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Mining & the mines, 1890

4,682 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 235

Northern Miners' Association

Evening News · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday.-The first quarterly meeting of miners' delegates under the new laws of the Miners' Association was commenced in Moroney's Rooms on Thursday morning. The…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 7
Also in Evening News

The secretary of the New Terrible Dick Silver-mining Company yesterday showed us some rich samples of ore just received from the mine. The specimens, now on view at the…

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The Barrier Mines. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Thursday.--It was reported here this afternoon that the water supply used in connection with the smelting works at Block 14 had completely failed and that it…

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Mining Intelligence. Reports

The Australian Star · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 7

Murrumbidgee Copper Sydnicate.--The mine manager reports:--" Cross-cut driven 5ft., total 16ft. We met with hanging- wall, to-day, which is 20ft. from footwall. The…

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Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy

The Australian Star · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 7

AN exhibition of mining and metallurgy is to be opened in London in July next. The Crystal Palace at Sydenham has been chosen as the place in which it is to be held,…

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Coal Cargoes.—explosion" on a New Zealand Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 6

An explosion of gas tooK place recently on board the New Zealand steamer W[?]tea, and as the case is one to which, in the interest of those who are largely employed in the carrying trade of coal, cannot be made too public, the…

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Silver-mining Boom. Excitement at Tumberumba. TUMBERUMBA

The Australian Star · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 5

There is great excitement here over a rich find of silver and minerals at No-Place, Jingellic. Numbers of persons are applying for leases, and others are working under…

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Newcastle Miners' Quarterly Delegate Meeting. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 April 1890 · page 9

The miners' quarterly delegate meeting was held today, all the lodges being represented. The press was not admitted. The business was of a general routine character. The financial statement showed a credit…

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Mining

Evening News · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The mine it manager of the Royal Standard G.M. Company reports, under cate 7th instant: Crushed 23 1/2 tons o stole for a yield of 15oz 2dwt of gold, which I sent by escort on Thursday night The stone…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL, Friday,--The week's run at the Broken-hill Proprietary : Ten furnaces treated 2673 tons of ore, producing 505 tons of bullion and 143,792oz. of silver…

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Coal at Liverpool

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 6

MESSRS. Mills, Pile, and Wilson are in receipt of an important telegram from Liverpool, stating that a 6ft. 6in. seam of very superior coal has been struck on the…

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The Greta Colliery Difficulty. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 5

GRETA, Friday.--The trouble over the Leconfield and Greta pits being cavilled together has been temporarily settled. The company agree for the miners to cavill for Leconfield and Greta…

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The Northern Miners. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The miners delegate board met again to-day, but the press were not admitted. Further routine business was transacted. The result of the ballot taken by the…

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The Mining Exhibition

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 4

At the request of the Minister for Mines Mr. E. W. Bathurst, who in Sydney represents the executive council of the International Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, to be held in…

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Mining Intelligence. Reports

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 3

Delaney's Dyke G.M. Co.--The manager reports under date April 5:-- "Main shaft down 86ft.; started crosscut from 120ft. level to meet main shaft in…

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Capital Value of Leading Silver-mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 4

The course of the market since the holidays has been almost uniformly downwards. Block 10 have suffered to the extent of over £2 10s per share and Central over £1. South, British…

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The Late Coal Miners' Strike at Newcastle. Diversion of Trade From the Port [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 12

The effects of the late miners' strike are still shown by the almost empty harbour. A. number of vessels have recently been ordered to take Southern coal to Singapore. Until the last general…

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North Australian Mining Company

Evening News · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 4

LONDON, April 11.-The North. Australian Milling Company has decided to suspend operations, pending the receipt of an explanation regarding the recent…

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