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Mining & the mines, 1880

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Yalwal Gold-fields

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1880 · page 2

MINING matters at Yalwal within the past month have been more encouraging to those engaged in the mining industry at that place, than its prospects had been for some years…

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Coal and Iron Trade in 1879

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1880 · page 4

AT the present time, when attention is being specially directed in our columns to iron manufacturing, the following resume of the coal and iron trade of the old world during…

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Yalwal Gold Field

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 18 March 1880 · page 2

WE reprint, below, the observations of the eminent deceased geologist, the Rev. W. B. Clark, on the Yalwal and other auriferous country in the Southern Gold-field districts. It will be…

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Original Correspondence. Yalwal Gold Mining Co., better known as the Pinacle. to the Editor of the Telegraph

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 15 April 1880 · page 2

SIR,—Seeing in your issue of the 8th, a paragraph concerning the above mine, I have thought it might be interesting to give a short sketch, of its history…

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Extraordinary Yield of Gold by Denny & Roberts' new Mechanical Process

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1880 · page 2

IT has always been understood that gold associated with pyrites was held in chemical union, and that therefore the metal could not be liberated except by first roasting it. It is well…

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Yalwal Gold-fields

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 6 May 1880 · page 2

AFTER leaving Nerriga gold-fields, as mentioned in another article, I proceeded to Yalwal by way of the Sassafrass or Turpentine Road, and Smith's Gap. The space at my disposal in…

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Nerriga Gold-fields

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 6 May 1880 · page 2

THE heading seems rather figurative, old miners of the upper Shoalhaven will be rather inclined to say. Some fifteen to tenty years ago, however, the locality above mentioned was the…

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Original Contribution. "Lagar Beer into Mine Front."

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1880 · page 2

As I vos on mine vay do Hoot's pooblig ouse der oter nights, Misder Aditor, I did heer zooch aw row an argumend , I zupposo, dey vill call it. Vone shentlemands he vas declaring dot he vill…

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Discovery of the Barrington Gold Field

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 3 June 1880 · page 4

THE following is the report of the select committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed on the 11th November, 1879, to inquire into and report upon the claims for a reward for…

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Original Correspondence. the Mining Law. to the Editor of the Mail

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 3 June 1880 · page 4

SIR,—At a public meeting held on the 15th instant at Copeland North, to consider the Gold-mining Law of this colony, the following resolutions were submitted and carried…

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Miscellaneous. a Year's Product of Gold and Silver

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1880 · page 4

The annual report of the Director of the United States Mint states the production of the precious metals in the United States in 1879 was considerably less than that of the…

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Mining News

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 8 July 1880 · page 2

A nugget worth £500 has been found by a chinamen at the Margaret River rush, S. A. The gold field at Copeland North bears a very healthy appearance…

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Science. Facts About Gold

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 8 July 1880 · page 2

IN a recent lecture on gold, Professor Egleston, of the School of Minos of Columbia College, remarked that it was formerly supposed that gold was to be found only in or…

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Wool, Cattle, and Coal, Tax Bill

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 8 July 1880 · page 4

ON the 1st instant a bill founded on the resolutions of committee of Ways and Means, imposing export taxes on wool, coal and shale, and a tax on horses and cattle, was introduced…

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The Temora Gold-Field. Temora

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 29 July 1880 · page 2

On Saturday [?]ight a meeting will be held at Temora, to petition the Government to establish[?] a public reservoir. The Government township was surveyed about seven weeks ago, and quite…

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The Temora Goldfield. COOTAMUNDRA

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 29 July 1880 · page 2

DURING the past day or two nothing in the shape of Mining discoveries has occurred worth reporting from Temora There are now fully thirty claims on payable gold,…

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Science. Lighting Mines by Reflectors

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1880 · page 2

MR. J. C. MAXWELL contributes an interesting letter to the Scientific America on lighting mines by the aid of a common looking-glass. He says:—"An important…

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The Temora Gold-fields

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1880 · page 4

WE take the following report from the Temora Telegraph of Saturday, August 21:—Bourke and party No. 1 on the Squatter," in blocking out on Thursday…

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Yaiwal Gold Field

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 16 September 1880 · page 4

FROM the annual report of the Department of Mines for the year 1879, just issued from the Government Printing office, we clip the following report, of the Mining Registrar W…

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Mine Schildhood

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1880 · page 2

DER schiltren dhey van poot in ped, All tucked cup for der nighdt; I dakes mine pipe der mantel off, Und by der fireside pright…

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