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Mining & the mines, 1895

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Mining News. GARANGULA

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 7

A correspondent writes: A wail of woe is sent up from the Garangula Gold Fields. Those who have read the weekly reports from here will know that this field…

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Goldfields of Western Australia. Mining in Thl Coolgardie District. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Coolgardie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 5

The erection of the battery, Berdan pans, and engine on the lvanhoe mine is almost completed. Crushin0g will be started in the course of a week. Two good supplies of water have…

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Mining at Coolgardie. London, March 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 5

The Daylight Gold-mining Company, Coolgardie, with a capital of £60,000, has been registored. The prospectus of the Golden Crown Company, Limited,…

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Fire in a Mine. Thirty-one Men Burnt to Death

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 4

LONDON, March 7.—Thirty-one miners have been burnt to death by a fire in a mine in Spain in which they were working…

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Northern Items. Newcastle News. Assault Cases. Colliery Doings. Back Creek Shut Down. Proprietors Determined

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—The quarter sessions were resumed on Thursday, when John Williams and Robert Laws, miners, of Minmi, were charged with having, at…

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The Newcastle Miners. Assaults on Non-unionists. Two Accused Sentenced to Twelve Months

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--At the Quarter Sessions to-day, John Williams and Robert Laws, miners, of Minmi, were charged with having, at Miami, on February 2,…

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Northern News. The Newcastle Miners. Assault on a Non-Unionist. Case at the Police Court-- The Quarter Sessions-- The Late Bathing Accident. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 5

At the police court yesterday before Mr. J. Main, P.M., Thomas Vipon, Albert Mansfield, Hewitt Banfield, Thomas King, and John Moss were charged that they did…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. the Reported Alluvial

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 5

WEST WYALONG. Thursday.--There is no new development, at Sandy Creek with regard to the reported alluvial, but the country around is being prospected for…

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Coal-dust in Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 14

With regard to these explosions in mines caused by coal-dust and air alone, the Royal Commission on Explosions from Coal-dust in Mines, in their second report,…

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The Coal Trade. the Northern Collieries. the Strike at Minmi

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Of the nine non-unionists who were sent to Minmi to-day to work in Brown's colliery, five broke away on arriving in the township, and fraternised…

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The Sydney Collieries

Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 4

LONDON, March 8.—Mr. James Inglis declines to state how much of the capital required for the Sydney Harbor Collieries Company has been…

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The Southern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--The coal trade has not been very brisk this week, and few collieries are working more than half time. The miners are anxiously awaiting…

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A Mining Accident. DONALDSON v. Stockton Coal Co

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 20

The Full Court on February 28 delivered its reserved judgment in Donaldson v. the Stockton Coal Company, Limited, a demurrer by defendants to certain…

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Northern Items. Newcastle News. the Coal Trade. Colliery Doings. the Minme Difficulty

Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, March 9.—The following is the export of coal to midnight on Friday to places beyond the colony: South Australia, 6610 tons; Victoria, 11,730; West…

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Sydney Harbor Colliery Co

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 13

LONDON, February 26.—Of the capital of £500,000 proposed by the Sydney Harbor Collieries Company, £325,000 has been underwritten,…

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Fire in a Mine. Thirty-one Miners Burned to Death. London, March 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 9

A fire has occurred in a mine in Spain. Thirty-one miners were burned to death…

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The Central Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The return for the Broken-hill Central mine for the week ending March 7 states that the furnaces treated 470 tons of ore, producing 188 tons…

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Mining

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 20

THE gold discovery at Kangaroo Plains, Buckingbong, is on an iron blow of stone reefs. It looks wall in the prospectors' claim. A number of claims was pegged out on Friday…

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The Carcoar Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 6

CARCOAR, Friday.--The yields from the Gally Swamp goldfield maintain the character of the field as the best in the district. Kenworthy and party are preparing to work…

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Sale of a Mine

Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 4

LONDON, March 8.—Kingston's Isabella Gold Mine, Coolgardie, has been sold to a London syndicate…

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