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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1851

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The Gold Mines

Empire · Monday 25 August 1851 · page 3

THE following was the postscript in our Second Edition of Saturday "publication. The gold, found on Mr. Wentworth's estate, was sent down to the…

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The Victoria Gold Fields. the Gold Discovery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 August 1851 · page 3

THE following proclamation was issued in a Supplement to the Government Gazette on Saturday, with reference to the search for gold which is now raging throughout the colony…

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American Extracts. Mining in North America. (From the New York Daily Tribune, April 14.)

Empire · Monday 25 August 1851 · page 4

The prospects of mining operations in this country were never more encouraging than at the present time. The discoveries of recent years and the successful…

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Gold

Empire · Tuesday 26 August 1851 · page 3

THE result of a sale of Californian gold dust in London has been communicated to us, which will be regarded with some interest by our readers. The gold was…

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Original Correspondence. Gold Circular. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Permit meto correct an assertion made by Mr. Lloyd, in your issue of Saturday last, which was to the effect that our native gold contains 10 per cent. of silver. I have…

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Gold

Empire · Wednesday 27 August 1851 · page 2

A CONSIDERABLE quantity of gold, at least £2000 worth, arrived through the Post. Office yesterday morning, chiefly, we believe, from the Turon. The following…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 August 1851 · page 2

THE weather of the past week has been very unfavourable for the gold diggers, and many of those, who, notwithstanding all the warnings to the contrary, have…

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Gold News. (From the Bathurst Free Prees.) the World's End Diggings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 August 1851 · page 3

THE information from the World's End is rather scanty as yet. The following particulars have been gathered from respectable sources…

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Original Correspondence. Clerical Attendance at the Gold Mines. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Since the commencement of the gold mania, I have received many urgent requests from my brethren in the ministry, and from others interested in the spiritual welfare…

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Copper Mines. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—I read your correspondent, A. B. C.'s letter in your paper of Saturday last, respecting the richness of the copper ores of this colony, and more particularly that of the…

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Gold at Liverpool. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 28 August 1851 · page 3

Some of our townspeople, who went out yesterday to the reputed gold regions, have returned, after exploring Harris and the Mill Creeks without any success. They met on the former six…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, August 28, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Statistics of Gold. Iii

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1851 · page 2

IN our last remarks on this subject, (see Herald of 22nd instant) we estimated the total gold annually produced at thirteen millions (exclusive of California), and the…

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Gold Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 August 1851 · page 4
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THE weather daring the past week has been very anfavourable for mining purposes, and many of the miners have been flooded out, the yield has therefore not been so productive as it would otherwise have…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Batherst Free Press.) the Worid's End Diggings

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 August 1851 · page 1

The information from the World's End is rather scanty as yet. The following particulars have been gathered from respeciable sources…

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Original Correspondence. Gold (P) Prospecting at Liverpool. To the Editors of Bell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 August 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN.—The inhabitants of this town were thrown into a state of comfortable excitement on Tuesday last, in consequence of its being reported that Captain Scott, assisted by…

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Origin of the Fire. (From the Mining Post, June 23.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 September 1851 · page 3

THE facts so far as they are known and we could gather them are substantially these: The fire originated in a two-story frame house, near the corner of Powell and Pacific streets,…

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Terrible Conflagration. (From the Mining Post, June 23.) Sixth Great Fire of San Francisco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 September 1851 · page 3

ANOTHER great conflagration has laid in ruins a large proportion of our city. At about the hour of eleven o'clock on yesterday morning, just as the church bells were…

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GOLD. (From the Goulburn Herald, August 30.)

Empire · Tuesday 2 September 1851 · page 3

Mr. J. J. Martyr, the surveyor, who retuaed to town yesterday from a visit to the Shoalhaven Gullies, informs us that Wallis's party have been getting an ounce of gold a-day since they set in…

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The Fine Arts. Angas's Views in the Gold Country."

Empire · Tuesday 2 September 1851 · page 2

It is with uncommon pleasure that we call, in our critical capacity, the attention of the readers of the Empire to this very elegant publication. The work consists…

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