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Enquirer.—The stone is pyrites. It may carry gold or silver or possibly both, but it is worth assaying. The sample sent is too small for assay. The fees for assay are:—Gold or silver, 7s 6d; gold and silver, that is, two…
Continued on Trove, page 372 →The steamer Balmoral arrived to-day from Port Natal to replenish her bunkers prior to proceeding to Melbourne to load for South Africa. The steamer Emma sailed to-day for Java with 3600 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 371 →The abridged prospectus of the Stannary Mines and Tramway Company, Limited, appears in our business columns. The capital of the company is to be £650,000, in 650,000 shares of £1 each, of which…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In this issue will be found some interesting particulars regarding the gold-mining industry of Australia. Tuesday next is the jubilee of the discovery of gold in New South Wales, the date…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NOT hundreds but thousands of farms in the Transvaal and Orange Free State have been looted and burned by the English. Civilised…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The new coal contracts entered into by the Railway Department for the supply of Newcastle and Victorian coal involved the depattment in an additional annual expenditure of £55,000 as compared with the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →With regard to the recent trouble in connection with coal shipment at Newcastle, the following minute, has been written by the Railway Commissioners, and is being communicated to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Huxley, Jukes, and Darwin mining fields have been favorably reported upon by the Government Geologist of Tasmania (Mr.W.H.Twelvetrees).He refers…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Thomas Carter, a trucker, a married man with four children, was fatally injured at the British mine early to-day. He was taken to the hospital and died shortly afterwards. He was about to start working…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →It will be 50 years on Tuesday next since gold was first discovered in payable quantities in New South Wales. A Forty-niner, who had recently returned to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The half-yearly report of the directors of Falkner's G.M. Company states that after carefully going into the financial position of the company, and finding that the callable capital…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →From the 40ft level of Haugh's mine there is at present being raised the best stone yet brought to the surface on the Yambulla field. The gold is free, and easily discernible in the ore. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 56 →LONDON, February 8, 1.45 p.m.-Hundreds of cases of dynamite accidentally exploded at San Andres Silver Mine, near Durango, Mexico. The top of the mine was blown off, and eighty-seven…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. C. Moulde[?], general manager of the function Mine, returned to Broken Hill this morning. When questioned he stated that the reason the mine was temporarily shut down was entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,—The goldfields of British New Guinea appear to excite public attention. It may therefore be of interest just now to supply a few brief particulars concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →For causing the Stockton Colliery to be laid idle for four days at the end of last month, nineteen wheelers and drivers were summoned to appear at the Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[?] marked [?] must reach us not [?] Thursday. [?] police is taken of [?] correspondence. The coupon printed in [?] Information column must be cut out…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—Who first discovered gold in Australia is a vexed question which has already been much discussed, and Mr. Gates letter may lead to much more…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →KIANDRA, Thursday.-On Wednesday notices of intention to apply for 500 acres of alluvial gold mining leases were lodged at the office of the warden's clerk,'Kiandra, by Mr. E. Seaborn Marks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kelly's Queen Block, [?]60 tons for 613oz. Shamrock, Waratah, 123 tons for 83oz. 17dwt. 12gr. Fiery cross, 5 tons for 40z. 6dwt. 6gr. Birthday Syndicate, 4 tons for 50z. 5dwt…
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