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Mining & the mines, 1851

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Gold Fields. Major's Creek

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 December 1851 · page 5

NOVEMBER 28.—The escort for the first time left here on Tuesday, at 9 A.M., taking upwards of 3000 ounces of gold. The four-in-hand was brought up in splendid style by Mr. Badgery,…

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The Empire. Friday, December 5, 1851. Arrival of Gold

Empire · Friday 5 December 1851 · page 2

THE following is extracted from a letter received by us yesterday morning, from a highly respectable gentleman at the Braidwood Diggings:-…

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Gold Circulars

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 355
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Since Australia has proved to be a gold-producing country, and human beings are daily arriving from all parts of the world and proceeding to our mines, it is gratifying to be able to announce, not only that we have…

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The Southern Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 2

The unexpected arrival in Goulburn on Wednesday last, at 3 p m. of 2258 ounces 1 dwt 22 grs. of gold from Braidwood, under the escort of Assistant-Commissioner M. M'Lean,…

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The Victoria Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 2

The escort from Mount Alexander brought into town yesterday, no less than 10,428 ounces of gold; and it is stated that something like 6,000 ounces more had to be left behind, on…

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The Gold Fields. Turon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 5

NEALE'S POINT, December 2.—Yesterday we had a rare job here, and not by any means a pleasant one. Early in the day a dam was thrown across the river, at the upper end of…

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The Gold. (From the Argus, November 27.)

Empire · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 3

The escort from Mount Alexander brought into town yesterday no less than 10,428 ounces, of gold; and it is stated that something like 6,000 ounces more had to be left behind, on account of…

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Gold Sale. Sydney, December 5, 1851. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 3

SIR—I beg to band you the result of this day's sale of "Australian Gold.'' The prices obtained throughout being satisfactory, and I am happy to state a desire to purchase on the part of almost every…

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The Gold Mines. (From our Regular Correspondent.) Sofala, December 4th, 1851

Empire · Monday 8 December 1851 · page 3

Accidents by fulling into holes are of almost daily occurrence, and to show how difficult it is to be prepared against siich a misfortune, I may merely mention that during the last week no less…

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The Gold Mines. (From our Regular Correspondent.) Turon, Saturday, December 6th, 1851

Empire · Tuesday 9 December 1851 · page 3

The tent of Mr. Hubert Forbes, the gold buyer, was out into last night, but owing to some of the inside party sleeping in Bristol fiishion, with one eye open, the thieves were disturbed, and had to…

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The Gold Fields. Turon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 December 1851 · page 3

NEALE'S POINT.—December 4: Very little news of importance is stirring here at present. Heavy rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, fell here on Tuesday afternoon, and…

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The Arrival of the Gold News in England

Empire · Tuesday 9 December 1851 · page 2

IT will be remembered by many of our readers that some weeks before the public announcement of the fact that gold was being found in large quantities at…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Alta California, October 2.)

Empire · Wednesday 10 December 1851 · page 4

The news for the month from the mining districts, was perhaps the most interesting and favourable feature of the California intelligence conveyed hence by the…

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The Gold Fields. Thursday, 3 A.M.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 December 1851 · page 2

BY Express we learn that the Gold Conveyance arrived at Penrith last night at 9 o'clock. The progress of the diggers is greatly impeded at the Turon by…

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Goulburne. the Southern Gold Fields. the Braidwood Diggings. December 3, 1851

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 December 1851 · page 11

The numbers arriving here daily from various quarters, are swelling the tide of immigration to these diggings materially. The living masses here present to the eye the idea of a vast moving…

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The Government and the Gold Diggers. (To The Editors of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 December 1851 · page 9

GENTLEMEN,—In the admirable and triumphant reply of the Colonial Secretary to the indirect charges conveyed in a petition from some of the Gold-diggers on the Turon, presented and…

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The Gold Mines. (From our Special Reporter.) Turon, December 8th, 1851

Empire · Friday 12 December 1851 · page 2

The uncertainty of Gold Digging has been strikingly exemplified within the last week. In consequence of the continuance of dry weather, the river had fallen so…

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Original Correspondence. the Gold Miners Petition. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 12 December 1851 · page 3

SIR—Notwithstanding the ill fate of our petition, and the ungracious manner in which it was received by the Legislative Council, I wish to say a few words in answer and contradiction to those…

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