The Geelong Gold Cup
MR. E. DE MESTRE'S horse Gudarz won the Geelong Gold Cup last Thursday. The event is thus reported in the Herald:— GOLD CUP…
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Mining & the mines, 1883
18 stories in South Coast's papers
Essayist GOLD
We understand better than the ancients the cause of what has been aptly termed, the hunger for gold. It is not a mere lust for wealth, a passionate avarice, a heartless…
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THE Melbourne Argus gives the following particulars, from Adelaide, of the discovery of two more of the gold ingots stolen from the Tararua. Some days ago one was take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Power of Coal
The enormous amount of power stored up in coal is thus set forth by Professor Rogers: The dynamic value of one pound of good steam, coal is equivalent to the work of a day,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gympic Mining News
Nos 3 and 4, North Glaumire have declared a dividend of 2d. The crushing during the past fortnight averaged 1oz 2dwt per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Delegate
IN a recent trip which I took to the Delegate country, I was much impressed with the facility with which a mining excitement could be worked up in a district…
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WE (Herald) are indebted to the Minister for Mines for the following report of Mr. E. F. Pittman, geological surveyor, on tho Yalwal goldfield:— "The Geological Surveyor in charge,…
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NEW SOUTH WALES, as was meet, was the first of the Australias to employ a mineral surveyor, afterwards a geological surveyor, and then (not including the vast temporary services of the late…
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MR. OwEN OWENS, an ols Corrina digger, who, with a number of others, (says the Tasmanian Mail of the 21st ult), was induced by the glowing reports appearing in the victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Lady Miners
IN Como District, Nevada, is a mining claim which was located several months ago by the Ely sisters, aged 16 and 14 years, and named Woodbine and Daffodil. These young ladies,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albert Goldfields
THE following police report respecting the Albert Goldfields has been received from Milparinka by the Inspector-General of Police and forwarded to the Secretary for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Science. Electricity in Gold Mining
AMONG other uses to which electrical currents are applied, the purification of mercury seems to be likely to take a very important place; a place so important, indeed, that the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yalwal Gold-Fields
We are in receipt of the following intelligence, dated 23rd October:— The weather here for some time past has been thick and henry, but no rain to speak of fell until…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Abundance of Gold
THE future supply of gold, even for coinage purposes, is beginning to be one of more than common interest. Ancient history is resplendent with the prodigal display of gold by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Fields of the Colony
ON Wednesday evening, 1st ult., Mr. D. Ritchine delivered in connection with the Technical college, in the large hall, the eleventh of his course of lectures, the subject being the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold from Peruvian Rivers
THE whole of the Chucamba (Peru), says a correspondent in Iron, for a number of leagues above and below tho Temple of the Sun, is auriferous, and the inhabitants of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Science. On the Physical Conditions Under Which Coal was Formed
THE made of formation of coal has been much discussed, and various theories have been promulgated in regard to it; but the peat bog theory, as it is called, has been…
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AMONG other uses to which electrical currents are applied, the purification of mercury seems to be likely to lake a very important place; a place so important, indeed, that the subject…
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