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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1852

245 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 12 of 13

No. 2. (Commissioner Miller's answer to the foregoi[?] protest.) Assistant Gold Commissioner's Office, Tambaroora. 15th Oct

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 November 1852 · page 2

SIR—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, transmitting protest adopted and signed at a public meet of miners and other inhabitants of this[?]…

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Original Correspondence. Tambaroora. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 November 1852 · page 2

SIR—In your issue of Saturday 23rd ult. you have been pleased to publish—and thereby have given the imprimatur of your sanction to—a very impertinent, false, and rigmarole report (I should…

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Miners' Associations

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 November 1852 · page 2

It would ill comport with the course we have chalked out for ourselves and thus far andeviatingly Pursued, to suffer correspondence to appear in our columns…

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Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 November 1852 · page 4

The market for gold dust during the past week has been animated, and a much larger business could have been effected, had gold offered in larger quantity. The advance in price at Melbourne…

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Tambaroora Miners' Association To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 November 1852 · page 3

Sir.—Having recently arrived at the Tambaroora Diggings from England whence I was allured, like many others, by the report of the extraordinary riches of the Australian Gold Fields,…

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Mining Intelligence. Tambaroora

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 November 1852 · page 3

The digging population is in a very unsealed state just now, moving about from one goldfield to another, Many have left this part within the last week for the several diggingS north…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Prin an Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 November 1852 · page 2

Sir—Seeing that the Legislative Council inten to puss an act for the regulation of the gold field. and the the copy of the proposed Bill display such an ignorance of the subject, and is so…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Et, Prevalebit," Saturday, November 13,1852. Export Duty on Gold

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 November 1852 · page 2

There are two . facts becoming day by any more obvious to the intelligent observe —one that gold interests and gold-diggers are completely unrepresented in'the…

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Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 November 1852 · page 3

In addition to the valuable reports which have appeared in the public press, we have received a number of private letters from our various minesing the present week, all tending to prove…

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Mining. Intelligence: Tambaroora

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 November 1852 · page 2

There is little to communicate just now, the population being much thinned by the attractions of the Turon and the Macquaric. But strange to say, during the past week some new claims have been opened and proved rich, shewing that…

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Mining Intelligence. Tambaroora

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 2

We are now in a position which is very rare at the diggings-nearly all who are here are doing well, or at least quite enough to induce them ro continue working. This may be accounted for…

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The Bathurst Free Press. Magna Est Veretas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, November 27, 1852. the Sofala Gold Mining Association

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 2

The advantages of association for the accomplishment of particular objects are so obvious to every intelligent man, that any attempt to argue the point would in these…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 2

Sir—May I be permitted to ask through the medium of your journal, whether any steps have been taken by the Committes appointed by the public meeting, culled to discuss the mill one…

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Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 December 1852 · page 4

We have liltle to report from our mines this week, nothing remarkable having occurred since our last. From the Kurth we hear that the diggings were promising well, although the gold…

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Mining Intelligence. the Turon

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 December 1852 · page 2

No community but an extemporised one, and even of this character, none but a community of sold-diggers, drawn together by the magnetic influence which gold alone possesses, could, in…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 December 1852 · page 2

Sir—May I be permitted to ask through the medium of your columns, how it is that letters posted in Batharst on the 9th of the month, are not sometimes delivered to the parties, although…

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Elour. "Tempus Fucit. To the Editor of the Buthurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 December 1852 · page 2

Sir—A few Weeks since a great stir was made in consequence of the Mdlers of Bathurst refusing to grind for the pash is, and raising the price of flour. A put he meeting was held…

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Copper and Gold

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 December 1852 · page 2

A section of land has recently been purchased by Messrs, Samuel, Macintosh and Want, which heirs extraordinary, indications richness both in copper and gold. As we are instructed, the…

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Sydney News. Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 December 1852 · page 4

Our record of the news from the m'nes this week is on the whole of a favorable character,thought not altogether unchequered by ill tidings. We perceive that the Rev. W. B. Clarke is…

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Mining Intelligence. the Turon

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 December 1852 · page 3

The rains of tho past week have slightly raised tho river; so much so, as to put a stop to bed chaim operations, and the diggers have according to invariable custom in such cases, betaken…

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