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

Mining & the mines, 1886

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Mining News

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 4

IT may be well to once more caution would-be travellers to Kimberley. During the past few days a continued influx of men, and, in some instances, mere youths, has reached Sydney in order to…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 2

THE Perth (W.A.) correspondent of the “ Sydney Daily Telegraph, under date 30th April, says: — As to the routes for reaching the goldfield, it is generally agreed upon that Derby is a better…

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Mineral Conditional Purchases within Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 6

NOTICE is given in the Gazette that unless, within thirty days from the 11th May the persons who claim to have made or acquired Mineral Conditional Purchases within. Gold…

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Captain's Flat Gold and Silver Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1886 · page 2

ON Monday morning a party of Sydney capitalists and others returned to the metropolis, after having made a two days' tour of inspection amongst the gold, silver, copper, and lead mines situate near the…

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Gold in the Northern Territory

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 May 1886 · page 2

An Adelaide telegram of Friday says:—A telegram has been received from Mr. J. L. Parsons, Government Resident in the Northern Territory, stating that about 40 Europeans are making wages…

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Captain's Flat Gold and Silver Mines

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 4

A PARTY of Sydney capitalists and other persons interested on Friday and Saturday last made a tour of inspection amongst the gold, silver, copper, and lead mines situate near tile site of the old diggings…

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Gold Discovery Near Murrumburrah

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 4

THE Murrumburrah correspondent of the Burrangong Chronicle telegraphs under date Tuesday:—A. party has come in from the new reef found within the last day or two at Khalangan and reports that…

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Kimberley Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 4

FROM all sides news comes to hand with respect to an increased exodus of diggers bound for the Kimberley goldfields. Almost every vessel which is put on the berth for Cambridge Gulf or Port…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 2

A 'Perth telegram of Wednesday says:—Three hundred diggers are proceeding to Kimberley on Saturday via Cambridge Gulf, for best landing, and as the route that way is the shortest to the goldfields…

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Gold Discovery near Murrumburrah

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 May 1886 · page 2

A tarty has returned to Murrumburrah from the now reef, found within the last day or two at Khalangan, and reported that several claims have been taken up…

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Mining Regulations of West Australia

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 4

THE “ Australian Handbook” for 1886 gives the following abstract of the West Australian mining regula[?]ions, which will be of interest to those who intend to proceed to Kimberley:—…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 22 May 1886 · page 2

A telegram in Wednesday’s Echo dated from Perth, Western Australia, on the same date says: — Three hundred diggers are proceeding to Kimberley on Saturday vid Cambridge Gulf for best…

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Derby and the Kimberley Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 May 1886 · page 4

THE township of Derby is situated on a spit of land running out into the sea, and is surrounded on two sides and the base of the site by a mangrove swamp of some 17 miles…

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THE KlMBERLEY GOLDFIELDS

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1886 · page 2

LAST Friday’s “Echo” contains the following:— The exodus of diggers from Sydney to the new rush does not appear to diminish in the slightest. On the contrary, passages are being taken by…

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Mining News

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1886 · page 4

THE Nerriga correspondent of the Braidwood Despatch says that the prospects of gold-getting there are improving. A Mr. Sims, a mining speculator from Gundagai, has taken up water rights for…

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The Kimberley Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1886 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Herald

THE steamer Monmuir has arrived at Palmerston from King's Sound, by Point Torment, 15 miles from Derby. The following advices brought by her appeared in Friday's Melbourne Argus:—There is a…

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Gold at Parkes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 4

AT the new rush at Parkes the prospectors, Ginther and party, continue to get payable prospects. The red flag has been hoisted. There is good sinking in the prospecting claim, which is…

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Mining at Bongongolong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 3

THE Wagga Wagga Company's claim on the Bongongolong line of roof cleared up on Monday, when their first crushing of 100 tons yielded 12dwt. per ton. This is considered a most satisfactory…

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The Kimberley Gold. Fields

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 1 June 1886 · page 2

Newcastle, Friday.—The well-known medico, Dr. Hedley of Hamilton, has just received information from the Kimberley gold-fields that his brother, Mr. Hedley, a member…

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