Mining
CARGO ATTRACTING ATTENTION. - Since the Government Inspector of Mines (Mr. Slee) visited and reported favorably on the Cargo goldfield some months ago, a number of mining experts and…
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The Barrier Mines. (By Telegraph.)
BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--The influx of water from the face of the crosscut at the 400ft. level, Central Mine, is increasing, though the nature of the material being passed through…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday.--An accident, which has since terminated fatally, occurred yesterday at the Zigzag colliery. A lad of about 16 named David Derrick, employed as a wheeler, fell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mystery Mine.--important Developments. (By Telegraph.)
WILCANNIA, Tuesday.--The Mystery gold mine, situated on Landspeak, about 77 miles from Wilcannia, on the Mount Browne-road, is attracting considerable attention at present…
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The miners' disturbances in Silesia are subsiding. The riots at Witkowitz, arising out of the strikes, have been suppressed…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The Wickham and Bullock Island minors passed a resolution last night asking the committee of management of the Miners' Association to…
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GRETA, Wednesday.--A motion put at a miner's meeting held on Tuesday, approving of the chairman and delegate of the board withholding the committee of management's…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--At the Wallsend miners' meeting a minute from the delegate board--"That this board docs not approve of the mode of settlement at the…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--The directors of the Mount Zeehan Mining Comapny, Tasmania, which was recently floated in the London market, have declined to take over…
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The extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Webb's Console Silver-mining Company, adjourned from March 31 alt., and which was called for the purpose of repealing the existing…
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BROKEN HILL, Wednesday.--The present method of making Block 10 assays public is not giving satisfaction here and there is much grumbling in consequence. It seems that all…
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Some interesting specimens of gold-bearing quartz are at present on view at the office of Mr. A. Johnston, Hamilton-street. The stone, which was brought from…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--An extensive fall in the roof has occurred in a portion of the Wailsead Coal Company's tunnel. It was known that a creep had been taking place in…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Owing to the exhaustion of the Government vote of £7000, the Mining Department has been compelled to suspend nil boring operations with the diamond…
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Sir,—From letters and sub-leaders in your valuable journal, it appears very desirable that a suitable fuel for smelting purposes should be obtained for use at Broken Hill, and at more economic prices than are now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wallarah Colliery Dispute. General Condemnation of the District Officers. (By Telegraph.) (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle
The Wallsend miners have passed resolutions approving of the action of their delegate in not supporting the district officers in assenting to a reduction of prices at the Wallarah Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fall of Roof in the Wallsend Colliery. 240 Men Thrown Out of Work. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle
A report reached Newcastle last night that a creep in the tunnel of the Wallsend Colliery bad resulted in the falling in of the roof over a very large area, crushing out all the main roads under ground at that part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Executive Commissioner, International Exhibition of MINING, &c. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The announcement in this morning's issue that "Mr. Oscar Meyer will in all probability be appointed Executive Commissioner of the New South Wales portion of the International Exhibition of Mining and…
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