Mining
Since the recent crushings at Tambaroora, a change has come over the. dreams of, Sydney speculators, and for the time nothing will go down but gold. A few returns below par…
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Mining & the mines, 1872
163 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 9
Mining
Since the recent crushings at Tambaroora, a change has come over the dreams of Sydney speculators, and for the time nothing will go clown but gold. A few returns below par…
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A correspondent writes us as fo'Jows :-As a gold-miner, I find I have a few unoccupied evenings during the week, and I have just thought I might improve the opportunity thus afforded, by giving you a few unpublished particulars respecting Maitland Bar. I need scarcely inform you that it is on the Meroo River, and that the Meroo was one of the richest of alluvial fields in those good old…
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Coal at thirty-four shillings a ton in the height of summer. It is impoitalble to exaggerate the signincanoe of this fact. A rise of six shillings in a fortnight, and proportionately on all the inferior qualities, warns us that, as the season wanes, and autumn precedes winter, we shall have something approaching to a fireside famine-the bitterest affliction, save one, .that can befal the poor. For, let bread be scarce, let clothing be dear, let employment be skck, the bit of fire in the grate, ?whentheeast wind or snow is outside, constitutes a last orainb of comfort for the wretched, fiat, in looking at this subject, it will not do…
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FULFONG.—The guardian of Saturday reports :—The escort left on Thursday, conveying 4400 ozs. 9 dwts. 17 grs., as the produce of the gold-field for the previous…
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A correspondent writes us as follows:—As a gold-miner, I find I have a few unoccupied evenings during, the week, and I have just thought I might improve the opportunity thus…
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A meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on Tuesday evening, at Mr. W. Harris,' the Co-operative Hotel, Wallsend. Mr. W. Perry occupied tho chair…
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The total receipts of gold per escort, for the past eight months of the present year, Amounted to 240,930 ounces, as against 171,261 ounces for the corresponding portion…
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The Evening News, of the 10th instant reports that a trial crushing of stone from the Beehive Gold-Mining Company, Maitland Bar, Avisford, has given a return of 2 oz. 12 dwts. 10…
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The following is the official report on the above gold-field, from Mr. F. M. Charters, gold commissioner, published in the Brisbane journals:—"The portions of the gold-fields…
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The following is the official report on the above gold-field, from Mr. F. M. Charters, gold commissioner, published in the Brisbane journals:—"The portions of the gold-fields…
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BLOOM OF AUSTRALIA.—We have just been informed that the prospects of this mine are of a more cheering nature. The deposits of tin are increasing in richness as the shaft is being sunk,…
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THE announcement that it is the intention of the Government to ask Parliament, next session, to create a Minister of Mines, cannot fail to give general satisfaction. The…
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The following notice appears in the Government Gazette, published on September 13th:— MINERAL LEASES.—His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council,…
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QUARTZ FROM BOWLING ALLEY POINT.— Mr. James Lindsay, brother to Mr. R. Lindsay, of West Maitland, yesterday showed us some handsome specimens of quartz from the…
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The following notice appears in the Government Gazette, published on September 13th:— MINERAL LEASES.—His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mouth Australian Coal Company
The half-yearly ordinary general meeting of this Company was held at their office, 71, King William-street, on Monday, September 2nd. Present: Thirteen shareholders;…
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News from England of a full in the value of copper had a prejudicial effect on Peak Downs shares this morning, which, after selling at 6 1/4 and 6, were offered at 5 3/4. Cowflat…
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On Monday evening, a more active tone than we have had to report for some days was perceptible in the share market. The demand for gold companies was much better, and for…
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The news of an advance in the price of coal, in England, combined with the strike of the English colliers, has had a beneficial effect upon the foreign coal markets generally, and…
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