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After a twenty hours passage by water from Brisbane, half of which is spent among the mud flats of Wide Bay and the mangrove-fringod banks of the Mary River, one reaches the long, low, straggling…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Merionethshire is more famed for its slate-quarries than for its mines. Still it is the only county in Britain where gold has been mined to any extent, and at a profit. The once-famous Clogan mine lies in the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →In a former issue we alarmed our belief that our King-street contemporary's commissioner had left the affairs of the Gold Hill Company's mine in almost as hazy a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Temora correspondent telegraph:-- A 6ft reef has been struck in the South Australian Company's claim at the 264ft level, 70ft, from the crossent in the east level. The stone…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, This Day.--At South Waratah Pit on Saturday, Thos. Hitchcock and Robt. Aldean were preparing a now road down the pit when a mass of stone fell and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following quotations were received in the Mining market on Saturday:—West Wallsend Coal (paid-up), 19s., 19s. 3d.; Great Cobar Copper, 15s. 6d.; Nymagee, 23s. 6d; Broken Hill New North, 60s.; South (paid-up),…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Our morning contemporary over the way publishes this morning a plan of the T[?]uena silver field, derived from the Melbourne ARGUS, which will be a great been to those…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.--The Bishop's Creek Gold-mining Company, Queensland, has been registered with a capital of £100,000. [These messages appeared in a portion of Saturday's issue.]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE eight-hour demonstration of the Western Miners' Protection Association is taking place to-day. A procession was formed and, headed by a brass baud,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LITHGOW, Monday.--The earth has given way to the extent of several thousand tons in the Zigzag colliery and it is reported the mine is completely wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Zig-Zag Colliery, between Saturday and Sunday nights, a serious infall of the roof took place in the main heading in the upper layer of sandstone. On…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are informed that the business of the Australasian Mining Exchange, which has been so successfully started by Mr. S. Samper, has been taken over by a limited liability company…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pinnacle Tribute Silver-mining Company, Limited.--Manager reports, February 18:--I have let the two drives, to the 100ft level and the 200ft level on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following sales were recorded on the mining exchange yesterday:—Silver: British Broken Hill, contributing, £5 10s., £5 11s. 6d.; Block Co. (paid up), 73s.; Block 14, £14 5s.; Junctions, £7 17s. 6d., £3, £8 10s., £7 18s.; New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--Two miners, named Robert Aldean and Thomas Hitchcock, working at the South Waratah Colliery, had a narrow escape from being killed by a fall of stone in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A CURIOUS problem in Sydney is the calm indifference with which Chinese living in the city regard the laws which their less fortunate Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The annual demonstration in connection with the Coal-miners' Political Protection Association of the Western District, took place to-day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A very serious accident happened on Saturday afternoon at the South Waratah Colliery to two miners—Thomas Hitchcock, of New Lambton, and Robert Aldean, of Adamstown. They, with others, were timbering and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The western district miners held their annual eight-hour demonstration on the Lithgow Racecourse on Saturday. The weather was wet in the forenoon. Three hundred miners marched in procession to the ground, where…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →As will be seen from the report of the Great Cobar meeting, arrangements have been made for the sale of the whole output of the mine for three years certain for £60 per ton. This is a…
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