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Mining & the mines, 1852

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Victoria Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1852 · page 2

THE escort which arrived in Melbourne on the 3rd instant, brought down from Mount Alexander, 12,895 ounces of gold, and from Ballarat, 52 ozs. 18 dwts.; total 12,946 ozs. 18…

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A Gold Assay

Empire · Saturday 13 March 1852 · page 3

From "A Familiar Explanation of the Art of Assaying Gold add Silver;" by JAMES II. WATHERSTON GOLDSMITH. HOW TOW MAKE A GOLD ASSAY, AND THE…

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Mining Intelligence. Ophir

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 March 1852 · page 13

The diggings out here are proceeding much as usual, add a few straggling parties continue to do well. A large party of newly arrived Calitornians, who appear to he quite up to their work, are now searching for auriferous quartz veins. If successful, Ophir…

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Tasmanian Gold Field. (From the Liunceston Examiner.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 March 1852 · page 1

We have much pleasure in placing before our readers the following interesting letter from Dr Ward, which contains authentic intelligence, confirming the fact that this island is also…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, March 13, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Gold and Morals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1852 · page 4

A CONTEMPORARY (The Freeman's Journal) is pleased to speak in favourable terms of our editorial exertions in the great cause of anti-transportation; but…

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GOLD. (From Dickens' Household Words.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1852 · page 2

ROAD-MENDING is pretty general at this time of the year, and upon reads now being newly macadamised we may pick up a good many differing specimens of granite. On the…

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The Gold Mines. the Turon. (From our own Correspondent.) Sheep Station Point, 12th March, 1852

Empire · Tuesday 16 March 1852 · page 2

On Tuesday night, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Commissioner Zouch was entertaining some of his friends in the tent which is used as the Court House and Mess Room, some person, by cutting a…

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The Gold Fields. Turon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1852 · page 2

UPPER WALLABY, MARCH 12.—Up to this evening the weather has been fine, but it has now commenced raining, with the wind eastsouth-east, and there is a very fair prospect…

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The Australian Gold Fields. (From the Liverpool Albion, Nov. 17.)

Empire · Tuesday 16 March 1852 · page 3

We are enabled to state that despatches have been received at the Colonial Office, by the Severn, even more than confirmatory of the public accounts by the same…

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The Gold Mines. the Turon. (From our own Correspondent.) Sheep Station Point, 15th March, 1852

Empire · Thursday 18 March 1852 · page 3

On Friday last, some blackfellows found the body of a man in a water-hole, about nine miles from this place, on the road to the "Dirt Hole Creek." The unfortunate man had evidently…

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The Herald "On Gold and Morals."

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 March 1852 · page 8

IT is pretty clear that we must have touched some very sensitive part of the nervous system of our friend of the Sydney Morning Herald, or he would not have made such a…

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Original Correspondence. the Demoralizing Tendency, and Effects of Gold Seeking. (To The Editors of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 March 1852 · page 9

GENTLEMEN,—That is a wise old "saw" "None are so blind, as those who wont see"—None so deaf, as those who wont hear"—And this appears to be very appropriately applicable to the case of the…

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Gold Mining Companies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1852 · page 2

WE take the following advertisements from the Times, November 27: THE BRITISH AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY, (established in Sydney,) Capital…

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Carcoar Gold Field

Empire · Friday 19 March 1852 · page 2

Referring to my last communication from this quarter, informing you of the discovery of a profitable gold field in this locality, and also referring to a communication to the Government on…

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The Gold Fields. Turon. (From the Bathurst Free Press.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1852 · page 2

SINCE the return of sunshine and dry weather. a steady and progressive improvement in Turon affairs appears to have taken place. The lowered state of the river, now an insignificant…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press, March 17.) the Turon

Empire · Friday 19 March 1852 · page 2

Since the return of sunshine and dry weather, a steady and progressive improvement in Turon affairs appears to have taken place. The lowered state of the river, now an insignificant streamlet,…

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Gold Sale

Empire · Saturday 20 March 1852 · page 2

I beg to hand you the result of this day's sale of Gold Dust. Prices, on the whole, will be found more satisfactory than our last. Some considerable purchases have been made at the…

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Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1852 · page 5
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

THE Intelligence from our mines, this week, is not of sufficient importance to require a detailed account. New diggings are starting up in every direction, and it is impossible to say where gold will not be found…

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Gold Mining Companies. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1852 · page 4

GENTLEMEN,—Amongst the English extracts in your issue of this morning's date, there is an article headed as above, being copied from an advertisement in the Times of the 27th…

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