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Mining & the mines, 1888

3,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 194

The South Waratah Colliery Dispute

The Australian Star · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The Glebe miners, at a meeting last night, struck a levy of 5 percent, for the support of the South Waratah miners…

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The Western Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 3

Towards the conclusion of the meeting of the Western Miners' Association, held on Monday evening last in the Temperance-hall, Lithgow, Mr. John Norton said that he had reluctantly…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 7

Messrs. Leonards Dodds and Co. report the Bale of 100 tons of Nymagee Company ingot copper at £71 8s. 6d. per ton. Also a dividend (the seventh of Is. per share) has been…

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The Northern Miners' Union

The Australian Star · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 6

It is with the greatest pleasure we have to announce the appointment of Mr. Ralph [?]oundry, of Lam[?]ton, to the position of chairman of the Miners Union of the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 5

The following transactions were recorded by the associated brokers, yesterday morning:—Silver: British Broken Hill, £7; Block 14, £12 18s.; Junction, £7 2s 6d.; New North, 75s.; South, paid up, £11 15s., £11 13s.,…

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Mining Intelligence. Notes

The Australian Star · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 3

THE traders of this column will be ple[?]ed to are that the Minister of Mines has lost no time in giving effect to the promise he made in the House last week in reference…

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Cable News. Germany Purchasing Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. -- Germany continues to purchase large quantities of gold…

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Rockwell Silver-mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. -- Shares have been allotted in the Rockwell Silver-mining Company, New South Wales, which was floated With a capital of £175,000…

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New Zealand Mining Companies

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night. -- Two New Zealand mining companies have been registered -- the Beaches Gold-mining Company, with a capital of £50,000 ; and the…

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Mining. What Silver Mining Does

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 11

TAKE for instance, the impetus given to trade by the Broken Hill Proprietary mine alone. In-dependently o£ the thousand miners, smelters, tradesmen, and labourers, who are directly…

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Proposed School of Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 761

The question of the establishment of a school of mines is now engaging tho consideration of the Government. The popular feeling with regard to it appears to bo that it should be in no way…

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Mining Intelligence. Notes

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 5

Lankelly Mining Co., Limited.--The secretary reports that 576oz 7dwt gold were despatched from the mine for Sydney this morning…

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A Coal and Coke Crusher

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 25

The apparatus which we illustrate is a simple but powerful little machine, known as the " Acme" stonebreaker, which can be used for stone-breaking, coal and coke crushing, bone-breaking and so on. It is,…

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The Barrier Mines. Silverton, March 28

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 765

Hidden Secret Silver-mining Company.—The manager reports, March 24:—Work is going on satisfactorily. Under present circumstances, owing to the influx of water, we have had to take men out of No. 1 vertical and put…

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Meeting of the Miners Delegates. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--At the quarterly meeting of the miners' delegates Mr. Ralph Goundry was re-elected president of the association, Mr. Wm. Hunter treasurer, and Mr. Jas. Curley…

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Mining Booms and Mining. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 12

Sir,—Much has lately been written in the papers concerning mining booms. Will you accord me some of your valuable space to add my quota on a subject of so general an interest. The almost invariable tenor of the…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 701.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 14

PROPOSED SCHOOL OF MINES.—As the Government proposes, it is said, to place £20,000 upon the estimates for the establishment of a school of mines, Sir W. Manning (the Chancellor of the University)…

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Old Roman Mining Machinery. (See illustration on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 24

Our illustration is from a photograph taken by magnesium light. We are indebted for it to Mr. Osborne, C.E, F.G.S, the manager of the Rio Tinto Company's mines in Spain. These mines, as is well…

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Through Queensland's Goldfields. (From Our Travelling Artist Correspondent.) the Reid's Creek District. (See illustrations on page 702.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 17

This " truly rural" little mining: township, which contains a population of some hundred and fifty souls, forty of whom are miners, is situated to the southeast of Mount Perry, at a distance by road of some…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1888 · page 7

Mr. H. H. Cooke informs us that he has received a private letter from a reliable practical miner, residing at Drake, Fairfield, from which the following extract is taken regarding two of…

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