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Mining & the mines, 1895

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The Toolong Goldfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1895 · page 7

Several of the claims are turning out very well, others again are only making tucker, and some barely that. What is badly wanted for the proper development of the place is a few practical…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. Consistently Good Crushings

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 February 1895 · page 5

WEST WYALONG, Monday.--The Hidden Treasure party on Neild's Reward claim line, are sinking their main shaft to cut the underlay at 150ft…

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The Coal Trade. the Northern Collieries. Reductions at Duckenfield, Back Creek, and New Lambton

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- The miners of the Duckenfield and Back Creek collieries have received notice that from the 2nd prox. payment for the deficiency in the…

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Mining News

Evening News · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 6

COWRA, February 20.-Duffy and party have washed 56 loads for 4dwt to the load, and Simon and party 84 loads for a yield of 27oz. Duncan M'Innes and party have…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 9

The only sale reported in the Mining market yesterday was of Wickham and Bullock Island coal shares at 8s 4d½d. In silver and gold companies quotations showed little change…

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Albury Mining

Evening News · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 5

ALBURY, February 20.-Several new discoveries were reported to-day from Bulgandra Gold Field. Pardon and Grey nave struck anew reef, which is estimated,…

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The Greta Miners. Greta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 8

The proprietors of the Greta Colliery are now going to settle the non-union miners in the town. The former workmen, inhabiting the houses owned by the estate, are, it is stated,…

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New Mining Companies

Evening News · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 4

LONDON, February 19.-The shares in the Cardiff Castle Mining Company have been allotted. Lindsay's Extended East Company baa offered…

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Northern Items. Newcastle News. Non-unionists Assaulted. Colliery Doings

Evening News · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, February 20.-The police hare been informed that on Monday night two of the free laborers working in the Seaham Colliery were attacked by some…

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Mining. Toolong and Bogong

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 7

ALBURY, Monday. -- A special report of the Toolong diggings states that, though there is nothing wonderful on the field, several claims are turning out well, some of them yielding…

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Mining at Charters Towers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 7

Alan B. Bright and Co., in their January monthly report of the Charters Towers fields, write an follows: -- "The year has opened as well as was expected, though, of course, the…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 7

A fatal mining accident occurred this afternoon in the Frenchman's Reef mine, Castlemaine. An elderly miner named James Adams, while ascending the shaft by a ladder, fell, and received…

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New Mining Companies. London, Feb. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 7

The shares in the Cardiff Castle Mining Company have been allotted. Lindsay's Extended East Company has offered shares to the public to the extent of £44,000…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) West Wyalong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 7

The Rev. J. Milne Curran, who is inspecting the Wyalong goldfield, says that the discovery of artesian water is impossible, but that an ample supply of pure water…

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[By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Binni Creek Goldfield. Cowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 9

Duffy and party have washed 56 loads for 4dwt. to the load. Simon and party have washed 8[?] loads for a yield of 27oz., and have started again raising dirt. Williams and party are driving. Lew[?] and…

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The West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 5

At the Londonderry Consols mine the reef has been cut 14ft. wide at the 35ft level. In No. 1 shaft the stone will average 2oz. The management are now driving for the…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. Want of Water Being Felt

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 5

WYALONG, Tuesday. -- West's battery, has been hung up for want of water, leaving unfinished a parcel of 40 tons of King and party's stone…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Another Magnificent Find. Reported to Be Richer Than the Londonderry

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1895 · page 5

COOLGARDIE, Monday. -- A new find is reported which has been christened "The London." It is located five miles north of the Twenty-five Mile township, and 200…

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The Coal Trade. the Northern Collieries the Stock Tax and the Co-operative Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1895 · page 5

NEWCASTLE. Wednesday.--Owing to the dismissal by the Stockton Coal Company of 18 miners for taking part in reforming the lodge the rest of the hands…

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More Gold Mining Cos

Evening News · Thursday 21 February 1895 · page 4

LONDON, February 20.-The Lind-say's Extended East Gold Mining Company has been registered with a capital of £65,000, of which £44,000…

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