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

Mining & the mines, 1880

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The Temora Gold-field (From the Telegraph)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 6

Our mining reporter has gleaned the following particulars from the field :— John M‘Grath and Party of four are driving each way, having bottomed at 40 feet…

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The Snowball Copper-mine

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 23 August 1880 · page 2

THE SNOWBALL COPPER-MINE.—The Gundagai correspondent of the Wagga Express says:—" With great regret I have to announce the stoppage of the Snowball Copper-mine. The unsatisfactory yield of…

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Temora Gold - Field. Mining Memoranda

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 August 1880 · page 2

IN the shallower ground to the cast of the Upper Township, and situated under the hill, good payable gold has been obtained in several claims. Gilchrist and party, whose claim is nest to the Golden Gate and also to Parker's prospecting claim…

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The Temora Gold-field (From the Telegraph)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 August 1880 · page 3

BOURKE AND PARTY—No. I “on the Squatter.”—In blocking out on Thursday evening came upon a gold find ; I piece 67 ozs…

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The Temora Gold-field

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 August 1880 · page 1

A REPORT has been sent in to the Minister of Mines, by Mr. E. A. Sharpe, warden of Temora Gold-fields, which gives some interesting particulars in reference to the…

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Mines Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 August 1880 · page 3

THE annual Mines Report has been issued, and a very exhaustive and well-arranged production it is. We extract the following:—…

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The Temora Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 August 1880 · page 2

MR. ERNEST A. L. SHARPE, the newly-appointed gold-fields warden at Temora, has sent in his official report of the Temora gold-field to the Minister for Mines: --…

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Temora Mining News

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 August 1880 · page 2

BOURKE and Party—No. 1 "on the Squatter."—In blocking out on Thursday evening came upon a good find; 1 piece 678 ozs…

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The Temora Gold-field

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 August 1880 · page 6

THE following letter is from an old and experienced miner named George Wilcox, and was sent to a friend, who is now at work at Mummell:…

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Tie Temora Gold-field From S. M. Herald’s Telegrams. TEMORA

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 August 1880 · page 1

A NUGGET weighing twelve ounces was found yesterday in Lewis’ claim, on the improvement purchase. Specimens from a rich outcrop of quartz, about one mile north-east…

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Temora Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 September 1880 · page 2

A TELEGRAPH to the Evening News, dated Monday, states--Mining in alluvial at the lower leads is very active so far as sinking is concerned, and the miners of the claims are busily engaged…

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The Temora Gold-field. Temora, August, 28

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 September 1880 · page 2

A nugget weighing twelve ounces was found yesterday in Lewis claim, on the improvement purchaac. Specimens from a rich outcrop of quartz, about on mile…

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Berrima Coal-mining Company

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the shareholders of the Berrima Coal-mining Company was held in the committee-room of the mechanics' institute on Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of electing six…

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The Temora Gold-field (From Cootamundra Herald)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 8

ON Sunday the habitues of Dacey’s hotel, middle township, were startlad by the report that (just opposite the house) a man was dying. A poor old man (according to appearances near 60 years of age)…

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TARALGA. (From our correspondent.) New Gold Rush

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 September 1880 · page 3

A GREAT deal of excitement has been manifested in this district for the last few days by the discovery of what is believed to be a new gold-field at Tea Tree Flat, just at the foot of Mount Werong,…

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Gold-mining Near Taralga

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 6 September 1880 · page 2

Payable gold is reported to have been struck about twenty-five River. A number of the inhabitants of Taralga have left for the field, which is said have every…

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Temora Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 September 1880 · page 4

WE are glad to learn that the question of the depasture of stook will very soon be set at rest by the proclamation of a temporary common at Temora…

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TARALGA. (From our correspondent.) Gold Rush

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 September 1880 · page 7

THERE is still a great deal of excitement here respecting the Tea Tree Flat Rush. Since my last communication I have seen soma of the parties connected with the discovery, and who have shares in…

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The Temora Gold-field (From the S. M. Herald.)

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 September 1880 · page 8

THE prospects of the rush on the Cootamundra are anything tut promising. The prospectors bottomed on fine looking wash at 55 feet, the dirt yielding from two grains to two grains…

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TARALGA. (From our correspondent.) Gold Rush

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 September 1880 · page 1

WE have nothing more satisfactory as yet to report as to results ; no one having returned from there for the last two days. Several more parties have gone out, and a great many more are just…

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