Better Than Gold
THERE are but few things in this world more highly appreciated or eagerly sought after than gold. Why ? Not because it is an attractive colour; not because it weighs…
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Mining & the mines, 1895
431 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 22
mining Items
About £700 worth of beach gold has arrived Maclean for transmission to the Mind from the Jerusalem Creek field. The mineral products of Victoria since 1851 are…
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The shares in the Rose of England and Lady Forrest Gold-mining Companies, Western Australia, have been allotted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Stewart's Brook Goldfield
Mr. Harry Benjamin, of West Maitland, has just returned from one of his periodical visits to Stewart's Brook, and reports that the field is in a very prosperous and promising condition, whilst…
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A crushing of 15 tons of stone at Nicholson and Pollock's Golden Bar claim, Corimba, Grafton district, yielded 70oz. of gold. The Sir Walter Scott mine, Cangi, crushed 190 tons for 99oz. 4dwt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle Coal Trade and the Proposed Coal Ring
SIR,—For several years past the chief business of labour members, labour leaders, and union delegates has been the denunciation of rings and monopolies. Every effort to invest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Discovery in Newfoundland
Intelligence from St. John', the capital of Newfound, station that a remarkable coalbed, 12 miles long and six miles broad, has been discovered in Newfoundland, in the vicinity of the railway…
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The yield of the Drysdale claim at the latest curshing was 770z.per ton. An attempt to start a school of mines at Wyalong has proved a failure, through the apathy of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Letter to the Editor. Stewart's Brook Goldfields
SIR,—I notice in your report on the above field in your issue of 2nd instant an error, which I would thank you to correct, in respect to Wooderson and party's claim. You state they have "had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining News. the Barraba Goldfield
Our Barraba correspondent writes:—Mining is still looking up here, and a fresh discovery has been made at both Wood's Rsef and Crow Mountain. Among those at Crow Mountain,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Famous Rush for Gold
The recent rush of several thousands of the old-time goldseekers from the mining camps of Arizona, New Mexico, and California to the new goldfields in Oklahoma recalls the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Mines Commission An Extension of Time. [By Telegraph] Sydney
The Royal Commission on Coal Mines, whose time expired last Friday, has applied for and has been granted a few days extension of time for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What Becomes of Gold! Fortunes Hidden in the Earth
Gold has many channels of disappearance. It is calculated that over one-half of the annual product of sold is employed in the jewellery trade and in…
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A Bathurst gold- buyer during the last fortnight bought 1120z., which is the highest total for some years indicating a considerable revival in alluvial mining…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Items From Abroad Keep Coal
To hot-headed electioneerers, let me commend this story of Bismarek, On one occasion, during some diplomatic which were being…
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Seven tons of stone from Heyling's line, at Bucea Creek, near Maclean, put through the old Nana Creek battery last week, yielded 14oz. Four tons from Darques and Wiley's reef returned 10oz. of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Robbery in South Africa
An extensive gold robbery is reported from South Africa. The African Banking Corporation depatched by coach from the Transvaal to Buluwayo, Matabeleland, several boxes of gold, valued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some Accidental Gold Discoveries
The history of American western mining states is full of stories that illustrate the purely accidental and fortuitous manner in which the most important discoveries were…
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A small rush has set in at Tingey's Plains, near Rocky Hall, just under the mountain at Pambula. Gold has been found in the quartz, and a reef of considerable width is said to have been traced…
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A local newspaper says:—While the yields from West Australia mines are printed in big block letter type in the city newspaper, the returns from LUcknow are given in the smallest print. The…
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