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Mining & the mines, 1891

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The Amalgamated Miners' Association

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 381

The second annual conference of the Barrier Colonial District No. 3 of the Amalgamated Miners' Association was commences at the Council-chambers, Silverton, on the 5th inst. The District resident, Mr. R. W. Rowe,…

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Antimony Mine near Bendemeer

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 381

Mr. J. H. Gillman, who is at present in this city, submitted to our inspection recently some specimens of antimony ore obtained from a lease about 200 acres, which is situated six miles east of Bendemeer, distant…

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Mining Gossip

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 20

FROM Cobar we learn that the Occidental cleared up 240 tons of stone for 261ez. smelted gold. CARCOAR news a few days since informed us that the Lord Jersey claim, Forest Reefs, had…

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Mineral and Gold Leases

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 381

WHILE Mr. Sydney Smith, the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, was on his visit to Peak Hill and Alectown he gave the miners of those districts some valuable information regarding…

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Something About Irish Gold-fields. Are They Yet Worked Out?

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 20

GOLD appears to have bean found in Ireland very remote period. It is recorded that Tiernmas, one of the apocryphal Kings of Ireland, worked gold mines in the forests of the Dublin and…

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The Barrier Mines Broken Hill. Feb. 4

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 381

Curing the week the output of ore from the South mine amounted to 244 tons, of which 4 tone wore copper. The total shipped for the week is less than usual, owing to the Central mine having taken over their south shaft…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued From Page 25.) Mining at Parkes. (From "The Tourist.")

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 41

The Bushman Mine is in full swing once again 80 tons of stone being now put through the battery, which is expected to go about loz to the ton. The old workings are almost clear of water…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 24

Tin and Copper—Sydney Prices. —The market for tin ore is quiet at 10s 6d per unit. There ia nothing doing in copper, the sale value being about £55 per ton…

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The Great Central Copper Mining Company

Evening News · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 8

The shareholders in the Great Central Copper Mining Co. had an unusually long meeting on Friday afternoon, when the directors of the company presented their eighteenth half-yearly…

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More Gold. a New Reef at Peak Hill

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 41

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

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Victorian Coal. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 9

The Premier received a large deputation yesterday of persons interested in the Gippsland coalmines, who urged that various concessions should be made by the Government for the encouragement…

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Mining Accident at Eagle-hawk. Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 353

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

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The Mining Accident near Mount M'Donald. Mount M'donald, Feb. 6

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 382

The Battery Point mine, where two men were buried yesterday by a fall of earth in the tunnel, is situated at the junction of the Lachlan and Burrowa Rivers, about 10 miles from here. The miners from…

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The Miner. Our Mining Letter. (Written for the "Town and Country Journai.")

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 24

Mining pursuits having obtained such magnitude and importance in the colony, and reliable information repeating them being so muoh sought by the public, we have engaged the services of a gentleman who will…

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Calaveras County. Where the Cavorting Cataclysm Hails From. The Days of the Mining Fever

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 8

FEW portions of California have been made more familiar to the English-speaking millions of all parts of the world than Calaveras county. Bret Harte and Mark Twain have…

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Pambula Goldfield. (CONTINUED.)

Evening News · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 8

In our previous article on this field, a description generally was given of the chief claims or leases, showing the size of the lodes and the yields that have been obtained by experimental…

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Pambula, Goldfield. (CONTINUED.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 24

In our previous article on this field, a description generally was given of the chief claims leases, showing the size of the lodes and the yields that have been obtained by experimental…

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The Two Detectives; OR, Mountain Mag. a Goldfield Story

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 29

Dalton, who knew the sound, to be a signal of the Regulators, stopped and glanced about him; and noting that Connolley was close behind, and the attention…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 7

The secretary of the Broken-hill Block 14 Company informs us that the directore of that company have to determined to lease the Junction smelting Works at Port Adelaido…

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The Hillgrove Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 7

HILLOGROVE, Saturday.--In the Sunlight In No. 8 level the contractors are working 5 the slopes from No. 6 towards No. 6 shaft.Four stopes going, the stone being of the…

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