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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 7 of 13

Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 May 1852 · page 2

The Roman Emperor, which arrived this morning, reports the Phcenician as having entered the Downs on tho 4th of February. The large quantity of gold, nearly 23,000 ounces, by this vessel…

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Mining Intelligence. the Abercrombie Diggings

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 May 1852 · page 2

Tuena Creek and its diggings are beginning to attract the attention of the Bathurst gold buyers, a few of whom visit the place periodically for the prosecution of their mercantile pursuits. Several…

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Country News. Maitland. the Liverpool Plains and New England Gold Fields

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 19 May 1852 · page 4

We have been favoured with a copy of the following letter from the Colonial Secretary to the Secretary of the Maitland Gold Reward Committee, enclosing a…

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Sydney News. Gold Mining Companies

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 May 1852 · page 2

The following are a few of tho Joint Stock schemes set on foot in London in connection with gold mining enterprise in Australia. THE AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL GOLD MINING…

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Colonial Extracts Geology of Gold

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 May 1852 · page 4

Gold is more particularly found in what are called the primary or non-fossiliferous rocks, commonly in quartz, granite, or porphyry, and likewise in slate. It is…

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Mining Intelligence. the Dirt Hole and Tambaroora Creek Diggings

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 May 1852 · page 2

From the latest accounts, we learn that matters are proceeding steadily at the Dirt Hole anil Tambaroora Creek diggings. The population remains as nearly as possible, stationary, and the…

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Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 May 1852 · page 2

The quantity of gold dust received from our Mines during the current week, fully bears out my oft-expressed opinion, that the amount raised in proportion to population in this colony is not…

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Gold Receiver's Declaration

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 May 1852 · page 2

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 20th May, 1852.—Whereas by an act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, passed in the ninth year of the reign of her present…

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Sydney News. Gold Circulars

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 May 1852 · page 4

Hail Australia! We welcome the first anniversary of thy birth as a field of untold wealth, in which the labourer may be well repaid for the sweat of his brow, the…

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Original Correspondent. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal. "Palman Qui Meruit Ferat."

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 May 1852 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—In your issue of Saturday last I perceive you have given me the credit for an act of charity which belonged to another. I allude to the case of the unfortunate man, Henry…

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A New Gold Field

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 May 1852 · page 2

The following highly interesting extract is taken from a letter addressed by a gentleman of Holong, to a fried in Bathurst:—News has this moment reached us of gold…

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Mining Intelligence. the Turon

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 May 1852 · page 2

Sofala is again dull as ever. The late rains have raised the river to such an extent that all mining operations in its bed are impracticable for the present, and are likely to remain so for…

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

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 May 1852 · page 2

SIR,—Having seen in a recent copy of the Sydney Morning Herald, in an article by the Mudgee Correspondent, a brief notice of a circumstance which took place at Tambaroora Creek on the…

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English Gold Companies

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 2 June 1852 · page 2

Since the publication of our article on this subject we have obtained some further particulars respecting the audacious swindle which has been perpetrated upon the shareholders of the…

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Sydney News. Gold Circular

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 2 June 1852 · page 2

The same cause which has seriously affected all branches of business during the current week, the inclement state of the weather, has produced a temporary stagnation in all gold transactions…

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Country News. Bendoc and Delegate Gold Field

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 2 June 1852 · page 4

We have received the subjoined letter from the Rev. W. B. Clarke. The Rev. gentleman is under a wrong impression if he supposes that our information was…

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

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 June 1852 · page 2

SIR.—Having just returned from the diggings we find in the sydney Morning Herald of the 13th May, in a speech made by Dr. Machattie, with reference to Mr. Hargraves being the first…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalesit." Saturday, June 5, 1852. Transportation and Gold

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 June 1852 · page 2

AUSTRALIAN gold has done its work even in the prisons of England. The fame of our auriferous wealth has penetrated the wretched precincts of the hulks, and a hundred rufflans rose in…

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Origin of Gold

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 June 1852 · page 3

The following essay of a Mr. John Calvert, the origin of gold, appeared in the Herald the 4th. having been applied to for the hundredth time…

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To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 June 1852 · page 2

SIR.—In your issue of last Saturday week, I saw what I considered a fair representation of our doings at the Tambaroura and Dirt Hole Creeks. But singularly enough, your Turon…

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