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

Mining & the mines, 1869

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New on the Mill. the Scottish Gold-fields

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 17 July 1869 · page 3

THE excitement in Sutherland is settling down. The precipitate rush at the gold-fields has been cheeked, and digging is now reduced to something like the condition of ordinary industry…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 July 1869 · page 2

JULY 18.--The roads seem to mend and a great, deal of loading has arrived lately here. Colonial produce still maintains high rates. There is little or no news in mining matters…

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Mining Matters at the Thames New Zealand

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 July 1869 · page 3

UNPARALLELED.—A crushing of a parcel of specimens, weighing 650 lbs., from the Long Drive Claim, was finished yesterday at the Kuranui Company's one-stamper, machine,…

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The Extraction of Fine Gold From Tailings. [From the Pleasant Creek News.]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 July 1869 · page 2

OF late months Pleasant Creek has gradually awoke to the fact that the thousands of tailings which are lying about in all directions are valuable—that, considering the…

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Diamond-mining at Two-mile Flat

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 August 1869 · page 3

The correspondent of the Western Post writes on the 31st ultimo, with regard to the diamond-mining in the taken locality:—Last week sixty-five acres were…

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A Miners' Ball in Oregon

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 August 1869 · page 4

THE costumes, as a rule, were more suggestive of ease than elegance, scarlet shirts and buckskin "pants" were in tho ascendant. The boots, as a rale, were worn outside the…

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Dreadful Colliery Explosion

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 August 1869 · page 2

Between 6 and 7 o’clock on Thursday morning June 10th, an explosion occurred at Ferndale Colliery, Glamorganshire. About half an hour after the colliers, of…

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News on the Mail. the Gold Fields of Sutherland Shire

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 August 1869 · page 4

THE universality of the existence of gold in this part of Scotland is its most striking peculiarity. It is found almost wherever it has been looked for; and apparently of similar quality in all…

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Extraordinary Proceedings in Connection with a Mine

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 2

REVELATIONS at Ballarat in regard to defecations by mining managers and miners have somewhat prepared people in the Sandhurst district tor similar revelations on Bendigo,…

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Correspondence. Belmore Gold Mining Company, Lambing Flat. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 31 August 1869 · page 3

SIR,--Will you be good enough to correct an error which appeared in the Goulburn Argus in reference to the two teams laden with machinery for working the wet-lead at Lambing Flat. It…

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Correspondence. the Milora Mines. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 September 1869 · page 3

DEAR SIR,--There is no foundation whatever for the report that the proprietors of the Milora mines are about to form a company for working that lode. I remain yours, &c…

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New Regulations for the Gold-fields

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1869 · page 7

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the executive council, has been pleased to approve of the following now regulations made in pursuance of the…

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Catastrophe in a Mine

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 2

AMONGST other calamities attributable to the flood, is an occurrence at the Great Northern Junction Company, at the foot of Mount Bowan and the Dead Horse ranges, on the Creswick…

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Terrible Colliery Accident in America. Philadelphia, Sept. 8

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 November 1869 · page 2

A dreadful calamity occurred on Monday at Plymouth, in Pennsylvania, in the coal region of Avondale. The colliery had not been in use for some time on account of the…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 November 1869 · page 2

NOVEMBER 7.-- Things look very thriving in this locality; our reefs are turning out very remuneratively; and fortunes are being made, although a considerable number of our miners…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 November 1869 · page 2

NOVEMBER 14.-- Owing to the benevolent exertions of the ladies of the district and of the working committee, consisting of members of Free masons, Oddfellows', and Temperance Lodges…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 26 November 1869 · page 2

NOVEMBER 21.--There is a rumour afloat that Mr. W. B. Dalley is likely to come forward for the Lachlan district, and that the residents of Burrowa have forwarded him a numerously…

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Emu Creek Gold-fields

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 December 1869 · page 3

NOVEMBER 28.-- There is in mining affairs very little to report, but in electioneering matters a good deal. Mr. W. B. Dalley has expressed his willingness by letter to Messrs. Joseph McConnell…

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Emu Creek Gold-fields

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 December 1869 · page 2

DECEMBER 5.--There is still nothing now in mining matters, but the horizon of politics is full of vapours, and only one star visible with a chance to give us light Mr. [?]…

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Local and General. Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 December 1869 · page 2

DECEMBER 12.--Our alluvial areas are commencing to give signs of turning out rich. The numerous indications of extensive loads point to the provision of wealth and employment for…

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