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Mining & the mines, 1888

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Broken Hill Mining

The Australian Star · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 8

BROKEN HILL, This Day.--Smelters are nearly ready at the Terrible Dick, stoping going on at 50 and 107ft Levels. The character of the ore is galens mixed with…

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Important Mining Case

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 1409

We learn from our London correspondent that last month an important judgment in a mining case was delivered in the Court of Appeal. The Judges held that shares issued at a discount were ultra vires, and…

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Latest Mining News. "Well, adrian, what fresh news from the mine?" (Conimned from page 1325.). News Nuggets

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 14

BRITISH LEAD MARKET.—Lead has continued to droop in the almost entire absence of business (said the London MINING JOURNAL of May 12). At £13 a buyer was found for Spanish; but there are now…

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Select Poetry. All for Gold

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 2

They’ll robe me in my bridal gown. Ah me, Ah me! They’ll robe me in my bridal gown. The arrange buds will be my crown,…

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Mining Assays and Opinions

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 1386

R. O. B.— Crystalline pyrites; gold, a faint trace; silver, a trace. J. M. (Boomey).—Your sample contains only a trace of silver and no gold…

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Mining on the Richmond

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 1409

Our Ballina correspondent writes on the 23rd instant:— "Mining is beginning to look up. The Black Rock Gold-mining Company have purchased an engine, &c., and are about erecting a battery on their ground. Men are at work…

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The Barrier Mines. Broken Hill, June 21

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 1411

A valuable discovery was made in the North Broken Mine to-day in the south-west drive at the 203ft. level, 80ft. in from the shaft. A quantity of highly-payable carbonate of lead was struck, showing native silver and…

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Late Mining. Nundle. JUNE 25

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 1408

At the Scandinavian, Mr. Borellas reports that the quartz he is now taking out shows gold, and matters are, therefore, more hopeful. Work at the Opossum mine continues satisfactory. The…

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The Metropolitan Coal Company's Works at Camp Crrek

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 13

The opening of a new coal mine in a matter of interest not only to its shareholders but also to the public, because it creates a new demand for labour, and tends to the further development of that great mining industry which…

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The State of the Mining Sharemarket

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 4

Prices of silver shares have continued on the whole to move upward during the past week. On Thursday last there was a sharp relapse, but in most cases the greater part of the fall…

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Mining. Rich Auriferous Discoveries in Western Australia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 8

AN extraordinary rich discovery of gold has been made in the Golden Valley country, Western Australia. A party under Parke and Mackie made the find. It is stated on good authority to be of…

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Government Smelting Works. Projected New Mining Bill

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 30 June 1888 · page 8

A deputation from the Australasian Mining Exchange, waited on the Minister of Mine ask for the establishment of public smelting works in Sydney. The Hon. Mr. Abigail…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 7
Also in Evening News

The prospectus of the Good Hope Gold-mining Company appears in our advertising columns for public information, the shares having been allotted according to contract as…

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The Wellington Mines

Evening News · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 3

The usually quiet town of Wellington is just now the centre of an intense mining mania. Mines before and behind, to the right and the left of us. With every second person having an interest in the Nelson, the…

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The Coal Trade

The Australian Star · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 4

The Newcastle trade is reported as very brisk, the fortnightly pay being a good one for the miners. Respecting the partiality by foreign customers for Greta and Wallsend…

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Waratah Colliery Dispute. Arbitration Agreed Upon

Evening News · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.-The arbitration agreement made on Friday in Sydney between the South Waratah. Colliery directors and the miners' deputies accompanied by the district officers was…

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South Australia. Gold Discovery

The Australian Star · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 5

ADELAIDE, This Day—There has been a now discovery of gold on the Moolooloo Run, near Beltana, but u rush to the place is deprecated. The majority of the gold…

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A Mining Manager Drowned

The Australian Star · Monday 2 July 1888 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

MELBOURNE, This Day.—R. Oxnam, late mining manager of the Queen's Birthday Mine, Malmsbury, has been found drowned in Kangaroo Creek, a portion of the…

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