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

Mining & the mines, 1874

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 20 June 1874 · page 2

WORK was recommenced this morning in the prospecting claim of the lead, known as “My Dream,” situated between [?]tannery and the Star of the West. The…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 23 June 1874 · page 2

IT is reported that Messrs. Whelan and party, who have does considerable work in the way of prospecting the new ground under the paddock of Mr. Lyons, have asked for an…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 25 June 1874 · page 2

EiIGHTYY- ONE ounces of gold from 257 tons is said to have been the result of the crushing, at Mr. Scully’s machine, of the shareholders in No. 23 Black Lead. This yield is sufficient…

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The Early Days of Quartz Mining in Bendigo. (Free the Beiges Adoertioer.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 25 June 1874 · page 4

Many of the old experienced diggers were attracted, when they came to the Bendigo gold fields, by the large quarts [?] to be seen in all directions. Very…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 27 June 1874 · page 2

IN Wall’s paddock things are said to be very slack at the present time. No payable alluvial gold has thus far been traced. Several parties continue working their claims, but we…

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Important Mining Decision

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 27 June 1874 · page 5

[?] will be found a full report of the decision of the Supreme Court, on the points received at the last Circuit Court sittings in Mudgee, in the case of the men tried for…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 30 June 1874 · page 2

AT Tallewang mining affairs continue to be in a prosperous condition. During last week several nuggets of considerable size were unearthed. The shareholders in the…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 2 July 1874 · page 2

THE effort left on Tuesday morning, [?] 3472 or II [?] grain of gold and £200 in nobles. Only ten days had elapsed since the previous escort. In estimating the…

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Decline in the Victorian Yield of Gold. ( From the Melbourne Leader.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 2 July 1874 · page 4

A GLANCE at the newpapers published upon the goldfields is sufficient to show that the mining interest is just now going through a season of depression. The…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 4 July 1874 · page 2

Mr. Milne, who is the proprietor of a tract of land about five miles from Gulgong, has undertaken the responsibility of prospecting his paddock for gold. He is supporting a…

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The New Mining Board

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 4 July 1874 · page 2

THE Mining Board held its first meeting at the Colonial Secretary’s office. The members present were the representatives of the electoral district of the Gold-fields South…

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Gold Mining Leases. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 7 July 1874 · page 3

[?] morning the Mining Board [?] the Minister for Mines with the [?] of drawing his attention to the delay in the issue of gold mining leases. The…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 7 July 1874 · page 2

WE are gratified to learn that the prospectors on the Shamrock Lead continue to raise good payable dirt. The shareholders in No. 1 have also obtained favourable prospects,…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 9 July 1874 · page 2

DURING last week Messrs. William Capewell and party, who had taken [?] of an abandoned shaft between the old Happy Valley lead and the lower part of Mr…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 11 July 1874 · page 2

THE rush to Tallewang is likely to have an excellent effect, independent of the golden ground already discovered. Every miner with whom we have convened has no…

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Home Rule Mining Report. (From [?] Home Rule Pilot)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 11 July 1874 · page 3

[?] rains take somewhat [?] operations, the sudden [?] of the ground making the work of [?] trying to the…

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Mining Board of New South Wales. (From the S. M. Herald)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 11 July 1874 · page 4

[?] Chairman (Mr. H. A. [?] took [?] All the members were present. The minutes of last meeting were…

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Gold in . Western Australia

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 14 July 1874 · page 4

IT seems very probable that oar sister colony of Western Australia will not, after all, be left oat of the roll of the gold-producing dependencies of the Crown…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 14 July 1874 · page 2

THE party who have been at work for some weeks in the paddock of Mr. Milne are now down 160 feet. They have a good whim erected, and any amount of horses to work…

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