Mining Mems
From Parkes the escort took last week 21010ozs 2dwts. 3grs. of gold. The South Cobar Mine looks well; eight men are breaking ore. Seventy tons per week are…
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From Parkes the escort took last week 21010ozs 2dwts. 3grs. of gold. The South Cobar Mine looks well; eight men are breaking ore. Seventy tons per week are…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mr. James Miller, of Geelong, who returned from King’s Island the other day, states that there is ver[?] little doubt but a payable quartz reef exists on he eastern coast of the island…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →From Adelong, the correspondent of the Tumut Times sends the following items:—Mining matters are steadily improving. The Currogong Co. are crushing results next week. Prowse and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →David Montgomery, manager of the Royal Hustler’s Company, Sandhurst, has been sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for conveying smoke into the claim of the Imperial Hustler’s…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Great Tumbarumba Co. ([?] and Co.) are sluicing on a great scale, and expect to have a good wash up shortly. A nugget weighing 290oz. was obtained at…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →At Sandy Creek the alluvial workings are looking well, the dividends realised average about £7 a man per week.—Times. At Grahamstown the Wheal Unity men are…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Great Northern Company, Stawell, declared a dividend of £1000 for four weeks’ work in the mine. The total amount of gold purchased by the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The North Cross Reef, the deepest mine in Victoria, has yielded one ton of gold annually for the last four years. The calls made in Sandhurst during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A very good crushing was finished on the 30th ult., from the North Cross Clann, Stawell. 1648 tons yieldded 4427oz,. 12dwt. 12grs, the average per ton being 2oz. 13dwt. 18grs. The director…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Walhalla Company has declared a dividend of £5 per share. The Maryborough Quartz Mining Company, commissioner’s commenced crushing last…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The last crushing of quartz from the Lady Alice gold mine, at Barossa, has given a magnificent return ; no less than 120½oz of re[?] gold from 145 tons of stone, At this rate Mr. Goddard…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Mudgee Past of Tuesday week says :—No, 1, in N. Barton’s paddock, has washed up 200 loads of dirt, and obtained a yield of 111 ox. of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →It is probable that the Lothair mine will be let on tribute. The calls at Sandhurst for the week are pretty heavy, amounting to £5152, whilst the dividends…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Sandhurst Miners’ Association, at a meeting a few days since, determined to take action to have the duty on milling materials reduced. At Shunardstown alluvial workings the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The second crushing of the Linscott’s Tribute, Maldon, yielded 144oz. retorted gold from 29 tons. The return of Eaglehawk Union, Maldon,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →SIR,—Would you be kind enough to give publicity to the following :—As some evil-disposed person or persons have circulated a report calculated to injure my character, and which people at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →It is stated in well-informed [circles that the yield of Mr. Loarmonth’s late mine at Egerton last week amounts to 600ozs. We have Natal papers to the latest dates…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The claims at Sandy Creek, near Adelong, are abandoned. At Shepardstown all parties working alluvial claims are on payable gold…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →It appears, says the Daylesford Mercury, that, the Cornish mine has yielded from first to last 46,000oz,, worth about £180,000, the dividends paid by the present company being equal to £46 12s. per share…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Two fine nuggets were found at Parkes on Monday ; the larger, weighing 20ozs., was got by Hall and party. At Tumbarumba, the Beechworth Company’s…
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