The Coal Trade of This District
ONE of the items of statistical information supplied from this district for the annual Blue Book is relative to the production of our coal mines…
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Mining & the mines, 1859
13 stories in Illawarra's papers
Discovery of Gold-field
On Thursday, the Commissioner of Crown Lands received a claim from a person at the Burra, who professes to have discovered a gold-field in the North. Nothing is…
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The prospect of quartz-mining have been rendered most cheering by recent intelligence respecting some new discoveries in the Northern gold region. Boonoo Boonoo has supplied quartz…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colonial Extracts. Discovery of a New Gold-field
Gladstone, June 16.—I hasten to announce to you the discovery of an extensive gold-field, about forty miles from this township. A prospecting party has been organised for some months, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold at Swamp-oak Creek
During the past week we were shown a sample of gold procured at these diggings, weighing about twenty-five ounces, and obtained by a small party by surfacing. It is…
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A rumor is abroad these few days that gold has been discovered in the vicinity of Queanbeyan, but whether or not in prying quantities, I am not able to state. I am informed that…
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We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr Cleghorn for the following particulars of the polling at the undermentioned places for the above electorate:— Hoskins. Macnamarra. Hargraves…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warriora Coal
This is a dirty-looking coal, without much lustre, soiling the fingers when handled, Dotted over many of the pieces ore specs of iron pyrites, and, there appear to be, here and there, traces of vegetable impressions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Omparative Analysts of the Qua[?] of Colonial Coal
THE following papers, have reference to the relative value of Colonial Coal, as practically and experimentally ascou[?]nced, [?] laid on the table of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales, by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Illawarra Coal. (To the Labor the Illawarra Mercury."). [?]
[?] all the week have only this evening had an opp[?] of reading in your last Mercury, a paper, read before the Phi[?]osphical Society of Sydney, regarding an analysis of the illawara Coal. I will trouble you to publish, in your next paper, my reply…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Discoveries of Buried Gold at Panama
FOR ages past, numerous indistinct and indefinite rumours have been floating about the world, respecting large amounts of treasure said to have been buried by the ancient inhabitants, in various…
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IT is not the Victorians', fault if they do not find out a payable coal-field within easy reach of Melbourne. For years it has been the one thing needful of the Melbourne commercial men. "Give us," they say, and inexhaustible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wallsend Collieries
These new sinkings that have been in readiness for work for some time past, but impeded in the construction of their railway, are now likely to be soon in active, operation, several of the directors…
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