Grains of Gold
HARVEST never comes to such as saw not. The only way to make a friend in to be one…
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Mining & the mines, 1884
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Second Sheet to The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, June 28, 1884. Mining in 1883
THE annual report of the Department of Mines for 1883 shows a general progress, with a falling in some details. A conspectus can best be obtained by examining the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Silver Mines in the Barrier Ranges
ON Saturday Mr. J. P. Garven, M. P returned to Sydney, after a three weeks trip to Silverton and thorough, investigation of the now celebraled silver mines in the Barrier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Discovery of Coal near Maitland. Good Prospects Anticipated
It may not be generally known that for some few weeks sinking operations for coal have been in progress on a portion of the Rutherford estate, near West Maitland, leased by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal and Iron-ore near Westbrook
FROM a private letter which a Singleton lady has very kindly permitted us to make use of, we take the following extract: "To-day I have been examining the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grains of Gold
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all -Lavatier. A person who tell you the faults of others…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gold Discovery near Wombat. (From the Burrangong Chronicle, August 9.)
Considerable excitement was occasioned in town on Wednesday last by the circulation of a report that very rich quartz had been discovered about five miles on the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Gold in Ancient Times
GOLD was in excess in ancient times, and mostly taken from the rivers in Asia. The fables of Pa[?]tolus, of the golden fleece of the Argonauts, of the gold from Ophir, the history…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Efficiency of Coal
A round of average coal develops, with perfect combustion, 12,000 units of heat, which, multiplied by 772, the mechanical equivalent in units of work of one unit of heat, equals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mountain of Gold. (Queenslander, Sept. 6.)
Captain Whish, who has recently returned from s visit to the Mount Morgan gold mine, has brought with hint a number of very interesting specimens from that place. Anyone exp[?]thing from accounts of the richness of the discoverice to be shown…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Sunny Corner Mine Jumping Case. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Bathurst
Considerable interest is felt here relating to the dispute which has arisen in connection with the Sunny Corner silver claim. Some time since the company's claim was jumped…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Original Correspondence. Gold Near Branxton. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—That this vicinity contains auriferous quariz of a very rich quality is beyond all doubt. Only this week I received a specimen taken at random from among other pieces found within two miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold and San-Worship
In plain words, men took to collecting gold, and making gold trinkets, charms, and amulets, because gold was of the same colour, and possibly of the same divine material, as the sun. The sacredness…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Colliery Accident at Rix's Creeks, Near Singleton. the Inquest. [By Telegram from our Singleton Correspondent.)
The inquest on the body of the deceased George West was commenced on Wednesday afternoon, at his late residence, near the Singleton Coal Company's Mine, before the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Dead mining Town
THERE in Victoria a town of mined houses -Matlock. Its life began in 1861, with a rush of diggers. The last inhabitant left in 1879. In the fifteen years Matleck had found a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Electric Light in Mines
The electric light installation at the Mechernich Mines in the once volcanic Eifel district in Bhenish Prussia has now had a fair trial for more than three years, and has…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Chapter Xv. "Veng[?] Is Mine."
An awful silence lay over the great city. The death angel had set his sign and seal upon the door posts of the dwellings, and there were few indeed that escapad; for the awful scourge of yellow fever…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Road from Scone to the Rouchel. Deputation to the Minister of Mines. (From our own Reporter.)
On Saturday aftprnoon last the Hon. J. P Abbott, Minister of Mines, received at the Courthouse, Scone, a deputation of the residents of Scone and Rouchel Brook, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Countrywoman or Mine
Handsome? 1 harddly know. Her profile's fine— Delightful, intellectual, aquiline. Her keen eves light it—keen, yet often kind;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Valuable Diamond Mine near Inverell
Mr. P. Allwell who has just returned to Inverell from the new Banca diamond mine, on Auburn Vale supplies the Inverell Argus with the following particulars respecting the diamond "industry" there…
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