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

Mining & the mines, 1888

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 5 April 1888 · page 2

A FINE specimen of gold. bearing quartz is now on view at Mr. W. W. Richardson's jeweller's shop in Auburn-street. The block is nearly a foot square, and appears to be thickly studded with gold. The…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Carcoar states over 300 acres have been pegged out at Black Hill, near Galley Swamp. The manager of the Cordillera Extended…

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Mining Property at Peelwood

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 2

THE Melbourne syndicate owning the Peelwood Estate are the proprietors of the whole of tho two miles of country including the Cordillera mine, and we believe they are the principal…

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Mining at Peelwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 4

Crookwell, Friday.—At the Peelwood Hill Mining Company's property 25 men are at work. A blacksmith's shop and office have been erected. There is 75ft…

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A Lady Mining Speculator

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 4

THE writer of English Gossip in the S. M. Herald says:—Miss Cornwell, the Australian heroine of the London Stock Exchange—"Princess Midas," as she is…

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Great Galena Mine, Bredbo. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 4

SIR,—As I have been informed that Mr. W. W. Richardson claims the honour of this important discovery, I consider it to be my duty (through the medium of your columns) to give the correct…

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Germany Purchasing Gold. LONDON, April 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 6

Germany continues to purchase large quantities of gold…

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The Moruya Mining Company. London, April 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 6

Shares have been allotted in the Moruya Gold and Silver Mining Company, New South Wales, the capital of which is £85,000…

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Mount Costigan Lead and Silver Mining Company, Limited

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 3

Messrs. A. A. Gallagher and Co. report having received the following advices from the manager at the mine for the fortnight ended 31st March, 1888, viz.:—Mine: In…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 April 1888 · page 4

UNLESS delivery is taken of the following mineral lease within the time mentioned in notice issued by the Warden or other officer it will be declared void:—P. Hyde and others, 40 acres,…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1888 · page 2

TUENA. — The correspondent of the Crookwell Gazette writes :—Mining excitement appears to be fast increasing. Numbers of mining business men arrive here every day, most of them being from…

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Cockbundoon Silver-mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 April 1888 · page 2

MANAGER'S report:—Since report of March 10th the winze has been sunk 24 feet. The lode is improving as we go down. Some very good carbonate ore is making in the lode the last six…

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Mining in the Tuena District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 April 1888 · page 4

THE following items are from Friday's Gazette:— During a visit to Peelwood on Monday and Tuesday we heard several complaints of a school not being at Cordillera. At present there are 36…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 2

A LOCAL prospecting syndicate a short time since dispatched a couple of men to the Tuena district in their interests. Yesterday they were gratified at receiving intelligence that a lode had been…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 12 April 1888 · page 2

IT is satisfactory to learn that mining affairs in these districts are progressing .favourably. From Tuena nothing can be more encouraging, and it is a significant fact that owing to the influx of population and…

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School of Mines

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 April 1888 · page 4

THE question of the establishment of a school of mines is now engaging the consideration of the Government. The popular fooling with regard to it appears to be…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 April 1888 · page 6

News was brought into Yass on Thursday that another silver mine, exceeding in richness any yet discovered in the Yass district, has been found close to Jerrawa railway platform, and…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 April 1888 · page 5

MR. JOSIAH DENNIS, the mining manager duly appointed by the directors of the Hidden Treasure mine at Windellama, arrived yesterday morning from Melbourne, and left at once for the ground…

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The Ruby Mines. LONDON, April 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 April 1888 · page 3

A company is being floated in London, with a capital of £400,000, to work Mr. Pearson's ruby mines at Macdonnell Range, Central Australia. Mr. Walter Hasluck, the well-known…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 April 1888 · page 2

A SMALL party of prospectors were recently dispatched to the Tuena district by a local syndicate. Last week a telegram was received in town stating that a lode had been discovered and…

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