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Mining & the mines, 1888

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 6

Our Temora correspondent wired on Saturday :--"Another rich find has been made in the Mother Shipton. Messrs. Penman and Bushell brought into town to-day a lot of splendid…

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Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 5

The Prospecting Board visited Mac's Reef, near Queanbeyan, on Friday Last, and proceeded to Michelago on Saturday. They then took the railway back to…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 8

The following quotations were received in the mining market on Saturday:—Hetton Coal, 7¾; Wickham and Bullock Island Coal, 15s.; Great Cobar Copper, 5s. 9d., 6s.; Nymagee Copper, 15s. 3d., 15s.; Broken Hill Junction…

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The Northumberland Colliery Dispute. A Probable Settlement

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The dispute at the Northumberland Colliery between the sinkers and the manager, over the wages, is likely to be settled amicably…

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The Wingello Coal Company

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--The shares in the Wingello Coal Company, Camden, New South Wales, which has been registered with a capital of £185,000, are at a premium…

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Queensland Mining. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 6

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Official returns show the output of gold from Charters Towers during 1887 to have been 151,000oz., against 144,000oz. for the previous year…

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Mining Intelligence. Review of Last Week's Market

The Australian Star · Monday 16 January 1888 · page 3

THE second week of the year has passed with a very considerable improvement in mining prospects, and what is equally gratifying, in enhanced values; and the…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 7

The Mount Morgan jumping cases have assumed another phase. We learn from the Northern Argus that on January 9, before Mr. G. L. Lukin, the gold warden at Mount…

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Mining Promoting

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 4

To the thoughtful reader of mining prospectuses the most salient impression conveyed by their perusal will be the wonderfully profitable nature of mining…

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Latest Mining Intelligence

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 6

WHAT is called the "silver boom" in stocks in the Broken Hill district cased off somewhat towards the close of the past week, but it would be rash to affirm that…

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Lecture. Coal Grates and Stoves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 10

"Coal Grates and Stoves for Heating or Cooking Purposes" was the subject of a lecture delivered by Mr. John L. Bruce, I.A., at the Technical Hall, Pitt-street, on the evening of Friday, 6th instant. In his preliminary…

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The Silver Mining Boom

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.--The silver mining boom continues here. Gold stocks are almost neglected…

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Strike at the Nymagee Copper Mine. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 5

NYMAGEE, Monday.--The wood cartes and miners are on strike at the Nymagee copper mine, owing to the manager and directors breaking their promise given at the late stirke…

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Wages Dispute at the Northumberland Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 10

The sinkers at the Northumberland Colliery made a demand on Monday last for an advance of wages. They had up to then been receiving 8s. per day, and those in charge of each shift from 10s. to 11s., per day. On Monday…

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Visit to Tee Fairfield Silver Mines. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Reporter.) Drake

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 10

Mr. Matheson's party paid a visit to-day, to the White Rock silver mine, whian, is situated some three miles, and is reached from the township, through exceedingly rough and mountainous country. This discovery of silver…

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The "Roken-hill" of New England. Visit by a Mining Party. Floating of the White Rock Proprietary Company. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1888 · page 5

DRAKE, Monday--An inspection of the White Rock Proprietary Company's silver property, situated some three miles from Fairfield, was made to-day by a party numbering…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 January 1888 · page 7

The cable advises a further heavy fall in copper. It has, of course, been notorious all along that the prices recently ruling were artificial. They were the result of a temporary scarcity…

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Store Rich Silver Mines

The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 January 1888 · page 5

Casino, This Day.—The greatest excitement prevails hero over the great silver discovery at the White Hock, Fairfield, It is believed to be fabulously rich…

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Mining Intelligenge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1888 · page 7

The following quotations were received in the mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Hetton Coal, [?] Stockton Coal, 43s.; Vale of Clwydd Coal, 20s.; Great Cobar Copper, 6s. 3d.; Nymagee Copper, 15s.; Broken Hill, No. 14 Block…

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Webb's Silver-mining Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1888 · page 7

With the present boom on in silvers, and more especially seeing that the shares in the abovenamed company have been for some months past rapidly advancing in public favour, and now command considerable attention, the…

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