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Mining & the mines, 1852

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The Turon Gold Mines. (From our Special Reporter.)

Empire · Friday 16 January 1852 · page 2

Turon River, January 12th, 1852, During the last Week, the weather has been so dry and settled, that the river has gone down materially, and the working of…

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Gold Circulars

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 24

THE news from our mines is of a more cheering character than it has been for several weeks. The Turon is becoming populated again, and a few parties with great exertion have been able to work their bed claims…

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Gold Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 5

THE news from our mines is of a more cheering character than it has been for several weeks The Turon is becoming populated again, and a few parties with great exertion have been able to work their bed claims…

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Gold Sale

Empire · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 3

In sending my statement of Sales for this week, the whole of the Gold being from our own Diggings, I am gratified, and so I hope and exp[?] will my constituents be at the very marked…

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Australian Gold

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 8

At this moment we have the most extraordinary accounts from Australia of the quantity of gold embedded in the soil in the neighbourhood of Bathurst. It is said, in fact, that the entire soil…

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Victoria Gold Fields

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Another rich digging has been discovered about one mile before the Post Office ; 7, 8, or 9ibs weight have been obtained by different parties. On the old ground, one party of four have been fortunate enough to get 28ibs in one day. The water is very bad;…

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Additional Gold Regulations

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 2

With reference to the regulations of the 7th October and 25th November, 1851, relative to the working of matrix gold, his Excellency the Governor General directs it to be notified, that…

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The Victoria Gold Fields. the Escort

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 2

The quantity of gold brought in yesterday by escort consisted of 10,957 ounces from Mount Alexander, and only 41 ounces from Ballarat; the diggings, at which place, as stated in a…

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Additional Gold Regulations. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 4

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 16th January, 1852.—With reference to the Regulations of the 7th October and 25th November, 1851, relative to the working of matrix gold,…

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The Gold of Australia. (From the Times.)

Empire · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 4

The discovery of gold-fields in New South Wales will produce very different effects on different minds some will lament over it as calculated to introduce a…

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The Australian Gold Discovery.; (From the Daily News, September 19.)

Empire · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 4

The following appeared in our second edition yesterday:- Our Singapore, correspondent, after giving extracts fully confirmatory of, but…

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English News. the Gold News in England. (From the Times, September 20.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 5

THE discovery of gold fields in New South Wales will produce very different effects on different minds. Some will lament over it as calculated to introduce a new element of…

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Original Correspondence. Geological Presumption; Or, the Gold-seekers Outwitted. To the Editors of Bell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 1

Gentlemen.—The auri sacra fames seems not to be confined to one class of individuals— it extends its influence, not in a direct line, to include a certain portion of the community only,…

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Original Gold Digger's Letter. To my wife near Misther O'Keefe's Riley [?]state, Sydney. If gone to be forwarded. Turon, Janry the tin—1852

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 3

My dear Shelah. I commenced this letter tomorrow. If it doesn't come to hand you may allow that I am not here but gone to Maneroo or somewheres…

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The Gold Mania of the Nineteenth Century. To the Editor of the Wellington Independent

Empire · Monday 19 January 1852 · page 3

SIR—[?]ermit me, through the [?] your valuable journal, to make a few remarks on the present mania for gold; these I shall introduce with a definition of GOLD…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1852 · page 2

INFORMATION has reached us that a thunder storm took place at the Turon on the night of Wednesday last, commencing between eight and nine o'clock, and continuing for about an…

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English Extracts, the Australian Gold Fields. (From the Times, September 19.)

Empire · Tuesday 20 January 1852 · page 4

Advices nine days later from the Australian Gold region, were received to-day by the Overland Mail. They reach to the 11th of June, and are highly interesting…

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The Gold Fields. Braidwood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1852 · page 2

JANUARY 13.—Within a week from the date I have just written, no less than four deaths have occurred in this district, and in each case the deceased has been connected with our…

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South Australia. the Gold at Last. (From the Adelaide Morning Chronicle, Dec, 31.)

Empire · Wednesday 21 January 1852 · page 3

We mentioned yesterday that Messrs. Bonney and Babbage, the new Commissioners for issuing the gold licenses, had gone up to visit the gold diggings on Mount Lofty Range. These…

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