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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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The stock and share market is free from excitement to-day, and quotations present but a slight alteration on the closing rates of last week. Gold is the favourite stock for speculating in. Beyers and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. F. J. Barker reports:—"Extract from letter from Mr. Bailey, one of the proprietors of the Sussex Promoters' Gold Mining Company, now being floated:—"Shaft down 14 feet; will finish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most important fact to record this week is that the Star of Peace Company (late Bromley's), Hawkins Hill, has come upon stone which holds out promise of great richness. It has been unearthed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We saw yesterday at the laboratory of Dr. March, a spocimen of alluvial washdirt, containing gold, garnets and black sand. The matrix stone is now under analysis. The precise locality of the find is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NORMANBY.—We are pleased to see that a start has been made in the way of erecting furnaces. Four men are busily engaged in excavating for the foundations of three furnaces, the excavation to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is nothing special to report in mining matters, except the confirmation of the news brought in on Saturday, that the miners sinking the contract shaft at the Peabody, struck a rich deposit of ore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A block of copper ore of about 23 cwt. from the Cowflat Copper Mine, reached town on Tuesday, and was placed in front of the Exchange. The yield of the Band and Albion Consols on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The market continues rather flat, and there is no great alteration in quotations for leading companies. The crushing at Carroll and Beards has not affected prices, and sales were made on Tuesday at 31s to 32s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A succession of rainy days, most welcome, and much needed after a long period of dry weather, has retarded the works of the diggers at Coupls Curripa, their prospects, however, are considered to be very favourable. A resident of the township…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I visited this locality on Wednesday, 2nd instant. It is fifteen miles from Tumut, about the same distance from Gundagai, and about twenty miles from Jugiong, situated in a line between Jugiong and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The various tin mines in this locality are beginning to look busy. The Muswellbrook Company arrived here, and intend to proceed to work at once; there is six of them in all at present on the ground, but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NUNDLE.—A good deal of rain has fallen daring the past week, and sluicing is being caried on vigorously from one end of the diggings to the other. Intention of application for several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The share market continues flat, and few transactions were recorded on Thursday. New South Wales Shale and Oil Company were sold at 37s, and in gold Krohmanns were disposed of at 48s 6d, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The yield of Band and Albions for Wednesday was 114 oz. 14 dwta.; on Thursday the yield was 118 oz. [?] dwts. A meeting of the shareholders of the Black…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The yield of the Band and Albion mine on Saturday was 170 oz.; for the week, 764 oz. Armstrong G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports:—"The water has been very strong in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE GOLD MINING COMPANY, TAMBAROORA.—A meeting of this company was held at the City Hall, Newcastle, on Monday evening, for the purpose of alloting the unalloted share. After some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold shares are neglected to-day. The following sales have been effected:—Shale and Oil shares, 37s 6d; Wallsend Coal, £10; Peak Downs Copper, £5 9s, £5 10s; Western Peak Downs, 4s; Wolca Copper,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Copper Mines in this district are very promising. The Somer's, three miles from Carcoar in a S.W. direction, comprise three blocks of 80 acres, each, taken up under mineral selection. Work was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is but little new with which to greet our readers. First, as to the machines. Chappell's finished with Brown's last night, and on Monday it begins on a lot of seconds from Krohmann's after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The result of the trial smelting of 30 tons of ore from the Goodrich Gold and Copper Mine (we say gold and copper mine, for it is now worked for both minerals) at the Icely smelting works, is the most…
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