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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
68 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 4
So little has been known as to how matters were, and are, now going on at this gold field, that, upon my return to the locality a short time since, I was much surprised at the contrast which the present prosperous state of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Anderson & Co. have pierced through the iron-stone in their shaft on Doherty's Hill at a depth of 119 feet. It is supposed by most here that this shaft will bottom on gold, "So mole it be." Immediately below…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE House refused, the other night, to allow Mr. Buchanan's motion for the repeal of the gold export duty to be put to the vote. This is evidently an unfit time for the abandonment of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since my last communication mining matters have been pushed on vigorously, with, I am happy to add, an improvement in width of lode, as well as a small increase in yield. In consequence of the usual periodical repairs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The correspondent of the Armidale Express, writing from the Rocky River on the 17th instant, gives a description of the manner in which the diggers there are supplied with water. He states that there are no creeks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this case, which occupied a portion of Tues day and the whole of Wednesday, was concluded on Thursday. It was an action by Mr. Edward Holloway, coal merchant, &c., against the Waratah Coal Company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Darley, for the official assignee (representing the creditors of the above-named company) moved for the confirmation—under the 17th section of the Joint Stook Company's Act, 2 Vic. No. 19—of the report made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →June 1st.—The stoppage of the Pheonix works, the continued dry weather, and no fresh payable ground opened up mikes the Rocky River the dullest of the dull. Since the time this was first proclaimed a good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As has been already mentioned, a party recently went up from Sydney to the Fitzroy iron mines, partly for inspection, and partly to be present at the laying of the foundation stone of a school house. The S. M. Herald…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The blowing apparatus is worked by a pair of compact 25-horse power horizontal engines. The piston of each engine works directly upon whit may bs termed the blowing cylinder, there being one to each engine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Langton and Co. are sinking a shaft a few miles down the river from Maitland Point, at Mount Monopoly. They have got through the rock at a depth of 86 feet, and it is expected that they will bottom soon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I beg, in the first place, to thank the Honorable the Secretary for Lands, on the part of the miners, for his prompt attention to the request made him for the establishment of an escort, which makes its maiden trip…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Pioneer Claim party, Tipperary Gully, are still in very hard rock, but from the depth, sunk are in daily expectation of seeing the last of it. So far the water has not been very troublesome, the company having by baling out the old shaft a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →June 21.—In my last I alluded to a report that reef gold had been discovered at the Crow Mountain goldfield. I have since then seen several of the specimens found there, and, judging from their appearance, there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The pioncer shaft is still in very hard rock. The trap in this shaft has gone much deeper than was anticipated. Another whim claim has been taken up on Sydney Flat, for the purpose of re-working the ground. Some shallow sinking has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →July 11th.âAt this place we are after a long interval of dry weather visited with rain; although only in showers it is very acceptable being much wanted by sluicing parties and farmers; its continuance seems doubtful. We want a good steady fall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About seven years ago, when the old Lady-well shaft, in Staffordshire, was nigh worked out, and there were galleries and galleries stretching out, the men said, for miles of old workings which they, or even their fathers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As an evidence of the fact that the associative principle and its advantages are becoming better understood and appreoiated by our industrial population, the rise and progress of this company af[?]orda abundant and gratifying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rain which fell on Saturday last gave a little water for washing, but not sufficient to make much impression on the large heaps of stuff piled at the tunnels and surfacing claims. The tunnels, which at present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A rush on a small scale was occasioned a few days ago in a portion of Mr. Brown's paddock—the gold which I mentioned last week as having boen struck in the gully above appearing to go into the fenced ground. Since…
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