Mining Notes
Under date of March 31, the manager of the Horse Creek Ti[?]mining Company reports :— “Since January have traced from the alluvial on terrace to the surface on the side of the hill…
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The Gold Yield of the World
Mr Buchard, director of the United States. Mint, has issued an annual report on the operations of the mint, and assay offices, which contains many [?] of interest, among the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quartz-mining Prospects
IT is not an unfrequent thing for pieces of quartz, metal to be picked up in the streets of Corowa containing fine rubbly gold, and although all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Mining Accident at Eaglehawk
A fearful accident, causing widespread dismay and consternation, occurred at the Ellenborough Company's mine, Eaglehawk, last Monday evening at 6 o'clock, resulting in the…
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What promises to be a very valuable discovery has been made within the past few day at the Black Range gold field. For a considerable period Mr. Devene, of the Racing Club…
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Some few week age we (Advertiser) alluded to the probability of a mining expert arriving in Wagga Wagga to ascertain the extent, as near as possible, of the mineral wealth of the…
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Mr. William Lindeno, an Australian digger who has just returned from the Boer diggings, in Africa, wishes to warn miners against going to these gold fields. He says that on entering…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Gold-digger’s Will
A London paper reports that a curious will case has been decided in the probate division of the High Court of Justice. An Australian gold-digger named James…
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The appetite for gold seems to grow with what it feeds upon. Fifty years ago the quantity produced was very much smaller than it is now, and yet the world got on…
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On Tuesday (says the Rheola correspondent of the Dunolly Express) a digger named Simon Stephens was trying a few dishes of surface at the head of Sawpit Gully, near Kingower, and…
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A terrible accident, which has caused the death of two miners, named respectively Joseph Noble, aged about 45 years, a married man living at Sailor's Gully, who leaves a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Young Lady Miners
IN Come District, Nevada, is a mining claim which was located several months ago by the Ely sisters, aged 16 and 14 years, and named Woodbine and Daffodil. These young ladies,…
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It was told to me in a shanty, Over a glass of grog ; And the smoke was settling around us As thick as a London fog…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Granya Mining Mems
The Granya Company, no Liability, crushed a trial lot of atone some time back, which yielded 13dwts. to the ton, from a fair-sized reef; but the tailings giving 20 per cent. of…
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The manager reports as follows :— MITTA MITTA COMPANY, No LIABILITY.—The tunnel is now in 310 feet, and a [?]ise to connect the shaft (a distance of 25 feet) commenced, but…
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MOUNTAIN GIFT Q.M. Co., Mitta Mitta.— After passing through a hard bar of sandstone in the tunnel, struck a quartz lode 3ft thick, carrying apparently a regular wall. The quartz…
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So[?] MASCOTTE COMPANY.—The managers report:—The directors have appointed Mr. Thos. Dunstan, from Walhalla, as mining manager, who left for the mine on Friday last, taking tools…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Transvaal Goldfields
The Transvaal [?]olksstem, discussing recently the proposed development of goldmining in that country, has the following remarks which may be interesting :—“ It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mail Communication with the Dart River Goldfield
Mr. Thos. Easton, of Omeo, addressed the following letter to Monday’s Argus :— “In view of the department establishing a mail communication to the Dart River,…
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The manager’s report :— NORMANDY COMPANY, Dart River.—Main shaft down 8 feet. Reef in bottom of shaft from 18 inches to 2 feet wide, showing gold…
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