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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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When the market opened on Monday morning an unlooked for inquiry set in for Drummond's shares, and was at first attributed to the increased price of copper in England, but it soon transpired that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Marborough Chronicle of May 25 reports:— One hundred and nine bags of copper ore of great richess, some of 30 and some of 50 per cent., from the Normanby Mine, have been received in town for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent writes to the Queenslander as follows:— As many of your readers have visited Quart Pot Creek lately, I can scarcely hope to write anything…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lucknow, 6 men's ground.—Still sinking straight shaft, some fine looking veins come into the shaft during the week, bearing gold expect to cut the reef in about 20 feet; sinking moderately hard. Three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The share market was very flat on Tuesday, gold shares neglected, and not a great deal doing in tin. For copper shares the demand has been fairly sustained, and as on Monday the most noticeable feature…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Times Office, Tuesday evening.—The mining news since our last issue is very meagre. The weather has been so bad that it has been almost impossible to get any district intelligence; and the frightfully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This locality continues to excite a great deal of interest and the possibility of discovenng payable gold there is believed in by many persons, some fine specimens of gold-bearing quartz having undoubtedly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As the year progresses, so the yield of our goldfields increases; and the returns for the past five months compare favourably with those of any similar period since 1863. When the yield of the gold-mines…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Operators in raining shares are beginning to realise the fact that the market is getting weaker every day, and sales more difficult to effect. There was hardly anything doing on Thursday morning and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday Armidale was amused by the intelligence spreading that a few cunning people had discovered a gold-bearing quartz reef close to the S. W. corner of the municipality and taken up the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since my last I have visited several mines, particulars of which I give below:— THE NEWSTEAD COMPANY. King's Creek, 1200 acres Scarcity of water has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We continue to receive from the various parta of this and of the surrounding districts unmistakable evidences of the richness and extent of our stanniferous lands. Though great allowance must be made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The news from the tin mines is of a very satisfactory nature, and the rich yields from some of the land is causing speculators to go in heavy. During the past week several shares have changed hands at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the present state of the market there is little or no disposition to invest in anything of a progressive character in gold mines; and even chose which have been dividend paying investments met little inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extreme depression prevails in the share market: buyers appear to have withdrawn, and sellers are only too numerous. Of stocks generally it may be said that copper alone maintan their value. Peak…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Retains its position—as the mother mine always should—and it is worthy of notice that the more this property is developed the larger the lodes become and the great feature of all is that while the quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have purposely affixed this somewhat discouraging heading to what we have now to write, in order to draw the immediate attention of the New England journals to the matter—and, we hope, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the share market we note inquiry for Krohmann and Beyers and Holterman gold at late rates: sales of the latter were made on Thursday morning at 32s 6d. Band and Albion Consols steady at 85s. Rapps were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Matters at the tin mines are beginning to assume a lively appearance as most of the ground selected is now being opened up. At the Two-Mile Creek the surveyor (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Viceroy Gold Mining Company.—Messrs. Thompson, Brother, and Chater report that a telegram just to hand states:—"Have come upon the old vein, which is half gold, down 110 feet."…
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