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Mining & the mines, 1888

3,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 194

The Silver-mining Boom. The Adelaide Market

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 6

ADELAIDE,Tuesday.--The silver-mining market here has become considerably depressed, although there has been no approach to a panic. The Broken Hill…

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Ejection of Chinese From the Clermont Goldfield. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 9

All the Chinese have left the Clermont goldfield, and the warden has burnt their camps. The Chinese, now numbering 150, are camped on the outskirts of the town, and have presented a petition through the…

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The Eviction of Chinese From a Goldfield. Trouble Ahead. the Chinamen Stated to Be Starving. C[?]MONT,This Day

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 5

Warder Morey, who has returned from Blanket Flat, reports that all the Chinese have cleared out from there. He states also that they had left the expedition…

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Gold Mines. to the Editor of the Daily Telegram

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 7

Sir,--I really don't know what your "Disappointed Shareholder " is driving at. He writes as if he really believed that the profits of mining came out of the bowels of the earth,…

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The Fairfield Gold and Silver Mines. the Properties Surrounding the Whits Rock

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5

Fairfield--officially called Drake--possesses flow a little more than a year's growth. Its development has been so rapid that, although Drake is in possession of six hotels and its…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 7

We are desired to state that a section of the coal seam which is intended to be worked by the West Wallsend Coal-mining Company has been brought to Sydney and can be seen at the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 8

The following quotations were received in the mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Burwood Coal, 2Ss. 6d.; Katoomba Coal, preferential shares, 2s. 2d.; Stockton Coal, 50s.; Wallsend Coal, 46; Waratah Coal, 17[?]; New Mount…

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Mining Notes. a Mining Tragedy-Comedy

The Australian Star · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 7

THE Melbourne H[?]BALD gives tho following highly-coloured picture of speculators on the Mining Exchange of that city, under the influence of a panic. The…

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A Mining Dispute

The Australian Star · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The dispute at the Dunkirk Colliery has been amicably settled, and the men will resume work on Monday…

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More Mining Disasters

The Australian Star · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE. This Day.--Yesterday a man named Connell was killed through a fall of earth coming upon him while he was at work in one of the mines round…

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Mining Accidents in Victoria

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--John Connell, a miner at Dunoily, was to-day overwhelmed by a fall of earth and killed. Another miner named T. Evanthorpe had his leg crushed terribly…

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West Australian Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 7

PERTH, Thursday.--In consequence of hoary rain on the Yilgarn Hills tilling the water-holes, a large number of prospectors' parties are forming. Shares in the present claims are…

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The Gold-hill Gold Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 6

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. Sir,—In your leader of Thursday, 2nd just you are rather hard on those who were deluded by the official reports of the Gold-bill mine,…

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Mining

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 10
Also in The Daily Telegraph

THE past fortnight's operations with respect to the colony's mining business have been confined almost exclusively to silver. The extraordinary boom to which reference was recently made has…

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Vegetable Creek Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 273

The following are the statistics of tin-ore raised from the principal claims on the Vegetable Creek watercourse, and the adjoining flats; also, from the mines on the Deep Lead up till 31st December, 1887. The total amounts to…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 15

The following quotations were received in the mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Nymagee copper, 18s., 17s. 9d.; British Broken Hill (contributing), 5¼; Broken Hill, No. 14 Block, 14, 14½: Junction, 78s., 80s., 80s. 6d.;…

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Gold and Silver

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 2

ALONG her father’s field they strayed, All flecked with cowslips yellow, A little dainty gold-haired maid, A sturdy nine-year fellow…

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Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 3

THE manager of the Golden Gully G. M. Coy. reports:--In main shaft, have further driven five feet, and have brought to surface two tons of stone carrying good gold…

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Slack Times with the Miners

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--Some coal mines are still working slack. Out at the Newcastle Co.'s mine, at Durwood, the men have only worked four days for this…

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