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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
68 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
For several years past a number of miners have been engaged at work on this gold field, which lies between here and Barraba, and at one time succeeded in obtaining a good deal of gold from the alluvial ground. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The parties who some time ago undertook to open up trail races through the tiers of granite boulders have removed most of the obstacles in their way, and commenced sluicing the bed of the river with moderate success…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have much pleasure in stating that payable gold has been discovered in the creek (formerly but a narrow flat) at the foot of the southern side of Duval. Rumours have been afloat some days past respecting the discovery,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday we again visited the creek at Duval in which we mentioned, last week, the discovery of gold. We found five parties upon it. The upper one was the prospecting party— Messrs. Lewis and Andrew Taylor—whose prospects keep pretty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the monthly meeting of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales, held in Sydney, on Wednesday Mr. W. Keene, Examiner of Coal-fields, read the following letter on the Brown Cannel, or Petroleum Coal Seams,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The William Miskin arrived yesterday morning from Hokitika, bringing 4500 ounces gold which, with the 1050 ounces brought by the Eleanor on Saturday, and 11,000 ounces last week by the Wallaby gives a receipt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday we found four parties on the creek at Duval. Mr. Lewis estimated the yield got on Wednesday by himself and Meesrs. A. & S. Taylor wroking in a party at half anounce. Mr. George Taylor and his mate were also getting better…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flintshire Coil Fiold appears to have been worked from a remote period, as both tradition and documentary evidence prove that coals were raised from it so far back as the reign of Edward the Hurd—but the extent of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The prospecting shaft at the head of Tipperary Gully has been abandoned, after most persevering efforts by the party. Drives in the aggregate to an extent of about 150 feet have been put in without coming on payable. The rock being very uneven,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I feel great pleasure in informing you that the quartz crushed at the old steam crusher has yielded most satisfactorily, eleven tons giving 11 ozs. 15 dwts. of gold; this, with a reef four feet thick, is exceedingly remunerative, as I presume each man can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hopes were entertained that with the vernal equinox a change in the weather would have taken place, but no such, luck [?] The dry weather seems firmly set. Of one thing we are all certain—that this gold field is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The West Coast Times of the 9th ultimo supplies the following particulars relative to a robbery at the Grey[?]of Mr. Walmsley, of the Bank of New South Wales:â"On Monday morning last, he left Notown on horseback,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon we received from our Singleton correspondent a report, which we give below, of the discovery of gold on some of the head waters of the Hunter, flowing from the ranges dividing its valley from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday Mr. Beckingham washed out an eucouraging prospect of gold from a dishful of stuff in a gully running into Tilbuster Creek. It can be seen at the Express office, as also some pieces of qunrtz of a description found frequently in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Including the 29,068 ounces which the Rangitoto has on board for Sydney, the export of gold from the Port of Nelson during the past eight or nine months, amounts to a very large sum The diggings at the West Coast, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After a deal of trouble and time being spent, the New Phœ[?]ix Mining Company has made a start in a practical direction. Messrs Roberts and Coleby, the contractors whose tender was accepted upwards of a month ago, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for loss sustained through the sinking of a punt. Sir W. Manning, Q.C., and Mr. Salomons, instructed by Messrs. Daintrey and Chapman, appeared for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Mackenzie, Esq, late Government Examiner of Coal Fields in this district, and who has just returned from proving some land situated at Mount Victoria, near Hartley, has brought back with him some fine large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nov. 1.—The contractors for the work required at the Ph[?]nix shaft have had a more arduous task than they anticipated in baling and clearing the shaft out. When the shaft was first supk the water was kept down…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We (S. M. Herald) are indebted to Captain Ives, of the schooner Alexandra, for papers to the 31st ultimo, from Hokitika. The West Coast Times of that date supplies the…
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