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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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There is s larger business to report in the stock and share market than has been done for some time past, and an improvement has taken place in several mining stocks. Beyers and Holtermanns,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The operations of the diggers at Coopla Currapa River have been conducted very quietly during the past fortnight, a pretty good indication of fair success. Arrivals and departures have been numerous,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new main shaft at the Peabody mine is being vigorously pushed down by the contractors, who say the rock is hard, and that £14 a fathom will not allow them more than ordinary wages. Good ore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a meeting of shareholders in the Treasavean copper mine, held at the Royal Hotel on Monday, it was resolved that the development of the mine be resumed. Thirty new shires of £50 each, payable in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Copper shares do not seem to recover from the depression which set in when investors in mining speculations took gold companies again into favour, Peak Downs may be said to be the only shares in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. H. Fairfax and Co. report that the list of the Yetholme Gold Mining Promoters' Company is fast filling up, it is their intention to close it early next week, when a meeting will be called, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A rather quiet day was passed in the share market on Thursday. In gold companies, Beyers and Holtermanns commanded most enquiry; sales at 50s to 51s 3d, closing with sellers at 51s. Carroll and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shares in Hill End mines were in steady request on Friday, Beyers and Holtermann's retaining the position of first favourites, with sales at 51s 3d to 51s 6d, buyers at 51s. Carroll Beard's sold at 29s to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Lands has decided that where there is more than one application for the same piece of land under the Mineral Lease Regulations, unsuccessful applicants will have their deposits returned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The yield of the Band and Albion mine on Thursday was 160 oz. 15 dwts. O'Connor's Sluicing Company Maitland Bar, has declared a dividend of 4s per share…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After about five hours ride we arrived at the tin mines known as Vegetable Creek. Here all was animation. The whole mining population had doffed their working apparel and appeared in holiday attire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following is the mining report of the Border Post of Sept. 21:— Hearing that several claims were being worked on Funker's Gap, the Four-mile Creek, and Ten-mile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE MICITAMULGA COPPER MINING CO.—Work is still proceeding at this mine. The men employed have commenced to sink a shaft, in order to cut the lode at some depth. The surface indications, as well…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received the Northern Miner of the 31st August. It is not the fault of the conductors of that paper if an ill-advised rush to Charters Towers is continued, for they hold out no encouragement to an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An experienced digger who has just returned from Charters Towers, after an eighteen months' residence on that field and in the immediate vicinity, has supplied us (Brisbane Courier, Sept. 24) with some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is a moderate amount of speculation going on in gold-mining shares, and the high premiums on several stocks are still maintained. Shale and Oil Shares, 35s, 35s 3d; Normanby, 15s, 15s 3d; Peak…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"An Old Resident in the Far North" contributes to the Melbourne Age the following very fair account of the gold fields of Northern Queensland, so far as they are yet known:—"The discovery of gold in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If we might judge from the activity displayed on the various mines in operation in the district, and the prospects from many of the leases, we should say a most prosperous era for the district is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new promoters' company, the Rampa Gold Mining Company, Wattle Flat, has been formed to work a lease situated on Solitary Creek, Wattle Flat, between the Comet and the Planet, and adjoining a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →September 21st, 1872.—We have to report, among other mining matters, the discovery of another rich gold reef, in the neighbourhood of the Star of Hope, Chambigne. It is called the Bold American, and…
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