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

Mining & the mines, 1894

916 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 9 of 46

The Jerger Gold-Saving Machine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 March 1894 · page 2

WE are informed that large numbers of orders are coming to hand for the Jerger gold-caving machine. One investor is so anxious to secure a machine that he offers to give the…

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Discovery of Alluvial Gold near Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 March 1894 · page 4

YASS, Thursday.—A report has been brought into town of the discovery of alluvial diggings, with 53ft. sinking, at Galong Creek, in the Bendenine Estate. The yield is stated to be 1¼oz. to the load…

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Mining on Private Lands Bill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 March 1894 · page 4

AT 9 o'clock on Thursday the Council went into committee to consider the Mining on Private Lands Bill, and Mr. ,Pigott immediately proposed some verbal…

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The Wyalong Goldfield.—Reported Discovery of Alluvial

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 March 1894 · page 2

BARMEDMAN, Friday.—the latest crushings of Wyalong stone are:—Kavanagh and party, 10 oz of gold from 3 tons of stone: Emery and party, 43 oz 10dwt. of amalgam from 14 tons of stone. It is…

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The Wyalong Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 March 1894 · page 4

All the gold as yet found on the Wyalong field has been under permits. A permit gave a miner power to search for gold. If gold was found, the holder of the writ reported the fact to the mining…

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The Coolgardie Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 March 1894 · page 5

PERTH, Tuesday.—The Coolgardie correspondent of the West Australian, writing under date 5th March, says that there is great scarcity of provisions on the field at the…

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The Unemployed Near Tarago. Prospective Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 March 1894 · page 2

THE Incumbent of Tarago, the Rev. P. M. Flinn, having importuned Government officials on behalf of the many unemployed passing to and fro between Goulburn,…

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The Wyalong Rush. Gold Found in the Main Street

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 March 1894 · page 2

THERE are now three thousand men on the Wyalong field, and they are arriving at the rate of over a hundred daily. Several fresh discoveries are reported, one by Leonard and…

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Fossickers and the Mines Department. a Heavy Rush. Their Probable Destination. Sydney, Monday, 7.10 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 March 1894 · page 3

THERE was a heavy rush of fossickers at the Mines Department to-day. The crush was so great that the police had to be called to keep the men from rushing the office. Altogether…

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Telegrams. Discovery of a New Goldfield. Ample Water. Application for the Government Reward. Sydney, Monday, 3.15. p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 March 1894 · page 3

IT is reported on good authority that a payable goldfield has been discovered to the southward, and only about one day's journey from Sydney. The deposit is alluvial, and…

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Fossicking for Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 March 1894 · page 2

THE applications to the Mines Office for permits to fossick for gold are increasing in number. On Monday the office was rushed, between 300 and 400 permits being granted,…

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Mining. the Wyalong Field

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 March 1894 · page 4

BARMEDMAN, Saturday.—The influx to the Wyalong field is increasing, there being now 3000 men on the field, and they are arriving at the rate of over 100 daily. Several fresh discoveries are…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. Further Important Discoveries. More Good Crushings

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 March 1894 · page 2

BARMEDMAN, Thursday. -- The latest crushings of Wyalong stone by Frazer and Party gave 39½oz. of gold from 10 tons of stone. M'Mahon and party put through a small lot of 3 tons 16cwt. of stone…

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The Wyalong Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 March 1894 · page 2

BARMEDMAN, Monday.—Your (Daily Telegraph) special correspondent returned from the Wyalong goldfield yesterday. The rush continues undiminished, and may be expected to do so for many weeks…

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Wyalong Gold-field

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 3

MINERS are flocking to the Wyalong gold-field. The latest crushing returns, averaging from 2 oz. per ton, indicate a favourable future for the field. A…

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The "Eclipse" Patent Gold Separator. a Successful Test To-day. Letter From the Mines Department

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 2

WE understand that Messrs. R. T. Ball and Co. are arranging to have one of their "Eclipse" Patent Gold Savers at the Sydney Show, where trials will be given. A quantity…

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The Eclipse Gold Separator

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 3

WE have heard much of the Jerger gold saving machine; but now a rival claims attention. The new machine in the invention and manufacture of Messrs. R. T. Ball and co., of Goulburn, and is…

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The Jerger Gold-saving Machine

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 2

LAST week a party of Murrumburrah residents, having secured a block of land on Kemp's Hill, decided to introduce a Jerger machine to win the gold therefrom. The…

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Discovery of a Gold Field

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 3

IT is stated that some prospectors have discovered a new and payable goldfield within a day's journey south of Sydney. The field is alluvial and there is a large…

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The Wyalong Gold-field. History of the Field and Its Discoverer. the Latest Crushing

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1894 · page 4

THE rush to Wyalong continues undiminished, and may be expected to do so for many weeks yet. On the whole, the high anticipations formed of the field…

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