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

Mining & the mines, 1872

113 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 6

Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 August 1872 · page 2

AUGUST 26. -- The District Court siblings lasted for nearly two full days. There were about a dozen cases, most of them rather interesting locally, but uninteresting to the general public…

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The Nanama Gold-field, Near Yass

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 August 1872 · page 2

THE inclemency of the weather on Tuesday and Wednesday last led to the expectation that Mr. Commissioner Clarke would abandon his intention to be at Nanama on last Wednesday. The…

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Mining

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1872 · page 4

THERE have been one or two rumours during the week of finds of gold and copper in different directions in the Goulburn district; but it has always appeared to us desirable that they should be…

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Prospects of Tin and Copper Mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1872 · page 2

An important advance in the tin standards has been announced, and has already caused great speculation in the Cornish tin-mines. There seems now to be a decided general…

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Mining News. (From the S. M. Herald.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1872 · page 2

THE demand for mining shares, though not so active as it has been, is still large, particularly for dividend-paying companies or those giving promise of being so within a reasonable time. In gold…

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Local and General. the Nanama Gold-fields, Near Yass

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 September 1872 · page 2

THE prospecting claim on the Cosmopolitan reef has been amalgamated with No. 1 south, and subsequently the owners of these two have joined those of Nos. 1 and 2 north, so that the…

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Mining News. (From the S.M. Herald.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1872 · page 3

A Hill End correspondent informs us by telegram :— “Krohmann’s have struck a new vein, believed to be nearly as rich as the other. Holtermann brought up some stone Inst night weighiog…

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Mining

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 4 September 1872 · page 2

SOME interest has been excited by the discovery of a gold-bearing reef on the Mulwarree Creek, Bungonia road, about ten miles from Goulburn, where a prospector's claim has been secured by Mr. Teece…

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Mining News. (From the S. Mt Herald.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1872 · page 3

GULGONG, The Guardian of Saturday reports:— The escort left on Thursday, conveying 4400 ozs. 9 dwts 17 grs., as the produce of the gold field for the previous fortnight. The amount is slightly…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 September 1872 · page 2

SEPTEMBER 2.--We had a very heavy fall of bail on 'Saturday last. The weather is still cold and rainy. During the past week the Dramatic Club held,…

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Charters Towers Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 September 1872 · page 3

THE predictions of mineralogists and geologists have been at length realised. A gold-field has been discovered in Northern Queensland which will be a formidable rival to the best fields…

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Local and General. the Nanama Gold-field, Near Yass

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 September 1872 · page 2

WE are glad to be able to announce that the four reefs now being tested at Nanama have been proved to be gold-bearing. On the Cosmopolitan, in Greenwood and party's prospecting claim,…

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Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, September 7Th. Before the Gold Commissioner, J. J. Allman Esq

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1872 · page 3

JUMPING A CLAIM—Thomas Larkin, James Larkin, Peter Staunton, and others were charged by George Batkin, with having unlawfully dispossessed him of his claim situated near Bungonia…

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Mining

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 September 1872 · page 4

AT a meeting of the No. 1 Nobbs Reef Gold-Mining Company, Junction Point, Tuena, held on Wednesday at the offices of Messrs. T. Ireland and Co., Hunter-street, Messrs. R. Gray, T. Ireland, E…

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Mining Near Yass. the Nanama Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 September 1872 · page 2

THE Enterprise reef during the past few days appears to have taken first place in the estimation of the miners engaged on the reefs at Nanama. Several most excellent prospects have been…

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Emu Cheek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 September 1872 · page 2

SEPTEMBER 9.-- The spring visibly spreads its charms around us here, and causes a rapid growth of vegetation. The days are bright and clear, though frost occurs at night…

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Gold at Jerrawa

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 September 1872 · page 2

About ten days ago several persons resident at Jerrawa (Dalton), between Yass and Gunning, resolved to test some of the quartz reefs long known to exist in that locality. The stone first…

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Local and General. Mining Near Yass. Nanama

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 September 1872 · page 2

OUR correspondent writes --" I have sent you some stone that was raised on Wednesday last from Dooley's prospecting claim on the Humbug reef. I received the piece of stone from Dooley himself,…

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Mining

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 September 1872 · page 2

A GENTLEMAN just returned from the Mulloon coppermine, forty miles from Goulburn in the Braidwood direction, speaks very highly of the prospects of the [?]. There are now some thirty men at work;…

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Mining. Monday Evening

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 19 September 1872 · page 3

JUDGING from the tone of the Share market to-day, the depression is increasing. There are two tolerably valid reasons for the change that has taken place, the first and strongest being the absence of…

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