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Mining & the mines, 1888

3,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 194

The Billygoe Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 7

BOURKE, Tuesday.--The Billvgoe mines are in a depressingly Hat country between Bourke and Cobar. The timber is this and scraggy and the dust plentiful. In some places tho teed…

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Mining Intelligence. Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 5

Terrible Dick Silver Mining Co.--We have received a letter from a shareholder asking us to " endeavour to obtain some reliable information in respect of this…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 12

The following transactions were recorded by the Associated Brokers at their first meeting yesterday:—Silver: Broken Hill South, paid up, £9 15s.; Eveleen, 11s. 6d., 11s.; Mount Costig n, 85s., 83s.; Sunner Corner, 8s.; Victoria…

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Gold Withdrawn for Germany

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--A heavy withdrawal of gold took place yesterday for Germany…

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Strike at the Mount Hope Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 5

Mount Hope, Tuesday.--All the miners at the South Mount Hope Copper-mine are on strike aud will not go to work until they get the 10 per cent…

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The Wingello Mining Company. London, March 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1888 · page 10

The petition for winding up the Wingello Gold-mining Company in Victoria will be heard on the 14th April…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 11

As the subjoined list of latest market quotations will serve1 to show, a decided change has occurred in the values ot mining scrip during the past fortnight. The decreased prices, it is believed, are, however, but…

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The Waratah Colliery Dispute. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--At a meeting of the South Waratah miners to-day the action of a number of men in filling coal at the Flaggy Creek pit at the directors' terms was strongly…

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Mining Intelligence

The Australian Star · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At this morning's meeting at the Australasian Exchange sales were as follow: -- South B. Hill will be seen to be much better; the appointment of a firat-class…

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Coal for Queensland Railways

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 5

Brisbane, Wednesday.--Amongst the various matters decided by the Cabinet to-day was the acceptance of the Isis Investment Company's tender for supplying 3000 tons of coal to the…

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The South Waratah Colliery Dispute. The Men ask for Arbitration

The Australian Star · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- The South Waratah miners met yesterday, when reference was made to the men filling coal at Flaggy Creek. After discussion a…

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The South Waratah Miners' Stri[?]. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 8

The South Waratah miners met this morning, Mr. T. Frith being in the chair. Reference was made to the fact that men were filling coal at Flaggy Creek. A motion was carried unanimously condemning the action of the men, as…

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Chinese on the Clermont Goldfield. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Fresh trouble has cropped up at the Clermont goldfield with the Chinese who were recently expelled from the district. Several returned to work without…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 March 1888 · page 7

In connection with the assays from the Maritoto mine, Messrs. Plumb and Doust, directors of the company, inform us chat the bulk from which they were taken consists of some 30cwt.,…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 March 1888 · page 3

The following transactions were recorded by the associated brokers at their first meeting yesterday:— Silver: Broken Hill Block 14, £12 15s., £12 17s. 6d., £12 18s. 6d., £13 1s., £13, £13 2s…

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The Proposed School of Mines. Suggestions by the University Senate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 March 1888 · page 8

The question of the establishment of a School of Mines is now engaging the attention of the Government, and although the details of the scheme have not been perfected, it is understood that a sum of £20,000 has been placed on the…

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Coal Mine Explosion

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 24

A disastrous and fatal coal mine explosion occurred at Dansmure and Sons' Wellington coal mine, Vancouver Island, at 8.45 a.m. on january 24. The foree of the explosion was such as to completely destroy…

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Mining. a Government Smelting Works a School of Mines

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 10

THE Government have decided, in view of the extensive mining discoveries throughout the colony, to take immediate steps towards the erection of smelting works for the purpose of…

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Colliery Explosion. New Your

The Australian Star · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 4

A terrible colliery explosion has occurred in Missouri, which has occasioned considerable loss of life. Forty bodies have been exhumed, and one hundred…

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