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Mining & the mines, 1888

3,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 194

Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1888 · page 5

In the mining market on Saturday the following sales were reported:—Burwood Coal, 32s. 6d.; West Wallsend (paid up), 17s. 6d.; Wickham and Bullock Island, 15s. 6d.; Broken Hill No. 14 Block, 13s., 15s.; Junction, £5 5s.,…

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Queensland Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1888 · page 7

BRISBANE, Sunday.-- On Saturday, Brokenhill Block, sales 62s., sellers 33s. North Gianmire quoted 20s.: Monkland, Nos. 7 and 8 Tribute, buyers 3s. 6d., sellers 4s. ; Mount…

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Goulburn Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1888 · page 7

GOULBURN, Saturday.--The Cookbundoon Silver-mining Company have struck a fine body of carbonate are four feet below the surface in the new shaft. The assay has returned 27oz…

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Mining News. Valuable Silver Find

The Australian Star · Monday 20 February 1888 · page 6

GOULBURN, This Day.-- The Cookbundoon Silver Mining Company has struck a fine body of carbonates four feet from the surface in the new shaft, assaying Silver…

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Broken-hill Mining News. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1888 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Saturday.—An unexpected rich discovery was made in the Junction mine to-day. The men engaged stripping in No. 1 winze of Penglase's shaft, in order to make…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Colonial Mining Ventures. London, Feb. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1888 · page 8

The Sir Henry Havelock Gold-mining Company, Queensland, with a capital of £230,000, and the Champion Gold and Silver-mining Company of New Zealand, with a capital of…

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The Grand United Gold-mining Co

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 8

WAGGA, This Day.--A meeting of a number of shareholders in the Grand United Goldmining Company of Tarcatta, was held on Saturday night, at which a…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 7

Messrs. Watt aud Dodds inform us that the strike at the Nymagoe Copper mine has been settled and active work will be at once resumed…

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Mining Intelligence. Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 2

The Sydney Rockwell Company have cut water so strong in the bottom of their main shaft as to compel them to stop work, their whip being quite insufficient…

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Mining News. Important News of South B. H Mine. Broken Hill, This Day

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 5

The new smelters on the proprietary claim were started on Saturday. One smelter was only put under half blast, in consequence of the now brickwork and…

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The Gold-hill Mine. a Few Facts for the Shareholders. Further Inquiry Necessary. Iv

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 5

In my former articles (writes our representative) I think it was shown clearly (1) that there was no evidence to convict the directors or management of the Gold- hill Company of…

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The Minister of Mines

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 6

MR. ABIGIL left to visit several southern districts on Friday, and it is not expected that he will return until Wednesday…

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Monday's Mining

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 8

AT the Australasian Exchange this morning there was a large attendance. A case of repudiation of a transaction was brought before the room. Both parties had their…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 9

The following quotations were received in the Mining Market up to 1 o'clock yesterday;:—British Broken Hill (paid up). £7 7s. 6d.; Broken Hill Block Company (paid up), 37s. 6d.; Junction, £7 10s., £5 15s., £5 11s., £5 10s.;…

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Curious Death in a Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday.-- An inquest on the body of tho miner Charles Wotarland, who was killed in a shaft on the Northumberland Coalmining Company's Estate, near Tralby,…

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A New Gold Field

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 7

The mining warden at Kempaey has forwarded to the Under-Secretary for Mines a report from Mr. Beche, a competent authority, on the goldfield recently discovered near Deep…

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Mining at Croydon

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 7

Writing on February 3 our Croydon correspondent says:—" Mining matters have improved considerably lately, the fine yield fur January, 6367 oz. from 1574 tons of stone,…

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Broken-hill Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Monday.-- The new smelters at the Broken-hill Company's mine have been erected, and one furnace was blown on, Saturday another to- day, and one is to be to-morrow…

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Western Australian Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 7

PERTH, Monday. -- The Commissioner of Police has received n telegram stating that Payne, the discoverer of the Yilgarn Goldfields, has found payable gold in three places in…

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Braidwood Mining News. BRAIDWOOD, This Day

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 February 1888 · page 5

Mining matters throughout this district appear to ho progressing, and there are prospects of several new reefs being worked. At Araucan most of the claims…

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