Mining News. Oban Tin Mines. (From a Correspondent of the Inverell Courier.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 April 1872 · page 3
Your Inverell mines appear to be distancing the mines here by the glowing accounts I see in your pages. but such is not altogether the case. At present things are rather dull, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining News. (From the Herald of Tuesday.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 April 1872 · page 2
Rich stone is reported to have been struck in Campbell's lease, Big Oakey Creek, between Sofala and Wattle Flat. Specimens have been received, and may be seen at Messrs. De Boos…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold Fields. (From the Clarence Examiner, April 16.) Yulgilbar Quartz Reefs
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 April 1872 · page 3
My visits to the Washpool Reefs have satisfied me that your port will soon be noted for its gold exports, and you must soon have an influx of population that will assist in developing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining News. (From the Herald Wednesday.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1872 · page 6
Messrs. Charles R. Darton and Co. report having held then first sale of shares by public auction, at their rooms, Bank-chambers, on Monday, at 3 p.m. There was a large attendance, and fair prices were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining News. (From the Herald, April 2[?])
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1872 · page 2
Advices from Tambaroora state that Krohmann and Company are still crushing. Paxton, Holman, and Company commence to-morrow, and Brown's about the 1st of May…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tin Mining News. (From the Armidale Telegraph, April 27.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1872 · page 4
In referepoe to tin discoveries, nothing very extraordinary has occurred during the past week. The projectors of companies already floated may congratulate themselves, as the public refuses to snap…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining News. the Mineral Resources of the Northern Districts. (Communicated to the Evening News.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1872 · page 4
Our Northern gold-fields do not appear to have received that attention to which they are entitled, whether from the want of the neceasary energy on the part of the mining population located there, or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queensland Tin Mines. (From the Queenslander, April 27.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 May 1872 · page 2
From a'gentleman who lately returned from the tin country in the neighbourhood of Quart Pot Creek, we learn that the field presents a very encouraging aspect. Many of the selections are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold Fields. (From the Orange Western Examiner, April 27.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 May 1872 · page 4
LUCKNOW.—We have much pleasure in recording a successful find by the part who have been for some time past working the Uncle Tom claim, Lucknow. During the week a vein was struck through the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining News. (From the Ill[?]arra Mercury, April 26.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 May 1872 · page 2
GOLD IN THE SHELLHARBOR SANDY BEACH.— The question—can gold be purcured in a payable quantity from the sandy beach, near Shellharbor? is now undergoing solution. It will be remembered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold-fields
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 3
The Merrendee correapondent of the Western Pott writes:— I have much pleasure in informing you that things are looking much better here, and I think that there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining News. (From the S. M. Herald, May 1.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 3
A meeting of the shareholders in the Frenchman's company waa held in the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday, when Messrs. H. Ferns, C. T. Gedye, G. Curtis, H. E. Tidswell, and F. Perks, were elected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining in the Mudgee Distbict. (From the Western Post, April 30.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 3
During the past week we have received the most favourable reports from the conductors of the various mining enterprises which are situated but a short distance from this town Foremost stands the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Copper Mining
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1872 · page 3
The Central Australian (Bourke) says, writing on April 24:—We have been shown by Mr. H. W. Nancarrow some copper ore from a reef discovered in some ground taken up bv Messrs. Nancarrow,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Mines. (From the Armidale Telegraph, May 4.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1872 · page 3
A number of miners from Tinonee as well as from the Clarence, we understand, are en route for Cope's Creek and the Glen, where they expect to be engaged on the tin mines. The example set by Fearby,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining News. (From the Herald, May 8.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1872 · page 2
A telegram received from Ballarat this evening states that the yield of the Band and Albion Company for the first four days of this week was over 680oz…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tin Mining Notes. (From the Invercll Courier, May I.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1872 · page 3
Speculation in tin mining shares, prospecting, and the taking up of new ground, do not give any signs of abatement in this district; indeed, the excitement seems rather to be increasing. At all events, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining News. (From the Botharst Free Press, May 4.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1872 · page 4
CALOOLA CREEL DIGGING.—The reefs and lodes at Caloola are beginning to attract considerable attention, and many of the visitors—whom we have seen on their return from the diggings, have spoken most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining News. (From the Empire, May 8.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1872 · page 4
The yield of the Wynyard Gold-mining Company for the past fortnight is 142 oz. lO dwts. 12grs. Ironclad Reef Gold: There was on view yesterday, at the Sydney Exchange, an ingot of very fine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Upper Hunter Gold-fields. (From the Upper Hunter Courier, May 10.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1872 · page 3
GOLD FINDS.—Samples of good gold from Stewart's Brook still continue to arrive in Muswellbrook. This (Tuesday) morning some nuggets of a considerable size were disposed of to…
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