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Mining & the mines, 1852

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The Diggings. the Northern Gold Fields, Hanging Rock

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 October 1852 · page 10

PEEL DIGGINGS. [?] of the returned diggers from Barraba are here, many of them unfortunately without means, having exhausted their resources in their journey to…

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The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Maitland Mercury.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 October 1852 · page 3

WE have not obtained any further information respecting the Bingera diggings. We have been obliged with the perusal of the following letter from Mr. George Curtis to Mr…

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The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Maitland Mercury, October 6)

Empire · Thursday 7 October 1852 · page 3

We have not obtained any further information respecting the Bingera diggings. We have been obliged with perusal of the following letter from Mr George Curtis to Mr. J. Borthwick respecting…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, October 7, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Gold Royalties

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 October 1852 · page 2

IT is very rarely that the Australian Colonies find a place in a Royal Speech, whether at the opening or closing of the Houses of Parliament. The Gold…

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Mining Intelligence. the New Gold Field

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 6

Amidst the thousand gold fields discovered since the first one only a few of which have been permanent, the latest, the mos[?] prominent, and the most promising, is that of the Ovens River diggings -- known by the various names of Spring Creek, Reid's…

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Gold Circulars

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

ALTHOUGH unmarked by any incident of peculiar moment, yet the past week has added forcibly to the oft-expressed conviction, that we need but population and moderate weather, to convince even the most captious, that…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 3

I have to report a continued dulness in the market for gold dast; but little has been offered at first hands, and prices in the early part of the week slightly receded but rallied again to some…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 3

There has been a great want of activity during the week, and our sales have been limited to a few parcels, sold privately, at prices annexed…

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The Northern Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 2

We have not obtained any further information respecting the Bingera diggings. We have been obliged with perusal of the following letter from Mr George Curtis to Mr J. Botthwick respecting…

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Proposed Additional Gold Regulation

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 7
Also in Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer

1. With a view to meet the applications of persons and companies desirous of employing capital and machinery in working alluvial gold, his Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to establish the…

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Tuena Gold Fields. -- Large Yields Obtained

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 7

The accounts we receive every day from Tuena, confirm our previous statements, both with respect to the size of the field and the large yields which have been obtained there. Several parties who have been on the ground have arrived in Goulburn to…

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The Northern Gold Fields. the Escort

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 7

On Thursday evening the third gold escort from Tamworth reached Maitland, bringing, as near as we could ascertain, the following amounts -- Ozs. From the Hanging Rock .......... 813…

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Effects of the Gold Discoveries. (From the Times.)

Empire · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 3

As far as regards the geueral changes which these discoveries are to products in the affairs of the world, it may be hoped few will be found to question that…

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English News. the Effects of the Gold Discoveries. (From the Times' City Article, June 15.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 7

THE considerations which, three years ago, were almost derided as to the probable effects of the increased supply of gold, are now assuming a preponderance over all other subjects…

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Original Correspondence. the Impolicy of an Export Gold Duty. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 3

SIR—Before the day arrives when it will be too late to express an opinion, I lift up my feeble voice to protest against the gross injustice that our Council propose to perpetrate upon themselves…

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REVIEW. Our Antipodes; or Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies. With a Glimpse of the Gold Fields. By Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Charles Mundy, Author of Pen and Pencil Sketches in India. In 3 volumes. Published by Bentley. First Notice

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 October 1852 · page 4

WE have had these volumes in our possession for several weeks, but the pressure of the Legislative Council business both on our time and our space prevented us from taking…

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The-northern Gold-fields

Empire · Monday 11 October 1852 · page 5

The following information, derived from various sources, is extracted from the Maitland Mercury, of Saturday:- "We have not much additional information…

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New Gold Companies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 October 1852 · page 2

WE take the following advertisements from late London papers:— AUSTRALIAN CORDILLERA GOLD AND COPPER MINING COMPANY.—Conducted on the…

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