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Mining & the mines, 1888

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A Bad Time for the Miners. Gloomy Reports

The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 January 1888 · page 5

Newcastle, This Day.—The pits are working alack time, and the miners are becoming afraid of the outlook. Credit is practically stopped by the storekeepers…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Respecting the recent find of gold in the Tweed district a correspondent writes: -- " The new digging which has broken out here is causing a great stir, and if there was no money…

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More Rich Silver Mines

The Australian Star · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 6

CASINO, This Day.--The greatest excitement prevails here over the great silver discovery at the White Rock, Fairfield. It is believed to be fabulously rich…

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Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 3

PROFESSOR CROOKS, president of the Chemieat Society of London, has discovered that [?] will boil violently when beated in [?]bydrogen flatue, and, in fuet, become…

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A Bad Time for the Miners. Gloomy Reports

The Australian Star · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The pits are working slack time, and the miners are becoming afraid of the outlook. Credit is practically stopped by the storekeepers…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 10

Mr. Matheson's party brought their visit to the Fairfield district to a conclusion yesterday, and returned to Tenterfield by coach. On the return journey a stoppage was made at Red Rock for a few hours, for the purpose of inspecting…

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Mining Boom Swindles. to the Editor of "The Australian Star."

The Australian Star · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 2

Sir,--You are benefiting the public by calling attention to so-called mining companies, many of them being only canning exploits into the pockets of the people…

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Depression in Newcastle Mining. Serious Out-look for the Men. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- The various collieries in this district have been working very badly of late. The miners at the Lambton colliery have only worked half a day during the…

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The Mosman Gold Mine

The Australian Star · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 7

OUR colonial brethren (says the PALL MALL GAZETTE) are at present busily improving the passing hour by exchanging their gold mines against the hard cash of…

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The Newcastle Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 5

Newcastle, Thursday.--The miners'demonstration committee met last night, when the following resolutions to be submitted at the meeting on demonstration day were approved…

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Mining

The Australian Star · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 7

At the 90ft level in the south drive, a reef about 12in wide, carrying about 90oz of silver and 5os of gold to the ton, has been found in the shaft of the Mount…

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The Miners Annual Demonstration

The Australian Star · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The miners annual demonstration has been fixed for the 10th of March, at Lambtan. There will, as usual, be a public meeting. Among…

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The Gold Discovery in North Wales

The Australian Star · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 2

THE ARGUS furnishes the following interesting account from the pen of its London correspondent of the recent discovery of gold near Delgelly in North…

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Administration of the Mining Law

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 7

TO THE EDITOR OP TUE DAILY TELEGRAPH. Sir,--Allow me through the columns of your valuable journal to call attention to the fact that the mining interest. in this district has…

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Gold Discovery in Western Australia. a Hell of Rich Stone. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 5

PERTH, Thursday.--Mr. Von Bibra, the prospector, returned to Perth to-day from Yllgarnhills. He reports that he has discovered a reef containing stone, of ironstone character,…

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Redrock Gold-mining Company. London, Jan. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 14

The Redroc[?] Gold-mining Company, Fairfield, New South Wales, with a capital of £40,000, is announced…

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MINING The Prospects of the Barrier Silver Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 162

What will be the outcome of the great excitement in the silver market as regards the Broken Hill and Silverton districts is a question of momentous importance to those who have invested their money in the…

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New South Wales Colliery Companies

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 6

The Mining Journal gives the following particulars of two colliery companies which have been formed in England to work properties in New South Wales: -- "The New South Wales…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 6

The hon. secretary Sydney Stock Exchange reports the crushing of the Band and Albion Gold-mining Company, Ballarat, for the past week to be 200 tons stone for a yield of 262oz…

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