Victoria Gold Fields
THE Melbourne journals received by yesterday's overland mail contain but little additional intelligenne to that which was published in Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald. The…
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This Gold Fields. Braidwood
FEBRUARY 21.—I mentioned in last week's communication that a new gold field had been discovered at the Little River, about eight miles from Braidwood. It has turned out…
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It appears to be beyond question mat a considerable quantity of gold has already been obtained from the surface of the soil, and without mining, in Australia; and the…
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A correspondent from Maneroo concludes a business letter addressed to us with the following intelligence about the golden prospects of his own district…
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In my former communication from Carcoar, I stated that it was more than probable that ere many days elapsed it would be my pleasing task to announce the discovery of a profitable gold field in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Original Poetry. Ode to Gold
AVAUNT! pale meteor of the mine, Perfidious sprite! our steps misleading To mighty Moloch's demon-shrine! Where human hearts lie pierced and bleeding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Empire. Friday, February 27, 1852. the Gold.—its Social Effects in New South Wales and Victoria
CONSIDERING the state of things in Victoria revealed by the address of Chief Justice A'Beckett, and but too surely confirmed by the various accounts which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Gold Deposits and Washings. (From the Mining Almanac.)
GOLD, from being found in its metallic state, is always, even to those acquainted with finding it in its deposits, a subject of much exaggeration, to many times its real amount; and even…
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The report alluded to in our last, respecting the proceedings of the Adelaide Government, proves correct. The Legislative Council of that colony was assembled on the 28th January, and in one day an Act was passed by…
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In handing you the statement of this day's Sale of Gold, I am not enable to speak with any great degree of satisfaction as to the results. The Banks now rule the price,…
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THE last escort from Mount Alexander, which arrived in Melbourne on the 18th instant, brought down 11,199 oz. 10 dwts. of gold; from Ballarat the amount was only 2 oz. 10…
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THE ESCORTS.—The Mount Alexander escort brought down yesterday 11,199 ozs. 10 dwts., and would have brought as much more had there been any possibility of carrying it. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Superficial Production of Gold, Oxide of Tin, &c., or Alluvialmetalliferous Deposits. (From the Mining Almanac.)
IT is well known that the largest proportion of gold is obtained from rivers and superficial deposits, in granitic districts. The quantity extracted from veins is comparatively small, less…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Australia.—the Gold Assay Office
THE recent Act passed by the local legislature of the sister colony for the assyaing of uncoined gold came into actual operation on the 10th instant, which was the day appointed for…
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A Correspondent from Maneroo concludes a business letter addressed to us with the following intelligence about the golden prospects of his own district. "I have little or no news for you from this quarter, I have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carcoar Gold Field. Belubula River, Friday Evening. February 13th, 1852
In my former communication from Carcoar, I stated that it was more than probable that ere many days elapsed it would be my pleasing task to announce the discovery of a profitable gold field in this quarter, and I hasten to furnish you with as hurried a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Moreton Bay. Progress of the Local Gold Search. From the Moreton Bay Free Press, February 22
One of the gentlemen, who, as mentioned in our last, had proceeded on a visit to the prospecting party at work in the bush under the direction of Messrs. Byrnes and Robertson,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Intelligence. the Turon. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)
THE lowered state of the river admits of great numbers of the bed claims being worked, and many of their owners have returned from the Meroo and other back creeks, and the dry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Extracts. Gold Digging in Australia. (From the Times, November 10.)
THE latest accounts from Australia prove that the anticipations entertained as to the productiveness of the gold fields of New South Wales are in no respect exaggerated. To…
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