The South African Goldfields
PASTOR BRINCKER, a missionary, writing from Otyimbingue, states that five gold diggers had arrived there from Australia in the preceding month in search of gold…
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Mining & the mines, 1888
45 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 3
Fairfield Silver Mines
THE following account of the above appeared in the S. M. Herald of the 17th inst., furnished by a social reporter of that journal, who visited the mine the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boonoo Mines
A correspondent of the Brisbane Courier recently wrote as follows concerning this field:—I visited the late silver find at the Eight-mile, and found every…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First Use of Gold
THE most interesting question about gold is: How did it come to be the root of all evil? What has made this particular yellow metal, above all stones and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mass Meeting of Miners
A MASS meeting of miners was held at Croydon, on Saturday, January 21st, to inaugurate the Croydon Branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fairfield Silver Mines
CONSIDERABLE attention has been diverted to the silver mines recently discovered at White Rock, near Fairfield Through the courtesy of Mr. J. U. Munro (who paid a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Nambucea Mining Boom
IN the early part of last week several gentlemen proceeded from Kempsey to the scene of the newly reported gold and silver discovery at Piggott's Hill, Deep Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kimberly Goldfield
A SENSATION has been caused in mining circles at Melbourne by the receipt of reports from the mining manager of Jackson's Beef Goldmine, Hale's Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An old Goldfield
EVERYONE in Australia has probably heard of the great Hargreaves goldfield in the Mudgee constituency. Till quite recently it was only a ghost of its former self…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enormous Yield of Gold
ABOUT sixteen years ago, on a small hill about three miles from the place where Ironbarks railway station now stands, some tremendous rinds of gold were made. On…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Visit to Fairfield and the White Rock Silver Mine
THE following account has been furnished us by a gentleman resident in Coraki, who recently paid a visit to the above locality, and we are sure it will be read with interest:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The White Rock Mine
IN his last report the manager of the White Rock Proprietary Silver-mining Company, Limited, Fairfield, says:—All ground opened within a distance of 500ft. along…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deep Mines of Bendigo
THE New chum and Victoria Mine,situated on the Vicotia Hill,and embracing leaseholds through which both the New Chum and Victoria reefs trend,had earned for itself the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Quartz Mining
THE Deep Creek gold and mineral field is distant about 4 miles north of Deep Creek, using 9 miles from Nambucca Heads and 6 miles from Bellinger Heads or distant from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What Silver Mining Does
IN reviewing the progress, or rather the creation, of a large mining town in the Barrier Ranges,it is not unworthy of consideration to estimate the enormous amount…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Use of Coal Ashes
WHAT Triticum says about coal ashes benefiting soils, whether heavy or light, and the importance he attaches to the mechanical texture of the soil, is all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What Silver Mining Does
IN reviewing the progress, or rather the creation, of a large mining town in the Barrier Ranges, it is not unworthy of consideration to estimate the enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Croydon Goldfields
IT is very strange the effect gold has on mankind in general, and, I think, more especially on the venturous Australian. No sooner is there the slightest inkling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lady Mining Speculator
THE writer of English Gossip in the " S. M. Herald " says;-Miss Cornwell, the Australian heroine of the London Stock Exchange— " Princess Midas," as she is called…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Gold Fields. To the Editor of the " Northern Star."
SIR,— I see by your issue of the 24th instant, your Brunswick River correspondent states, in commenting upon the gold fields at Peter's Grass,—" That the prospectors are…
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