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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
35 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Mr. J. J. Phelps, of Talbot, has just hit upon a method of extracting gold from soil which must be accounted the most successful and oconomical yet devised. By a peculiarly constructed series of works, of anything but a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An explosion of a very deplorable charster er is reported from Newcastle. About nine miles from that town there is a village named Chestet-le-street, and very near to the village ia the Ponton colliery, owned by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the past week a number of shafts have been sunk at the Kentucky, the majority of which have been no good, and at present the prospects of a diggings being opened are not very encouraging. Above the prospectors claim Shepherd and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following " Statement of Reasons" for the judgment in Brown v. the Waratah Coal Company, now under appeal to the Privy Council, has been sent [?] publication:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drab[?]ch and party are still working their prospecting claim on the ridge near Kentucky Creek, but what it will shape it is impossible to say, as they are stacking all their stuff. There are but twenty or thirty miners working on the rush, the prospects…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The gully in Mr. Dumaresque's paddock, after being well prospected, did not admit of any great hopes of ultimate success; still, the majority of those who had sunk one or more shafts there had no idea of abandoning it until yesterday, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The past month has been one of the most fatal that has been known in the mining districts of England. On Dec 10 there was an explosion from fire-damp at Bolton causing serious injury to 50 or 60 persons. On the afternoon of the 12th occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →These specimens show the super and subcarboniferous rocks, and the coal measures, presenting eleven differont seams to working, all of which are more or less…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A party of Chinamen on Sydney Flat had to succumb to the scarcity of cash last week After spending four or five months in sinking a sha[?], 5 x 3, slabbed from top to bottom, and erectlng anew whim, they were, in consequence of the Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →9TH MARCH,—On Thursday last a meeting took place at Foley's Folly, to witness the starting of the crushing michine by the [?] Mining Company. Steam was got up about one o'clock, and turned on to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Empire of 16th March was published an article beaded " Physical Geology of New South Wales," and signed "Tiras." Wedid not republish it, partly because our columnsjust then were much occupied, and partly to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was a slight r[?]sh a few days ago to the neighbourhood of Mount Welsh Gully, another of those innumerable gutters which intersect the hills and hollows in that locality having been struck upon by Mr. Young,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heavy cloudy state of the atmosphere for s[?] days past coupled with the remarkably heavy rainfall in Sydney, raised our hopes that we were also to have a good fall. The hope yet awaits realisation. A shower on Friday evening for an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The quantity of gold received by escort at the Sydney Mint during the past month was slightly larger than either of the two preceding months, and amounted in all to 16,766, making a total for the quarter of 45,375 oz…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious disturbances have occurre in the mining districts of Belgium through the distress produced by a strike among the operatives. The great seat of the iron and coal district of Belgium is in that it Walloon country of which Chnrlero[?] is the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We are indebted to the courtesy of Dr. Hector, and his assistant, Mr. Hackett, for the following information relative to the geological survey of this portion [Grey district] of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SOME interesting papers, published in the Herald last year, and written by a gentleman who had been professionally engaged in an inspection of the arrangements and appliances for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME interesting papers, published in the Herald last year, and written by a gentleman who had been professionally engaged in an inspection of the arrangements and appliances for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A special correspondent of the Riverine Herald, thus reports on the prospects of this much disputed goldfield:— Pooclamacca, Barrier Ranges, April 17…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[Herald.]—A great rush took place on Wednesday to a gully seven miles from here towards the Tygong. It leads from a cluster of reefs, of which the St. Patrick and Evening Star are the richest. The sinking is seventy-five feet and the prospect…
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