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Mining & the mines, 1887

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Mining Companies. London, Sept. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 7

The Mount Morgan (West) Extended Mining Company has been formed with a capital of £150,000. The New South Wales Colliery Company,…

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Another Mining Boom. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 3

Sir,--As a resident of San Francisco for some years I can quite endorse the remarks of Mr. Knapp as to the evil of mining booms and their accompanying open stock exchanges with their…

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[By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Discovery of Gold at Mt. Manara. Balranald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 9

A rabbiter on the Manfred station, in the vicinity of Mount Manara Range, distant 116 miles from Balranald, has discovered indications of gold, and found payable quantities by sinking 10ft. The country is of a rocky but…

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Bulli Colliery Disaster Fund

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 September 1887 · page 3

The executive committee of the Bulli Colliery Disaster Fund met at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon. The Mayor of Sydney (Mr. A. J. Riley, M.L.A.) presided, and there were also present—The Hon. J. Macintosh, Mr. J…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 September 1887 · page 7
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We hare received a copy of the prospectus of the Bingera Diamond Fields, which, it was announces recently by cable, had been placed on the London market but withdrawn. The…

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Wallace's Beechworth Mines. London, Sept. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 September 1887 · page 7

A syndicate has been formed for the purchase of Mr. Wallace's mines at Beechworth, Victoria. The colonial directors are Messrs. Wallace, Phipps-Turnbull, and W. K…

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Mining Companies. London, Sept. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 September 1887 · page 7

The Mount Morgan (West) Extended Mining Company has been formed, with a capital of £150,000. The New South Wales Colliery Company,…

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Broken-hill Mining B.ch Discoveries. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 September 1887 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Monday.--A very rich discovery has been made in the Rising San Silver[?] Company's [?] situated two miles south of the Broken-hill Mine. and co the same…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 September 1887 · page 7

An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Central Broken-hill Silver-mining Company, Limited, was held yesterday, Mr. Russell Barton, chairman of the board,…

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The Burwood Colliery Strike. an Arrangement Arrived At. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 September 1887 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The difficulty in connection with the Burwood Colliery has happily been removed. A deputation of those on strike, with the district secretary, interviewed…

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The Burwood Colliery Dispute. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 September 1887 · page 10

The stoppage of work at the Burwood colliery is not to continue any longer. On Monday evening a deputation of miners from that colliory, accompanied by Mr. Curley, the miners' general secretary, waited upon Mr. Henry Stokes,…

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Boring for Coal at Newcastle. (From Our Special Reporter.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 September 1887 · page 7

Mr H. Blackiston, who has for the last six years or so been engaged in boring for deep cool on Dempsey Island, has been rewarded for his pluck and perseverance by the (discovery of a seam of splendid coal at a depth of over 2000…

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Another Mining Boom. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 September 1887 · page 4

Sir,--The letter which appears in The Daily Telegraph of to-day's issue, signed J. Brooks, is inaccurate. In the first place, in referring to open Stock Exchanges, he knows little of what…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 September 1887 · page 11
Also in Evening News

During the past fortnight a decided briskness has characterised the mining market. An almost unprecedented rush of quotations and transactions in connection With silver stocks in particular have been recorded…

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Mining Companies

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 September 1887 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--The Mount Morgan West Extended Mining Company and the Monk Wearmouth Collieries Company have been registered, the former with a…

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Mining in Cootamundra

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 September 1887 · page 7

GOOTAMUNDRA, Wednesday.--Mining matters in the district are looking up, and judging from the impetus given to this industry during the past week or so the gold fever will soon break…

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Broken-hill Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 September 1887 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--There is considerable excitement at Silverton, the cause being the discovering of new tin deposits on Mundi Mundi station. The site of the first find…

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Pure Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 3

The following article on pure gold is from the Cornhill Magazins:—It is a pleasant thought indeed, for the poor man, to know that gold is even now still crowing. Mr. Brough Smyth has shown that it can be deposited…

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