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

Mining & the mines, 1895

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Gold Returns

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 4

TWO cakes of retorted gold, weighing respectively 407 oz and 266 oz, were brought from Yalwal to Nowra on Saturday last (reports the Shoalhaven News) and lodged, the…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the New Koh-i-noor Gold and Silver Mining Company will be held at the Exchange Hotel, Sydney, on Wednesday, 24th April, at 7.30 p.m., to…

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Mining at Tuena

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Tuena last week says:--Dissatisfaction is expressed at the manner in which the Mining on Private Lands Act is being worked. A party of miners…

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Gold Rush near Barraba

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 2

BARRABA, Tuesday.—A splendid find of gold has been made by two miners at Crow Mountain near Burraba. At a depth of 12 feet a reef was struck which surpasses in richness anything that has ever…

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The Londonderry Mine. London, April 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 2

As the result of a scare on the Paris Bourse yesterday shares in the Londonderry Gold-mining Company, Coolgardie, Western Australia, fell to £1…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 3

DISSATISFACTION is expressed at Tuena at the manner in which the Mining on Private Lands Act is being worked. A party of miners (Lynch end party) applied to the…

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The Bywong Gold Field

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 2

A PRIVATE letter from Bywo[?]g [?] that Messrs. Lowe and party have sunk an air shalt twenty five feet alongside the main shaft and in doing so came across the main lead…

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Mining on Private Lands Act Amendment Bill

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 5

Mr. Sydney Smith has introduced a bill to amend and extend the Mining on Private Lands Act of 1894, and to alter and amend sections 14, 63, 65,and 66 of the Mining Act,…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. West Wyalong

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 2

An important discovery was made to-day a short distance south of the township. Gough, Gorman, and party after a month's search, and after following the veins and leaders…

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Temora Mining Intelligence

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 3

THE following clippings taken from the TEMORA INDEPENDENT point to a revival in gold circles in that district, and it is to be hoped that the good results will continue. The journal says :— “At…

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Gold and how to get It

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 4

THE interesting lec[?]utes delivered by the Rev. Joseph Campbell, M. A,, the well-known geologist and mineralogist, seemed to have borne excellent fruit. It will be…

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The Londonderry Mine. London, April 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 2

Mr. Horace Plunkett, acting under a power of attorney, has undertaken, on behalf of the Earl of Fingall, to virtually imitate Colonel North's example in offering to deposit in the hands of trustees cash…

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The Londonderry Mine. London, April 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 4

Shares in the Londonderry Gold-mining Co., Coolgardie, have dropped to 15s. April 6. A telegram was received from Lord Fingall on…

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Gold

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 8

Is too soft to be used pure; it is therefore generally hardened by being alloyed with copper or silver A single grain of gold may be exten[?] into a leaf of 56 square inches. A single large-sized bottle of…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 2

A CAKE of retorted gold weighing 68 oz, was brought to Queanbeyan yesterday from Pringle and Company's Little Wonder claim, Mac' reef, Bywong, the result of 32 tons of…

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Mining on Private Lands Amendment Bill

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 3

AT a late hour on Thursday night Mr. Sydney Smith introduced the Mining on Private Property Amendment Act. The bill will give power to miners to go on…

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The Londonderry Mine. London, April. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 April 1895 · page 2

The Earl of Fingall has telegraphed to Mr. Horace Plunkett that there is no suspicion of the Londonderry Mine being a swindle. The tens offered by Colonel North and himself are to the…

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The Londonderry Mine. London, April 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 April 1895 · page 4

Colonel North has intimated to the shareholders in the Londonderry Gold-mining Company that he will not take any money in respect of the until the shareholders have received their money back, together…

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West Australian Mining. London, April 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 April 1895 · page 2

At a meeting of the sharcholders of the North Crœsus Gold-mining Company, West Australia, the chairman stated that the reports of the temporary manager at the mine did not confirm the statements…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 April 1895 · page 3

JUST as the absence of any further information as to the recent discovery of a reef at Snowball (Braidwood district) by Coffey and party was beginning to cause people to believe…

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