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Mining & the mines, 1890

4,682 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 235

Mining. Telegrams

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL, Saturday.--There is nothing fresh to report concerning Block 10 excepting that driving on tho course of the lode northward towards Block 11 is being commenced in…

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People Who Save. Scene in a Bank. A Prosperous Community. Gold ! gold! gold! gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 7

THAT is the kind of metal which is heaped in these prosperous days on the counters of the San Francisco savings banks (says the CHRONICLE), and it does not seem to be as…

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Colliery Engineers' Demands. Address by Mr. Curley. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 6

Mr. Curley, M.L.A., delivered a lengthy address at a meeting of the members of the Colliery Engineers' Association on Saturday night on the eight-hour question. He said…

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Miners' Affairs. a Conference Proposed. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 2

THE miners' delegates have decided to write to the southern and western miners, suggesting that a conference should be held to consider the…

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Barrier Miners. Election of Officers. Broken Hill

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 6

The local branch of the Miners' Association held a meeting on Saturday, when the officers for the ensuing half-year were elected. Great interest was evinced, and…

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The Mount Zeehan Mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday Night.--The Mount Zeehan Lead and Silver Mining Company, Tasmania, has been successfully floated with a capital of £275,000…

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Mining Intelligence. Broken Hill

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 8

Last week's output from the smelters was announced yesterday afternoon. At the British Block mine the ore treated amounted to 846 tons, and the bullion…

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Accident at a Mine. Condition of the Victims. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 5

The resident surgeon of the Sandhurst Hospital officials made a special examination at noon, on Saturday, of the victims of Friday's fearful accident at Lazarus…

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The Sandhurst Mine Explosion. Condition of the Injured. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--J. Fredericks, Christopher Kelly, H. Barman and J. Tippet, the surviving victims of the fatal explosion at the Lazarus mine, Sandhurst, are still in a critical…

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The Mining Industry. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")

The Australian Star · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 3

Sir,--Kindly find room in an early edition to thank Messrs. Davis and Ashley for their truthful letter of January 7, re "iron industry." Mr. Foote could not have caused…

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Mining and Booming. Results of the Last Boom: Prospects of Another. Ii

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 5

There may be differences of opinion in Sydney as to whether we are just now to have another boom, but most people who know anything of the matter are confident that even if there is no…

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Extraordinary Mountain Mystery a Goldfield Story

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1890 · page 7

Stanhope laughed. 'Haven't you enough On your mind, old fellow ? You'll get the benefit of all my " ideas " in good time.' And here the subject…

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Mandurama Gold Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 6

Mining experts need not to be told where the Mandurama gold mines are, but to the ordinary reader it may be information worth having to know that they are situated on the Belabula…

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Amalgamated Miners' Association

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 5

BROKEN HILL., Tuesday.—The election of officers for the local branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association was held on Saturday. The return from the outside branches did not come to hand…

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Miners' Benefit Society

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 5

WOLLONGONG,. Tuesday.--The Miner's Association is taking steps to bring into existence a minors' benefit society, on the lines of the English permanent relief funds…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 7
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The committee of the Stock Exchange of New South Wales notify in our advertising columns that the ballot for election of additional members will not take place before…

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Mining Intelligence

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 8

Our Bathurst correspondent wires:--" A company has been formed here for the purpose of erecting machinery and plant for the treatment of pyrites by the Florence process…

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Appointments in the Mines Department

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 9

Mr.G. Herring, J.P., who was transferred from the Lands to the Mines Department in 1874, and who has ever since hold the position of chief clerk, has been promoted to the office of Assistant Under-Secretary,…

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The Barrier Mines. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 7

BROKEN-HILL. Monday.--A development has taken place at the Central mine which, besides improving the apparent value of that property, has an important bearing on the prospects of…

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