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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1858

27 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2

The Gold Fields of New South Wales

The Border Post · Wednesday 26 May 1858 · page 3

THE quiet progress of our gold fields, the gradual but constant increase of the quantity produced, and the approved methods of production, all announce the approach of a…

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Gold

The Border Post · Sunday 13 June 1858 · page 2

WHEN we consider the vast results which have followed the discovery of gold in California and Australia, we can scarcely help wondering what, the world [?]…

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Clunes Mining Field

The Border Post · Saturday 10 July 1858 · page 2

The following particulars respecting the mining operations at Clunes will be read with interest. They may be relied upon for their accuracy :…

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The Gold Fields

The Border Post · Saturday 24 July 1858 · page 1

WE have often heard it remarked as a curious circumstance, that the random rushes which took place on the first discovery of gold in Australia, were attended with more brilliant…

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Colonial Intelligence. a New Gold Discovery for Great Britain

The Border Post · Wednesday 28 July 1858 · page 4

The late Californian papers inform us of a new and, app[?], a very nice iscovery of gold, in the British possessions bordering on the Washington territory, which was…

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Colonial Intelligence. the Adelong Gold Field. From the Sydney Morning Herald

The Border Post · Saturday 31 July 1858 · page 4

The reports we get from the Adelong Digging, although perhaps a [?] coacher de [?]such as to deserve [?] [?] attention. It seems now clear that…

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Discovery of a Rich Gold Field in the Northern District. (From the Sydney Herald.)

The Border Post · Wednesday 4 August 1858 · page 4

GLADSTONE, PORT CURTIS, 13th July, 1868.—About seven or eight months ago a [?] who had been [?] in this district, stated that be had found gold in the…

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Letter of Instruction to the Gold Commissioners

The Border Post · Saturday 21 August 1858 · page 4

In connection with the new regulations for the gold Fields, printed above the following circular letter has been addressed to the Gold Commissioners:…

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The New Gold Fields Regulations. Department of Land and Public Works. Sydney, 5th August, 1858

The Border Post · Saturday 21 August 1858 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to establish the following Regulations, under the provisions of the Act of Parliament 20 Victoria. No…

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Miscellaneous. the Vancouver Gold Fields

The Border Post · Saturday 11 September 1858 · page 2

The Melbourne Herald publishes late news from the Frazer River Mines. Though the Californian papers are “running down” the new rush, which is depopulating the country, the general opinion…

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Meragle Gold Field. (From a Correspondent.)

The Border Post · Saturday 18 September 1858 · page 2

Mining operations here have been very much retarded for the last month, in consequence of the severe weather we have had : the miners not being able to work for longer boars than amount to three…

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Colonial Intelligence, Gold Diggings at Pitzroy River

The Border Post · Wednesday 22 September 1858 · page 4

In the legislative Assembly of New South Wales on the 10th, Mr. Robertson laid upon the table of the Howe the following better:…

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Miscellaneous. Vancouver Gold Fields (From the Victoria Frazer River Gazette.) Fort Hope, July

The Border Post · Wednesday 22 September 1858 · page 4

Messrs. Editors.—I am camping for the present at this place. The Americans celebrated the 4th here by firing their revolvers. The miners are coming and going from this…

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The Fitzroy Gold-fields

The Border Post · Wednesday 29 September 1858 · page 4

The mails by the Uncle Tom and Albion schooners, the former vessel arriving on Saturday, and the latter on Sunday, were delivered yesterday morning. Several letters…

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New South Wales Gold Fields

The Border Post · Wednesday 29 September 1858 · page 2

In our back page we give some extracts from Sydney papers, realize to the Port Curtis gold fields. We now give some paragraphs from the Herald, regarding some astounding discoveries in…

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The Government and the Gold Fields

The Border Post · Saturday 2 October 1858 · page 2

The Government of New South Wales is proverbially “ slow;” but in no case is this want of energy more glaringly displayed than in its treatment of the gold-fields of the…

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The Indigo Gold Field

The Border Post · Wednesday 6 October 1858 · page 2

The inhabitants of Albury may at length felicitate themselves upon having a gold-field discovered within fifteen miles of the town. Ever since ’51 it has been known that the…

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Colonialintelligence. Fitzroy Goldfields. (From the Sydney Marking [?].)

The Border Post · Wednesday 6 October 1858 · page 4

It may be as well to look back upon all the different facts which have appeared in our journal, as they show the direction of the popular mind with respect to the Fitzroy diggings…

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The Indigo Gold Field

The Border Post · Wednesday 13 October 1858 · page 4

Once more we urge all the miners on the Ovens gold fields to think well before they decline giving the Indigo a trial. Such a chance as the present they have not had for…

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