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Mining & the mines, 1852

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 3

As will be observed by the long list appended, my sale of gold dust this week has been extensive, comprising, in fact, the largest quantity I have ever sold under the hummer. The price,…

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The Gold Escorts

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 2

Gold received yesterday by the Western Escort, 3 541 ounces 13 pennyweights 13 grains; by the Western and Northern mads. 240 ounces. Total, 5.781 ounces 13 pennyweights 13 grains…

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The Gold Revenue

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 8

AT length a brighter day appears to be dawning on the political horizon of Australia. The Home Government appear at last to have awakened to a just sense of the importance of these colonies. The…

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Gold Circular for England

Empire · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 3

Fully four months had clapsed since the first receipt of gold in quantity from our newly-discovered mines, before any regular mode of sale was established in Sydney. On the 3rd of…

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The Western Gold Fields

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 5

OPHIR. -- A letter recently received from Mr. M. Levy storekeeper and postmaster, Ophir, to Mr. Pyke tailor and draper Bathurst, states that new dry diggings has been discovered on the top of a mountain bordering on the Summerbill Creek, and situated between Lewis'…

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The Gold Fields of Australia

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 2

Our friends in England are at length awakened to a sense of the importance of this great territorial dependency of Great Britain more than they have hitherto been. Our exhaustless resources in furnishing their spinning mills and looms with wool, our numerous…

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The Northern Gold Fields. -- Bingara

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 9

AFTER the most careful examination and comparison of the various accounts received from Bingara, together with the results of diligent inquiries respecting the real yield of gold from that…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Braidwood

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 5

Sept. 6. -- Some little excitement has been caused during the past week by the discovery of two new localities in which gold is found. It appears questionable, however, whether that on Bell's Creek will be permanently remunerative. One is on Admiral…

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Mining Intelligence. Village of Peel

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 4

THE WINBURNDALE DIGGINGS. -- The diggers on the Winburndale Creek have been visited, on Saturday the 11th instant, by a gentleman named Harding, who has recently arrived in the, colony, and who we are informed is principal superintendent of…

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The Northern Gold Fields. the Bingera Diggings

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 5

We have been favoured with the perusal of the following letter to Mr. Gorriok, of this place, from Mr. James Brimstone, who recently left Maitland for the diggings: -- "Bingera Gold Field,"…

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English Mining, Money, and Commercial Intelligence

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 261

MONEY.—The English Stock Market to-day has on the whole been firm, as prices, after declining ½ per cent, recovered and closed without change from Saturday. Consols were done at 100 7/8 with dividend for money, and…

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The Northern Gold Fields. the Hanging Rock Diggings

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 3

The diggings continue to extend, there being gold found at many points on the Peel almost down to Tamworth. Water was so abundant on these diggings that numbers of the claims could not be worked in consequence, but many of those that were…

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The Gold Regulations. No. Ii. the License System

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 2

THE discovery of gold in Australia is without any parallel in the history of the world —that is, in tue circumstances of the country which have preceded this…

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The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Maitland Mercury, September 15)

Empire · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 3

By Mr. Clerk, and by one of the escort policemen, we were obliged with some valuable information respecting the diggings. THE HANGING ROCK DIGGINGS…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, September 18, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." England and Autsralian Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1852 · page 4

IT is not a little remarkable, that the first advices which reached these colonies respecting the effects produced in England by the tidings of our Great Discovery,…

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Gold News of the Week

Empire · Monday 20 September 1852 · page 2

The gold news of the past week is interesting and important. The quantity of gold which has been received in town is more than usually large, and the news from the various parts of the…

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The Gold Diggings. (From the Aberdeen Journal, May 19.)

Empire · Monday 20 September 1852 · page 4

It was went to be said, as a jocular paradox, that Spain, with all the gold and silver mines of Mexico and Peru, was the poorest country in the world. Indeed, so little does the possession of…

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English News. English Mining, Money, and Commercial Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1852 · page 3

MONEY.—The English Stock Market to-day has on the whole been firm, as prices, after declining ½ per cent, recovered and closed without change from Saturday. Consols were done at 100? with dividend for money, and…

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The Gold Regulations. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1852 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Allow me to express the great satisfaction the glorious news contained in your paper of Friday last has caused amongst the diggers on this river, and to…

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Arrival of Gold

Empire · Tuesday 21 September 1852 · page 2

The following consignments of gold were deposited at the Trensury, by the Armed Escort from the Southern diggings, which arrived yesterday:—…

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