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Mining & the mines, 1851

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Goulburn Gold Fields. (From our own Currtupondent.) November 5th, 1851

Empire · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 2

Captain Rossi has, sinco my last communication boon industriously and most praiseworthily occupied in searching for Gold on his ground at tho Ruu of Water,…

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Ballarat Gold Fields. To the Editor of the Me bourne Morning Herald

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

SIR.—Mr Westgarth's estimate of the daily amount of gold collected at Ballarat would startle any one; and, looking at the influence Mr W 's apinion will have upon the destinies of…

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Original Correspondence. Prospecting for Gold. To the Editors of Bell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 3

Gentlemen,— Hearing so muck of the immense labour required in excavating before a claim is known to be wor h a farthing, and knowing that many of our friends up at the…

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The Gold Mines. (From our regular Correspondent.) Sofala, Thursday Morning, November 6, 1851

Empire · Monday 10 November 1851 · page 2

On Wednesday morning, the Lord Bishop of Sydney, who has been amongst us some days, laid the first post towards the crection of a church at Sofala. The…

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Mining Intelligence. Turon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 November 1851 · page 2

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 Gold Mines. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 11 November 1851 · page 3

Sir—Mr. Sizar Elliot "in a letter to the Editor" who, I presume, "thanked him duly by raturn of Post," says that a certain paragraph in your paper of the 17th October,"is unfounded…

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Mining Intelligence. Grog at the Mines. (From our Special Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 November 1851 · page 2

THE late reports from the diggings show that sly-grog-selling has got completely beyond the control of both the authorities and the clergy, and it has now become a matter of serious…

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The Gold Mines. (From our regular Correspondent) Sofala. Saturday, Nov. 8

Empire · Tuesday 11 November 1851 · page 2

Our population has recently been thinning, but late arrivals are now again swelling our ranks, though diggers are at a stand still on account of th superabundance of…

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The Southern Gold Fields. (From the Gou'burn Herald.) Prospecting Near Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 November 1851 · page 2

SINCE our last, prospecting in the neighbourhood has been carried on with moderate vigour. Captain Rossi, who deserves the utmost praise for the enthusiasm he has displayed in…

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The Victoria Gold Flelds

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 November 1851 · page 3

THE news from these gold fields contained in the papers received by yesterday's overland mail, contain few features of interest. At Ballarat the diggings are said to proceed with…

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Victoria Gold Fields

Empire · Thursday 13 November 1851 · page 3

The Geelong Correspondent to the Argus writes in that journal of the 11th instant:- Mr. Paterson has favoured me with a view of the b[?]k in which he records his gold…

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The Mines.—licensed Beer-houses

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 November 1851 · page 10

AN article in Tuesday's Herald, headed "Grog at the Mines," calls upon us to return to a subject on which we but very recently published our opinion, and made a solemn appeal to the justice and…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Prospecting Near Goulburn

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 November 1851 · page 11

Since our last, prospecting in the neighbourhood has been carried on with morderate vigour. Captain Rossi, who deserves the utmost praise for the enthusiasm he has displayed in the search for…

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Gold News. Thursday Morning, 3 o'clock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 November 1851 · page 3

OUR Express arrived this morning, at two o'clock, bringing our Ophir correspondent's letter. We had no communication from our Turon correspondent…

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The Gold Mines. (From our Special Reporter.) T[?]ron, Nov. 10th, 1851

Empire · Friday 14 November 1851 · page 2

Since my last communication the weather has been extremely fine, latterly getting rather warm in the [?]iddle of the day. The consequence is, that the river…

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Arrival of Gold

Empire · Friday 14 November 1851 · page 2

TAKING into account the lots by private hands, the quantity of gold which arrived yesterday was probably full 7000 ounces, among which were a few very rich…

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The Victoria Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 November 1851 · page 3

WE have received Melbourne papers to the 7th instant. The last Government escort from Balarat brought down 4942 ounces of gold to consignees in Melbourne and Geelong; and…

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Victoria. Ballarat Gold Field

Empire · Friday 14 November 1851 · page 3

Many of our friends in Van Diemen's Land seem to have been misled by rumours that Government interference would put a stop to the Geelong Gold Fields during the harvest…

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South Australia. Gold and Copper. (From the Adelaida Times, October 25.)

Empire · Friday 14 November 1851 · page 3

For some days pa[?]t there has been a domand for Royal Mining Company's shares, and a consoquent increase of price. The cause of this, how-ever, was not very clearly known until the close…

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Interior. the Southern Gold Fields. (From the Bathurst Free Press, November 19.)

Empire · Friday 14 November 1851 · page 3

A gentleman of considerable experience in mining matters, who we understand, has spent some time in visiting the western and southern gold fields of New South Wales, and taken…

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