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Mining & the mines, 1851

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Port Pillips. the Pyrenees Gold Field

Empire · Wednesday 6 August 1851 · page 3

Mr. Henri J. Hart, the indefatigable honorary secretary of the Melbourne Gold Committee, is in receipt of the subjoined highly interesting communication, containing further and more explicit…

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Additional Gold Regulations. (From a Supplement to Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 August 1851 · page 2

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 5th August, 1851.—With reference to the Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor-General, bearing date the 22nd day of May last,…

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Half-yearly Mining Meeting. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 August 1851 · page 3

ON Thursday, 31st ultimo, the half-yearly meeting of the Bathurst Copper Mining Company took place, in pursuance of advertisement, at Mr. Arthur's Inn. Dr. Machattic…

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The Victorian Gold Fields. (From the Melbourne M. Herald July 20.)

Empire · Wednesday 6 August 1851 · page 3

It is somewhat singular that whilst each succeeding mail from the interior conveys to Melbourne additional information of gold discoveries; whilst fresh specimeus are daily finding their…

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Interior. Batrurst. (From the Free Press, August 2.) Half Yearly Mining Meeting

Empire · Wednesday 6 August 1851 · page 2

On Thursday last the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Bathurst Copper Mining Company took place, in pursuance of advertisement, at Mr. Arthur's Inn. Dr. M'Hattle having…

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Mining Intelligence. Gold News

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 August 1851 · page 1

As as we are publishing a Supplement this morning on account of the English news, we give the Mining Intelligence from the Bathurst Free Press…

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A Glut of Gold

Empire · Thursday 7 August 1851 · page 2

THE very able article on gold mines, which wc copy into our columns from the last number of the North British Review that has come to hand, is well deserving of the…

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The New Government Manual for Gold Seekers

Empire · Thursday 7 August 1851 · page 2

IN another, column will be found a further manifesttofrom the colonial bureau on the subject of the precious metal, which we re-publish from a supplement to the…

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The Reverend John West and the Bathurst Gold Diggers

Empire · Thursday 7 August 1851 · page 2

THE Launceston Examiner, of the 26th of July, reports a speech delivered by the Rev. John West, at an Anti-transportation banquet recently given to the Delegates,…

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The Question of Gold. (From the North British Review.)

Empire · Thursday 7 August 1851 · page 4

If there are now any disciples of those ancient schools of philosophy, which taught dint mundano affairs are destined to recur in continually repeated cycles, they might,…

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Additional Gold Regulations. (From a Supplement to Tuesday's Government Gazette.)

Empire · Thursday 7 August 1851 · page 3

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 5th August, 1851.—With reference to the Proclamation of his Excellency the Governor-General, bearing date the 22nd day of May last, and to the…

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THE Sydney Morning [?]eraid. Thursday, August 7, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Progress of Gold Discovery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 August 1851 · page 2

CAPTAIN ERSKINE, of H. M. S. Havannah, has just returned from a trip to Ophir and the Turon, which famous locales he was desirous to visit…

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The Gold Mines

Empire · Friday 8 August 1851 · page 2

WE republish the postscript in our Second Edition of yesterday's issue. Thursday morning, ll o'clock. The intelligence from Bathurst this…

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The Gold News

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 August 1851 · page 2

COMMUNICATIONS respecting the discoveries of gold near Mudgee and at the Moruya will be found in another column. The specimens sent down from the…

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The Question of Gold. (From the North British Review

Empire · Friday 8 August 1851 · page 4

Gold has been extracted from the rocky matrix at five or six points; but these mines were found so much less productive than the washings, that they have all been…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondents.) Gold at the Moruya

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 August 1851 · page 3

WE have received the following copy of a letter addressed to the Colonial Secretary by two men, who have found gold along the banks of the Moruya. A highly respectable gentleman…

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Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 August 1851 · page 2

WE are almost tired of repeating the shocking cuckoo note of "gold." Week after week we furnish news of the Diggings, and no sooner does our broad…

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Gold

Empire · Saturday 9 August 1851 · page 3

Dust and "pepitas," p. oz., 3l. 6s. 6d. to 3l. 8s. MORT AND BROWN. Circular Quay, Sydney, August 9, 1851…

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Merchant Gold

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 August 1851 · page 1

Gold, rod gold, is a merchant old, And from manhood's dawn has bought and sold. In every country, and every chine. The products and trophies of workman Time…

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Value of Gold

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 August 1851 · page 2

To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal By an extract from the SUNDAY TIMES, of March 30th, which we have given in the first page, it will be seen that our predictions respecting, the depreciation in the value of gold have become verified,…

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