The Barrier Mines
BROKEN-HILL, Friday. -- No change was observable in the Block 10 mine this morning in the way of developments. The general working of the levels is now to get out the best of the…
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Burwood Coal Company
The 13th half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the above company was held yesterday, Mr. T. Cowlishaw in the chair. The report stated that the net profits for the half-year amounted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Colliery Explosions. London, Jan. 22
A terrible colliery explosion has taken place at the Jasnovada Colliery, Azov, in the south of Russia. About 100 miners were killed, and many…
Continued on Trove, page 240 →Accident in a Mine
WOLLONGONG, Friday. -- An accident happened yesterday afternoon at the Mount Pleasant colliery to a miner named William Kenning. The unfortunate man had ignited a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Utilising Victorian Brown Coal
Mr. J. Cosmo Newbery, acting under instructions from the Mining Department of Victoria, has bit upon a process by which the brown coal of that colony can be compressed into briquettes of such density as to…
Continued on Trove, page 271 →Stockton Coal Co., Limited
The 16th half-yearly report and statement of accounts of the Stockton Coal Co., Ltd., was presented by the directors to the shareholders at a meeting held in the Chamber of Commerce on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Coal Trade Regulations
NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- A special meeting of both shipping and colliery managers was held to-day to consider the proposed regulations of the coal traffic. The press were not admitted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Piercy's Patent Gold Amalgamator
This is a machine, recently patented, for saving fine gold from quartz tailings and ground sluices, and which is now before the public. The action of the machine is aa follows:—The tailings or other material…
Continued on Trove, page 271 →Colliery Explosion in Russia. One Hundred Lives Lost
A TERRIBLE colliery explosion has taken place at the Jasnovada Colliery, Azov, in the Bouth of Russia. One hundred miners have been killed, and many others were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Australasian Mining Exchange
THE sixth half-yearly meeting of the Australasian Mining Exchange Co., of Sydney, called for this afternoon lapsed through the want of a quorum. The report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Coal Output. Considerable Decrease
The outputs of the non-associated collieries during last year are now to hand, and, as will be seen, the total output of the district is considerably behind that of 1889. The returns from…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mining Opinions and Assays
A. J. C. (Loath).—The sample forwarded is not worth assaying, and not likely to carry gold or silver. It u purely an iroa ore…
Continued on Trove, page 244 →The Barrier Mines. Broken Hill, Jan. 25
A good deal of activity is being shown along the couth extension of the Broken Hill line as far south as the White Lead Proprietary. Block 5 shaft is down 553ft., and galena is showing strongly in the leaders…
Continued on Trove, page 272 →A Gold Rush. The Wyndham Field
THE Minister for Mines has received a communication from Mr. Maunsell, the goldfields warden at Wyndham, giving some further particulars of the new gold rush which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Discovery at Sudest. Cooktown
The Hygeia, which arrived from Sudest on Saturday night, reports that a miner there had found a splendid gold-bearing reef on the western part of the island. The reef has been traced for one mile…
Continued on Trove, page 272 →Terrible Disasters in America. Collision in Kansas—colliery Explosion in Pennsylvania
LONDON, Jan. 27.—A train conveying back 70 cavalry, the recent Indian rebellion, collided with an express train in Kansas, and both the trains were wrecked by the force of the impact…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Latest Mining News. (Continued From Page 25.) The Wallah Wallah District. Silver Mining
Captain W. C. Rowe, late of the Wheal Watkins Mine, Glen Osmond, has shown some specimens of silver-bearing stone obtained from the Wallah Wallah district, New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Fate of an Old Miner. Smothered in a Mine
An elderly miner, named Thomas Asbley, waa smothered by a quantity of small coal at South Wallsend Colliery on Tuesday. He was working in a small coal-box, and slipping, his shovel fell…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Yalwal Mining News. (From Our Correspondent.)
YALWAL, January 28.—The Homeward Bound last crashing of 900 tons averaged only about 2dwt, but the stone put through was only from the surface. They are now tunnelling at about…
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