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Mining & the mines, 1891

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Mitchell's Creek Gold Mine

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 6

Our Wellington correspondent writes: -- This mine is turning out to be a very payable one. For the last fortnight's work 190 tons of stone were crushed, averagine 15dwt…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 6
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Mr. Peter Kleemo, a director of the Emerald Proprietary Company, who has been entrusted with the flotation of the Emerald Proprietary Mining Company's, No Liability,…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL, Monday.--Since last December the diamond drill at the Round-hill mine has only passed through 54ft., or about 2ft. 6in. per week. The machinery has been stopped for…

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British Columbia Coal Exports

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 5

WE are indebted to Messrs. James Paxton and Co. for the following return, showing the annual output of coal from British. Columbia mines during the past 17 years:…

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Mining Intelligence. Reports

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 7

A Cobar correspondent wires : -- The Occidental cleaned up on Friday last, after one week's run with five head ; reduced 40 tons for 48 ounces smelted gold, when…

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Fatal Mining Accident Near Nkwcastle. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 5

At an inquest to-day, at Tighe's Hill, before the coroner (Mr. Martin), on the lady of George Prooter, who was killed at Tickhole by a fall of earth while working in the tunnel on Saturday, a verdict of…

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Gippsland Coal Mines

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The Railway Commissioners will visit Gippsland this week to inspect the coal mines…

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Belgium Collieries. 30,000 Miners Strike. London, May 5

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 5

A great mining strike has taken place in Belgium, where 30,000 miners came out yesterday, and the collieries are now idle…

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Miners' Matters

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- The Miners' Delegate Board held a special meeting yesterday afternoon, Mr. James Thomson, president, presiding. The following were…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 6

The board of directors of the Hero Freehold Silver and Gold Mining Company, Limited, have engaged Mr. Randolph Adams, a metallurgist well known in Sydney mining circles,…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--A good number of visitors went underground at the Central mine to-day, the rich developments at the 300ft. and 400ft. levels during the last few days having…

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Miners' Strike in Belgium

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Thirty thousand miners in Belgium have struck work for shorter hours of labor and increased pay, and a number of collieries are lying idle…

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British Columbia Coal Exports

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 5

We are indebted to Messrs. James Paxton and Co. for the following return, showing the annual output of coal from British Columbia mines during the past 17 years:…

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Pink-eye Among Mine Horses

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The pink-eye disease has made its appearance in this district with fatal effect. Several horses in the Wallsend Colliery have been the first to suffer, and nearly…

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Catherine Hill Bay. a Colliery and Marine Village

Evening News · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 4

Catherine Hill Bay is three parts of the way up the coast on the ran from Sydney to Newcastle. It is a rising Tillage on the face of the cliffs, enjoying a population of 600, and has been…

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Stealing a Gold Watch

Evening News · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—A married woman named Ellen Nugent was committed for trial at the police court to-day on a charge of stealing a gold watch, valued at £40, the property of Mr…

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Mining Intelligence. Reports

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 7

Lady Jersey mine,Chandler's Creek. -- Mine manager reports under date May 2 :-- "Drove northerly drive 7ft. 6in.; the reef same width as last reported, and the walls are…

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South Australia. the Leakage of Mining Telegrams

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The board appointed to inquire into the recent leakages in the Telegraph Office in connection with share transactions have forwarded a lengthy report to the…

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Mining Excitement at Adelong a New Reef

Evening News · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 5

There is considerable excitement at Adelong over a new reef found 10 days ago by a party of Chinamen fossicking for alluvial gold in Golden Gully, just below the Adelong mine, The finders…

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