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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 4 of 13

Mining Intelligence. the Turon

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 February 1852 · page 3

His s task of no mean difficulty to hope st despair, and on re-perusal of our last an article, we are free to confess that operated by the adverse clouds which hung for a…

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

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 February 1852 · page 3

SIR—Allow me, through your columns, to set the public right with regard to the rather sudden and melancholy death of a young woman named Fox, in this neighbourhood, on Sunday last, for…

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Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 March 1852 · page 3

Ending you the statement of this day's gold, I am not enable I to speak with any degree of satisfaction as to the results, asks now rule the price, competition with…

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Mining Intelligence. Abercrombie Diggings

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 March 1852 · page 2

The California party arrived in Bathurst on Thursday last from tho, Tuena Creek with 77 ozs. of gold, which, with 3 ozs. sold on the diggings, made 80 ozs. obtained in 12 days, of very course…

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

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 March 1852 · page 2

SIR.—The uninclosed and neglected stated those last mansions of the dead in (as it is called the old burial place, has often struck me as reprehensible in a christian community, Mr…

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Mining Intelligence. Ophir

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

The diggins out here are proceeding mach as usual, and a few struggling parties continue to do well. A large party of newly arrived Californians, who appear to be quite up to their…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press<AUT>Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 March 1852 · page 3

SIR.—What has become of the Bathurst Cricket Club? Verily I fear that, like many other clubs, associations, and companies, it has been called into existence only to be smothered at the…

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

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 March 1852 · page 3

SIR.—A report is current is this neighbourhood [?] one of your crack horses is about to be sent an Orange to contend for the two head prizes, and can assure you it is exciting no little…

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Original Correspondence. to the Turon Miners. (Per favour of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal.)

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 March 1852 · page 2

The great disappointment and heavy losses which the miners, in possession of bed claims on the Turon, have suffered by the floods, often crushing their hopes when just on the point of…

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British Extracts. Gold Digging in Australia

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 March 1852 · page 4

The latest accounts from Australia prove that the anticipations entertained as to the productiveness of the gold fields in New South Wales are in no respect exaggerated. To describe the…

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Country News. Hanging Rock Diggings-fresh Gold Field Found

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 March 1852 · page 4

Since our last we have received much additional information from the Hanging Rock diggings; but we have the pleasure to lay before our readers the following account, from a…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 March 1852 · page 2

SIR.—A horse mail has lately been established between Mudgee and the Meroo Creek,—a very great convenience certainly, but how the contract has been effected, myself and the public are…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Wednesday, March 10, 1852. the British Government and the Australian Gold Fields

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 March 1852 · page 2

MUCH anxiety has naturally been felt respecting the policy the Home Government might adopt with regard to our gold fields, and this anxiety, there is every…

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British Extracts. the Gold Question

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

The discovery of gold in Australia, and the abundant yield of the Californian mines, have again called public attention to the important question of the probable influence of so large an…

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Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 March 1852 · page 1

The long and tantalizing break in our English arrivals, and the sudden charge in our Banking institutions, combine to render the market for gold as unsettled and unsatisfactory as could well…

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District Intelligence. Carcoar Gold Field

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 March 1852 · page 2

Referring to my last communication from this quarter, informing you of the discovery of a profitable gold field in this locality, and also referring to a communication to the Government on…

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Mining Intelligence. the Turon

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 March 1852 · page 2

Since the return of sunshine and dry weather, a steady and progressive improvement in Turon affairs appears to have taken place. The lowered of the river, now an insignificant streamlet…

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Mining Intelligence

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

DAVIS'S CREEK DIGGINGS.—The intelligence published by us in a late issue that gold had been procured in Davis's Creek in sufficient quantity and with sufficient facility to promise successful…

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British Extracts. on Gold Deposits and Washings

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 March 1852 · page 4

Gold, from being found in its metallic state, is always, even to those acquainted with finding it in its deposits, a subject of much exaggeration, to many times its real amount; ami even to the…

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Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 March 1852 · page 2

I beg to hand you the sesult of this day's sale of Gold Dust. Prices, on the whole, will be found more satisfactory than our last. Some considerable purchases have been made at the low…

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