Portable Acetylene Lamp for Mines
The illustration shows a portable acetylene lamp adapted for use in mines. The lamp as usually made is 5in high, weighs about 9oz, and will burn four hours with one charge. A handle…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Mining & the mines, 1901
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Champion Gold Medal Competition
This is the last day for competitors in the Champion Gold Medal Competition to meet in the first round of the competition. Winners must send in their cards to the secretary of the Bowling…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Deep Mining Conditions
The following is an abstract of a paper on the above subject, recently read before a society,of mining engineers in America: Limit of Depth: The practicable limit of depth…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →General Mining News
A Greta telegram states that the Anvil Creek Colliery is to be re-opened after practical abandonment for some years. Men are at present putting the mine in order, and coal will be drawn…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Australasian Mining Patents
The following complete specifications have lately been accepted in the various colonies undermentioned, and letters patent will, therefore, issue to the applicants in due course. This…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Charters FROM 1st February. Coal
Ariel, bq, 820 tons, Newcastle to West Coast Challenger, ah. 1399 tons, Newcastle to Honolulu option San Francisco Firth, of Dornoch, bq, 880 tons, Newcastle to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Canker Worm of Gold
Lord Charles Beresford, in the 'North American Review,' says that:— British society has been eaten into by the canker of money. From the top…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late Mining. Melbourne
There was an advance in the value of Glenfine Consols on the Stock Exchange to-day, due to an intimation from the mine manager in the following terms:—"Cut what appears to be a big body of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining in New Guinea
Mr. P. Bondeson has just returned to Sydney after an eight-months' prospecting tour in New Guinea, undertake in the interests of the British New Guinea Syndicate, Limited. As a…
Continued on Trove, page 435 →Some More About the Gold War
Robinson, De Beers, Eckstein, Marks, Goertz and all the rest of the South Africa [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Western Australian Mining. Kalgoorlie
The output return of the Lake View Consols i[?] as follows:—Treated, December, [?] tons of oxidised s[?]mes for [?]z.; 100 [?] sands cyanied for [?]z.; 2[?] tons sulphide ore for 4200oz.; total 5576 oz…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mount Lyell Mine. Regent Developments. Condition of the Workings
QUEENSTOWN, Thursday.--In view of the general anxiety of the public in regard to the development of No. 7 tunnel of the Mount Lyell mine, a report on the work done there, as it shows…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Mining Market. London, Feb. 15
Mount Lyell, £4 17s 6d. North Lyell, £2 17s [?]d. Chillag[?]e Railway and Mines, 32s 6d. ADELAIDE, Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Mining News. New South Wales
The following items are to hand from Tingha— A miner named Ting recently struck a nice reef in the bank of Cope's Creek, opposite the old Albion Flat, a place that was worked in the…
Continued on Trove, page 56 →Western Miners' Conference. Demand for Increased Rates. Lithgo W.
A conference between representative colliery owners and miners was held an Wednesday night in the Cosmopolitan Hotel. The owners were represented by Messrs. W. Briggs (Vale of Clwydd), T…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lithgow Miners. Conference with the Proprietors. Long List of Demands. Blocked by Low Contracts
LITHGOW, Friday.--A conference between the representative colliery owners and the miners was held on Wednesday night at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. The owners were represented by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Town of Cobar. an Important Place in the Back Country. Sad Effects of the Drought. a Big Mining Centre
Planted in the far back country on the border of, not actually within, the Never Never land is the large industrial town of Cobar. Most peoplerprobably know of it by repute as a place of…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →West Australian Goldfields
KALGOORLIE, Friday.--The Lake View Consols December output was 3631 tons oxidised slimes for 1340oz. 100 tons oxidised sands, 27oz.; 2554 tons sulphide, 4200oz…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in a Colliery. Sixty Miners Imprisoned
LONDON, February 16.-A fire has occurred in a colliery at Cumberland, Vancouver. Sixty miners are, in consequence, imprisoned in the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late Mining. Broken Hill South Mine. Melbourne
The directors' report regarding the Brokon Hill South Silvet-mining Company states that the financial position should be considered very satisfactory. The balance of profit and loss account carried…
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