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At the South mine there is no change in the stopes, but prospecting work has made good progress. The carbonate ore found in the north drive at the 425ft, level of the hauling shaft is developing into a…
Continued on Trove, page 102 →An adjourned meeting of the shareholders of the Lily Silver-mining Co., No Liability, was held at the company's office, Victoria Chambers, Castlereagh-street, on Friday afternoon. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ethel May Gold-mining Co— December 24-No. 4 drive: There is no change to report in the character of reef; it still shows the same fine body of stone previously reported. The stope…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The general manager of the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine, Mr. Howell, in his annual report. gives the following particulars respecting the quarrying operations now being carried on in…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →SINCE yesterday morning affairs in connection with the coal trade have brightened a little and there is a feeling that matters will be arranged so as to prevent any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROKEN-HILL, Friday. -- The water famine becomes more serious every day. The drought continues, and although, thanks to the supply of 50,000 gallons daily, or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To anyone who has the slightest knowledge of the goldfields of South Africa it is a pitiful sight just now to watch the departure of a Cape steamer outward bound, bearing its load of…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →A correspondent writes: Mining appears to be brightening up again at Hill End, judging from the fact that several companies are about to put machinery on their properties. Messrs. Emmett…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →A correspondent writes: Mining appears to be brightening up again at Hill End, judging from the fact that several companies are about to put machinery on their properties. Messrs. Emmett…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Our correspondent, writing on January 1, says: The Happy Valley Syndicate Co., near Standard Lead, Gulgong, which struck payable quartz in the drive 60 feet distant from their shaft, have…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →When the report of the Mining Department for the year 1891 comes to be issued it should show an enormous increase in the number of gold reefs which are being worked throughout the country…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Sir,—Permit me through the medium of your columns to make a few remarks concerning the first discovery of gold in Australia, principally in answer to a letter of Mr. Bucknell's dated December 1, which appeared in your issue of the 26th…
Continued on Trove, page 103 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →THE last article on this subject appeared in the STAR on November 14, and in the interim the series were unavoidably discontinued owing to an accident to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London, January 8.—A terrible explosion has occurred at Krebs (?), America Two hundred miners are entomhed. '…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle, Monday.—The first aggregate meeting of colliery surface men attached to the Hunter Elver District Miners' Association was held on Saturday afternoon on Lambton Park…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With respect to the reported rioting at the Raub gold mines, the directors at Brisbane, in reply to a cablegram, have received the following: "Nothing very serious. Raub thoroughly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The non-associated collieries which have agreed to pay the old rates are the Hetton, Stockton, Wickham and Bullock Island, Northern, South Burwood, Maitland, Young Wallsend, New Lambton, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle, Saturday.—Work has been resumed at the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, the manager having agreed to pay the miners the old hewing rate of 4s 2d. The directors of this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Edward Lee, who has for a long time been an auditor of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company, Limited, has been elected a director of the company in the…
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