Origin or Gold Nuggets
Professor Liversidge has investigated the structure of gold nuggets, with, the object of obtaining information as to the manner in which they were…
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Mining & the mines, 1899
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The Rising Tide of Gold
The director of the United States Mint, the Hon. G. E. Roberts, quotes returns and estimates to show that the world's output of the yellow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Notes. Coramba
At the Queen's Record, the straightening up of the top level has been continued. At about 170ft. from the audit the big body of quartz that they have been following has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The King of English Coal
The sudden death of the Earl of Wharncliffe the other day removes from the circle of great English colliery proprietors one of its most important figures. The deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Mining Shares
Messrs. Joseph Palmer and Son report:— Gold mining shares have provided a lot of business of a healthy description, though occasionally there has been a tendency to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining Notes. Coramba
At Tallawadjeh Creek mining is just about as slack as at any of the other camps. There are only about 15 hands left out of the number who were camped there a few months ago. It is, however, safe to say that this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Robbery
A CABLEGRAM received from New Zealand states that on the arrival of the R.M.S. Alameda at San Francisco via ports it was found that a box containing specie to the amount of £5000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Solferino
Mining matters are [?]ery quiet here just now. Mr. Marcantelli has just arrived here with his two sons, and has pegged out the old Lombardy prospecting claim, formerly known as the Lombardy dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Man Who Says He Can Make Gold
Dr. Emmens may or may not be a modern Rosicrucian. Anyhow he claims to have solved the secret of making gold. Further, he insists that he has sold to the mints of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gold of Silence. and What Came of It
More harm has been wrought in this world by the gold of silence than by the silver speech. Especially is this tree of matters of the heart…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dredging for Gold
The system of gold-ruining by dredging river beds is attracting a good deal of attention. The dredge Moa, belonging to the Clyde Dredging Company, Limited, a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining at Solferino
A Tamini and party on the Band of Hope reef, have driven a cross cut 60ft to cut the reef and have also driven along the reef 60ft. The air being bad they rose up 30ft. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Returns
Mr. Editor.—Under the above heading in your issue of the 10th instant, some startling figures are given the public. It is safe to say the gold returns far N.S. Wales, if truthfully placed before the public, would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dredging For Gold
THE ORANGE LEADER gives the following account of the method pursued by Mr. GarLand in dredging for gold in the Macquarie River:— "A large floating platform [?] is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Big Mining Deal
It is rumoured powerful English syndicates have purchased 50,000 reserved shares in the Associated Mines for £541,250, being at the rate of £10 16s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Gold-fields
Mr. Editor.—I see ''Binghi" has had another geological nightmare, resulting in a diarrhoea of words, geological and otherwise, principally otherwise. My bit of pleasantry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Notes. [From the "Australian Mining Standard."]
The Kalgoorlie Mining Managers' Association has adopted the following standard scale of wages for those engaged in the mining industry: Timbermen, 13s 4d per…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining Notes. Coramba
At the Queen's Record, the middle level mentioned in the previous report has been started, and is now in about 55 feet. The reef is about 21 inches wide, of good crushing stone, which, as the level…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal in Queensland
ROCKHAMPTON, Saturday.--Mr. R. Dunstan, of the Geological Surveyor's' Department, leaves to-day for Brisbane. It is reported that he has made a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alameda Gold Robbery
THE San Francisco newspapers which arrived by the Alameda last week contain full accounts of the gold robbery on the Alameda, but, beyond the fact that the gold was found to be missing…
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