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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1869

17 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Miners League

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1869 · page 8

WE recommend the following to the careful attention of those engaged in mining pursuits in this district, and would suggest that they co-operate with the miners of Grenfell and other places in securing…

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Gold-mining in Victoria

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1869 · page 6

It is more than probable that the reports periodically furnished by the various mining surveyors and registrars in the gold-mining districts of this country do not meet with…

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The Legislature and the Gold Fields

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1869 · page 6

At last the silence so long observed to Parliament, respecting the state of the goldfields of the country, is broken. Thanks to Mr. J. Suitor, an event happened which…

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Bendock and Delegate Gold-fields. Auriferous Character of the Country Along the Bendock and Delegate Rivers

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1869 · page 8

Now that great interest is manifested in the prospects and advancement of the gold fields at Delegate and Bendock, the appended extracts from the reports relating thereto made by the Rev. W…

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Bendock and Delegate Gold-fields. Auriferous Character of the Country Along the Bendock and Delegate Rivers

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1869 · page 8

THE continuation of the slate of the range north of Iandoon is marked by considerable dykes of white and ferruginous quirts, not only near Boroungoma, but' also on the other side of the River…

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Gold Fields Leases

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1869 · page 7

THE following letter, addressed to the Editor of the Empire, and signed "A Digger on the Tramp," is worthy of perusal by those who take an interest in mining matters, and it is…

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Manaro As a Gold Field

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 16 April 1869 · page 8

IN a previous issue we stated that we should from week to week re-publish extract from the Rev. W. B. Clarke's reports bearing on the supposed auriferous character of various parts of this district…

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The Bombala Silver and Lead Mines

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1869 · page 5

THE following report from the manager of the Belmore Silver and Lead mines near Bombala, now being worked by a Victorian company, we extract from the Melbourne Herald:—…

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Manaro As a Gold Field

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1869 · page 8

[THE country between Bullanamang and Coms, and between Cooma and Gegedzerick has not been separately described; but it has been incidentally alluded to in previous Reports. A few sentences…

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New Method of Gold-washing

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1869 · page 3

MR. J. J. PHELPS, of Talbot, has hit upon a method of extracting gold from soil which must be accounted the most successful and economical yet devised, By a peculiarly constructed series of works, of anything but a costly…

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Gold Field Leases

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1869 · page 7

A WRITER in the Mining Record, under the signature of "A Miner of Fifteen Years' Experience," contributes the appended remarks on the present leasing system:—…

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Freehold Rights and Miners' Rights

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1869 · page 8

THE Mercury contains a summary of a meeting reported in the Armidale Express, the result of a vigorous agitation on the Rocky River diggings, for an inquiry by Government into the working of…

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Manaro As a Gold Field

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1869 · page 8

I HAVE examined the auriferous locality on Bobundarah Creek, and find that the gold is there distributed in a peculiar way. The schists and quartzites, which are so greatly interrupted by granite on the…

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The Miners' League

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1869 · page 8

The Mining Record says it is probable that the next session of Parliament will be very brief, and that, anticipating the General Election to follow, the Government will introduce as few subjects for…

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Manaro As a Gold Field

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1869 · page 8

OUR author, speaking "on the metalliferous rocks of Merinoo, &c," thus writes:—In my last report I alluded to the probable metalliferous wealth of the country in the neighbourhood of the…

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Manaro As a Gold Field

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1869 · page 8

I HAVE detected the existence of gold, not only in Maharatta creek, both above and below Calkin, but also at Boroungoma, on the Bendock River; and I observed indications of its presence in the banks…

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Manaro As a Gold Field

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1869 · page 8

ON inspecting Mr. T.S. Townsend's admirable map of the Manaro District, with the tracing of which I was favoured in Compliance with my request, [and which is nearly the same as that now appended to…

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