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Mining & the mines, 1894

6,467 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250

The Western Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 5

LITHGOW, Friday.--The local unemployed have been engaged a portion of the week by the council, some of the funds for the work being contributed by the Government…

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The Coal Trade. Southern and Northern Collieries. Lithgow and Greta Mines. The Stockton Mine -- Hooting the Free Laborers -- Women to be Prosecuted at Bulli. BULLI

The Australian Star · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 5

There is no fresh development in the dispute here. Delegates have been to Sydney, and represented the state of affairs to trade unionists…

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The Coal Trade. the Southern Mines. Affairs at Bulli. Seventy Miners Wanted for South Bulli--Good Wages for One Hundred Men

The Australian Star · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 6

Enquiries made by an AUSTRALIAN STAR reporter to-day in the city elicited the information that there are 36 miners engaged at the South Bulli colliery…

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The Stockton Colliery. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 10

The Stockton Colliery is still at work by free labour. This afternoon a greater crowd assembled than usnal to watch the free labourers depart from the colliery. A number of females were present,…

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The Miners' Troubles

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 15

HELENSBURGH, Saturday— The miners residing in the Metropolitan Company's houses have received one week's notice to quit. This is the only development in strike matters to record…

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The Burwood Mine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 252

The nineteenth half-yearly meeting of the Burwood Coal-mining Company was held at the company's office, O'Connell-street, last week. Mr. T. M. Cowlishaw, chairman of directors, presided. The…

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The Coal Trade. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) the Helensburgh Miners. Helensburgh

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 10

Strike matters have been at a standstill during the week. At a full meeting of miners to-day, a proposal to the manager was submitted for 2s 2d per ton all round, equivalent to a reduction of 1¾d per…

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More Miners' Troubles. Scotch Miners Demand an Advance

Evening News · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 4

LONDON, February 1.—The Scotch miners have demanded an increase of 6d per day, and have asked the coalmasters to form a board of conciliation…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 7

The prospectus has been issued of the Craesus Gold-mining Company, No Liability of Western Australia, the capital being £45,000, in £1 shares. The property lies…

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The Co-operative Colliery Tramway Difficulty

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The rails of the Cooperative colliery tramway, which were removed by the Plattsburg Municipal Council on Wednesday, were replaced by the…

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Mining Gossip

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 20

BETURNS just to hand from the White Cliffs opal field show that the quantity of opal sold during last year amounted in value to about, £16,000. This does not include the amount sold…

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Free Coal in America

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 10

Coal has been placed on the free list in the new. tariff in the United States. This is no unimportant announcement for New South Wales. Our collieries should be able to profit by the…

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The Greta Miners. Greta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 10

The second instalment of strike pay, £1 per man, being a fortnight's pay, was distributed to-day. The executive decided that the men who went away to look for work should receive their share, and this…

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Stock Exchange. Mining

The Australian Star · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 6

4 p.m. No sales were effected at the last call…

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The Scotch Miners. Increased Pay Demanded

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.--The Scotch coalminers have demanded an advance of 6d per day in wages, and have requested the colliery proprietors to agree to the…

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Mining on the Barrier

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 24

At the South Mine the sulphide concentrating plant is working very smoothly. The stuff treated averages in the crude ore 7oz Bilver, 47 percent, lead, and 15 per cent. zinc. After concentration…

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The Coal Trade. Newcastle, Jan. 25

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 252

In accordance with a notice given to the Stockton miners yesterday by the manager to take their tools out of tne colliery within 24 hours, the men withdrew their tools this afternoon…

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The Barrier Mines. Broken Hill, Jan. 24

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 252

Tue experimental concentrating plant at Block 10 has been working intermittently during the week, but without marked success. The ore which is being experimented upon is not ordinary sulphides,…

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Late Mining. Broken Hill

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 225

Prospecting work in the lower levels of Block 14 has not lately resulted in any developments of a favourable character, and for the past week there is practically no change to record in the various…

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Africa. the South African Mines. Some Plain English

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 7

Writes Mr. Labouchere, MP, in London TRUTH :— As for those South African Chartered Company shares, they are valueless as an investment…

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