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

Mining & the mines, 1882

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Important Gold Discovery

Southern Argus · Thursday 5 January 1882 · page 2

A telegram from Cootamundra says:—Payable gold has been discovered at Muttama reefs. Wilson and party, who have been prospecting for months, hoisted the red flag, amidst great rejoie…

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Rush to Muttama. Payable Gold Struck by the Prospectors.— the Red Plag

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 January 1882 · page 2

ON Saturday night last the news must have travelled like wildfire of the discovery of payable gold at Muttama Reefs, for on the following day a large number of men travelled from…

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Lucky Miners

Southern Argus · Thursday 19 January 1882 · page 2

A number of our readers in Goulburn and about Currawang will recognise the names of Grant and Duddle who for a considerable time worked at the Currawang mines. It has…

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New Comstock Gold and Silver Mines Company

Southern Argus · Saturday 28 January 1882 · page 2

The prospectus of the New Comstock Gold and Silver Mines Company. O[?] Creek, Upper Murray, has been issued. The company will be registered and [?] [?] one,…

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Berrima Coal-mining and Railway Company (Limited)

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 2 February 1882 · page 2

We are informed that on Monday last the directors had the pleasure of proceeding from Austermere to the mines along the company's line. Taking a " first-class" passage in a coal-truck, they…

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Currawang Copper-mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 February 1882 · page 4

THE fourth half-yearly meeting of the above association was held at Syke's Hotel, Currawang, on Thursday last. The attendance of shareholders was very good, a large number…

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Gold at Little River

Southern Argus · Tuesday 7 February 1882 · page 2

The Braidwood Dispatch says:—This rich old gold-field, which has turned out such big bits of gold and is yet we believe destined to reassume its former prosperity turned out a noice little [?]ugget of…

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Southern Mining District

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 7 February 1882 · page 4

By proclamation in the Government Gazette the boundaries of the southern mining district are now defined as follows:—Embracing the counties of Argyle, Auckland,…

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Marulan Coal. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 9 February 1882 · page 3

SIR,—I wish to direct public attention to what appeared to me an unwarrantable assertion publicly made against the Marulan coal-field, viz., that Mr. Harper had failed to discover a payable coal-seam…

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Berrima Coal Company

Southern Argus · Saturday 11 February 1882 · page 2

The Berrims Coal Company finished their railway last week. The line is of the same gauge as the main trunk. They are actively engaged in gatting coal for the supply of the Southern line…

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Berrima Coal-mining and Railway Company

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 16 February 1882 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Berrima Coal-Mining and Railway Company (Limited) was held on Tuesday evening last in the company's office, Montague-street. There were twenty-one shareholders present,…

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The Berrima Coal-mining and Railway Company (Limited). Balance-sheet

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 16 February 1882 · page 2

The Chairman in moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet said he was sure they would be pleased at the announcement that the works are now so far completed as to allow of the delivery of…

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Berrima Coal Company

Southern Argus · Thursday 16 February 1882 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

THH annual meeting of the Berrima Coal Mining and Railway Company was held at their office, Meetague-street, on Tuesday evening. After considerable trouble and a line delay twenty shareholders…

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Marulan Coal. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 23 February 1882 · page 3

SIR,—My attention has been drawn to a letter appearing in your issue of the 9th instant having reference to the Marulan coal-field, or, properly speaking, the Barber's Crock coal-field. I have no…

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Berrima Coal Mine

Southern Argus · Saturday 25 February 1882 · page 2

A large party, consisting of the Hon. Thos. Bent, the Hon. John Woods, and other Victorian officiais, accompanied by Messrs. Read, Scott, and Crawford, who are connected with the New South Wales…

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Marulan Coal. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 2 March 1882 · page 3

SIR,—I crave a space in your journal in reply to Mr. Harper's letter, which in my opinion fails to disprove anything I asserted in the previous letter referred to by him. It is a well-authenticated fact in this…

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Currawang Copper Mines

Southern Argus · Tuesday 7 March 1882 · page 2

Last Saturday the sheriff's officer Mr. Maybury submitted to auction under a supremer court writ of [?]a, all the right title and interest of the late copper mining association in the mines and paddock…

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Berrima Colliery. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 March 1882 · page 2

SIR,—The following notice appears in the Goulburn Herald of this morning,—that a special train will leave Goulburn on Saturday morning, 18th March, and return at four p m., after celebrating…

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Berrima Coal Mine

Southern Argus · Thursday 16 March 1882 · page 2

As it is decided upon to formally open the Berrima colliery on Saturday next, a special train, for the conveyance of intending visitors, will leave Goulburn station on the morning of the day at 9.30…

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