Mining Intelligence
[?] END AND TAMBAROORA.—Below will be found intelligence from the 'Times' of the 22nd instant, as to the progress of some of the mines in this district. The principal event since our last…
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Mining & the mines, 1872
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Mining News
GULGONG.—In its report of Saturday, the Guardian says:—The escort left on Thursday, conveying 7224 ounces of gold as a yield for the past fortnight. The amount is equal to our…
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We take the following from the Tambaroora Times' of Saturday:—HAWKINS' HILL.—Niagara. Down about 180 feet Struck very good stone yesterday…
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At the meeting of the Scottish Australian Meeting, Company, one of the speakers stated that at Hongkong the engineers of the large occ[?] steamers frequently took Lambton coal, brought…
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The following additional regulations [?]mining upon Crown Lands are public Tuesday's 'Government Gazette':— 1. The provisions with reference to [?]…
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Gold lurks in every aim of life; It sways the lofty and the lowly And shrouds beneath its sable pall Each aspiration high and holy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold and Sugar. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent
SIR,—As many of your readers may be interested in hearing some facts about the far north, I send a few scraps. Before you, sir, became Independent and…
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The town of Inverell (383 miles from Sydney and 130 miles from Grafton), on the Maoiutyre River, was formerly known as a pastoral and agricultural town celebrated for its wines, and…
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The first claim visited at Fernbank was a ten acre lease on the southern end of the reef, belonging to Messrs. Farraher and party. The work done hereon consists of a tunnel now in 175 feet…
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"DOWN sixty-three feet, just struck rich load, intend to tunnel." Such was the telegram I lately received from a friend of mine at Hawkins' Hill…
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The following ingeniously written article appeared in the last issue of the Town and Country Journal, from the pen of a young gentleman in Wollongong, who gives the initials…
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An important advance in the tin standards has been announced, and has already caused great speculation in the Cornish tin mines. There seems now to be decided general opinion that, although…
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Coal at thirty-four shillings a too in the height of summer. It is impossible to exaggerate the significance of this fac[?] A rise of six shillings in a fortnight, and proper[?]nately on all the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining on the Shoalhaven River. (Braidwood Monitor, Sept. 10.)
ON the Shoalhaven River, the different claimholders have been washing up during the past week with varied results. In M'Gregor's claim they drew, we believe,…
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Tambaroora, Canton Line—Great Australian: South Shaft is being sank, and the ground is getting somewhat harder, having been of a very loose nature. It is now down 94 feet, 20 of…
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A writer in the News of the World (London) has the following amongst other remarks on the coal question:— It is asserted that there is a great waste of coal…
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The township of Copperfield (so called in consequence of the large quantity of copper ore produced there) is situated nearly S. w. of Clermont, and only distant four geographical…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Southern or Sydney Coal. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
Sir,—In your lust paper I noticed an extract you had published from the "Overland China Mail," of 22nd of August last, headed "Australian Coal in Hongkong." New, Sir, if you will give…
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You may 2nd about the world—you may see even in England alone—every gradation between coal and growing forest. You may see the forest growing in its bed of vegetable mould; you may…
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The Government Bill for the hotter provision for the regulation of mining has been laid before the Assembly. The preliminary portion of the measure embraces a full interpretation of the…
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