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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
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Two questions of some importance to persons interested in mining were decided yesterday by the Supreme Court in Banco. In one case it appealed, that two parties holding miners' rights, had had a dispute as to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1872—We have to report, among other mining matters, the discovery of another rich gold reef in the neighbourhood of the Star of Hope, Chambigne. It is called the Bold American, and from what we hear it is very rich, gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SEPTEMBER 29TH.—I have to report this week the discovery by Mr. William Ross of a new reef, called the Sir Walter Scott. It is situated on the south branch, about three miles above…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE stampers of Messrs. Mort and Co. have at length decided the value of quartz, from No. 5 North Perseverance. The published accounts report the yield of a ton to be twenty-five ounces; but many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—A visitor to the Lion Township or to Solforine must at first be struck by the multitude of notices, subscription lists, petitions, &c., that are posted up in the most conspicuous places. We have petitions for a visiting minister, for the establishment of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OCTOBER 24TH —Mining matters are looking a great deal better this week. A good deal of excitement has been caused by the splendid gold that has been struck in the Prospectors' Claim, Lunatic Reef. After a considerable amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OCTOBER 26TH —Since my last, there has been very little to report upon; no heavy finds or great rushes as is usual the case on a new gold-field. A few of the claims only are working, while others are idle, owing to certain individuals having so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As mentioned in our last issue, the Hon. JOHN SUTHERLAND, Minister for Works, accompanied by Mr. W. C. BENNETT, the Engineer for Roads; Mr. P. R DONALDSON, District Surveyor; and Mr. GEORGE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOVEMBER 1ST.—Your quid[?]un[?] correspondent of the 20th of October, is evidently suffering from a severe a[?]ack of bile; his choler will not even permit of the common courtesies which your readers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE r[?]cent rapid rise in metals has stimulated the working of new or abandoned mines to a serious extent in the West of England, Many grants of old mi[?]ed which suspended operations only a few years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NOVEMBER 7TH.—This place looks better since my last report; several parties are getting to work: I have not heard of any large finds, but all who have got the reef in their claims are more or less…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is to be presumed that any school boy knows where Coclatrice Creek is, and hence no discussion is necessary. The "Great Undaunted" have a thousand acros there, from the bowels of which they are now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NOVEMBER 21ST—Min[?] matters here continue to be very dull at present: no new finds to bring under your notice. The Sir Walter Scott is looking up a little, and the prospectiors are in hopes of finding somthing permanent, No. 1 on each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOVEMBER. 15TH.—This place looks rather [?] at present, and a great many are leaving for the Little River and other fields, but I think ofter Christmas it will take a turn for the better, as soon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM one of the members of the Kapunda Prosp[?]cting Company, who with four others, has returned from Port Darwin by the Omen we [Brisbane Courier) have received some informatian with regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NOVEMBER 27TH.—Mining business has been rather slack here the last two or three weeks; very little speculation going on but most of the claims are still steadily at work. The crushing machine has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT has been said that, if any individual would write down every day all he has seen or heard, it would prove interesting in whatever handsâof which opinion my letters may serve either as a contradiction or a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Government bill for the better provision for the regulation of mining has been laid before the Assembly. The preliminary portion of the measure embraces a full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the Daily Telegraph, of the 2nd October appears a letter, to the editor, signed "ANTIPODEAN," on Victoria and its gold-fields. The writer is presumed to be Mr. ANTHONY…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN a recent Issue, we had occasion to refer to some really splendid photographic views of Lionsville, executed by our townsman Mr. J. W. Lindt. We have now from the studio of the same gentleman,dying before us, a dozen different views of the…
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