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Mining & the mines, 1851

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The New Gold Discovery. (Front the Weekly Dispatch, September 8.)

Empire · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 4

Events which will probably affect us as much as any that force pur attention at our own doors, are, as we are told, occurring almost at the antipodes. Gold is…

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California. Mining Intelligence. (From the Sonora Herald, Oct. 25.)

Empire · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 4

Our monthly report of mining news is not so complete as it Would have been, but for the sickness of a gentleman who had promised us a very interesting narrative. We can only say in…

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Commercial Record. Gold Circular

Empire · Monday 29 December 1851 · page 3

SIR—In handing you my account of this day's sale of gold dust, I have to remark that a sensible depreciation in the price realised has taken place since my last communication. The non-arrival…

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The Empire. Tuesday, December 30, 1851. Gold Rivalry

Empire · Tuesday 30 December 1851 · page 2

ACCORDING to the Melbourne Morning Herald, the ship Melbourne, about to sail from that port, will convey to England "three tons and a quarter" of gold!…

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The Tuena Gold Field. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 December 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In your issue of Saturday last you have some remarks in a leader respecting the Tuena gold fields. From the general tenor of the article a stranger would suppose that the…

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Original Correspondence.' Amount of Gold in the Australian Continent. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 December 1851 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—The amount of gold diffused through that part of the dry land of the earth, which forms the Australian continent, is a matter for serious speculation. Gold, it is said,…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, December 30, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am 1." Our Gold News in England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 December 1851 · page 2

THE effects produced in England by the first arrival of our Gold tidings, so far as the leading columns of the Times may be taken as an index, appear to have been…

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The Gold News in New York

Empire · Wednesday 31 December 1851 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE from Sydney to May 29rd had been received in New York, at our latest dates. Information of our gold discoveries had proviously reached that city…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, December 31, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Our Gold News in England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 December 1851 · page 2

RESUMING our remarks on this subject from the Herald of yesterday, in which we contrasted the insignificance of the facts that had arrested the earnest…

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