caused here during the last few days by reports of an extraordinary discovery of gold within six miles of Hobart. The greatest reticence has been…

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The Lithgow Miners' Strike. (By TELEGRAPH.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 4

LITGOW, Tuesday.--The E-kbank colliers strike has now terminated. Nearly two weeks ago the men employed there struck work because the manager. Mr. Pitt, would not accsis…

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The Late Strike at the Eskbank Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 8

The Eskbank Colliery strike has terminated. Nearly two weeks ago the men employed there struck work, because the manager, Mr. Pitt, would not accede to their demands. To-day the district officers had a final interview with Mr…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 August 1887 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The fifteenth half-yearly meeting of the Nymagee Coppermining Company was held yesterday afternoon, Mr. R Barton, chairman, presiding. The report and balance sheet were…

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