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A cleaning up of 615 tons of mixed ore from the Peak Hill Proprietary Mine has yielded 339oz of smelted gold. The appearance of the mine is very good, especially in the dyke workings, from…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Will come as a boon to thousands of our fellow colonists when passed, and the colony will benefit enormously by the measure, but a greater source of both profit and pleasure to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sunlight Gold Mining Company, No Liability.—The manager reported on April 22 that the building in of the boiler and foundations had been completed. The contractors in No. 5…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →LONDON, Thursday Night.--A national miners conference is being held to consider the prevailing depression in the coal trade. K…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bank of Victoria is shipping £200,000 worth of gold coin from London for the Victorian business of the bank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →According to the report of Mr. E. O. Leech, director of the United States Mint, the value of the gold produced from the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Sir,—In your issue of 21st ultimo, page 6, there appears a letter signed "D. R. Watkins," secretary of the Wallsend miners, which Mr. F. W. Binney, secretary of the Wallsend Company, has evidently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The electric power and lighting-plant installed for the Dardanelles Mine, California, consists of a 25 horse-power electric generator, a six horsepower electric pump, a six horse-power electric…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The smelting returns from the various mines during the weekended April 27, are as, follow: —Broken Hill Proprietary: Ore treated, 7520 tons; bullion obtained, 821 tons; total silver contents'…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The condition of the chrome iron ore industry in California is not very satisfactory owing to the great distance from the centres where the ore is utilised, the cost or freights to markets, the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →At the Temescal mines of tho San Jacinto Estate, San Bernardino county, U.S.A., for some time past they have been using a tin-smelting furnace, in which oil is used as…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →It is many long years, years to me, and indeed moat of us, of ups and downs, successes and failures, since I last stood within the grim portals of Parramatta gaol, which have closed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HILLGROVE, Saturday.--West Sunlight Gold-mining Company: At the main shaft the opening out works for the now 230ft. level are now fairly in hand. East of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--It is now considered certain that the unfortunate strike which has closed the Burwood colliery for the past month will be finally settled by the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROKEN-HILL, Sunday.--For some time past work has been proceeding steadily at the Australian Consols Mine, where phenomenal finds of native silver were made in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The report upon the werking of the Department of Mines for 1892 was laid on the table of the House by Mr. Slattery on Thursday night. This showed that there had been a falling off in the work of some of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Mining market on Saturday, Proprietary shares receded to 75s. Tens changed hands at 31s 6d, and Hero at Is 1d. No gold companies were dealt with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BROKEN HILL, Saturday.—A prospecting shaft is being put down in the British Mine, near the Junction boundary, and has struck oxidised material at a depth of 70ft from the surface…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Government Assayer has examined a specimen of coal from Collie, and pronounces it to be better than any previously sent to him. He classifie it as free-burning bituminous coal, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Friday Night.--The London officials of the Union Bank of Australia state that they are prepared to ship £1,000,000 in gold to Australia to meet…
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