The Stockton Colliery Disaster
Another inquiry is to be commenced to-day at the court-house before Judge Backhouse into the circumstances attending the late disaster at Stockton colliery. The issue will be practically…
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Mining
The mining market was extremely quiet on the Sydney Stock Exchange on Saturday, but with the single exception of a decline of 2s in Brilliant St. George, all appreciable movements in…
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Business in the Mining market on Saturday was characterised by the quietness that generally accompanies the close of the week. Silver and gold stocks, with few exceptions were dull; but B. H…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle. Wallsend Miners. Newcastle
A largely-attended meeting of the Wallsend miners Lodge was held in the local School of Arts on Friday evening. It was reported that the Minister for Mines had been communicated with on…
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PERTH, Monday.—A report from Kalgoorlie states that an extremely rich find has been made in the Great Boulder Mine. The discovery was made at the 200ft level on a leader said to be…
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A valuable shipment of gold specie and bullion was made by the Orient Company's R.M.S. Austral, which sailed hence on Saturday last, for London. Twenty boxes of sovereigns, containing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tasmania. the Mount Lyell Mine. Hobart
A large party of visitors from Hobart, New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand was banqueted at the Palace Hotel, West Straban, on Saturday night, Mr. Bowes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Semi Edition. Great Find of Gold in West Australia. the Great Boulder. a Leader of Almost Pure Gold
KALGOORLIE, Sunday.--A marvellously rich strike has been made in the Great Boulder, being the meet valuable made in the mine and one of the richest yet discovered in West Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rich Gold Discovery. In the Great Boulder. KALGOORLIE
One of the richest discoveries ever made in this colony was made in the Great Boulder at the 200ft. level on Saturday, when a rich leader of almost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MINING. In the Bathurst District. Xii. Hill End and Tambaroora Fields
The Consolidated Syndicate working om the central position of the famous Hawkins Hill are now raising perhaps the best average stone about. They have an area of 8½ acres on which they started to put in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatality at a Colliery
A miner named Fred. Foster, a resident of Hillsborough, whilst working in the South Waratah Colliery, near Charlestown, this afternoon, was killed by a sudden fall of coal. Dr. Cooper was…
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The feature of yesterday's market on the Sydney Stock Exchange was the drop in Queen Margaret stocks. Queen Margaret, of which there were buyers at 44s on Saturday…
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At present business in shipping circles in the harbor is brisker than usual for this period of the year. Along the Dyke work under the cranes is fairly busy, and there is every probability of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Coal Miner Killed. Newcastle
A miner named Frederick Poster was killed by a fall of coal in the South Waratah colliery yesterday afternoon. The management had the body brought…
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Information was received last night that a miner named Frederick Foster, employed at the Raspberry Gully pit, Charlestown, was killed by a fall of coal in the mine at about 4 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle. Stockton Colliery Disaster. Charges Against the Management. Newcastle
A second inquiry into the causes attendant upon the late disaster at the Stockton colliery was commenced this afternoon before Judge Backhouse at the Newcastle Courthouse Mr. E. H. Wilshire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Mining. Developments at Kalgoorlie. Kalgoorlie
The Ivanhoe crushing for the past four weeks was as follows:—Store treated 742 tons, yielding 2028oz. of smelted gold, the average being, 2oz. 13dwt. 16gr. per ton. In addition to the above yield several sample…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rich Discovery in the Great Bould[?]. 70Lb. Weight of Gold. Kalgoorlie
Perhaps the greetast deposit of pure gold ever found in a rest was struck at the 200ft. level of the Great oulder mine on Friday night. The patch was met with in [?]king 10oz. dirt in the [?]top[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MINING. In the Bathurst District. Xiii. Hill End and Tambaroora Fields
The Robert Emmett Mine, which has an area of between eight and nine acres, at the head of the Hawkins Hill range, has turned out some wonderful "dabs" of gold within the past four years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The West Australian Goldfields. the Ivanhoe Junction Reef
KALGOORLIE, Monday.--On Saturday afternoon. a party went from Kalgoorlie to inspect recept favorable developments in the Ivanhoe Junction, where, at 130ft., the reef has been…
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