The Mount Hope Copper Mine
THE condition of the copper mining industry in New South Wales is at the present time not only satisfactory, but prosperous; so great that it behaves us to place before the public a brief…
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21 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2
Dreadful Colliery Explosion
An explosion of gas occurred on the 21st January at the Lady Fair Pit of the Leycett Colliery, belonging to the Crewe Coal and Iron…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Surveyor's Report. Ingigo Division. Mr. R. Arrowsmith, Mining Surveyor and Registrar
Quartz mining in this division has been continued with the usual amount of success as regards yields obtained at very small depths. A company has…
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A small rush has broken out at Hillas Creek, near Tarcutta. Alluvial wash dirt has been got after ten-foot sinking, and £5 a man per week has been obtained from the prospectors claim,…
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It has always been understood that gold associated with pyrites was held in chemical union, and that therefore the metal could not be liberated except by first roasting it. It is well…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mines of Soap. (Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.)
A mine of veritable soft soap was some time since discovered by a clergyman fifty miles from Prescott, Arizona, and is now being worked. California also has “rock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Edison's Latest Discovery. Science and Tailings--a Secret That Gold-miners Will Yearn for
The New York Herald, of 3rd April contains The narrative of a discover by the famous scientist--Edison-- that will assuredly create a sensation,…
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IN a recent lecture on gold, Professor Egleston, of the School of Mines of Columbia College, remarked that it was formerly supposed that gold was to be found only in or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. Mount Hope Copper Mine. Hillston
Influential meeting of Mount Hope shareholders held to day, and a resolution passed appointing Mr G. P. Cook as delegate to represent the shareholders at the half yearly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rutherglen Mines
THE activity apparent on an inspection of the mines at Rutherglen at the present as contrasted with the comparative dullness of a few years…
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8. Any persons specially authorized by the Minister shall at any period be at liberty to dig and search for gold within any land…
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The following is written by a correspondent of the Forbes Times:— Nimagee is about 45 miles south of Cobar, on the boundaries of Messrs. Knox and…
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DER schiltren dhey vas poot in ped, All tucked cup for der nightdt; I dakes mind pipe der mantel off, Und by der fireside pright…
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When the s.s. Victoria arrived in port on Monday afternoon from the North Territory it was discovered that a serious robbery of gold, sent…
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The following is from Mr Lamont Young's official report on the country between Parkes and Cobar, including the copper deposits at Mount Hope, Nimagee, Cobar, and West…
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A general meeting of the company took place at Mr Sabine's Hotel, on Thursday. Present: Messrs. F. W. Reed (in the chair) Witcombe, Lakeman, Johns, Sly, Andrew, holding…
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WE are glad to learn that the question of the departure of stock will very soon be set at rest by the proclamation of a temporary common at Temora…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Registrar's Report. Indigo Division. Mr. R. Arrowsmith, Mining-Surveyor and Registrar
QUARTZ mining has improved during the latter portion of the quarter, with an increasing yield of gold per ton. Another reef has been discovered near the Chiltern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Temora Mining Notes. (Temora Herald, September 15.)
Several finds of nuggetty gold have been unearthed in the course, of last week. Bowes and party’s claim, at Lower Temora, is again to the fore with several pieces, and Adams and party’s…
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The industry of gold mining, to the prosecution and development of which the astonishing progress made by the colony way be primarily ascribed, is still in a flourishing condition. But the old…
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