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Mining & the mines, 1881

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, October 5.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 October 1881 · page 3

Again a very quiet week, unmarked by any noteworthy event, has to be recorded. Messrs. Cotterell and Williams (the latter the expert in mining matters spoken of in…

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Mining Memoranda. Alluvial

The Temora Star · Wednesday 12 October 1881 · page 3

No finds of any particular importance have been reported since our last issue, but the washdirt going through the various machines is yielding on the whole very satisfactory…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, October 8.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 October 1881 · page 4

DULNESS still reigns paramount in mining, and the only noteworthy event for the past week is the discovery of a fresh patch of good auriferous dirt by Buckley and party,…

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New Gold Field

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 1

In pursuance of the provisions of the Mining Act of 1874, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby proclaim that the following shall be deemed a…

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Mining Reserve

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 2

In pursuance of the provisions of the Mining Act of 1874, it is proclaimed that the following shall he deemed a goldfield within the meaning and for the purposes of…

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Mining Memoranda. Alluvial

The Temora Star · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 2

FORD and party at Upper Temora have a fine body of wash, 3 ft. in thickness and of great width, which gives good and regular prospects with occasional heavy bits. In…

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The Temora Gazetteer. Mining Department

The Temora Star · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 4

Warden: Chas. De Boos. Warden's Clerk: R. Zouch. Mining Registrar: H. Margules. Mining Surveyor: W. Na[?]…

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Mount Browne Goldfield

The Temora Star · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 4

REFERRING to the Mount Browne goldfield the Sydney Echo says:—The land which Sturt regarded as a desert is now a goldfield, thickly populated by…

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Mining Memoranda. Alluvial

The Temora Star · Wednesday 19 October 1881 · page 3

IN local mining nothing of any importance has transpired, except the discovery recently made in Bourke and party's No. 1 on the Squatter's, that in taking out from 7 to 8 ft…

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Mining Items. Copeland

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 20 October 1881 · page 3

No. 1 East Mountain Maid have cleared up 60 tons at the Criterion machine for 200oz. No. 1 North Hidden Treasure have exhibited some splendid quartz obtained in sinking the…

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Mining Memoranda

The Temora Star · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 3

Some months ago Mr. W.H.J. Slee, then Inspector of Mines, predicted that although the large reefs of Temora did not promise very favourable results on the surface, small…

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Temora News. Large Find of Gold at Temora

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 3

OUR representative in Temora hinted in Wednesday's issue that an important discovery had been made; but he declined to give particulars till further informed about…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, October 19.) ALLUVIAL

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 4

In local mining nothing of any importance has transpired, except the discovery recently made in Bourke and party's No. 1 on the Squatter's, that in taking out from 7 to 8ft…

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Mining Memoranda. (Temora Star, October 22.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 25 October 1881 · page 2

HOME months ago Mr. W. H. J. S[?]e, then inspector of Mines, predicted that although the largo reefs of Temora did not promiso very favourable results on the surface, small…

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The Future of Gold

The Temora Star · Wednesday 26 October 1881 · page 4

The New York Times calculates from some statistics in its possession that at the rate at which dentistry is proceeding in America the whole of the gold…

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Mining Memoranda. the Reefs

The Temora Star · Wednesday 26 October 1881 · page 3

IN Penman and Nixon's claim, from which as our readers are aware the magnificent specimens were obtained last week, the shareholders are sinking their shaft in order to…

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Mining Memoranda. the Reefs

The Temora Star · Saturday 29 October 1881 · page 2

EARLY on Thursday morning last tho town was once more thrown into a fever of excitement by the news that further rich discoveries had been made at Upper Temora,…

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Geological Report on the Temora Goldfield

The Temora Star · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 3

THE following report on the geological features presented by the Temora goldfield has been published in the Metropolitan Press. It is from the pen of Mr C. S. Wilkinson,…

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Mining Items. Carcoar

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 3 November 1881 · page 2

The representative of the Austral[?]sian Gold-mining Company, under the management of Messrs. Lyell and Gowan, of Melbourne, arrired yesterday to complete the…

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Mining Memoranda

The Temora Star · Saturday 5 November 1881 · page 3

ALL the interest of the past week centres in the process known to the mining community as "jumping." Thanks to the beneficial laws which regulate mining affairs in this…

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