The Menzies Goldfield
About 120 miles in a northerly direction from Coolgardie, Western Australia, is situated the Menzies goldfield. Geographically it is really an outlying portion of the Coolgardie field, but as…
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The Coal Trade. the Northern Collieries
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The miners of this district drew their pay to-day for the fortnight ended last Saturday. The holidays intervening made nine tho maximum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Collieries
WOLLONGONG, Friday.--The coal trade has been fairly brisk during tho week, most of the collieries working every day, excepting yesterday…
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Fortune has unmistakably aided the brave in the case of two unemployed men from the Sydney Labor Bureau who recently secured Government railway passes and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gold Fields. Mining at Hillgrove. the Year's Work
HILLGROVE, Saturday.—The Baker's Creek Mine started breaking down stone again to-day after a respite of eight days, during which time the necessary repairs to insure an uninterrupted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Production
The summing up of 1894 showed a total pro duction, in round figures, of 180,000,000dol, an increase of 23,000,000dol over 1893. This yield was about 30,000,000dol greater than the product…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Gold Shipment
ThE E. and A. Company's steamer Airlie, which leaves to-day, is taking one of the largest shipments of gold that a Chinese steamer has carried. For Port Darwin, the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank is sending £5000, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining Notes
Mr. J. Howell, manager of the Australian Smelting Company, has been on a visit to Lake Illawarra inspecting the progress being made in excavating and other works, all of which are…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →A Gold Saving Apparatus
The illustration represents, in sectional side eleva tion and in perspective, a gold saving apparatus designed to save nuggets, coarse gold, and flour gold, with but a small expenditure of water und labor…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mining Matters. General Notes. Ballarat Exchange. The Pinn[?] Group S.M Co.--Wyalong News--Mine Reports
The shareholders of the Pinnacle Group Silver-mining Co. held a meeting yesterday afternoon in the office of Mr. John Gainford, secretary to the company,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining. Managers' Reports
South Burrangong Gold mining Company, week ending December 28.—No. 8 south-east drive extended 6ft. for two days in brown granite boulder. No. 2 north-west drive driven…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Intercolonial Mining News
Forty tons stone from the Great Victory Mine, Pambula, crushed in Sydney, is sadd to have yielded over 23oz gold per ton. Mr. Haugh has cleaned up with the cyanide plant some stuff from…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The Coal Trade. CLIFTON
The coal trade at the northern end of the district continues fairly active. The Metropolitan mine has worked almost constant for some months past. The South Clifton and Austinmer mines, however, are…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Alleged Salting of the Augipena Mine
ADELAIDE, Dec. 24—The charge against the miner William Rogers of having fraudulentln pretended that certain stone in the Angipena Treasure Mine contained gold was continued in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Late Mining. COOLGARDIE
The most magnificent nugget yet obtained from the Devon Consols, Black Flag, was to-day exhibited in the window of the Commercial Bank. Altogether six or seven nuggets are on view, and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mining at Mount Ferry
It is gratifying to learn (says the Bundaberg Star, Queensland), that the outwit of gold, not only on the Eidsvold field, but also from the district around Mount Ferry, has shown a large increase during the…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 25.) The Barrier Mines. a Review and a Forecast. Broken. Hill, December 24
When the year 1805 opened Broken Hill's pros pects were not at their brightest. The previous year had not answered anticipations; silver had gone still lower, and the solution of the sulphide…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Gold from the New Guinea Islands
The Brisbane Courier has a telegram from its Cooktown correspondent, dated 21st Dec, as follows :—The schooner Ivanhoe arrived from New Guinea, via Woodlark and other islands, last evening…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →The Newcastle Coal Trade. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I notice from week to week that large numbers of workmen are leaving Newcastle for West Australia. The fact that these men are able to pay their passages in these bad times to that far-away…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold in Victoria. The Discoverer's Story. Rivalling New South Wales. How the Exodus To Sydney Prompted Prospecting
Statements having appeared in print on various occasions as to who first discovered gold in Victoria, most of which have, been either altogether wrong or misleading, I…
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