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Mining & the mines, 1851

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Mining Intelligence

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Wednesday 28 May 1851 · page 2

If it were possible that a human being could be elevated to some given point in the atmosphere, from which he could command a bird's eye view of the Ophir diggings, from all we can learn, they…

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The Existence of Gold in Argyle

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Wednesday 28 May 1851 · page 5

YESTERDAY evening a Meeting of some of the most influential inhabitants of Goulburn was held at Mr. Mandelson's hotel, at which it was resolved to offer a reward of £200 for the discovery of gold in the…

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The News From the Gold Field

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 May 1851 · page 2

THE excitement which has prevailed in Sydney during the last few days was materially increased yesterday by the arrival from Bathurst of several…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 May 1851 · page 2

IF it were possible that a human being could be clevated to some given point in the atmosphere, from which he-could command a bird s eye view of the Ophir diggings, from…

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The Empire. Sydney, Wednesday, May 28, 1851. " the Gold Delusion."

Empire · Wednesday 28 May 1851 · page 2

A GENERAL writing a despatch at the moment of an " advance of the whole line;" a sailor theorising on the law of storms, while the brave ship is battling…

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Information From the Gold Districts. (From our Special Correspondent.) No. I.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 May 1851 · page 2

I REACHED Bathurst on Saturday, and found the gold mania still more violent than in Sydney, and much increased by the arrival of a man with a piece of gold, three and-a-half…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, May 28, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Gold and Speculation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 May 1851 · page 2

THREE weeks ago, the colony of New South Wales was in a sounder state of prosperity than it had ever been in before. It was a prosperity unalloyed…

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Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 May 1851 · page 2

THE excitement created by the announcement that what during several years I had declared, but which could not obtain credence till it was made sensible by the verification of an…

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Form Referred To.—gold License

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 May 1851 · page 9

No. 1851. The bearer having paid to me the sum of one pound ten shillings on account of the territorial revenue, I hereby license him to dig,…

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The Gold and Fleece Op Australia

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 May 1851 · page 8

SINCE the time of the far-famed " Argonautic Expedition" that sailed for Colchis some 3000 years ago, under the command of "Jason," in search of the GOLDEN…

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Licenses to Dig and Search for Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 May 1851 · page 9

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 23rd May, 1851.—With reference to the Proclamation issued on the 22nd May, instant, declaring the rights of the Crown in respect to gold found in its natural place…

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The Gold Question. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 29 May 1851 · page 4

SIR—It requires no laboured aplogy from you, as on Wednesday last, to justify the course which you have pursued in chronicling passing events as regards our golden prospects…

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Counter Nems. Bathurst the News From. the Gold Field

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 May 1851 · page 9

The xcitement which has prevailed in during the last few davs was materially increased yesterday by the arrival from Bathurst of several respectable colonists, who left town about ten days…

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Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 May 1851 · page 2

IN yesterday's Herald appears a statement signed W. B. Clarke, to the effect that Mr. Clarke had long declared that there was gold in this country, but that nobody believed him,…

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From the Mines

Empire · Friday 30 May 1851 · page 2

WE reprint the following from our Second Edition of yesterday's publication: THURSDAY MORNING, ll o'clock,…

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Songs for the Miners. No [?]

Empire · Friday 30 May 1851 · page 3

(Our late Devil was overheard dinging the following song the last thing before he started for the Diggings.] BELIVEE me, if all those enticing long yarns,…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 May 1851 · page 2

ON Saturday last the town was all bustle with Sydney merchants, equipages, and gold diggers. Some of the latter having been more successful than their neighbours, had come…

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The Empire. Sydney, Friday, May 30, 1851. the Gold.— the Markets.— the Speculators.— the Herald.— the Neighbouring Colonies.— Europe, America, and Everybody

Empire · Friday 30 May 1851 · page 2

IN the short space of one month, a new and all-attractive branch of industry has developed itself— emphatically developed itself —in New South Wales. No great…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, May 30, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." What Will Gold Do for Us in England?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 May 1851 · page 2

NOW that it is clearly established, both geologically and practically, that gold is henceforth to constitute one of the staple products of New South Wales, it…

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Gold

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 31 May 1851 · page 2

At the requaalof Mr Edward Hammond Hargravedn, the real disco[?]r of gold In Australasia, we publish [?] Utter relating, to the aurlferou regions, not only for the benefit of…

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