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Mining & the mines, 1852

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Mining Intelligence. the Turon

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 3 April 1852 · page 13

To estimate the pecuniary lose to the Turon diggers, of such flood as the last and previous one is impossible, but some idea may be formed of it by taking a stroll along the river bank at Sheep Station Point, or by the race below Harbottie's store. At the…

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Form Reffered [?] Gold Lic[?] No. 185

Empire · Saturday 3 April 1852 · page 2

The bearer having paid to me the sum of one pound ten shillings on socount of the Territoriaf Revenue, I hereby License him to dig, search for, and remove allevial Gold on…

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Domestic Intelligence. Gold Regulations. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

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

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, March 29th, 1852. His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, with the advice of the Executive Council, to direct that the…

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Gold Regulations. (From the Government Gazette, April 2.)

Empire · Saturday 3 April 1852 · page 2

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, with the advice of the Executive Council, to direct that the following consolidated and amended Code of Regulations for the…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, April 3, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Gold Regulations

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

THE regulations issued by the Government since the first discovery of gold were so numerous that it was becoming difficult to refer to them, and when found…

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Export of Gold

Empire · Monday 5 April 1852 · page 2

By the Hamlet, and St. George, which sailed for London yesterday, a considerable quantity of gold has been shipped. As will be seen from the annexed lists, the Hamlet has taken 4,693 ozs…

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Mining Intelligence. (From the Bathurst Free Press, April 3.) OPHIR

Empire · Tuesday 6 April 1852 · page 3

The creek still continues high, and thora is, therefore, little chance of doing any good at the bed claims. The diggers about Golden Point are at length beginning to turn their attention to dry…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Wednesday 7 April 1852 · page 3

The market has had an upward tendency during nearly the whole of the week; it opened on Monday at £2 19s., and has continued firm at from £2 l9s, 6d.to £2 19s. 9d…

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Geelong Gold Circular

Empire · Wednesday 7 April 1852 · page 3

There has been a slight advance in the prices of gold this week, the buying figure being from 58s 6d to 58s 9l. A corresponding advance seems to have taken place in Melbourne; a few…

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Melbourne Gold Circular

Empire · Wednesday 7 April 1852 · page 3

The gold market has advanced this week from 58s. 6d. to 59s. 6d. The purchasers have been principally for shipment per the Admiral. The Adelaide purchasers are nearly satisfied, or ought…

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The New Gold Mining Regulations

Empire · Thursday 8 April 1852 · page 2

THE regulations for the management of the Gold Fields, which have from time to time been promulgated by the Executive Government, have, with the addition of…

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Gold Circulars

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 99

We have the pleasure to announce that his Excellency Sir Charles Fitz Roy, the Governor-General of the colony, accompanied by his daughter and the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, have just returned from a visit…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 3

Steady rates have been maintained during the past week, the market assuming a feature greater firmness and consistency than at any former period since the opening of our mines…

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The Gold Mines. Turon River. (From our own Correspondent.) Sheep Station Point, 5th April, 1852

Empire · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 3

A few days after the last rain, as there was nothing to be done in this quarter, in the bed claims, I started for Long Creek with a party of five. The following is an extract from my…

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The Melbourne Gold Piracy

Empire · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 2

Intelligence has been received in town of a most flagrant and daring act of piracy, committed in Hobson's Bay, in Victoria, on the 2nd of April. The ship Nelson, for London, with a considerable…

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The Curse of Gold

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 2

The piratical attack upon the ship "Nelson" in Hobson's Bay, furnishes matter for deep and serious consideration. That it is but the "beginning of the…

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Commercial Intelligence. Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 2

WE have the pleasure to announce that his Excellency Sir Charles Fitz Roy, the Governor-General of the colony, accompanied by his daughter and the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, have just returned from a visit…

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Mining Intelligence. Ophir

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 4

The creek still continues high, and there is therefore, little chance of doing any good at the bed claims. The diggers about Golden Point are at length beginning to turn their attention to dry digging, and are making good wages. I am of opinion that if the dry…

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Form [?]D To. Gold License. No. 185

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 1

The bearer having paid to me the sum of one pound en shillings on accqunt of the Territorial Revenue. I hereby license him to dig. starch for, and remove allivial gold, on…

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Wangaratta Gold Field. To the Editor of the Argus

Empire · Saturday 10 April 1852 · page 3

SIR—The party who supplied you with the information has just returned from Read's Creek, with the sta[?]tling intelligence that one of the parties at these diggings has realised an ounce…

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