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Mining & the mines, 1851

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Arrival of Gold

Empire · Friday 12 December 1851 · page 2

It will be seen from the following list of consignees, that the quantity of gold which arrived at the Treasury, yesterday, by the weekly escort, was smaller than…

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The Empire. Friday, December 12, 1851. Thr Gold News at Home

Empire · Friday 12 December 1851 · page 2

LETTERS have been received in Sydney communicating the interesting and important fact that the news of the Australian Gold Discoveries reached London…

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THR Sydney Morning Merald. Friday, December 12, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Seat am 1." Our Gold News in England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 December 1851 · page 2

THE announcement in yesterday's Herald, that the news of our gold discovery had not reached England was premature. The advices by the Vimeira's mail prove that…

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Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 5

BY the Vim[?]a, we hear that intelligence of our Gold discovery bad reached England on the 28th August by the overland mail via Southampion. Captain Bloom field, of the Mazepp[?], which left Sydney on the 30th…

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The Gold Escorts

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 4

Yesterday, the Escort from Mount Alexander brought down the enormous quantity of "Nine hundred and fifty-two pounds weight of Gold, or eleven thousand four hundred and twenty-four ounces! (nearly half a ton.) And we learn from an authentic source, that…

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The Victoria Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 1

THE GOLD RACKET.— The precious metal is flying about Melbourne like dirt, and it is a question whether every second man one meets in the streets has not a pock et-full of bank…

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The Gold Fields. Sofala

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 5

DECEMBER 10.—There are a number of idle vagabonds here, who are lurking about committing all sorts of minor depredations, and occasionally committing a robbery of some…

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The Port Phillip Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 2

Our Southern neighbours are all cricka-hoop with respect to the extent of the fi ndings at Ballarat and Mount Alexander and cannot forbear twitting us with…

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Fatal Colliery Accident at Bedminster, Near Bristol -- Five Lives Lost

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 11

Another terrible accident took place a short time ago, at the Malago Vale Works, in the parish of Bedminster, and has lost to society, and those more immediately dependent on them, five valuable…

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GOLD. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 3

SIR—In handing you this day's sale of gold, I am obliged to confess that I anticipated more favourable results in consequence of the early departure of the Alert, which is esteemed to be a…

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The Gold Diggers' Petition. To the Editors of the Sydney, Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 December 1851 · page 5

GENTLEMEN,—In your paper of Thursday last, a speech of the Colonial Secretary is reported, in which he states that the "chief mover" in the gold diggers' petition was "a reverend…

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The Gold Fields. Ophir

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 December 1851 · page 2

DECEMBER 10.—We have had very unsettled weather here for some time past, the mornings and evenings chilly, the mid-days oppressively hot, with plagues of flies; and now and then a…

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Gold at at Moreton Bay

Empire · Monday 15 December 1851 · page 2

WE are indebted to the Proprietor of the Moreton Bay Courier for a slip of the following gold intelligence:- WARWICK…

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The Gold Mines. Braidwood, (From our Special Reporter.) Bell's Creek Junction, December 12

Empire · Tuesday 16 December 1851 · page 2

I have delayed writing you until the present time, in order that my second communication might convey some interesting information to your readers, but I…

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Victoria Gold Fields

Empire · Thursday 18 December 1851 · page 4

OUR GOLD FIELDS.—The ratent at which gold has been dug from the soil during the last few weeks, will give a total, yield for twelve months of £5,000,000, or half the annual produce of…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Maneroo

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 December 1851 · page 10

A few days tack, three gentlemen, having made up a party of six, started on a prospecting tour up the Breadbow River, for the purpose of ascertaining beyord a doubt whether gold existed in this…

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California. the Quartz Mines of This State

Empire · Thursday 18 December 1851 · page 3

Every day developes fresh evidences of the immense wealth contained in the gold-bearing quartz veins, extending through a vast region of country along the foot hills on the western slope…

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Colonial News. Victoria. Our Gold Fields

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 December 1851 · page 10

The rate at which gold has been dug from the soil during the last few weeks, will give a total yield for twelve months of £5,000,000, or half the annual produce of California! That this yield…

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The Gold Fields. Thursday, 2 A.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 December 1851 · page 3

THE quantity of Gold by the Government conveyance is about the same as last week. The intelligence is not of a startling character, and the only items we…

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Mining Intelligence Sofala, 14th December, 1851

Empire · Thursday 18 December 1851 · page 2

On Thursday, the 11th, a meeting was held at the Tent of Messrs. Grocott and Pringle, convened by the resident miners on and near Reuben's Bar, for the purpose of devising the best means…

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