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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1851

121 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 7

Gold Circular

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1851 · page 8

The most important piece of intelligence from our mines this week, is the discovery at Louisa Creek of a specimen of gold quartz, weighing 27 lbs. It is said to be almost pure, and whilst in the…

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Victoria Gold Field

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1851 · page 3

I HAVE taken up my pen to address a few lines to you on the subject of the gold mines here and at Mount Alexander. I have been here now about five weeks, and when first I came, the whole of the banks…

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The Southern Gold Fields

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1851 · page 4

THE unexpected arrival in Goulburn on Wednesday last, at 3 p. m. of 2558 ounces 1dwt. 22gr. of gold from Braidwood, under the escort of Assistant-Commissioner M…

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Victoria and Sydney Gold Diggins. Port Phillip and Its Gasconading Press

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1851 · page 6

WE copy the following from the INTELLIGENCER, who has extracted it from the DAILY NEWS :— "The yield from both these gold fields continues large, and is fast on the increase. Despite the ungenerous…

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Gold and Silver Mines

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 2

ALMOST every part of South America affords mines of gold and silver, but those rich metals are most abundantly found in Chili as well as large quantities of copper, tin,…

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The Gold Mines. Sofala, Nov. 25

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 3

Peter Brennan's lump, found at the Louisa, and alluded to in a former communication, has arrived here, and, as I am given to understand, has been purchased by Mr. Joseph Walford, for £1,300. It…

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Gold Circular

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 6

WE have nothing particular to communicate from the Mines this week. Gold is being obtained [as usual, and finds its way to Sydney in considerable quantities. The Braidwood mines are perhaps the…

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Victoria Gold Field. Estimated Yield of the Gold Field

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 3

THE ARGUS contains the following information on this subject:— It has struck us, that once arrived in Melbourne or Geelong, no very large quantities of gold will…

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Gold—gold—gold. Turon Diggins

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 4

It may be remembered that some few weeks since, the prospects of the party I shall now mention was attended with no success. I have now a very different tale to unfold, not the one of the Arabian…

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Intelligence From the Gold Diggins. Ophir

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 3

A LONG interval has taken place since I last took up my pen to furnish you with any information from this auriferous quarter, arising from the fact that everything has lately come under the…

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The Southern Gold Fields. the Braidwood Diggings

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 4

SIR,—The numbers arriving here daily from various quarters, are swelling the tide of immigration to these diggins materially. The living masses here present to the eye the idea of a vast moving…

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Intelligence From the Gold Diggins. the Gold Mines

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 3

Accidents by falling into holes are of almost daily occurrence, and show how difficult it is to be prepared against such a misfortune; I may merely mention that during the last week no less than three…

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Gold Circular

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 6

SINCE Australia has proved to be a gold producing country, and human beings are daily arriving from all quarters of the world and proceeding to our mines, it is gratifying to be able to announce, not only that…

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The Gold Field

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 6

The extraordinary richness of our own gold fields is proved by the steady and continuous yield exhibited by the quantities weekly brought into the towns. The only means of…

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Mount Alexander Gold Fields

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 3

Several persons returned to Melbourne, on Saturday, and yesterday from these gold fields, nearly all of whom give very satisfactory accounts of success. One party of…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Maneroo

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 4

A FEW days back, three gentlemen, having made up a party of six, started on a prospecting tour up the Breadbow River, for the purpose of ascertaining beyond a doubt whether gold existed in this stream…

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Our Gold News in England

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1851 · page 1

THE SYDNEY HERALD of Friday, December 12, says:—"We have been favoured with a sight of two letters, one from Messrs. Dunbar and Sons to Messrs. Smith, Campbell & Co.;…

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Gold Circular

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 8

THE intelligence from Victoria by yesterday's overland mail is of so astounding a character that our pen refuses to write upon any other subject; the escort in that colony brought into Melbourne last…

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The Gold Discovery

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 3

SHOULD the accounts of the mineral wealth of New South Wales be confirmed, it will become. the duty of the Government, in which all unsold lands and all mines of fold and silver in sold lands are vested, to…

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California. the Quartz Mines of This State

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 1

EVERY day developes fresh evidence of the immense wealth contained in the gold-bearing quartz veins, extending through a vast region of country along the foot hills on the…

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