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Mining & the mines, 1860

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Colonial Mining News. Northern Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 13 January 1860 · page 2

The last escort from this section of our gold fields deposited in the Royal Mint, Sydney 2595 ozs., [?] The yield seems steadily increasing, but the enormous…

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Western Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 13 January 1860 · page 2

From these gold fields it seems impossible to procure any amount of information; that contained in the local journals appears to have reference to everything beside gold. The…

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Southern Gold Field

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 13 January 1860 · page 2

The escort delivered as the result of the last fortnight labour, 1820 ozs., 3 dwts., 6 grs., a falling off which, by a perusal of the Braidwood papers, might be easily accounted…

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Local Mining News

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 13 January 1860 · page 4

The usual fortnightly escort left the Camp on Wednesday last,,.with 2093 ozs. 2 dwts. 14grs. gold,and £1485 in cash…

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Melbourne Mining News

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 13 January 1860 · page 2

From the Mining Journal we cull the [?] following facts, relative to deep sinking for ourtz reafs:-- DUNOLLY.-- Messrs. Bernou & Co. have…

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Colonial Mining News. Southern Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 27 January 1860 · page 2

We extract the following from the Braidwood Dispatch:-- A[?]LLUEN.--The late rain has caused more devastation to the various claims than could…

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Colonial Mining News

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 10 February 1860 · page 3

The Western, Southern, and Northern Escorts have arrived during the week from the several gold-fields, and have delivered at the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint the…

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The Snowy River Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 10 February 1860 · page 4

The migratory tendencies of the mining population have ever been the ruin of their class; their readiness to rush anywhere and any how, upon reports however vague of some…

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Select Poetry. Man to Man. "The Lump of Gold," by Charles Mackay

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 17 February 1860 · page 6

STAND up, man! stand! God's over all. Why do you cringe to me, Why do you bend the knee…

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Recovery of the Gold by Divers From the Wreck of the "Royal Charter."

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 17 February 1860 · page 3

It was not till the divers succeeded lifting the starboard side of the quarter of the ship off the spot-where it had fallen that they came to the gold. The…

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The Snowy River Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 24 February 1860 · page 5

On a close inspection of the various claims, I found that the majority of those in the creek, were held by the miners of Tumberumba, and others from the heads of the…

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Department of Land and Public Works, Sydney, 5th August, 1853. Gold Fields' Regulations

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 24 February 1860 · page 6

His Excellency the Governer-General, with the advice of the Executive C[?] has been pleased to establish the following Regulations, under the provisions of…

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Kiandra Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 2 March 1860 · page 5

The accounts from these gold fields continue still of a most satisfactory and encouraging character as regards the yield of the precious metal, and were it not for the…

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Local Mining News

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 2 March 1860 · page 4

The almost universal registration of claims leave us but little to report upon, as the month has expired for which they were first secured. We see one or two claims upon…

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Kiandra Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 9 March 1860 · page 5

This gold-field is doubtless the most auriferous in New South Wales, and I may safely add Victoria. The number of people daily arming is wonderful, but I fear their…

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Local Mining News

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 9 March 1860 · page 5

Now that the month's absence by virtue of the extraordinary registration system has expired, many parties are setting to work again in right good earnest, and…

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Select Tale. the Gold Seekers of Sacramento. Chapter I.

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 9 March 1860 · page 6

ON the 22nd off last May, I landed at New Orleans, having come from Vera Cruz to transact some commercial business. I went to the best boarding-house in the town, and…

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Kiandra Gold Fields

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 16 March 1860 · page 5

As I predicted some time ago that a good time would come for the miners here, that, the abundance of stores would soon reduce the high prices ruling, so it turns out…

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Victoria Mining News

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 16 March 1860 · page 3

A correspondence of an important character, upon the vital question of the duration and extent of the auriferous deposits of the colony, has just been printed…

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New South Wales Mining News

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 16 March 1860 · page 3

From the Braidwood Observer we extract the following:-- OUR DIGGINGS. --Upon our weekly visit we found, upon the whole, we were…

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