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

Mining & the mines, 1885

93 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 5

Miners' Water Rights

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

ON Friday the Full Court gave an important judgment in reference to gold-miners' water rights, Mr. Henry Lomax, the owner of Errowbang Station, having brought an action to recover £1000…

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New Minister of Mines

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

THE vacant portfolio of "Mines" having been offered to and accepted by Mr. George Thornton, M.L.C., that gentleman was sworn in as a member of the Executive Council at a meeting of the…

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Mines in the Yass District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 November 1885 · page 4

WE (Tribune) have heard on good authority that the Sunny Corner Silver Mining Company are in treaty for the purchase from Mr. Constable of those extensive and valuable mines at Woolgarlo. Mr…

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Gold from Pyritous Ores

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 November 1885 · page 3

THE manager of the Cuninzar Gold-mining Company, Harden, has written as follows to Mr. J. Page, of 33 New Pitt-street:—"The furnace supplied by Mort's Dock and Engineering Company is…

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The Indestructibility of Gold

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 28 November 1885 · page 6

Writing on the "indestructibility of gold," Sir Henry Vivian remarks:—"Gold may be said to be everlasting, indestructible. The pure acids…

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Yass Silver and Lead Mines

Southern Argus · Tuesday 1 December 1885 · page 2

Mr. Argyle McCallum, of Yass, forwarded five tons of lead ore last week to the silvermining company at Sunny Corner to be tested, and expects to have the report of the assay…

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Yass Silver and Lead Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 December 1885 · page 4

LAST week Mr. McCallum forwarded five tons of lead ore from the Woolgarlo mines to the Silver Mining Co. at Sunny Corner, and expects to have the report of the assay this week. We were shown…

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Mining News

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 December 1885 · page 2

AT Gally Swamp Messrs. Croucher Brothers have just finished a crushing of 51 tons of stone, yielding 83 oz. 17 dwts. of gold. The quartz was taken from the 40-feet level. Messrs. Lane and party…

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Opening of the Cunningar Gold Reefing Works

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 10 December 1885 · page 2

ON Saturday last in response to an invitation from the directors of the Cunningar Gold Mining Company, a large number of gentlemen interested in mining and other visitors paid a visit to the…

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The Araluen Gold Fields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 6

THE miners of Araluen some time ago forwarded a petition to the Minister asking that some conditional purchases said to have been made within the area of the Araluen Gold Fields might be cancelled…

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Mining Case at Temora

Southern Argus · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 8

In the appeal case, Lucas and others, in the celebrated Mother Shipton claim, before his Honor Judge Forbes, on Wednesday, an Amicable settlement was arrived at. The…

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The Black Range Silver and Lead Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 7

THERE are four men employed in this mine, which is situated about four miles from Yass. It is not likely the working of the present shaft will be continued, unless the ore is discovered in larger…

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Silver Mining at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 December 1885 · page 5

GOOD progress is being made with the developement of Hyde's and Haugh's silver mine at Tuena. A shaft has been, sunk about So feet in the ore and now a tunnel is…

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