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Mining & the mines, 1881

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, June 11.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 June 1881 · page 4

The result of the late rains is that there are 3 feet, and in some cases 3 feet 6 inches, in some' of the dams iu the Lower Lead, Lewis' of Middle Temora still having the best…

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Mining, &C. Temora

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 18 June 1881 · page 3

Before proceeding to details permit me to correct a few typographical errors in last week's issue. In the article "Mining Law Difficulties," for "scrupulous in its…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, June 15.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1881 · page 4

As carly as three o'clock on Saturday morning last an unwonted commotion might have been observed in the streets, and the vicinity of the township. Long lines of men were…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, June 18.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1881 · page 4

THE late rains have given a little water in the puddlers' dams, but the amount is so small that it is hardly worth mentioning. Cook and Deutscher, Lower Town, have something…

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Mining. &C. Temora

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 June 1881 · page 6

TEMORA at present looks very queer by day and is intensely disagreeable at night. Dust has given place to mud, and the latter, though long desired, does not appear to be…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, June 22.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 June 1881 · page 4

IT would be folly to say that the rain which has fallen since Saturdays issue had been of no benefit, for a little more of this much-needed element has been added to the small…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, June 25.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1881 · page 4

PERRARS the most encouding news in connection wit alluvial mining is the newlydiscovred run at the Hidden Treasure. The run promises to be of an ample width, and…

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Mining, &C. Temora, Monday. MISCELLANEOUS

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 2 July 1881 · page 3

THERE has been a great change during the past week. Now the nights are frosty, and the days are comparative warm. Most of the puddlers have stopped for the want of…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, June 29.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1881 · page 4

New arrivals are now attracted by the various rushes, and the credulous are kept continually running towards all points of the compass. In most cases a fow grains are…

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Gold From Pyrites

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1881 · page 3

Mr. N. Bartley a well-known authority upon mineral matters, has written the following letter to the Brisbane Courier concerning the treatment of pyrites by the processes to which he…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, July 2.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1881 · page 4

From the various rushes there is nothing of importance; as to the old workings there are no startling finds to report. Nugent and Adams are still working upon…

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The Albert Goldfields. Wilcannia

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1881 · page 2

Accounts from the Mount Browne and other diggings continue to bo good. No diggers are returning except one or two through illness. Gold has been found in one…

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Mining, &C. Temora, Wednesday. Water Shafts

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 9 July 1881 · page 6

Water shafts may be said to be the rage at present upon Temora, for nearly every person you meet either possesses a share or is about to won one in some water company…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, July 6.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1881 · page 2

In the upper lead, above the surface workings, there are a number of good claims, but during the past week nothing sensational has been reported. Gilmartin's, Ford's and the…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, July 9.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1881 · page 3

The most singular affair in alluvial mining is the discovery of wash containing colours of gold below the ordinary bottom, and at a depth of 250ft. This is in the Temora Belief…

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The First Piano in a Mining - Camp

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1881 · page 4

IN 1853 - it might have been five years earlier or later, this is not history for the public schools - there was a little camp about ten miles from Pioche, occupied upwards of 300…

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Mining, &C. Temora, Monday. Perjury in the Police Court

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 16 July 1881 · page 6

THAT perjury is increasing can hardly be doubted by anyone who either attends the police court or reads its records in the public prints. There have been cases here of men…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Start, July 16.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1881 · page 4

FOR the information of those who may reside at a distance from Temora, it way be remarked that at present we have not a single puddling machine at work, except some three…

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Mining &C. Temora, Monday. ERRATA

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 23 July 1881 · page 6

In last week's issue "6000 loads" at Tynan's prospecting claim appeared instead of "600;" and 2oz. of gold from "21 buckets" at Gilmartin's, upper lead, read "2 buckets."…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, July 27.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 July 1881 · page 1

The alluvial workings above the surface, Upper Lead, continue to attract attention. In fact, so far as can be judged by puddlings and pickings out up to the present; several…

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