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Mining & the mines, 1891

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The Amalgamated Miners Conference. Proposed Construction of a Chief Council. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 7

The Amalgamated Miners' Association Conference continued its sittings at Stawell to-day. The whole time of the meeting was taken up wilh the disoussion of proposals for the construction of a chief…

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Peak Hill Goldfield

Evening News · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 5

PEAK HILL, Wednesday.—Ninety-three tons from Williams and M'Rae's claim yielded 38oz lOdwt retorted gold. This was a very mixed lot of stone from an open-faced quarry. This yield…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 7

The Proprietary Bingara Cinnabar Syndicate, No Liability, has been formed with a capital of £2000 in 80 shares of £25 each, Mr. H. Havelock Smith being appointed as managing director…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 7

BROKRN-HILL, Thursday.--Mr. Harper, the underground manager of the Proprietary mine informs your correspondent that the western crosscut from Jamieson's shaft at the 515ft…

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The Yalwal Mines

Evening News · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 3

These gold mines, which are situated some IS miles from. Nowra, the chief town on the Shoal-haven River, do not, it would seem, receive much consideration from mining men, though they have…

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Trouble in the Co-operative Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--Work was resumed at the Co-operative colliery to-day. The mine has been idle since Tuesday, owing to the wheelers and horsedrivers employed in the pit…

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Killed in a Mine

Evening News · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 5

Broken Hill, Friday.—A fatal accident happened, on Thursday afternoon, at the Consols Mine, Bret en Hill, to a man named Julius Nering. Deceased, with his mates, had placed…

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Victoria. the Miners' Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Amalgamated Miners Association conference was resumed at Stawell to-day. Mr. Waters, of the Kadina branch moved--"That a letter of condolence…

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Mining Intelligence. Reports

The Australian Star · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 2

Ethel May G.M. Co., No Liability.--The mine manager reports under date February 21" No. 4 drive has been extended 7ft., making a total of 70ft. Reef smaller in…

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Registration of Mining Companies

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 3

A deputation from the Stock Exchanges, mining brokers and others waited upon the Treasurer yesterday morning to make certain representations with regard to the position of…

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Deputations. the Registration of New South Wales Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 3

A deputation, introduced by Mr. G. R. Dibbs, M.L.A., waited on the Colonial Treasurer yesterday, to ask that the Companies Act should be amended so that all companies doing business in New South Wales shall…

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A Dispute in a Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 5

The Co-operative Colliery, atter a atoppage of two days on account of the wheelers refusing duty, resumed work this morniing. The dispute with the wheelers and horse dirvers was on account of…

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The Amalgamated Miners' Conference. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 5

The annual conference of the Amalgamated Miners was continued at Stawell to-day. It was unanimously resolved that a letter of condolence be sent to the widow of the Minister of…

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N.S.W. Mining Properties. the Registration Difficulty. the Colonial Treasurer's Promise

Evening News · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 2

For soma time past there has been an outcry in New South Wales against the law which allowed a number of foreign and intercolonial companies to own valuable mining property in New South…

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Buried in a Coal Mine

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 16

FOUR men who were entombed in a coal mina in Pennsylvania, in the United State, were on Feb. 25 resecued after having been imprisoned for 10 days,…

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Western Coal Miners. Lithgow

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 494

The Western miners' annual demonstration and sports took place to-day, and, assisted by fine weather and a large attendance, were very successful. Numbers of unions assembled at Wallace's Assembly Rooms shortly…

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The Miners and Mining Companies

Evening News · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 7
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

A great change has come over mining in N.S. Wales during the last 10 years or so in various ways—one feature, comparatively new, being the working or managing of mines by the machinery…

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The Western Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 5

LITHGOW, Friday. -- Complaints have again been made regarding the scarcity of railway trucks at some of the pits during the week and the consequent loss of time. Partly through…

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Accidents and Offences. Railway Collision. Coal Mine Explosion. Murder in Russia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 12

LONDON, February 21.—A shocking railway accident is reported from America. A passenger train while passing through a tunnel in New York came into collision…

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