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Slight additional movements of ground in the neighbourhood of the subsidence of the Proprietary mine which occurred on Christmas Day have lately been noticed. Portions of the sides of the cavity…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Two miners named Rees and Argue met with a fearful death yesterday at Nana Creek. They were sharpening their tools at the forge, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chapters I. to III— Shadraoh Deane, a collier at Ambers wood, effects the rescue of a fellow-workman named David Southwortb, who was imprisoned by a fall of roof. Southworth's brother introduces him to…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Nelligen— January 1: A correspondent writes that the mining1 industry in the district is reviving. At Corrowang the mines are looking well. The Phoenix are waiting the stonebreakers…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Trunkey— December 29: During the year fully 90 persons have been fossicking in the district, all of whom obtained gold; some made wages, others sufficient to buy tucker. These men…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →A new department, to be devoted exclusively to the mining industry, is about to be established by the Government, owing to the very rapid growth of that industry during the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →This afternoon the manager of the Metropolitan Colliery gave the miners 14 days' notice of a reduction in the hewing rates of 4d per ton all round. This is not altogether unexpected, as the other…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →No settlement has been arrived at between the Wallarah miners and the management. The men brought their tools out of the mine on Saturday. The company insists upon a reduction of 8d per…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, December, 28— H.M.S. Ringdove, Lieutenant and Commander E. J. Bain, which was commissioned at Devonport September 16, 1890, for service on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The following smelting returns are for the week ended December 28: Proprietary Company: Ore treated, 9072 tons; bullion obtained, 1061 tons; total silver contents,…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →FERNMOUNT, Friday. -- The town was thrown into a painful state of excitement to-day on the reception of news that two men had been killed by an explosion of dynamite at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FERTH, Wednesday.—Warden Downey, interviewed yesterday, gave a glowing account of the prospects of the Murchison goldfield, which has been under his charge for some time past. He…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The minority of the Labour Commission, led by Mr. Tom Mann, is preparing a report recommending legislation upon the following subjects:â…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A frightful accident occurred at the Lady Belle gold raine, Nana Creek, to-day. This company has Been in existence about two months, aud was formed by some residente of the Bellinger district to put in a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →During the past year 11,0850z of gold were obtained in the Peak Hill district., of which 8852oz were derived by reefing and 2233oz alluvial. Tons crushed, 18,343, apportioned as follow:…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Mine manager reports under date January 2:-- "We have crushed 635 tons of ore at outside batteries for return of 247oz. smelted gold, making the total returns for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HE new year opens with promise to Johannesburg of at least normal prosperity. Several new companies have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The warden's clerk at Barmedman has forwarded a report to the Mines Department upon the new gold discovery at Wyalong No. 1 station, about 20 miles north-west of Barmedman, on Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Our London correspondent informs us by cable that the yield of gold from the Transvaal goldfields, in South Africa, for 1893, has reached 1,500,000oz…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →THE Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh, gave the miners 14 days' notice yesterday of a reduction in the hewing rate of fourpence per ton all round. The miners do not like…
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