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Mining & the mines, 1851

788 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 40

Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 June 1851 · page 7

As Nitric or Muriatic Acid is said to be a sure test for distinguishing "real" from ap-parently golden minerals, so " Gold" itself is a true test to discover whether a man is…

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Parramatta. Public Meeting About the Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 June 1851 · page 10

Messrs. Oakes and Byrnes, M. Cs., returned from the gold fields on the evening of Thursday last, and the next morning the following requisition was sent to them :-…

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Countrp News. Bathurst.mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 June 1851 · page 10

There is a tendency in all things sublunary possessing life, activity or volition to flow on. in an even channel, and it could no more be expected that the golden excitement, if allowed to coin a phrase,…

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Original Correspondence. the Gold Discovery and Its Consequences. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 5 June 1851 · page 3

SIR—The discovery of a vast gold field, of mines of plumbago, copper, lead, iron, &c., must lead to mighty results, and raise the destiny of the Middle District from an abject…

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From the Mines

Empire · Friday 6 June 1851 · page 2

THE intelligence by yesterday's mail is on the whole of a highly satisfactory nature. Prom our Bathurst contemporary, we extract below a few statistics which go…

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How Will the Gold Affect Our Revenues?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 June 1851 · page 2

ONE of the most serious and difficult of the many serious and difficult questions suggested to reflecting minds by the sudden discovery of our indigenous gold,…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 June 1851 · page 2

SEVERAL valuable samples of the precious metal were purchased yesterday, the principal buyers being Messrs. Austin, Durnford, Forbes, Solomon and Co, and Burnside. Dr…

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GOLD. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 June 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—The recent discovery of gold in this colony is as creditable to the scientific attainments and geological researches of the Rev. W. B. Clarke as to the discerning genius of…

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Interior. the Gold Fever in Camden. (From our own Correspondent.)

Empire · Friday 6 June 1851 · page 3

As in Sydney, so in this little village, everybody seems bitten by the gold-mania. If'it proceeds further, Camden will become as deserted a village as ever " sweet Auburn" was, and its. magnntos…

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The Empire. Sydney, Friday, June 6; 1851, the Gold Drama

Empire · Friday 6 June 1851 · page 2

Tins Gold Drama, is becoming, intensely exciting'. The plot thickens. The actors are becoming, more numerous; the audience more impatient of continuing…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Buthurst Free Press, June 4.)

Empire · Friday 6 June 1851 · page 2

SEVERAL valuable samples of the precious, metal were purchased yesterday, the principal buyers being Messrs. Austin, Dunsford, Forbes, Solomon & Co., and…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, June 6, 1851. " Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 June 1851 · page 2

IN another part of the paper will be found reports from our own Correspondent and the Bathurst Free Press of the state of the gold diggings, which are…

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The Australian Gold Mines

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 7 June 1851 · page 2

ON every hand we have rumours pouring in upon us of fresh discoveries of the auriferous metal in different parts of the colony. At the Ophir diggings gold still continues to be found in great…

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Gold ! Gold!! Gold!!! Ii

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 7 June 1851 · page 4

THE recent discoveries of gold in the Orange district, will no doubt astonish the people of the Mother Country as much as it has completely upset our own affairs; and as usual in such cases, more…

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Mining Intelligence

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 7 June 1851 · page 1
Also in The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator

FROM the " Bathurst Free Press " of the 31st ult. we have much gratification in extracting the following sober reflections upon the prevalent gold mania, which is…

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The Gold Diggings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 June 1851 · page 3

A MEMORIAL, of which the following is a copy, is in circulation, and we believe has obtaiued signatures:— To His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz…

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Mining Intelligence

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 7 June 1851 · page 2

Several valuable samples of the precious metal were purchased yesterday, the principal buyers being Messrs Austin. Dunsford, Forbes, Solomon and Co., and Burnside. Dr Machattio…

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The Empire. Sydney, Saturday, June 7, 1851. New Gold Discoveries

Empire · Saturday 7 June 1851 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE has been received in Sydney by several different parties that gold has been discovered in the neighbourhood of Wellington. A gentleman in Sydney…

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The Gold Mines

Empire · Monday 9 June 1851 · page 2

BY the Bathurst Mail, on Saturday, gold was received by the Banks and Messrs. W. Walker and Co. alone, to the amount of forty-five pounds weight. Other amounts…

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