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

Mining & the mines, 1888

477 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 24

Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 April 1888 · page 4

THE Dog Trap, Binda, correspondent of the Crookwell Gazette writes:—"Alluvial mining here is again at a dead stand. The new ground opened out a few months since has not come up…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1888 · page 4

A VERY important discovery has recently been made by Mr. J. G. Boulding in his freehold property at Tangmangaroo. It is that of a quartz reef, near eight feet in width,…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 19 April 1888 · page 2

WITH the exception of the Tuena field, mining affairs generally are quiet, but in that locality the population is increasing rapidly. At the present time there are over 2000 persons in the neighbourhood,…

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Nickel-mining in New Caledonia. LONDON, April 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1888 · page 4

Mr. Oppenheimer has made arrangements with Mr. Hussey Vivian to jointly work the nickel mine at Noumea…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 20 April 1888 · page 2

PALMER Gold and Silver-mining Company, Limited.--The mining manager at Markdale (Mr. W. T. Palmer) reports that he is sinking in No. 3 shaft and following a rich leader down…

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Mining.--Tuena District

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 20 April 1888 · page 2

SINCE the publication of last issue we have visited the Cordillera, Mount Costigan, and the Costigan-Cordillera mines. Having on previous occasions given detailed reports of the two…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 4

THE recer's fall in silver shares in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide has not materially affected these districts. Considerable depression in stocks occurred during the early part of the week,…

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A Visit to Jerrawa Silver Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 8

HAVING heard that a party of prospectors were getting a good show for silver near Jerrawa, I determined to have a look for myself. Upon arrival by train at Jerrawa I fell in with Mr…

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Mining: the Share Markets

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 3

BUSINESS was dull on Thursday, but it is encouraging to note that there was a decided recovery from the low rates of the previous day. Nearly all the silver stocks dealt in show this…

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A Warning to Mining Managers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 8

A point of extreme importance in connection with the duties and responsibilities of mine-owners and mining managers in New South Wales has been brought before the notices of the…

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Braidwood Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 4

BRAIDWOOD, Friday.—Mining in the Braidwood district is looking up considerably. Great excitement prevails at present about a new lode found at Monga, which is considered very rich…

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The Workington Colliery Disaster. LONDON, April 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 4

The latest reports from Workington, in Cumberland, where a colliery explosion occurred yesterday, state that 20 of the miners were killed…

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Mining. the Sydney Share Market

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 4

THERE were a good number of transactions on Saturday, without any sensational change in prices. For Terrible Dick, Victoria Cross, Webbs, Maritoto, and Sunny Corner somewhat…

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The Kimberley Goldfield. Derry, West Australia, March 30

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 April 1888 · page 4

ACCORDING to the latest- accounts from the. goldfields, the general opinion seems to be that the future of Kimberley as a permanent reefing field is assured and each fresh…

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Mining Intelligence

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 26 April 1888 · page 3

THERE is a revival in mining shares, and confidence in legitimate ventures is firm. N. and S. Cordillora Blocks Silver and Lead Mining Company, April 21.—The mining manager…

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Mining. the Sydney Stock Market

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 April 1888 · page 4

BROKEN-HILL South furnished another excitement yesterday, the manager telegraphing that he was breaking payable are and that a "bulk assay taken from the face" had yielded 300oz…

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The Cordillera Mine

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 April 1888 · page 2

HEARING that the furnaces on this mine were to be set in operation on Saturday last, we repeated our visit ; and although only a week had elapsed since we were on the ground,…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 April 1888 · page 2
Also in The Yass Courier

North and South Cordillera Blocks Silver and Lead-mining Company. -- The mining manager reports "finding a lode of gossan on the North Block; cannot at present say how wide it is;…

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Revival of Californian mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 April 1888 · page 2

FOR some time past observes a San Francisco journal, an old California mining export reports a great deal of money has been quietly placed in legitimate mining operations in California…

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