Coal Mining
One of the Glasgow papers in November was publishing a series of articles illustrative more particularly of the coal mines in that neighbourhood, but we find in them some portions of more…
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Mining & the mines, 1866
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The Northern Gold Fields. Rooky River. (From the Corespondent of the Armidale Express.)
Messrs. Roberts and Co. have commenced a new tunnel a little to the eastward of Southern Cross Tunnel. The ground they intend to work by this means has bad but one or two shafts sunk upon it, but it is not anticipated…
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The Herald says that in the last number of the Quarterly Journal of Science is an article on British gold mines, by Mr. Robert Hunt F.R.S., in which occurs the following reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Queensland Coal Fields. (Communicated to the Brisbane Courier of 23rd ultimo.)
In the last English Summary of the Courier, there was a carefully written article upon the coal mines of this colony and our commercial prospects relative there to. The mineral deposits near the coast are of great in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Northern Gold Fields. Rocky River. (From the Corespondent of the Armidale Express.)
The patch lately struck on Maitland Point is still paying good wages to those who are on it, but, as was surmised, it is only a portion of a lead previously worked, and which had been missed owing to boulders or some other obstructionsâtherefore it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NITRO-GLYCERINE. (From Dicker's Mining Record.)
The following account of some experiments with nitro-glycerine used for blasting purposes are originally from the Conqites Rendus of July 17th, 1865; we take them from the pages of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Rocky River. (From the Correspondent of the Armidale Express.)
In mining matters, there is nothing new to communicate. The new claims at Maitland Point are still paying very well The want of water is still the great preventive to anything approaching to success. In various parts of the river, companies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Gold Fields. Bowling Alley Point. (From the Correspondent of the Tamworth Examiner.)
March 23.—I have delayed thus long in communicating to you in the hope that a change might come o'er the spirit of our dream, for we have, as a mining population, passed, or are passing through the most trying ordeal, entirely stagnating the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Barwon Gold Robbery. [Continued From Page 2] (From Thursday's Empire.)
The police have not succeeded in discovering who were the persons who committed the robbery of the gold-dust aboard the Barwon. They have arrested the stewardess and the steward,and under steward, on suspicion of being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Robbery of One Thousand Ounces of Gold Aboard the Steamer Barwon. (From the Empire of Wednesday.)
The Barwon, steamer, which arrived here on Monday from Dunedin, brought, amongst other freight, twenty-two boxes gold-dust, each containing 1000 ounces. This gold was not placed…
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We (S. M. Herald) are indebted to Captain Ives, of the Amy Robsart, for Hokitika papers to the 9th instant, from which we annex a few extracts:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Waratah Coal Company. (From Tuesday's Herald.)
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yeaterday, at the Company's offices, Pitt-street. Captain Smith in the chair. The Secretary read the following report and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Rocky River. (From the Armidale Express, May 5.)
Some of these claims at Maitland Point are paying good wages. Brownlow's continues the best. Two of the others are worked out. The best of the washed dirt has been 5 or 6 ounces to the load, and from 6 inches to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Rocky River. (From the Corespondent of the Armidale Express, May 12.)
In our present parched-np state a shower is a boon worth recording. After an unusually warm day on Friday last, a heavy rainfall took plaoe, for a little more than an hour, bat the benefit was, I am sorry to say, confined to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Rocky River. (From the Correspondent of the Armidale Express.)
About three weeks ago I mentioned the discovery of a new gully near Mr. Crapp's stockyard. It attracted little attention at the time, but a few parties kept sinking and driving until at last a very good lead of gold was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Rocky River. (From a Correspondent of the Armidale Express.)
A new rush was reported at Mount Beef a day or two ago, the sinking being near the base of the hill on the Hide towards Uralla, and a depth aboot 17 feet. I have very little hope of any good resulting from it, but time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extracting Gold From Quartz. We copy the following letter from the S. M. Herald:— Extracting Gold From Quartz by New Machinary and Means Invented by the Undersigned. (To the Editor of the Herald.)
Sir,—It has been amply proven that this colony, and, indeed, the surrounding colonies abound in gold-boaring quartz reefs, and recent publications have put forth as a fact that so much as 140 ounces of gold to the ton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Gold Fields. Rocky River. (From the Special Correspondent of the Armidale Express.)
The mining leases, class No. 1, applied for by Messrs. Roberts & Co. and Leece & Co. have both been granted. These leases are for two acres each, on the ground between Mount Fungi and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Information From the New Gold Field, Dubbo
A gentleman who returned from the new gold-field on Wednesday last gives the following information:—There are from 90 to 100 persons on the ground. The prospecting party have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, June 30, 1866. the Quartz Mines of Victoria
A German savant, if we remember rightly, who, when paying a scientific visit to Australia and New Zealand a few years ago, pointed out with much force the evils of what he termed…
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