The Northern Gold Fields. the Rocky River
A MEETING of tbe Phoenix Company was held on Friday last, at the school room. Mr. Coleby was called to the chair, and explained the object of the meeting—to…
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Mining & the mines, 1865
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The Reduction of Gold Sulphurets
ONE of the chief problems of mining in California has been, and still is, the reduction of "gold sulphurets"—as auriferous quartz containing a sulpburet of iron or…
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As the Phoenix Company's works are nearly completed, together with the erection of the horse whim over the deep shaft at the head of Sawpit Gully, speculative enquiry begins…
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FROM Friday to Monday last the weather here was most disagreeable—cold, damp, and showery, yet hardly wet enough to make those miners hopeful who principally…
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THE prospecting abaft at the bead of Sawpit Gully having erected their horse-whim will renew underground operations in a few days. Many here are very sanguine that…
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SINCE the commencement of the present year an addition has been made to our mining population, and, from letters received asking for information respecting the…
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ON Monday last Mr. Surveyor Greaves marked the base line in a N.W. direction from Morrow & Co.'s prospecting shaft at the head of Sawpit G[?]y. The lead was…
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ONE excuse for retaining the gold duty, when the desirability of its abolition has been mooted, has been the extra expenses attendant on the gold fields. Whatever…
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OWOMG to the continued dry weather, there is but little gold obtained here as present, although in many claims washing stuff is being accumulated as actively as ever. At…
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A meeting of the Phoenix [?]ing Company was held on Monday evaning Mr. M'Leod, on being called to the chain said that the meeting was convened) to consider…
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In the Parliamentary news appears a notice of motion from the member for the Gold Fields North respecting an alleged monopoly of the only water available for…
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The continued dry weather causes a scarcity of cash, and consequently the dultiess always engendered by such a cause affects both miners and storekeepers. Even the…
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On Wednesday two incipient bushrangers were brought up, before Messrs. C. W. Marsh and W. Clegborn, J.P.'e, at the court house, Uralla. It appeared, from the…
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OWING to the continued dry weather the Wiggings are very dull, very little money Istirring, and no prospect of any improvement until water becomes abundant. It is…
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"In the midst of life we are in death," This aphorism was painfully illustrated here on Saturday evening last. Mr. Cain, a resident on Kentucky Creek, accompanied…
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THE miners and all interested in the success of our gold fields must feel indebted to the Express' for the very able leader on the neglect of so important an interest by the…
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THE directors of the Phoenix Mining Company have prepared an abstract of their assets and liabilities for publication. It will be seen that the amount raised by sale of…
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VERY shortly after the discovery of Mount Jones public attention was directed to a hill a few miles down the river from Maitland Point. Rumour spoke of it as being highly…
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DISTANT as we are from the Glanmire gold field, the attraction has been sufficiently strong to draw some miners from this field to it. At best the inducements are not…
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The Pioneer Claim party, Tipperary Gully, are still in very hard rock, but from the depth sunk are in daily expectation of seeing the last of it. So far the water has not…
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