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NEWACSTLE, Friday.--The report received from Minmi last night that the miners of Duckenfield and Back Creek Collieries had accepted the proposed reduction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The new steamship Strathness, with a deadweight capacity of 7000 tons, has been taken up by Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. to load coal for Singapore. The vessel is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No sales were reported in the mining market yesterday. Broken Hill Proprietary shares' closed at 36s buyers, 37s 6d sellers. For Block 10 there were buyers at 7s 6d, and Central closed at 5s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →HOBART (TAS.), February 14.—The Mining Conference concluded its sittings on Wednesday. Among the motions carried were the following: That it be a…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A conference of representative miners (which will be conducted on similar lines to the recent Fruitgrowers and Agricultural Conferences) will be held in about a…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mr. Warden Ducat telegraphs to the Minister for Mines as follows:--"A new discovery of a quartz reef has been reported, showing free gold, fairly rich when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The matter of Thompson against the Southern Coal Company of N.S.W. was before the Full Court, on February 13. on a motion on behalf of the defendants…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →Continuing the practice inaugurated by him when in office in 1891, the Minister for Mines has decided to follow up the Fruit Conference and the Agricultural Societies' Conference, just concluded,…
Continued on Trove, page 407 →Thieves visited the Mining Museum in Phillip-street last night, and succeeded in breaking open one of the show cases and extracting a small quantity of valuable ore…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Owing to the want of suitable harbour accommodation, the continuous rough and squally weather is causing serious loss to many of the Southern colliery-owners. During the last month…
Continued on Trove, page 407 →Loamer (Albury).—The mineral is ilmenite, or Titanic iron. It is of no commercial value…
Continued on Trove, page 411 →A meeting was held in Sydney last week, under the presidency of Mr. John See, M.L.A., to consider the best means of carrying into effect the scheme of the Rev…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →NEWCASTLE, February 23.-There returned by the barque Bolivia, which arrived here on Friday from Buenos Ayres, ten of the New Australians who left…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WYALANG, February 23.-To anyone, who has carefully watched the progress of this field and studied the various stages of its development, there can remain no…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Rev. J. Milne Curran, who is inspecting the Wyalong goldfield, says that the discovery of artesian water is impossible, bat that an ample supply of pure water…
Continued on Trove, page 382 →A new method for separating gold from its ores has recently been introduced in the mining districts of Wyoming. The crushed ore is heated to a state of incandesence and quenched in a bath of cold water…
Continued on Trove, page 408 →A romantic story, involving a find of gold and serious charges against prospectors, is reported from Western Australia. The locality thus given prominence to is Penden[?]i,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Feb. 20.— A strange discovery was made yesterday in London. A number of neighbours noticed that the shop of James M'Dougall, tobacconist, was not open at the usual hour in the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →THE first inquiry (says the local paper) is— Which is the best way to get there? From Queanbeyan you take the Gundaroo-road till you come to where the Gininderra-road cuts into it (about two miles…
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