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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1851

788 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 40

Mining Intelligence. Turon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 November 1851 · page 3

NEALE'S POINT, OCTOBER 30.—News has been very slack with me for the last few days, which has been the cause of my missing a couple of posts. On Monday night it rained heavily,…

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The Victoria Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 November 1851 · page 3

THE Melbourne and Geelong papers received by yesterday's overland mail contain very little news in respect to the progress of the gold seekers. Seventy persons had arrived at…

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The Turon Gold Fields. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Wednesday 5 November 1851 · page 3

SIR—My attention having been drawn to a paragraph in your paper of the 17th October instant, headed as above, in which you state that Mr. Morris Lee's claim on Munday Point was…

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The Gold Mines. the Southern Gold Field. (From our own Correspondent.)

Empire · Thursday 6 November 1851 · page 3

In my last communication I stated that some small nuggets of gold had been found near Goulburn, at a place called the Run of Water, and that a party was about to proceed on the…

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Evils of the Gold Discovery

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 November 1851 · page 8

WHATEVER advantages might have been expected to accrue in a monetary, commercial or statistical, point of view, from the discovery that this was an auriferous region…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Arraluen

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 November 1851 · page 11

A considerable, quantity of gold has been procured during the last week, I think a larger quantity than has been procured during any previous week since the diggings were spened. The number…

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News by Express From the Gold Fields. Thursday Mornind, 3 o'clock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 November 1851 · page 3

THE following items of news arrived this morning by express. The mail reached Penrith last night at 9 o'clock. Of gold, there were three boxes, and some…

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The Prospects of the Stockholders in Connexion with the Gold Discovery, (From our Special Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 November 1851 · page 2

WHEN the Gold discovery was made at Bathurst it fell like a thunderbolt upon the stockholders; they looked upon their ruin as certain, and many towns-people gloried in the promised…

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The Gold Mines. (No.2.—From our Special Reporter.) Turn River, November3

Empire · Friday 7 November 1851 · page 2

The weather during the past week has been wet and boisterous. A succession of thunderstorms, high winds from the westward, driving showers both night…

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America. Gold in the Islands of the Pacific. (From the Alta California, August 18.)

Empire · Friday 7 November 1851 · page 4

The last news from Sydney has confirmed the reports h[?]retofore received of the discovery of very considerable deposits of gold in the island of New Holland, upon…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, November 7, 1851. "Sworn to no Matter, of no Sect am 1." How Will the Gold Affect Our Supplies of Labour?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 November 1851 · page 2

IT was a general impression, during the first few weeks after the discovery of our gold-field? that one of the consequences of that, discovery would be, such an influx…

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Gold Circulars

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 324

A large number of Diggers left town per Shamrock steamer on Saturday last, with the intention of landing at Broulee, and proceeding from thence to the Araluen and Braidwood Diggings. Our intelligence…

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Mining Intelligence

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 5

THE news from the Ballarat has not been so exciting during the past week, although a larger quantity of gold has arrived in Melbourne than any previous week. "A great number have returned disappointed, and it is reported that hundreds are…

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The Victoria Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

MOUNT ALEXANDER DIGGINGS.—The reports from t hese diggings yesterday are r fe with gold found in large quantities. The following are extracts from two letters dated Kyneton, 23rd…

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The Southern Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 1

The following memoranda, extracted from the " Goulburn Herald;" evidently show that these auriferous fields are progressing slowly; and although they…

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Mining Intelligence. Turon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 8

NEALE's POINT, NOVEMBER 5.—During Saturday and Sunday last, we had very cold, wet, tempestuous weather, which rendered a residence in a frail tent on the Turon ridges…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Arraluen

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 5

A considerable quantity of gold has been procured daring the last week, I think a larger quantity than has been procured during any previous week since the diggings were opened. The number of diggers is daily increasing. There are many fresh arrivals from…

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Ninety Three Pounds Weight of Gold

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 5

We copy the following extraordinary account from the Herald; of Thursday last. We made inquiries at Messrs. Symons and Perry's, and ascertained that it was in every respect correct. THE LARGEST "FIND" OF GOLD -- Was yesterday brought into…

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