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New England · Mining & the mines
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ON Wednesday and Thursday last the eleventh Annual Show under the management of the local Association eventuated on the show ground, and attracted an assemblage of about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CRICKET MATCH.—We had a cricket match at Hillgrove, the other day, and great credit is doe to the Ironclads for the way they came to the post. They arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ACCEPTING the generous invite of Mr. F. Wade, upon the occasion of the opening of his commodious hotel at Hillgrove Mines, appropriately named the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is now over three years since payable silver ores were discovered at Rye's Creek, but until the present " boom" gave an impetus to this class of mining, little or no capital was brought to bear on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE geological features of the Hillgrove district consist of a highly metamorphic slate, which is almost surrounded by a felspatic granite. The district has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. C. E. S. King, mineralogist and geologist, furnishes us with the following report of the Boorolong mines:—The line of lodes (nine in number, and varying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE was a large attendance at the Hillgrove Mines, on Easter Monday, to witness the Athletic Sports. Every preparation had been made to receive visitors,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Premier not long since publicly expressed his opinion that the state of affairs in general was improving fast. We have yet to see the fulfilment of his prophecy in other branches, but in mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is very strange the effect gold has on mankind in general, and, I think, more especially on the venturous Australian. No sooner is their the slightest inkling of a gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister for Mines is considering whether a bill should be introduced to regulate the floating of mining companies…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The two Ministers, accompanied by Messrs. Dowel and Cook, Ms.L.A., and several leading residents of Armidale, went out to Hillgrove Mines on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barbertown! Two years ago a few prospectors had pitched tents here, and now it has all the settled appearance of a town. It contains 1500 houses of all descriptions,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is reported that there are signs of a great mining revival in New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Saturday evening the Minister for Mines received at the local public hall a deputation of about 200 miners, who were introduced by the Hon. J. Inglis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE is a singular superstition in the mining districts of America that the discoverers of hidden treasure in the bowels of the earth are sure to meet with a violent end. Many instances are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILLIAMS and party are now engaged cutting down their shaft, and when they commence to operate upon their lode in depth I expect great things from this claim…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During the year 1886, thirteen hundred miners of Mitchell and Silverton, with the assistance of ninety thousand pounds worth of machinery, produced silver and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following particulars are taken from the DAILY Telegraph, being furnished by their cor. who was then at Tenterfield:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE NINE-MILE TIN AND SILVER REEFS.--The following report from Mr. H. C. Allport will doubtless prove of interest to our readers :--Chapman's Reef, situated about two miles north from Brown's,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mining market to-day shows a steady decline all round…
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