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Mining & the mines, 1891

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British Columbia Coal Exports

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 4

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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Treatment of Ores and Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--An important step is to be taken by the Mines Department, under authority from the Premier, to ascertain the best methods of treating refractory…

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Miners' Strikes in Belgium and France

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1118

We learn by cable that strikes are almost general at Fourmies, Roubaix, Lille, and Calais, and the outrages arising out of the strikes are increasing in Belgium. Many foreign agitators are inciting the masses…

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Mining in West Australia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 24

A well-known prospector, writing from Albany, May.1, sends us the following particulars of his trip into West Australia: Arriving at Perth, I resolved to make for the Yilgarn Goldfield, and…

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Mining Opinions and Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1122

Miner (Yetholme).—The mineral forwarded by you is gypsum sulphate of lime, used for making plaster of Paris. If our correspondent will communicate with Mr. S. S. Vale, assayer, 20, Castlereagh-street…

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Lambton Miners. Labor Electoral Leagues. Rejected Unanimously

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 2

THE above miners held a special meeting, in Ralph's Hall, last evening. Mr. Henry Hanlon occupied the chair. The minutes of the fortnightly committee meeting were…

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Nominal Capital Value of Leading Silver Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 5

Holders of the scrip of 10 leading Barrier silver mines were half a million richer yesterday on paper than they were a week ago. Complaints of poverty or depression should…

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The Barrier Mines. Broken Hill, May 6

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1118

The rich development reported yesterday as having occurred in Adam's shaft at the Junction mine continues to improve, and to-day's assays gave at the rate of 538 ounces silver per ten. The rich, material, which is…

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Late Mining. Broken Bill

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1092

A material improvement has occurred in the Junction North mine. The east crosscut at the 420ft level is in 32ft., and a darker and better class of garnet sandstone, carrying galena and native silver, baa been met with…

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The Mining and Geological Museum

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 4

A minute has been written by Mr. Sydney Smith, Minister for Mines and Agriculture, respecting the insufficient accommodation in the present building for the exhibition of…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 25

Tin and Copper — Sydney Prices.—The market for tin ore remains quiet at 15s 6d per unit. The price of copper is unaltered, quotations being at at about £51 5s per ton…

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The Labor Commission. a Colliery Manager Examined. Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald Gives Evidence

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 3

THE Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and investigate the causes of the disputes between capital and labor met again yesterday evening under the presidency of…

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Labor Commission. Evidence of a Mining Manager

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 10

One of the final sittings of the Commission appointed by Government to inquire into the disputes between capital and labor and the methods of avoiding strikes was held at the…

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Latest Mining News, (Continued From Page 25.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 45

Croydon.—The latest crushings at Croydon (Q.) were: Moonstone P.C., 20 tons, yielding 214oz gold; Mark Twain, 149 tons, yielding 260nz; Croydon, Mount Morgan, 127 tons, 70oz. Iguana P.C. is…

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In Darlinghurst Gaol. the Storytellers' Society. Chase of the Gold Stealers. A Brash with the Bushrangers

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 8

"WELL," continued Corney, "away went the trio to the 'logs,' and were soon mounted and accompanied by Barney, the black-tracker, started down to take up…

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The Miner. Our Mining Letter. (Written for the " Town and Country Journal.") Mining pursuits having obtained such magnitude and importance in the colony, and reliable information, respecting them being so much sought by the public, we have engaged the services of a gentleman who will from personal inspection contribute to our columns a series of letters on the gold, silver, copper, tin, antimony, and other kinds of mining as carried on in the various mining distriots. Our special mining correspondent is a gentleman of over 30 years' experience in mining in its various branches and forms, and in the smelting of ores and minerals; and, in addition, he has held important official positions in the colony in respect to mining for many years. The Grafton District. Sir Walter Scott and John Bull. Mann River and Solferino

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 24

Continuing tbe description of mining in the Clarence district, we proceed about 50 miles in a north-westerly direction from Grafton, and come to two gold mines, one of which is much talked of…

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The Sudest Goldfield

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 1118

At Sudest the reefs are looking very promising. Two men named Parry and barney worked for three months blasting a tail race through the rocky bar, and are bow getting gold in the creek above. There is a good deal…

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The Two Detectives; OR, Monatain Mage. a Goldfield Story

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 32

Stanhope, who had charged his mind with nothing, slept on long after Doctor Mitchell, who had resolved to rise early, and who had not lost so many hours sleep,…

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An Ocean Secret Being a Strange Story of a Dead Man's Gold. in Sixty Chapters. [All Rights Reserved.] (Published by permission of Cassell and Co., Limited, London.) Contents of Chaptees Nos. I to X. Chapter

Evening News · Saturday 16 May 1891 · page 7

VI.—An Interesting Conversation heard through, a wall. VII.—Running the gauntlet.—On board the You Yangs…

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Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 May 1891 · page 6

SILVERTON, Friday.--A recent visitor to the Apolyon Gully claims reports the only claim on which really good work is being done, is one of thirteen and a half acres named…

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