Mining Intelligence
The scarcity of water is still the great ory. Plenty doing, but no water to wash the stuff. The Oriental Bank bought 1464 ozs. during the week. Mr. Griffiths, of the Congregational body, held divine…
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Mining & the mines, 1861
116 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 6
Coal Fields in Victoria. (From the Argus, March 26.)
All our efforts to open up coal-fields in Victoria have hitherto failed most lamentably, and yet the difficulties encountered have not been really of any magnitude, or such as should have deterred resolute men from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Clarence Gold Fields. (From the Clarence Examiner, March 26.)
IMMENSE EXCITEMENT ON THE DIGGINGS.— GREAT DISCOVERY.—The gold escort arrived yesterday with 347 ounces gold. Two new and valuable gold fields have been opened up, one at Hamilton's Gap, and the other near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Trade Between Newcastle and Melbourne. (From the Melbourne Argus, March 28.)
A few gentlemen engaged in the importation of coal to Melbourne from Newcastle met yesterday, at Jones's Hotel, William-street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of checking the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. the Rocky River. (Form a Correspondent.)
The roads passing through the Rocky River are fearfully out up, so much so that it is next to a miracle that you can drive through these diggings without meeting with an accident The greater portion of the roads are on an incline, and alter heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Puddledock. (From the Armidale Express, April 6.)
The short paragraph from the Grafton newspaper which appeared in the latest news of your last issue fired the imagination of those who had wrought out their claims here, and those who had none, so yesterday morning a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence River Gold Fields. Lawrence. (From the Herald's Correspondent.)
APRIL 3.âTHE NEW RUSH.âI regret to say that the news from the new rush at Hamilton's Gap it not of so favourable character this week as we should wish. I have been unable to visit the locality, in consequence of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clarence River Gold Fields. (From a Correspondent.)
A new rush has broken out in this quarter, and it is believed, from appearances, that it will be a very remunerative field. I have been shown a sample of gold (about half an oz.) that was taken from the bottom of a prospecting hole, about two feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. the Ironbark Quartz Reef. (From the Tamworth Examiner, April 13.)
On Wednesday last, Mr. York, one of the gentlemen who have undertaken to erect the crushing machine at Ironbark, passed through Tamworth. He was returning to the reef, having been to Sydney to procure some additional machinery, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Burrangong Mines. by an Old Rambler. (From the Burrangong Miner, April 18.)
Having come to the conclusion that I would pay a visit to the various parts of the Burrangong gold fields, I first started to find the head of the main creek, which is an auriferous tract descending from some broken bills above…
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We are informed by Dr. Brul[?] that he has seen six ounces of gold obtained from a schistose formation a few miles above Inverell. We understand that the finder, who is said to be named Wilson, has lodged a, claim with the Government for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Armidale Express, April 20. Rocky River
It is much to be regretted, in the present dull state of these diggings, that the prospecting shafts at Tipperary, on which so much labour and money have been expended, should have produced results so unsatisfactory to all concerned; but they…
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The Bill to amend the laws relating to the gold fields, introduced into the Assembly by the Government, has been printed. It contains forty clauses, the principal provisions of which are in brief as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland Mercury. Thursday, May 2,1861. the Gold Fields Bill
THE Assembly appears to be rather puzzled what do in the case of the Chinese diggers. The necessity of the case seems to have operated on the minds of many members, and a larger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Puddledock. (From the Armidale Express, April 27
Since my last the weather has taken a radical change, for instead of our late pleasant days and nights both are bitter enough, being I fear only a foretaste of what we may expect while wintering at Puddledock, This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Armidale Express, May 4.) Rocky River
On Friday evening, 19th instant, a lecture on "Gold and Gold-bearing Rocks," &c., was delivered at the School House, by Dr. Bruhn—Mr. Dalton, sub-commissioner, in the chair. The lecture, with a few alterations suitable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Minmi Colliery
A correspondent of the Empire thus reports a recent visit he has paid to the Minmi Colliery:- The extensive Colliery of the Messrs. Brown, leaving the shoots, which are erected on the western bank of the Hunter,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Rocky River. (From the Armidale Express, May 11.)
Messrs. Sullings, Cooper, M'Leod, and Co. are erecting a horse whim on the head of Sydney Flat, for the purpose of working the deep ground in that locality. The horse whim, although long in use in Victoria, has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Gold-field in the Western District, at Native Dog Creek. (From the Empire, May 18.)
The following important commu[?]ication has been forwarded to the Government, by the Commissioner in charge of the Western Gold-fields. It will be seen that a highly promising field has bean discovered, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Turnworth Examiner, May 18.) Peel River
SIXTEEN-OUNCE NUGGET FOUND AT THE PEEL RIVER.âWe were informed, on Tuesday last, that the well-known and enterprising Canadian party of minersânow engaged in sluicing the hill at Bowling Alley pointâwere rewarded by finding a very…
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