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Are our mineral deposits nearly exhausted and worked out? Does mining pay? These are questions daily asked. In my opinion our mineral deposits have been…
Continued on Trove, page 461 →On the 19th inst. the fortieth half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Great Cobar Copper-mining Company was held at the office of the company, 131 Pitt-street, Sydney. Mr. R. E. Kemp,…
Continued on Trove, page 460 →MAJOR'S GREEK, Feb. 22.—A small rash has taken place'to Back Creek at a point about four miles northward from Major's Creek. The number of men on the ground is variously estimated at from 25 to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →It is generally understood that the Government is about to assist the mining industry in New South Wales in every possible way. The Minister for Mines is of opinion that the ourrent year will see many new…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Baker's Creek Gold Mine, Hillgrove, oleaned up last week for 436oz of retorted gold from 536 tons of stono; and the tributors back of No. 3 level, on Smith's reef, working over the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Extracts read from a paper read by Mr. Harrie Wood, before the Mining Conference, held in Sydney on February 5, 1896: The onerous nature of my duties leaves me…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The Kathleen Crown Gold-mining Company, Hauraki, New Zealand, has been formed with a capital of £75,900, the whole of which will be issued for public…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Government Geelogist, Mr. E. F. Pittman, has forwarded a report to the Minister for Mines, Mr. Sydney Smith, on the heating of the coal cargo on board the ship Knight of St. Michael, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A meeting of the whole of the mining delegates who romained in Sydney took place on February 15 at the conference hall, Phillip-street, for the purpose of forming a miners' correspondence association…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →The fortieth half-yearly meeting of the Great Cobar Copper Mining Company, Limited, was held at the company's office, 131 Pittstreet, Sydney, last week, Mr. R. E…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Electricity has not as yet been very extensively applied to the operation of mining machinery in this country. A beginning has, however, been mado at Hillgrove, and no doubt the now…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →[?]t will be remembered that the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, stated in the course of his address at the opening of the miners' conference, recently held in Sydney, that with a view…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →WITH the finding of the yellow metal the history of Young, or rather Lambing Flat, as it was then called, really commenced, The name would certainly suggest to the reader that it had been given on…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Mr. E. F. Pittman, Government Geologist, has forwarded to the Minister for Mines a report of two inspections made on February 25 and 27 of the coal cargo of the ship Knight…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →We have now illustrated and described numerous systems of timbering mines, and a few more examples of the method of setting stulls in small veins and of working the veins will be…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Araluen prides itself on being the most continuously worked alluvial goldfield in the colony. From the time of the discovery of gold in the valley in the latter part of 1854 by Alexander Waddell, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A new shoot of gold has been met in Hicks's mine at Ninety-mile. It appears to continue for some distance. The Duke of York mine is opening out splendidly in the same district…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →" A year ago there were distinct signs that the turn of adverse years had given place to a more prosperous era, and the experience of 1895 has fully justified this."—MONETARY CIRCULAR…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Asmodeus' reflects upon the Sapience of the Conference and the Sagacity of the Minister—A sample of the Reports sent into a similar Conference in the United…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AN aggregate meeting of all miners in the district was held in Lambton Park yesterday to consider the mining situation and the question of an advance in wages, there being…
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