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

Mining & the mines, 1888

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Mining at Dog Trap

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 4

Mining at the Dog Trap, Binda, is quiet. The prospects so far obtained are not what was expected when the first shaft was bottomed. The machinery is about…

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Mining. the Cordillera Hill Silver Mining and Smelting Company, Peelwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 3

AT the first general meeting of the above held on January 31, the following report from J. H. Stearns, General Manager, was read :…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1888 · page 4

MOUNT Costigan Lead and Silver Mining Company, Limited, February 3.—The furnace continues to run splendidly. For week ending to-day I have produced 15 tons of silver load…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 7 February 1888 · page 2

MINNING in the Queanbeyan District.—Thanks to the energy and attention of the member for Queanbeyan, ably assisted by our mayor (Mr. Wright), we are likely to have a share of the mining "boom" in…

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Cookbundoon Silver Mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1888 · page 2

THE manager's report for the week ending February 4th:—The tunnel has been extended 10 feet, and is now in 190 feet. The shaft on Copeland's lode has been sunk six feet, making…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 9 February 1888 · page 3

THE NEW CARRINGTON is still engaged in bringing ore to grass. There are at the present time 900 tons so that when smelting operations are resumed a satisfactory result is anticipated. Mr. Cox has…

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Discovery of Gold in Dutch Guiana. LONDON, Feb. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 February 1888 · page 4

News has been received here of the discovery of an extremely rich gold field in Surinam, Dutch Guiana…

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Notice to Mine Owners and Others in the District of Crookwell, Tuena, &c

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 February 1888 · page 4

Notice is given in the Gazatte that it is intended from and after the 7th of May next to bring all mines in the Crookwell, Tuena, Rockley, Peelwood, and Trunkey Creek districts…

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Silver Mine

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 10 February 1888 · page 2

MESSRS. George Warn, Henry Warn, A. Stephenson, and Thomas Eldridge have for some time past been engaged prospecting near Burwood (the residence of Mr. Win. Clements),…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 4

THE return of the gold production of New South Wales for the past year received at the mint shows a substantial increase over the return for the preceding twelve months. The western districts…

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Mining on Private Property

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 6

Petitions were presented to the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday from 13 mining centres, praying that the bill to be introduced by Mr. Garland for the purpose of authorising mining…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 2

IN our advertising columns to-day appears the prospectus of the Hidden Treasure Gold-mining Co., formed for the purpose of acquiring from the present owners and afterwards working…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 2

In the Advertising Columns of this day;s issue will be found the prespctive of the Hidden Treasure Gold Mining Company Which Is Now being floated with grant success: in fact intending…

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Mount Costigan Lead and Silver Mining Company, Limited

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 2

TUENA, 9th February.—Manager's Report.—The discovery of a new lode, referred to in my wire of 4th instant, is as follows:—The lode is outcropping for a considerable distance on the…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 February 1888 · page 2

THE sinking of the shaft on the Lord Carrington property, near the New Carrington mine, is to be commenced to-day, and the event will be marked with some ceremony. The shaft…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 16 February 1888 · page 3

THE sinking of the shaft at the Lord Carrington near the New Carrington mine, will be commenced to-day. Mr. J. Carver and party have the contract. It has been decided by the directors to have a 9 feet…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 February 1888 · page 3

IT seems as if the Palmer Gold and Silver Mining Company meant business. We were informed yesterday that machinery for erection on the claims at Markdale left Goulburn, and…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 3

ON Thursday last at the invitation of Mr. Jas. Merton and other shareholders in the Lord Carrington Gold and Silver Mine, floated a month or two ago, a small party paid a visit to…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 4

THE share list of the Hidden Treasure Gold mining Company (Windellama), the prospectus of which appeared in Tuesday's and Thursday's issue, closes on Wednesday evening next…

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The Greatest of Silver Mines

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 18 February 1888 · page 6

THE following description of the great silver mines of Laurium in Greece is extracted from a recent article in the Melbourne Argus, by J. H. (the Australian in Asia and will be read with…

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