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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1851

788 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 40

Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press of Saturday.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1851 · page 3

SINCE our last issue the Sydney portion of our arrivals appear to have been seized by a panic. They are rushing from the mines by dozens, and for the present all the articles of a…

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From the Mines

Empire · Wednesday 18 June 1851 · page 2

WE give below our Bathurst correspondent's letter, received yesterday. As the writer is an old resident in that district, and in daily communication with the…

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The Gold Meeting. (From the Melbourne Morning Herald, June 10.)

Empire · Wednesday 18 June 1851 · page 4

In accordance with a requisition numerously signed, and forwarded to the Mayor, a Meeting was held in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute, at one o'clock yesterday, to take…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday, June 18, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 June 1851 · page 2

A LARGE mumber of disappointed people have returned from Bathurst within the last forty-eight hours, some of whom never went near the gold field, but were…

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From the Mines

Empire · Thursday 19 June 1851 · page 2

A SECOND EDITION of this day's publication will be issued at 1 o'clock, containing the news the Gold Distrtct, Communications from our own…

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Mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 June 1851 · page 9

Since our last issue a portion of our arrivals appear to have been seized by a panic. They are rushing from the mines by dozens, and for the present all the articles for a gold-digger's outfit are…

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" In Necessariis Unitas, in Dubiis Libertas, in Omnibus Charitas." the Gold Region-and Gold Fever

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 June 1851 · page 7

It is very satisfactory, and highly creditable to those " digging" for gold at Summer Hill, to learn that good order and good feelings prevail throughout that auriferous…

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colonial Nems. Victoria. Effects of the Gold Discovery

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 June 1851 · page 10

The excitement which blazed up, and spread right and left, lias in some degree subsided. The suddenness of the outbreak, is almost as inexplicable, as the check it has met with. There is an…

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From the Mines

Empire · Friday 20 June 1851 · page 2

WE re-publish the postcript of news in our Second Edition of yesterday, adding some further extracts from the Bathurst Free Press,…

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Information From the Mines. (From our Special Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 June 1851 · page 3

You have some reason to complain of your special correspondent's special want of punctuality,—this being my second contribution in a month, instead of a week; but the fact is, that,…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 June 1851 · page 3

THE discoveries of gold deposits in the Turon, which are said to bo very rich, are at present the current topics of conversation in Bathurst. The Ophir Diggings are by…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Presa, June 18.)

Empire · Friday 20 June 1851 · page 3

The discoveries of gold deposits in the Turon, which are said to be very rich, are at present the current topics of conversation in Bathurst. The Ophir diggings are by no means exhausted, but…

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The Empire. Sydney, Friday, June 20, 185l. Mr.wentworth and the Gold Diggers

Empire · Friday 20 June 1851 · page 2

IN the phenomena of the Gold Discovery there is nothing presented more striking than the orderly conduct of the several thousand persons who are met together at…

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Mining Intelligence

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 21 June 1851 · page 4

The discoveries of gold deposits in the Turon, which are said to be very rich, are at present, the topics of conversation in Bathurst. The Ophir diggings are by no means exhausted, but…

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The Ophir Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 21 June 1851 · page 2

THE intensity of the cold is still occasioning the retreat of numbers from the inclement regions of Ophir; and the accounts given by the "frozen out" are…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 21 June 1851 · page 1

Since our last issue the Sydney portion of our arrivals, appear to hare been seixed by a panic. They are rushing from the mines by dozens, and for the present all the articles of a gold-dinner's…

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Gold in the Turon. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 21 June 1851 · page 2

As regards the Turon, we shall briefly state all we know of tho matter. It was generally rumoared some ten or a doron, days ago. that Mesrs. Stutchbury and Piper had started for…

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The Empire. Sydney, Saturday, June 21, 1851. the Disappointed Gold-seekers

Empire · Saturday 21 June 1851 · page 2

OUR Bathurst contemporary recites some dolorous accounts of the disappointment and dismay evinced by many who have forsaken steady employments and comfortable…

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Bell's Life I[?] Sydney. Saturday, June 21, 1851. The Gold and its Effects

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 21 June 1851 · page 2

THE [?]everish excitement produced by the first announcement of the gold discovery has in some measure subsided—the ununatural stimulus given to enterprise, trade,…

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Original Correspondence. by Whom and Where Was the Gold Discovered? To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 June 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—As bearing on this question, I present you with the following extract from the Dublin University Magazine for January, 1851 page 101, foot note…

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