Dredging for Gold. Sofala
The sum of £220 has just been paid into the Warden's Court for leases on the Turon. This ground extends for six miles aloug the bed of the river, and has been taken up for dredging purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining & the mines, 1898
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Mining Opinions and Assays
All Out (Digoon).—The sample sent is quartz. It assays:—Gold. a slight trace; silver, 5 dwt. 5 grains per ton, The stone also carries a trace of copper, and is, therefore. worth prospecting…
Continued on Trove, page 570 →The University Mining School
Elsewhere we publish an interesting article by our mining reporter on the Sydney University Mining School. The scope and usefulness of the school are fully dealt with, and particulars are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Broken Hill Consols Mine. Bhoken Hill
Favourable developments are repotted from the B. H. Consols mine, work at which was continued a few months liack. In a report just despatched to his directors, Mr. George Smith, the general manager,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →South Australia. the Leigh's Creek Coal Company
ADELAIDE, Friday.--At a meeting of the Leigh's Crook Coal Company to-night, the chairman of directors stated that negotiations were in progress for the disposal of the company's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Coal Difficulty. Meeting of the Proprietors
After the deputation to the Minister for Mines yesterday regarding the weighing difficulty under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, the colliery proprietors met to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MINING. Broken Hill. March 3
Owing to a series of breakages last week the B.H. Junction mill ran short time, five shifts treating 535 tons crudes, returning HO tons first concentrates, worth approximately 24oz. silver, 64 per cent, lead,…
Continued on Trove, page 568 →Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales
The New Bushman's Hill Mine, Parkes, cleaned up 685 tons of stone for 324oz 11dwt gold, and in addition 64oz from cyanide treatment, making a total of 388oz lldwt gold…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales
Thee Tarcombe prospectors claim at [?]gunnia cleaned up a 39 ton crushing recently for a yield of 53oz retorted gold…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Scientific Mining. the Sydney University Mining School. an Important Institution. the Scope of Its Work
The establishment of a mining school in connection with the University of Sydney is a significant sign of the times. It is a recognition of the marked tendency to practical utilitarianism which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Miners at Kalgoorlie. Proposed Monster Deputation. Determination of the Diggers
KALGOORLIE, Friday.--The suggestion made by the "Kalgoorlie Miner" that a monster deputation should wait on the Primer at the railway station when, he is proceeding to Menzies…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Scene of the Recent Accident in the British Mine, Broken Hill
The accident occurred at about 1 a.m. on February 28. About 30 or 40 tons of sulphides fell, killing three miners—J. Curtain, J. Cunliffe, and J. Coff—instantly, and seriously injuring two truckers—T. Burns and W. Trewlett. Burns died at 6 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Pikedale Proprietary Copper and. Silver Mining Company
As may be seen from an advertisement in another portion of this paper, the Pikedale Proprietary Copper and Silver Mining Company is in process of formation as a No Liability…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Yukon Gold Fields. Arbitrary American Action. Anger in Canada
landon, March 7, 3.20 p.m.—The United States Cogress has poseed a bill making bending privileges on the Stickeen River conditional upon the concession by Canada of fishing rights…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →English Methods. No Trouble in Working the Mines. Inexpensive Machinery. an Experts Opinions
In connection with the trouble which has cropped up in the local coal-mines over the method of weighing cost taken from the mines for the purpose of paying the miners, a study…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Miner. The Hargraves Gold Field. Saddle Reefs in General. Iii
In the preceding articles I have given all the diagrams necessary to describe the saddle, reefs at Hargraves as they are known at present, but to further illustrate the occurrence of saddle…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Coal Owners' Trouble. They Cannot Weigh the Coal. a Request for an Amending Act. Ministerial Refusal. Another Secret Meeting. a Way Out of the Difficulty
The latest coal sensation in respect to the weighing difficulty still agitates the minds of the mineowners. The owners at present in Sydney represent every company in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Cow Flat Diamond. a Mining Story in Two Chapters. Chapter I.
THE story of the Cow Flat diamond has never been told in print, but it is a current yarn in Southern New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold, Ores and Metals. Expected From New South Wales to Oversea Ports for Eight Months Ended 28Th February, 1898. SHIPPERS
Union Bank of Aust, Ltd, 165 bxs sovereigns (£825,000) Bank of Australasia, Ltd, 181 bxs sovereigns (£900,000)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Australia. the Goldfields Water Scheme
PERTH, Friday.--In reference to the goldfields water scheme, the Engineer-in-Chief states that there are many reasons in favor of the work being…
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