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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 5 June 1886 · page 3

A GENTLEMAN from Sydney has been examining the Day Dawn claim, Little River, and has made arrangements for buying out some of the local shareholders. He…

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The Mining Industry

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 2

IT is strange, considering the vital importance of the subject, how little encouragement has of late years been given by the Legislature to the mining interests of New South Wales. The days of great…

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Splendid Results from the Carrington Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1886 · page 2

IT was recently decided by those interested in the Carrington mine to drive from the shaft, which had been sunk to a depth of 100 feet, and at 50 feet from the bottom operations were begun in a…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1886 · page 2

J. M. CAGNE has arrived at Derby with gold. The following was wired to the Townsville Bulletin from their Herberton correspondent on Saturday:—"George Hide, of Herberton, has received a letter,…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 11 June 1886 · page 2

A TELEGRAM, from Carcoar, on Tuesday last says that on Monday Tucker and party at Gully Swamp finished crushing 126 tons for a yield of 245ozs. gold;…

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The Kimberley Goldfield

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 12 June 1886 · page 6

THE correspondent Of the Melbourne Argus, under date Port Darwin Tuesday last, gives the following important particulars in regard to the Kimberley goldfield :—…

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The Berrima Coal Mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 June 1886 · page 2

THE Scrutineer reports that the above company's interest has been purchased by a wealthy English firm, and that the company is shortly to be refloated in England. A portion of the shares will be offered…

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Gold at Burraga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 June 1886 · page 2

A TRUNKEY correspondent of the Bathurst Times writes under date June 13:—On the 4th instant a party of miners, Jacobin and Co., reported to the Warden the finding of a payable goldfield. The…

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Berrima Coal-mining Company

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 19 June 1886 · page 4

We have much pleasure in expressing the great satisfaction which we feel in being able to announce that the above company, about which so many gloomy forebodings were alloat in this community, is…

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The Kimberley Gold-fields

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 June 1886 · page 4

THE Port Darwin correspondent of the Age telegraphs that on “Extraordinary ” was issued on June 9 by the “Northern Territory Times” containing the following information regarding…

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Another Gold-field

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 June 1886 · page 2

AN Adelaide telegram of Tuesday says:—The Government geologist in his report on the Manna Hill north-east gold reefs says that all specimens in which a single speck of gold is seen, when crushed…

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The Kimberley Gold-field

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 June 1886 · page 4

THE Otway (says a West Australian paper) arrived at Geraldton from Derby on the 15th ultimo. She only had a limited number of passengers on board, and it is stated that less than 500 oz. of…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1886 · page 3

THE KIMDERLEY GOLDFIELDS.—A telegram from Perth under date Saturday says :— "Hall and Slattery's large nugget, obtained from the Kimberley goldfields, is now on view in Perth. It weighs…

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The Kimberly Goldfields

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 June 1886 · page 2

THE “Daily Telegraph ” of Saturday last says :— “It is a thankless and indeed a useless office to warn men who are bent upon pursuing any course they have marked out for themselves. All that…

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Mining News

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 July 1886 · page 2

CARCOAR, FRIDAY.—At Mt. M'Donald, Kerrand and party have taken up the ground known as the Queen of the Mount, and are raising quartz. A trial crushing taken from the lower level gave a…

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The Gold Supply and Trade Depression

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 July 1886 · page 2

In the May number of the " Contemporary Review " M. EMILE DE LAVELEYE, the distinguished Belgian economist, contributes an article of rare clearness and…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 2 July 1886 · page 2

Mr. D. J. FRAZER, a returned New Zealand digger, writes from To Aroah to the New Zealand Herald's follows concerning the Kimberly climate:-- "I…

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Mining in Araluen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 July 1886 · page 6

IN the Happy Valley mining matters are pretty quiet, although a deal of useful work is being gone through, and but few are idle. It is no easy matter to particularise the…

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The Kimbekley Goldfields. Interesting Particulars. Adelaide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 July 1886 · page 4

SOME interesting information has been obtained relative to the Kimberley goldfields and the rival routes to the diggings. Mr. Durack, who has a station on the Ord River,…

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Doubtful Prospects of the Kimberley Gold-fields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 July 1886 · page 2

Port Darwin, Friday.—The steam-launch Victoria returned front the Victoria River last evening, bringing Messrs. Bridles and M'Millan, who have just returned from the Kimberley fields, where…

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