Pennsylvania Miners a Strike Riot. London, April 24
The miners who struck for the recognition of the Eight Hours system in the Pennsylvania mines have been evicted from their homes. Incensed at this hardship and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining & the mines, 1891
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A New Coal Company. West Maitland
The East Greta Coal Company, situate a few miles from West Maitland, has been successfully floated with a capital of £50,000 in £1 shares. The shares have been subscribed by a wealthy…
Continued on Trove, page 951 →The Money Market. Large Withdrawal of Gold
LONDON, April 24.—It is announced that a large withdrawal of gold has been made from the Bank of England for Lisbon. It is also stated that Russia is likely to take…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales
Tin and Copper—Sydney Prices.—The market for tin ore is quiet at 15s 6d per unit. In copper there is nothing doing; quotations about £53 per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Large Withdrawal of Gold From the Bank of England. London, April 24
A large withdrawal of gold has been made from the Bank of England for Lisbon. Russia is likely to take a million and a-half sterling in May…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Miner. Our Mining Letter. (Written for the "Town and Country Journal.") Mining- pitrsuits having obtained such magnitude and importance in tho colony, and reliable information respecting them being so mnoh sought by the public, we have engaged the servioes of a gentleman who will [?] from personal inspection contribute to our columns a series of letters on tho gold,' silver, coppery tin, antimony, and other kinds of minin? as carried on in the various mining districts. Our special mining correspondent is a gentleman of over 50 years' experience in mining in its various branches and forms, and in the smelting of ores and minerals and, in addition, ho has held important official positions in the colony my respect to mining for inauy years. Sofala. This Old [?] FIELD
One would have thought that after nearly 40 years of continuous mining, the gold would all have been exhausted at the old Turon goldfield of Sofala, but to this day the precious metal is being…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Two Detectives; OR, Mountain Mag. a Goldfield Story
Instantly the Doctor turned the key, opened the door, and thrust his head out cautiously. 'Well, Charlie?' he whispered…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Northern Items. Protest against a Coal Mine
NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—A public meeting was held in Buchanan's Criterion Hotel on Friday evening to protest against the sinking of a shaft for coal mining purposes on the railway reserve at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Troubles
NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—A conference between representatives of the Associated Colliery Proprietors and delegates from the Miners' Association took place in the A.A. Co.'s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Greta Colliery Dispute
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The dispute between the management and miners at the Greta colliery over the cavilling question, which resulted in the stoppage of work at the .mine since the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A German Miners' Strike
LONDON, April 26.—A great strike of miners has taken place in Westphalia, a province of Prussia, where 15,000 men have struck work for shorter hours. The area of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. Telegrams
HILLGROVE, Saturday.--At the Earl of Hope-toun mine at the machinery site on top of the falls, very good progress has been made lately. The fixing of the large Duplex pump, supplied…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Quicksilver Mining Mexico
No country of North America has made more rapid progress is the last decade than the Republic of Mexico (the Illustrated London News says), and since the opening of its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Strike in Westphalia. London. April 26
Fifteen thousand miners in Westphalia have struck work for shorter hours. The strike is extending…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bendigo Miners and the S[?]arers. Melbourne
Several hundred members of the Bendigo Miners' Association met last night to hear an address by the secretary of the Amalgamated Miners' Association on the subject. of the present bush labour…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Levy Struck by the Creswick Miners. Melbourne
At the quarterly meeting of the Creswick Branch of the Miners'Association last night. the result of the ballot to strike a levy for Queensland bushworkers was declared in favour of the levy 561 against…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The [?] Colliery. Settlement of the Dispute. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle
As the result of the conference between representatives of the Associated Colliery Proprietors and delegates of the Miners' Association, the dispute at the Greta colliery has been settled. Yesterday it was agreed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Coal Co
The 55th half-yearly general meeting of shareholders of this company was held in the head office, 63 Pitt-street, on Monday. The report of the directors for the half-year…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Large Coal Cargo
NEWCASTLE, Monday.—The four-masted ship Kilburn took her departure for San Francisco on Sunday morning. She has on board 4017 tons of coal, which is one of the largest cargoes that has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Share Boom
NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Owing to the rise in the shares of the Bear Hill gold mines, quite a boom is going on here, as the two claims next to Butcher's and close to the Proprietary Mine are…
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