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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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GENTLEMEN—When in California I was so struck with the similarity of the auriferous formation I inspected, with what I had seen in New South Wales, that I felt perfectly assured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMEN—In this morning's Herald I find the following statement:—"It is no longer any secret that gold has been found in the earth in several places in the western country. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many months ago we published various articles upon the subject of gold mining and exploration, promising to return to it upon a future occasion. Such an occasion seems pointed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The existence of gold in the Wellington district has for a long time been an ascertained fact, but public attention has never until now been seriously drawn to the circumstance. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE GOLD.—From the intelligence received from Bathurst yesterday it appears that this colony is to be cursed with a gold-digging mania. Whether the gold fields will ultimately…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THAT gold has been discovered in the tract of country situated between Summerhill on the south and Dubbo on the north, and known generally as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The intelligence from Bathurst on Saturday rather checked the mania for gold mining. It gradually oozed out that of the five or six hundred men at work at the diggings but very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SECOND EDITION.—THURSDAY MORNING, 11 O'CLOCK.—The accounts by the mail this morning are highly confirmatory of the previous statements as to the discovery of a rich and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE news brought by yesterday's mail goes decidedly to show that gold is being found in considerable quantity at the diggings. We have compiled from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The discovery of the fact by Mr. Hargraves that the country from the mountain ranges to an indefinite extent into the interior is one immense gold field has produced a tremendous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The excitement created by the announcement that what during several years I had declared, but which could not obtain credence till it was made sensible by the verification of an individual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sydney papers continue to give a great quantity of news from the gold diggings, and information respecting them. We give below condensed and selected extracts from these…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our readers will be glad to hear that a gentleman of great intelligence left Sydney for Bathurst on Tuesday last, for the purpose of writing, for the Herald, a series of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—It is now clear, I think, that three positions may be regarded as established by ascertained facts: 1. That gold exists in the Wellington district; 2. That it is found in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE our last the government have issued a series of regulations under which licenses to dig for gold in the county of Bathurst are to be granted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SECOND EDITION.—THURSDAY MORNING, 11 O'CLOCK.—The Bathurst Free Press of yesterday contains two letters from the mines, one dated "Ophir, May 24th," the other, "D[?]ggings,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the variety and respectability of our sources of information, we can vouch for the correctness, as nearly as correctness can be arrived at, of the following details…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The great desideratum would be to arrive at an average result of the earnings of the whole of the diggers as nearly as possible. But as the organ of caution appears to be tolerably well…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. J. Byrnes, M.C., and Mr. Oakes, M.C, returned to Parramatta on Thursday last, after a visit to the diggings, made expressly for the purpose of enquiry and examination. On…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following extract is from a paper privately circulated two years since by the late Mr. F. Forbes, who it will be remembered died last year in California:…
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