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Mining & the mines, 1891

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Mining Intelligence. Alicktown Affairs

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 3

An Alicktown correspondent writes: -- The development of the Westcott Paddock, since the arrival of the permits some three weeks ago, goes rapidly forward. Of the 16…

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North Bulli Coal and Iron Co

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 6

The Hon. G. H. Cox, M.L.C., as chairman of the North Bulli Coal and Iron Mining Co., presented to the shareholders the fifteenth report yesterday. A dividend at the rate of 5 per…

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Terrible Mining Accident. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 5

No Sign has been discovered up to the present of the victim of the fearful mining accident which occurred yesterday at the South Devonshire mine, Eaglehawk, a few…

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Serious Mining Accident. Buried Alive

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—While Thomas Cox and James Sims were working in an intermediate level 65Oft from the surface of the South Devon shire Mine, at Eaglehawk, they were startled by…

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More Gold a New Reef at Peak Hill

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 5

PEAK HILL, Wednesday.—A splendid reef 8ft to 10ft wide has been discovered by Walker and patty at Myall, at 100ft depth. The reef is showing gold freely. This is quite a new development…

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The Mining Industry. Crushings and Assays. Managers' Reports

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 3

Webb's Silver Mine.—Raised for week 65 tons. Bulk of ore from 250ft south stope, 90 tons from 250 north, and 60 tons from the 200ft stope From this crashed 120 tons sorted ore. Dispatched…

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Mining Accident at Eaglehawk. Collapse of a Level. a Miner Entombed. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 5

A terrible accident occurred about 11 o'clock to-day at the South Devonshire mine, Eaglehawk, causing the entombment and probable death of a miner named Thomas Cox, who, with a young…

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Accident in a Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Thursday. -- A young man named Joseph Sheard, employed as a miner in the Mount Kembla colliery, sustained a frightful injury yesterday forenoon through a large…

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The Illawarra Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 2

Mr. J. B. Nicholson, secretary of the Illawarra Miners' Union, has written to the Trades and Labor Council to say that last week he paid strike pay to 160 men, some of whom had gain…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 7

Messrs Leonard Dodds and Co. report the sale of 100 tons of Nymageo copper at £64 10s Per ton. A meeting of shareholders of the…

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Mining Leases

The Australian Star · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 6

ALBURY, Frdiay.--A number of leases, covering several square miles of country near Germanton, have been taken up under the mining lease clauses on behalf of a…

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Victoria. the Coal Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- A large deputation of Victorian colliery-owners, members of the Chamber of Manufactures, Trades-hall Council and others waited upon the Premier this…

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Victorian Coal Resources. Deputation to the Premier. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 6

A strong deputation waited on the Premier this morning to urge that a measure of practical Protection be granted to Victorian oral by its preferential use on the railways…

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Melbourne Management of Mines. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 3

Sir, -- As an interested party in silver-mines, I would thank you to kindly allow me a few lines in order to express my opinions about the Central Broken-hill Silver-mine and its…

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Shocking Mining Accident. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 5

A man named Joseph Sherd met with a dreadful accident yesterday at the Kembla mine. While undermining coal a large quantity suddenly came away, breaking one wrist and one thigh, besides smashing…

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Wentworth Goldfields

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 4

LONDON, February 12.—At a meeting of the shareholders of the Wentworth Goldfields Co., Mr. Cooper, the engineer of the company, exhibited ore taken from the…

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The Wentworth Goldfields Company. London, Feb. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 5

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Wentworth Goldfields Company, Mr. Cooper, the engineer of the company, exhibited ore taken from the mine…

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An Ancient Mine

Evening News · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 3

An interesting discovery has been made on the Harnhalli Gold Mine, in the Mysore (says Indian Engineer). While sinking the main shaft the workmen broke into an old shaft, dug, perhaps,…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 6

Messrs. Leonard Dodds and Co. inform us that the board of directors of the Sunny Corner Silver-mining Company, Limited, in Sydney, on taking over the management of the company…

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Newcastle Coal Export

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- The British-India steamer Mombassa left for Singapore via Sydney to-day, with over 5000 tons of coal, being the largest cargo that has yet left…

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