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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1872

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Mining News. Mining Share Market. (From Monday's Evening News)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1872 · page 2

There is a decided improvement to-day in the business doing in the stock and share market and a better feeling is evidently gaining ground with respect to Tambaroora and other mining investments…

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Tin Mining (From the [?]nterfield Star, June 13.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1872 · page 2

The Darling Downs Gazette remarks:— Our Stanthorpe correspondent, under date June 5, writes:—A large number of men are now employed on the Quart Pot selections; M'Glew has about thirty…

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Copper Mining. (From the Wide Bay News, June 1.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1872 · page 2

We heard last night from a perfectly reliable source that a vein of malachite has been struck in one of the Normanby shafts. This is, we believe, the first malachite found in Queensland, and, as our readers…

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The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, June 20, 1872. Instruction in Mineralogy and Mining

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 June 1872 · page 2

FOR many years past we have been accustomed to hear the expression of a general but extremely vague belief in the extent and variety of the mineral resources of the colony; a…

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Gold Mining. (From the Herald of Wednesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1872 · page 4

Tambaroora advices speak favourably of several of the old claims on Hawkins' Hill. Excellent stone is being obtained and some large crushings are expected shortly. There is not so much noise about the…

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The Wilcannia Copper Mine

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1872 · page 4

A correspondent of the Pastoral Times writes from Wilcannia on the 30th ultimo.:—The operations of the great Wilcannia Mine are progressing very favourably. The lode lately struck is said to be very…

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Mining News. Mining Share Market. (From the Herald of Wednesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1872 · page 4

The Share market suffered a relapse on Tuesday; and only a very limited number of transactions were reported. In gold shares the only sales were Krohmanns, at 41s. Copper in fair request; Peak…

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Copper Mining. (From the Orange Western Examiner, June 15.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1872 · page 4

Much attention is at present directed to the discovery of copper lodes, and no district abounds more in them than this. In developing them much energy is being displayed. From the Peabody mine…

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Original Correspondence. the New England Tin Mines. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1872 · page 4

SIR,—In reply to your article of Tuesday, I would suggest that New England journals can only report facts, such as new ground taken, appearance of ore, &c.; and that the real test is the assay made in…

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Gold Mining. (From the Tamworth Examiner, June 22.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1872 · page 2

SPLENDID FIND AT BOWLING ALLEY POINT. —We have much pleasure in stating that a quartz reef of extraordinary richness has been opened at Bowling Alley Point, on the P. R. L…

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The Annandale and Oaks Tin Mines. (From the Glen Innes Guardian.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1872 · page 2

A gentleman connected with the Annandale and the Oaks tin mines called at our office the other day, and gave us the following information with reference to the above mines. The…

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Copper Mining. (From the Bourke Telegraph, June 12.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1872 · page 2

BOURKE MINING REPORT.—William Webb reports:—Since my last I paid a visit to Wilcannia, where I found everything in excess of what I expected. There is a great quantity of…

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Tin Mining. (From the Upper Hunter Courier, June 21.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1872 · page 2

TIN.—We have been favored with the sight of a letter from a townsman of ours, Mr. P. Wright, who is at present working the Lyngarra Tin Mines, Cope's Creek, Bundarra; the…

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Mining at Mount Perry. (From the Mount Perry Mail, June 13.) Mount Perry Copper Mine

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1872 · page 4

The "tribute" system adopted at this mine, and we believe for the first time introduced into Queensland, is already revealing to the uninitiated the success attendant on this mode of…

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MINING. (From Monday's Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1872 · page 4

The share-list of the Stanthorpe Tin Mining Company closed on Saturday, and a meeting of shareholders will be called at an early date for the election of direotors, &c…

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Mining News. Mining Share Market. (From the Herald of Tuesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1872 · page 4

There is still an active inquiry for copper shares, and sales are made more readily than any other description of stock. The market has opened with inquiry for Drummonds at…

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Tin Mining. From the Tenterfield Star, June 20.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1872 · page 4

MINING SPECULATIONS.—Messrs. H. Heydon, T. Clarke, P. Rogan, and W. Hedley have sold eighty acres of tin land on Sugar Loaf Swamp, Queensland, for the sum of £800, to a Sydney…

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Progress of Mining in Queensland. (From the Queenslander, June 22.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1872 · page 4

THE TIN MINES.—The Warwick Examiner of Saturday last gives the following account of the tin mines:—"The excitement to secure tin selections continues unabated, and applications…

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Gold Mining. (From the Herald of Wednesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1872 · page 5

At a meetiog of the shareholders of the Graham Donaldson Promoters' Gold Mining Company, held at Mr. J. G. Cohen's office on Tuesday, Messrs. H. Woolnough, C J. Muller, R…

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Mining Managers' Reports. Oakey Creek

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1872 · page 5

Eureka.—Contractors have sunk only 2 feet for the week. Making the depth from brace, 54 feet. Stone improving as it gets deeper. South Star.—The stone looks pretty well…

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