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

Mining & the mines, 1885

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Gold-field Extensions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1885 · page 4

The following extension to Argyle, Camden, and King Gold-field have been proclaimed:— County of King, parish of Wyangala,…

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Mining Matters at Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 January 1885 · page 4

THE Earl Granville Reef at Little River, which adjoins that from which the stone yielded 2½oz. of gold to the ton, gives promise of being very rich. The party working it have about five tons of it…

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Currawang Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 January 1885 · page 4

THERE has been a rumour about town during the last few weeks that the Currawang mine would be shortly at work again, and that Mr. E. Deer, J.P., the former manager, was to be a party in the new…

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Our Gold Returns

Southern Argus · Thursday 22 January 1885 · page 2

A return of the gold produced is Now South Wales and received at the Sydney Mint is one of those dry digests of figures which only the initiated and interested are likely to study. From the return…

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Electricity and Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 February 1885 · page 2

THE most vivid imagination may reasonably run riot in speculation as to the ultimate achievements. to be accomplished through the agency of electricity. Mr. Henry Cassel, of New York (says the…

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The Silverton Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 February 1885 · page 4
Also in Southern Argus

A GOOD deal of prospecting is still going on, more especially since the recent rains. A good ore-bearing vein has been struck in "The Silver Crest" claim, adjoining the Orphan and close to Silverton…

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Two Miners Buried Alive

Southern Argus · Saturday 28 February 1885 · page 7

Henry Hiene and John John Holborn, two miners, while working at Pegleg lead, half a mile from Eaglehawk, Victoria, were buried in ii drive (which is 100 feet deep) by a fall of earth. [?]Holborn's…

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The Silverton Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1885 · page 4

A WILCANNIA telegram, dated Friday, says:—At the Apollyon mine last week, on the vertical shaft being sunk to catch the lode at the 223 feet, a lode was met with at 202…

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Mining at Adelong

Southern Argus · Tuesday 10 March 1885 · page 2

Perkins and party, of Gibraltar, struck a new reel in their old claim on Thursday. The specimens Much were taken but are the richest ever seen in Adelong. One piece, which weighs 2lb. contains…

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Newcastle Miners' Holiday

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1885 · page 7

WE (E. News) have been requested to state, with reference to the criticisms which have appeared in the public papers on a letter addressed by the Principal Under Secretary to Mr. James Fletcher, M.L.A.,…

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Berrima Coal Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 March 1885 · page 2

A MEETING of shareholders in the Berrima Coal-Mining and Railway Company was held in the committee-room of the Mechanics' Institute last evening. A report of the proceedings is…

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Annual Meeting of the Berrima Coal

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 4

THE annual meeting of this company was held in the mechanics' institute on Monday, the 16th instant. There being a quorum present, the chairman (Mr. William Davies) briefly addressed the meeting…

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Terrible Mining Disaster in Prussia

Southern Argus · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 2

Berlin, March 19.—A terrible disaster has occurred at Saarbruck, in the Rhenish province. A violent mining explosion took place, and 200 persons are known to be entombed…

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Braidwood Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1885 · page 4

MONTGOMERY and party brought to Braidwood, on Saturday, and sold to the Bank of New South Wales, an additional 50oz. of gold from the Molonglo reefs, being the result of 10 days' crushing. The stone is…

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The Ulladulla Coal Seams

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 3

MR. C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., has sent in to the Mining Department an account of his inspection of the coal seams which were discovered more than a year ago near head…

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Gold Diggings near Junee

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 April 1885 · page 4

Four claims have been pegged out at Wantiool (says the Southern Cross), and there is ovary prospect of them proving payable, especially now that the stone can be treated on the spot. A sample of…

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Colliery Accident in Germany

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 April 1885 · page 2

A TERRIBLE colliery accident is reported from Saarbrucken, and it is believed that nearly 200 lives have been lost. The disaster is appalling, the loss of life exceeding anything…

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Shipment of Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 April 1885 · page 4

The apphrehension entertained of war between England and Russia has (says the Argus) led to the diversion of one line of trade from the ordinary channel to the Messageries Maritimes' steamers. On…

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The Shipment of Gold

Southern Argus · Thursday 30 April 1885 · page 2

The apprehension entertained of war between England and Russia has (says the Argus) led to the diversion of one line of trade from the ordinary channel to the Messageries Maritimcs steamers. On…

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