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Mining & the mines, 1887

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Queensland Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 7

BRISBANE, Thursday.--Mount Morgans yesterday were sold at £6 2s. 6d in one parcel. North Glanmires wanted at 84s. The share list of Mount Morgan Extended closed…

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End of the Burwood Colliery Strike. the Men Resume Work. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The miners having ended the dispute with the Burwood Coal Company by coming to an agreement with Mr. H. Stokes (managing director) on the cutting…

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The Coal Trade Between Australia and the East. Iii

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

It has been already stated that one of the objections to the Labuan mines was that they had not the character usually possessed by coal seams; that is, they did not preserve a uniform thickness or dip, and that…

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[By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) the Mount Costigan Mines Carcoar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 9

At Mount Costigan Silver Mine a number of hands are engaged raising silver ore on the company's ground from their main shaft, near which anothor shaft is now going down. A water jacket furnace is now being erected. It…

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Croydon Goldfields

Evening News · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 4

BRISBANE.—The population of the Croydon goldfield is now over 6000, and increasing daily. Three newspapers are now in full swing. The latest crushings are—Rosshire, 37 tons for 112oz…

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Mining. Glen Elgin Gold-sluicing Co., No Liability

Evening News · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 5

—Report for August: 4450 cubic yards have been washed away in the cutting through Redbank. Everything is working well, and a good stream is running in the race. Aked's race, where again…

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Brave Miners

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 18

It has been well said that the world does not know its true heros. Certain men, lords of the soil, are raised to the gods, as Horace said; but among those whom fame and fortune never visit…

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The Burwood Colliery Dispute

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 608

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

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 7

The hon. secretary Stock Exchange reports the crushing of the Band and Albion Gold Company, Ballarat, for the week to have been 525 tons stone for a yield of 327oz. gold…

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Another Mining Boom

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 5

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. Sir,--Your correspondent "A. E. Murray" and the gentleman writing anonymously as "Observer" appear to have taken the recent…

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MININC Boring for Coal at Newcastle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 626

Mr H. Blackiston, who has for the last six jean or so been engaged in boring for deep coal 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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Discovery of Gold at Mount Manara

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 626

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

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Broken-hill Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Friday.--Broken-bill smelters report for the past week :--Ore treated, 1178 tons, yielding 274 tons of bullion and 47,203oz. of silver. Five smelters were running. No…

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Queensland Mining Notes. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 7

BRISBANE, Friday.--Croydon wires that there is no falling off in the character of the reefs, upon which there are vast acc[?]lations of stone waiting crushing, but power will…

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Handy Tool for Miners. a Fuse-cutter and Cap-setter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 24

The invention herewith illustrated provides a combination tool for miners' use, to cut the fuse, fasten the cap thereon, and to make a cavity in the powder, when desired, for inserting the fuse and cap,…

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Probable Shipment of Gold From Australia to America

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 16

London, Sept. 7.—The DAILY NEWS states that it is expected that Australia will remit £2,000,000 to America in the autumn…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page (597.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 15

WAIKATO (N.Z.).—A discovery of extensive alluvial gold deposits sear Cambridge, in the Waikato district, is attracting much attention, and a company ia being formed to work them…

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The Miner. Mining Around Rushworth. (By Our Travelling Artist Correspondents.) (See illustrations on page 599.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 24

"In thy exhaustless mine, From age to age unnumber'd treasures shine." —ROGERS. It was in August, 1853, at the time that the…

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Monk Wearmouth Colliery

Evening News · Monday 19 September 1887 · page 5

LONDON, September 17.—The Monk Wearmouth Colliery Co. has been registered with a capital of £200,000 to work the Monk wearmouth Colliery at Lake Macquarie, New South. Wales…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 September 1887 · page 7

Mining-matters are improving at Solferino and Nana Creek. Our Grafton correspondent wires:--"News has reached Grafton that J. S. Smith and party, now working the Garibaldi…

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