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Mining & the mines, 1889

4,535 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 227

Gold-mining in New Zealand. London, May 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 11

The Queen Charlotte Sound Gold-mining Company, New Zealand, with a capital of £200,000, has been registered…

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COUNTRY. Borehole Miners

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--Mr. Gregson has refused to reinstate the Borehole minors, who "took the cage" recently…

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Mining

Evening News · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 6

COBAR, Friday.-A trial crashing for the Occidental is being put through. The machine is working well. Operations at the Occidental on a more extended scale are contemplated. Mr. Nancarrow has…

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Gold Prospecting

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 5

BRISBANE, This Day.--Two gold prospecting areas have been applied for on come ground at the foot of Mount Cook, within the municipality of Cooktown…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 13
Also in The Australian Star

The following transactions were recorded yesterday by the Sydney Stock Exchange:—Morning: Burwood Coal, 24s. 3d.; Wickham and Bullock Island, 25s.3d.; Broken Hill No. 14 Block, 96s.; Junction, 20s. 6d.;…

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Mining Leases

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 18

A new and important amendment in the practice of the Mines Department has just been introduced by Mr. Sydney Smith. Hitherto, applicants for mining leases which, from any…

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Yesterday's Mining

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 6

The following sales were effected at the Australasian Mining Exchange this afternoon--SILVER…

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The Colliery Strikes in Westphalia. London, May 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 11

The miners of Silesia are supporting the colliers on Westphalia, in Prussia, who are out on strike…

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Australasian Mining Exchange

Evening News · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 6

The following sales took place on Friday at the Exchange:-Silver: Central Broken Hill, 28s; Broken Hill Junctions, 21s…

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Mining Enterprise Rewarded

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 19

WE read the letter from our Mount M'Donald correspondent (says the Carcoar CHRONICLE) with no small degree of pleasure. Since the discovery of the reefs at Mount M'Donald, those connected…

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Late Mining. Carcoar

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 988

Some splendid specimens of quartz, known as blue granite, highly impregnated with gold, were brought into town by Mr. Plumb, M.L.A., from the Balmoral Gold-mining Company, Mount M'Donald, obtained at…

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Mining Assays and Opinions

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 989

D. O'DONNELL. (Hermitage Plains).—The specimens are all iron gossans mixed with more or less quartz. No. 6 is the most promising, and an assay might be made of that, but the samples altogether present the…

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The Barrier Mines Broken Hill May 1

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 994

At the South mine for some weeks past excellent carbonate of lead ore, carrying chlorides, has been broken in the stopes north of No. 1 trial shaft, above the 170ft. level, bat within the last two days a richer…

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A Plea for Mining Machinery

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 994

"L. B.," of Carcoar, in the course of a long letter, suggests that the Mines Inspector should be instructed by the Mines Department to visit every gold-producing district; and where the miners could prove to the…

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Australian Mining Schemes. London, May 3

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 962

The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a flowery interview with Miss Alice Cornwell, who is identified with Australian mining schemes, aud also with the scheme…

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Latest Mining News. The Prospecting Board

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 43

The progress report of the Prospecting Board (Messrs. Wilkinson and Slee) on the Clarence River district shows that at about four miles northwest of Chatsworth a shaft has been sunk through sevoral…

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The South Australian Copper Mines. Suspension of Work at Kadina. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 11

At Kadina, judging from a letter just received by the mine authorities, it is probable that about 140 miners will be out of work in a fortnight. The following copy posted at the mines to-day, dated…

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New Zealand Gold-mining

Evening News · Monday 13 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, May 11.-The Queen Charlotte Sound Gold mining Co., New Zealand, has been registered. The capital is £200,000…

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Terrible Colliery Accident

Evening News · Monday 13 May 1889 · page 5

LONDON, May 10.-A cage fell 500 feet in the main shaft of the Kaska Colliery, Pennsylvania, killing two colliers…

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