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

Mining & the mines, 1887

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The Mount Morgan Mine. London, June 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 June 1887 · page 2

The Privy Council has refused Mr. Osborn's motion to consolidate the two notions involving the ownership of the Mount Morgan mine…

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The Queensland Opal Mines. London, June 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 June 1887 · page 4

A company has been formed, with a capital of £100,000, to work the opal mines in Queensland. Half the amount of the capital is to be raised immediately…

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Mining at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 4

THE Mount Costigan Lead and Silver Mining Company have scoured 20 acres of land on the Costigna Range, about three and a half miles from Tuena, and have sunk three shafts on to a…

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Colonial Mining Ventures. London, June 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 4

Mr. Edward Langton, of Melbourne, has contracted on behalf of Mr. Joseph Clarke, to sell a gold-mining claim on his Island Block Estate, at Moa Flat, in Otago, Now Zealand. A…

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Extraction of Gold From Ores. London, June 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 June 1887 · page 4

Professor Cosmo Newbury and Mr. Vautin's process of extracting gold from ores by chlorination has been patented, and a company to work the patent bas been registered, with a…

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The Kimberley Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 June 1887 · page 2

SERGEANT SHERRY, in charge of the gold escort, reports that on May 5 the prospects of the Kimberley goldfields were still very good. The newly-discovered reefs exceed expectation,…

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Mining Leases

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 July 1887 · page 2

THE Minister for Mines on Tuesday had his attention called to the fact that 39 silver mining leases are hold by speculators, who, while doing nothing with the land…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 July 1887 · page 4

A CROOKWELL telegram of Friday says:—At the Mount Costigan Lead and Slyer Mine smelting has again been suspended, owing to a mishap with the furnace of the smelter. It is…

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The Queensland Opal Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 July 1887 · page 4

The shares are being allotted in the company which was formed to work the opal mines in Queensland…

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The Carrington Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 July 1887 · page 2

THE terms on which the Carrington Gold and Silver Mining Company is to be floated have been amended in order that the company may get into working order more quickly. The…

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Mining at Tuena

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 July 1887 · page 3

SOME three months ago Mr. James Merton, a well-known and successful Victorian mining speculator, paid a visit to the Tuena goldfield. He made a thorough…

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Colonial Gold-mining Companies. London, July 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 July 1887 · page 4

The shares in the Golden Crown Gold-mining Company, Gympie, Gueensland, which was recently floated with a capital of £110,000, have been fully subscribed…

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Colonial Gold-mining Companies. London, July 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 July 1887 · page 4

A syndicate has offered to purchase the amalgamated gold-mining claims at Tuapeka, New Zealand, for over £80,000, subject to a favourable report from their agent there…

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Cancellation of Mining Leases

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 July 1887 · page 2

WITH respect to the cancellation of mining leases held under an alleged infraction of the labor conditions of the Mining Act, Mr. Abigail, Minister for Mines, has penned a minute which,…

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The Tirranna Gold-fields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 July 1887 · page 2

IT will be remembered that some years ago some excitement was caused in town by the reported discovery of gold at Tirranna, and for a time sinking was carried on by Mr. J. Morris…

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Berrima Coal-mine

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 3

BERRIMA COAL-MINE.—We have been informed on reliable authority that the new company of this mine intends shortly to lay down a heavier and more substantial tramway to the nine; a deal of fire coal…

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Gold-field Extensions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 7

THE following additions to the Crackenback Gold-field have been proclaimed:—Land District of Cooma: County of Wallace, parish of Mowambab, containing an area of 42 acres…

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Mining Prospects Near Tirranna

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 4

MISSING PROSPECTS NEAR TIRRANNA.—Mr. Merton the well-known mining speculator from Victoria, who recently floated tile Golden Queen Mining Company at Tueon, has been lately inspecting the country…

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Mining Fatality Near Nowra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 6

A FATAL accident occurred at the Pinnacle gold-mine, Nowra, on Monday. A man named Harry Underwood was working below where some old workings were…

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Mining at Tuena and Mount Mc Donald

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 July 1887 · page 4

AT Tuena the Mount Costigan Silver-mine Company intends starting furnaces this week, on the Water-jacket system. The final prospects of the mine look exceedingly well. Several…

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