Emu Creek Gold-field
JUNE 22.-- We have had again some slight rain, but not enough to fill the dams, though It caused a few pools at the Seven-Mile, which enabled some to wash up. As I wrote to you in my last, the…
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Mining & the mines, 1868
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Grenfell Local News. Mining Report
A FAIR trial crushing of the pebbles from the alluvial claims on the Main Lead, with tailings from some of the puddling machines and “ toms,” was finished on…
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JUNE 29.-- The chain and its links of ranges on which, or in whose immediate neighbourhood, gold discoveries in the south of this colony have taken place, run in a form very much like an oval, or…
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As we anticipated, this month’s escort, which was despatched on Tuesday last, was an unusually small one, being no more than 1828ozs. Odwts. 28grs. This is not…
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JULY 6.-- The escort left here on Tuesday last, and took from Grenfell 1828 ozs. 23 grs gold and 438l. in notes. From Forbes it conveyed 260 ozs. 9 dwts. 19 grs. gold, and 683l. in notes…
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The expedience of the last few days—in two instances more particularly—has furnished additional evidence. of the durability of the main reefs of this district, and at the same…
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JULY 14.-- I refrained in my last communication to mention either the Seven or Fourteen mile thinking I would be able to give more favourable accounts of these leads; but I am still not justified…
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SIR,—During a visit which I recently, made to your beautiful district, I was tempted to ride over to the Currawang Copper-Mine, of which I had heard both encouraging and discouraging accounts. Believing…
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JULY 20.-- Reports from Wood's Flat, near Cowra, by private letters, speak again very favourably of the alluvial workings, and state that a number of claims had come on a lead about sixteen to…
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THE following letter from Mr Joseph Dyer appears in the Goulburn Herald of Saturday last:-- Sir,--During a visit which I recently made to…
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MB. C. D’Oyly St. Alpin, government-geologist for South Queensland, in his report of July 2nd, among other -remarks, says:—“For exceeding richness in patches of limited extent, the quartz…
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The fall of rain in the early part of the week has thrown a considerable additional quantity of water into the dams, andâwith the exception perhaps of Bevan and Co,, whose…
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JULY 27.-- Since I last wrote the weather changed from the spring-like to a wintry severity, with violent cold blasts and heavy rain. The weather changed again last Friday, and is now bright and…
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GYMPIR —The following is an extract from a private letter from a reliable correspondent: “The Eureka has turned out well. The reef has been struck at a depth of forty feet, and is…
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AUGUST 2.-- The weather is again beautiful, bright, and clear, warm days and frosty nights. The rain of the week before last was after all very scanty, and the dams are nearly as empty now as they…
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OPHIR.—Appearances on the newly discovered lead denote a continuance of, prosperity. Though up to the present time no gold of any consequence has been taken from any claim than…
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ALTHOUGH there is no gainsaying, the fact that recent crushings from quartz claims that formerly produced gold in almost fabulous quantities have considerably fallen…
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PLUM-pudding CREEK.—There has been a good deal of talk, in Carcoar about a quartz reef lately discovered at a place called Plum-pudding Creek. Its locality is a hilly country…
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A MOVEMENT towards Ophir and to the Queensland gold-fields, during the last few days, although not on a large scale, has slightly diminished our mining population,…
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SIR,—Any speculation that enhances the prosperity of a district and tends to increase the national wealth must be of Interest to the generality of the people. I will therefore briefly trespass on your…
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