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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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A large business was done during Thursday, at prices showing no marked alteration on the closing rates at Wednesday. Peak Downs Copper went back to 6¾. and afterwards recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Evening News of Monday afternoon says: —The high premiums which holders of Tambaroora mining stock ask for shares is putting a stop to speculation in that direction; and for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Hill.—United Reefers Quartz Mining Company. A cross-cut has been put in of seventy-one feet. The hard crust on the face seems to be the casing of a lode. No change to report this week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—About four weeks ago I availed myself of the opportunity, which then afforded me, of taking a trip to the Gulgong gold diggings, and from which place I only last Wednesday re…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Evening News of Thursday says:—The stock and share market is quiet to-day and transactions are comparatively small; the only transaction in bank stock to note is, a parcel of Bank of New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The altered aspect which some of the largest gold companies have assumed in the share market was very noticeable again on Tuesday. A sale of Krohmanns at 45s, reported on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some of the speculators and the now tolerably numerous class of brokers that the recent excitement in mines has found business for, find it difficult to account for the depression in business during the last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tin mining in this district has during the past few days become so exciting a topic that it is now difficult to find an individual sufficiently cool and collected to speak with calmness upon any subject…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As a regular reader of your excellent paper, I find that you have no correspondent at this place. I beg leave to offer the following information, gathered during a visit here last week:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The sales reported on Tuesday exhibited very little change in quotations. The demand for copper shares was more active, and a good number changed hands. Peak Downs opened…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transactions on Thursday were neither numerous nor large, as far as companies already formed were concerned. Persons who invest in mines are becoming more averse to paying large premiums, unless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seeing an account in the Armidale Express in last week's issue, of picked specimens of gold-bearing quartz from the Sons of Temperance Reef, near Walcha, I have the honour to state I do not knew…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HAWKINS' HILL.—Cornucopia Q.M.Co., situated on the eastern side of Hawkins' Hill, are in full work. A tender has been accepted to sink the shaft a further depth of 50 feet, and contractors are pushing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Melbourne Argus published a few days ago an abstract of the Mineral Statistics of Victoria for 1871, as compiled by Mr. Brough Smith. The returns are not to be regarded as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The share market to-day is quiet, and only a small business doing. The sales to-day comprise—Australian Joint Stock Bank at £100?, £10 18s 6d, £11; Queensland National Bank, 40s; Illawarra Steam,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Report has it that a grand christening of the Tent Hill and Glen claims is about to take place, with no end of champagne, speechifying, &c. I have not heard the full particulars, but I have heard that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The rumours current during the last two days respecting a very poor return from a large crushing of stone from one of the richest claims on Hawkins Hill, has helped to slacken the inquiry for mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With the exception of the auction sale referred to elsewhere, there was nothing done on Thursday morning. Prices are dull, and all the large mines weaker…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The proprietors of the Wilcannia and koornto-Undi Copper Mining Companies received by last post the reports from Captain Warren, of the Parramatta Copper Mine, South Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Since my last, I visited several other claims which are now being worked, in the neighbour hood of Cope's Stony, and Middle Creeks, the particulars of which I give as far as posaible,…
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