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All the Moonta miners struck work this morning. The reason is that the company retain 25 per cent. of the amount due upon contracts until the contract is completed. The men consider this excrbitant, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- Three hundred men working underground at the Moonta Mines on Yorke's Peninsula struck work this morning, refusing to go below. The dispute was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- The Ferndale Coal Co. have refused an interview with the district officers of the Miners' Association, on the ground that they would deal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning we telegraphed to our Broken Hill correspondent to the effect that an unfavourable report had been published in ra the Central Co., and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Bourke correspondent wires: -- "Mount Billygoe shares are locally looking up. One shareholder here has been offered £60 a-piece for shares in the Prospecting Company but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE week's record in connection with New South Wales mining matters has again been almost entirely confined to operations with regard to our silver fields. The sensational discoveries of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The following quotations were recorded yesterday morning on the Mining Exchange:—Silver: Central (paid up), £6 15s.; ditto (contributing), £6 10s., £6 11s.; Day Dreams, 5s. 9d.; Eyeleens, 11s. 6d.; Rising Sun, 30s.;…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Prices at the open Exchange were, generally lower. It is noticeable that in the case of Junction, South Central, South Extended, Mount Costigan, Eveleen and Webbs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- The miners' delegates have resolved that fresh ballot-papers be issued relative to the question of the Ferndale miners giving notice to cease work. The request of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CROYDON, Friday. -- Later reports sent in show that during February, the gold yield for 1702 tons was 4128oz., some mill-owners only furnishing the yield, which brings the total…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Government has promised a bill to facilitate mining upon private property: but, like many other promised measures, it is not likely to see daylight, far less to be passed into law for many a long day…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The week's return at Broken Hill mine was 43,620oz. of silver, 182½ tons of bullion from 1244 tons of ore treated. 135 tons of bullion in the new furnaces are not included in the above. There was broken time through shutting down…
Continued on Trove, page 490 →PERTH, Friday. -- There is nothing further to report regarding the gold discovery by Colreavy at Yilgarn. The gold fever is running high and prospecting parties, well equipped,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BROKEN-HILL, Friday. -- The week's yield at the Proprietary, less one furnace 18 hours, is 58,269oz. from 282½ tons of bullion, from 1794 tons ore treated. No reason is given for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PERTH, Friday. -- Mr. Hamilton White, who was largely interested in the Kimberley goldmines, was drowned on February 6 while attempting to swim Hall's Creek, Kimberley…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The clouds are lightening a little in the farinaceous colony, From a farinaceous point of view, indeed, things are bad enough; for, even with the assistance of the Ridley reaper, wheat-growing cannot pay at…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →THE "BOOM" IN MELBOURNE.—Our special travelling correspondent wrote as follows from Melbourne The silver mining boom is at fever heat just now in Melbourne. The offices of the…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Sir, -- The statement elicited from the mining manager at the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Gold-hill Gold-mining Company at Orange on the 1st inst. is so…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eleven miles to the south-east of Clunes is the famous mining township of Creswick, which was first brought into existence by one of the rushes which so rapidly followed the early discoveries of gold…
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