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The Victorian Mines Department is in the satisfactory position of being able to announce an enormous gold yield for the past twelve months, the production being the heaviest for the past fourteen years (says…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--A rich gold reef, 6ft. wide, has been discovered at Freebrough, near Bright, by Valentine Francis. A dish of stone yielded 9oz. of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cobar Mining Company, No Liability, January 11.—A quartz leader 6in. thick has been cut in the western crosscut, but tails out before reaching the bottom, and is underlying to the east…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The steamer Warrego was being coaled to-day at the wharf, when one of the firemen, a man named James Lynch, aged 26, single, was buried by a fall of coal. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An important find has been made iu the form of a rich reef at Boulder Creek, nine miles north of the Bemm River field (says a telegram from Oreost, Vic). The finder is a prospector named Edward Crimmin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hannan's Gold Estate Company, Western Australia, has been formed with a capital of £750,000. Two hundred thousand shares of 40s each are being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.--Hannan's Gold Estate Company, West Australia, has been formed with a capital of £750,000, and is issuing £2 shares to the value of £200,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The returns of trade for 1896 are not yet all complete, but sufficient information has been collected to show results in round figures. The imports, as might…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a return compiled by the Mines Department it is stated that the output of coal from the Gippsland mines during 1896 amounted to 226,562 tons, equal in value at the pit's mouth to £[?]3,012. As…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fair amount of business was transacted on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. In silver stocks, Proprietary were dealt in at 51s 3d, with further buyers at that figure. Block 10 declined considerably,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Last Chance United, Ballarat, 121oz. 2dwt. New Normanby, Ballarat, 121 tons, 43oz. 9dwt. Prentice Preshold, Rutherglen, 120oz. South Star, Sebastopol, [?] tons, 553oz. 7dwt…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Before finally considering their report, the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the heating of coal cargoes wish to obtain certain information from England. The particulars will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HILLGROVE, Wednesday.—A coroner's inquiry was held here yesterday into the cause of the accident which occurred last Thursday In the Eleanora Gold Mine, when a man named Edward Goodwin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister for Mines has, in terms of section 23 of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, appointed Judge Murray as president of a committee to formally hold an investigation into the causes and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The warden at Newbridge, near Blayney, has reported to the Mines Department that he visited Fitzgerald's Valley, five miles from that place, where he found a number of people working on private land…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mount Morgan Co. last year treated 104,265 tons for a yield of 151,317oz. of gold, an increase of 16,000 tons and 22,000oz. of gold compared with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BATHURST, Tuesday.—Warden T. H. Smith, of Trunkey, visited Fitzgerald's Valley, some fourteen miles from here, yesterday. It is the scene of a supposed alluvial find. There were about 350…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GUNDAGAI, Wednesday.—A. serious accident happened yesterday at Howell and Davis's Prince of Wales Mine, on the Kimo line of reef, by which a young man named…
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