Mining in the State.' Delegate
A recent crushing from Mr. W. J. Thompson's gold mine at Brown's Camp gave a return from.3 tons of 5½ to the ton. Mr. Richardson, a mining investor who…
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Balmain Coal Mine. Company to Be Reconstructed
An extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Sydney Harbour Colliries was held on Monday afternoon in the Equitable-buildings, Mr. E. T. Ingham (chairman of the London…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Maitland Collieries (Officials) Board
The Attorney-General gave instructions yesterday that a Maitland Collieries (Officials) Board be constituted for the industries of deputies, shotfirers, and waste-examiners…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Burwood Colliery Trouble
The strike among the boys at the Burwood Colliery has fizzled out. The boys, it will be remembered, ceased work on Thursday last because their claims had not been considered in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Burwood Colliery Strike
Work was resumed at the Burwood colliery yesterday after the stoppage caused by the drivers refusing to work last week. Twelve of the boys went back to work, and the places of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining News. Around New South Wales Fields. Gold Find Near Uralla
Desultory prospecting has for some time been carried on two or three miles from Uralla, and at times very fair prospects have been obtained. Recently Mr. A. Fraser, after following a…
Continued on Trove, page 52 →Mining Notes
A new method for removing slime and water from gold-bearing sand, devised by W. A. Caldecott, has been in use at the Knights Deep and the Simmer and Jack Proprietary Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal and Other Exports
The following vessels cleared at the Customs-house to-day:—Wyrallah, s, for Bairnsdale, Gippsland Lakes, with 220 tons coal, and 40 tons bunker; Airlie, s, for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Loss of Coal Heat
With the coal consumption of many countries in the last 10 years haying been more than in the preceding century, it is humiliating and appalling to reflect that less than…
Continued on Trove, page 62 →Mining. Mount Werong
Promising mineral lodes have been discovered in the neighborhood of Mount Werong, about 32 miles from oberon. The ore is mostly lead and silver bearing, and the spot…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill
Only crosscutting at the 775ft level was accomplished at the B.H. Junction mine last week. The crosscut was carried 14ft to 24ft, but has not yet struck the expected ore body…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Shale Mining near Murrurundi
Three miles or so out from the town of Murrurundi, which is situated on the Page River, 192 miles north-west of Sydney, a kerosene shale mine now being worked is giving employment to a fair number of men. Our illustration depicts operations underground at the mine. The earliest period at which kerosene shale was known to exist in the Murrurundi district was about 1860; and a year or so later a sample of "combustible schist" was exhibited at the London Exhibition. The mine now working is said to…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Graphite and Graphite Mining
Of all the mineral substances with which we are more or less familiar, and which yield valuable and almost indispensable products of every-day use, the iron-black, or…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →B.H. South Mine. Broken Hill
The B.H. South mine last week sent away 1007 tons of concentrates. Experimental work with the water-softening plant is proceeding well. In developmental work, Fl and G1…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sydney Harbor Collieries. Preparing for a New Start. Company to Be Wound Up
A definite move fins at last been made with the affairs of the Sydney Harbor Collieries, whose coalmine at Balmain has been idle for some mouths. The reason for the delay has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal Trade Depression. Complaint From Kurri Kurri
KURRI KURRI, Tuesday.--At a meeting of the Progress Committee last night the matter of depression in the coal trade was introduced. It was stated that the miners had not worked…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining in the State. Millthorpe
The Ballarat tributers are now working on a good face of wash-dirt in the west end. Their last clean-up, although satisfactory, was not equal to the previous ones…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Newcastle. Miners' Federation. Executive Committee to Be Abolished. Newcastle
The ballot of lodges throughout the Newcastle and Maitland fields on the question of the abolition of either the committee of management or the delegate board has now been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway Accident at Newcastle. Coal Train Runs Into a Hoist. Damage Estimated at £5000
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—A serious and expensive accident happened early this morning at the M'Myler coal hoist, recently erected at the Dyke at Carrington, by the Railway…
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