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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1852

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The Empire. Friday, January 2, 1852. Social Grievances of the Gold Miners

Empire · Friday 2 January 1852 · page 2

THOUGH the apprehensions of the timid, when the existence of gold was first discovered in the western district, that the discovery would disorganise society and…

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The Gold Mines. the Turon. (From our Special Reporter.) Sofala, Dec. 29th, 1851

Empire · Friday 2 January 1852 · page 2

Christmas has passed over with very little more than the usual amount of riot and drunkenness which exists here on idle days. There was a great deal more of social…

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Arrival of Gold

Empire · Friday 2 January 1852 · page 3

By the Escort from the Western Gold Fields, which arrival at the Colonial Treasury at the usual hour yesterday morning, the following consignments of the precious metal were…

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Gold Discoveries in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 January 1852 · page 2

LATER papers have been received in the City from New South Wales. Accounts from Sydney, June 2, afford a vivid picture of the excitement produced by the confirmation which…

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This Gold Fields. Turon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 January 1852 · page 3

UPPER WALLABY ROCKS.—December 29: Last week having been Christmas week, but very little work has been done in the way of gold digging, and but very little news of any…

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California. Quartz Mining—interesting Intelligence. (From the California Courier, November 12.) NEVADA, November 7, 1851

Empire · Friday 2 January 1852 · page 4

Quartz mining is getting to be quite a business in this county, which is among, if not the richest county, in the State, in auriferous deposits. In this place, and at…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 3 January 1852 · page 3

I beg to band you the result of this day's sale of gold-dust. Prices much the same as during the week, owing principally to the shipments in the Kate being made up. The accounts from…

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Gold Circulars

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 3 January 1852 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

So many of our miners have been in town during the last week that the mines are almost deserted, and consequently we have nothing of importance to communicate As however the holidays are now over, the various…

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Gold Discoveries Is Australia

Empire · Saturday 3 January 1852 · page 3

Later Papers have been received in the City from New South Wales. Accounts from Sydney, June 2, afford a vivid picture of the excitement produced by the continuation which was daily…

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The Gold Fields. Ophir

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1852 · page 5

DECEMBER 29.—If we, at Ophir, have not spent a merry Christmas, there is no one will dispute the assertion that, taking all things into consideration, we have gone through the festivities…

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California. Extracts From the Mining Regions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1852 · page 4

THE RAINS.—The accounts from above state that the reoent rains havd boen of greater extent on the head waters of Sacramento River than they wore here. Although wo do not…

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Domestic Intelligence. Yesterday's Receipt of Gold by the Southern Escort and Mails

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1852 · page 4

THE amount of gold brought down yesterday, under escort, from the Araluen diggings was 1635 oz. 10 dwt. 1 gr. By the Western Mails were received, from…

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Mining Intelligence. Turon

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Monday 5 January 1852 · page 5

UPPER WALLABY ROCKS.--December 29: Last week having been Christmas week, bus very little work has been done in the way of gold digging, and but very little news of any interest has occurred at the Turon. The two last days of the week hardly a…

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Original Poetry. Lines on the Discovery of Gold in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1852 · page 2

LAND of Australia! once desplead, and [?]nd' by men of moral worht, Who shundder'd if thy children dared To tread upon their chaster [?]th…

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The Australian Gold Bed. (From the Spectator, September 6.)

Empire · Wednesday 7 January 1852 · page 4

Prosperity is said to have visited New South Wales with its crowning disaster, in the discovery of a gold field vast in extent. There is still room, however, to…

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Advantages of the Australian Gold Fever. (From Punch, September 13.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1852 · page 3

GOOD friends, let us all shake hands; but that is not enough. Let us all embrace as our foreign friends do, and make a Great Exhibition of ourselves, by rushing into each other's…

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English News. an Australian California. (From the Economist.) "Even Gold May Be Bought Too Dear."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1852 · page 2

IN another part of this paper will be found an extract from the Sydney Morning Herald, of the 20th of May, containing an announcement of a most exciting character, copied from…

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Geelong Gold Circular

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 January 1852 · page 5

Gold continues to pour in from Mount Alexander, in great quantities; every one seems to do more or less well, at those diggings. The last Escort to Melbourne…

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Distressing Colliery Accident—loss of Four Lives

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 January 1852 · page 5

H. Fazakerley, Esq., the youthful proprietor of the extensive Gillibrand-hall and Fazakerley estates, with a friend on a visit to him, and two watermen, met with a…

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