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Mining & the mines, 1852

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Gold News of the Week

Empire · Monday 11 October 1852 · page 4

The gold brought in during the last week is as follows:—From Braidwood, 345 ozs. 16 dwts. 16 grs.; Major's Creek, 108 ozs. 18 dwts.; Bell's Creek, 48 ozs. 19dwts. 12 grs.; Gundagai, 34ozs.;…

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Council Paper. Additional Gold Regulation

Empire · Monday 11 October 1852 · page 3

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…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 October 1852 · page 3

WE have not much additional information from parties who have been at either of the northern diggings. A gentleman who left Bingera some four or five weeks since reports…

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Speculation About Gold. (From the Economist, June 26.)

Empire · Monday 11 October 1852 · page 2

We have had further arrivals from Australia in the course of the week, bringing more gold, and bringing, intelligence that the value of that…

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Arrival of Gold

Empire · Tuesday 12 October 1852 · page 2

By the armed escort, which arrived yesterday from the Southern Diggings, the following consignments of gold were received at the Treasury. As no lists were received with the gold, we are…

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The Road to the Tuena Gold Field Through Goulburn. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 October 1852 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In one of your late issues I find you falling into the same error, when speaking of the distance from Goulbourn to the Tuena diggings, as you did in the early part of this…

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Jottings From the Note-book of a Gold-seeker. No. Iii. Rides and Rambles in and About Melbourne. Sept. 28, 1852

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 October 1852 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the scenery in the neighbournood of the capital of Victoria can lay claim to but little pretension of what Dr. Syntax left his home in search of, still there are many…

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Exiraction of Gold

Empire · Thursday 14 October 1852 · page 2

WE have before us a description of an invention Which has been patented by Mr. William Longmaid, a scientific gen[?]leman in London, for the extraction of…

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The Northern Gold Fields

Empire · Thursday 14 October 1852 · page 3

The following particulars, embodying the latest intelligence from the northern gold fields, is copied from the Maitland Mercury of yesterday. We learn from Maitland residents, who have…

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The Diggings. the Northern Gold Fields

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 14 October 1852 · page 10

We have not much additional information from parties who have been at either of the northern diggings. A gentleman who left Bingera some four or five weeks since reports that up to that time…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 October 1852 · page 2

WE learn from Maitland residents who have just returned from the Hanging Rock, that the superabundance of water has lessened there to some extent, but still continues to interrupt the…

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Geelong Gold Circular

Empire · Friday 15 October 1852 · page 3

The price this week opened at 68s, but showing a downward tendency; at the present date it may be quoted at 67s. 6d. to 67s. 9d. Buyers are not quite so numerous as formerly, the hitherto…

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Melbouune Gold Circular

Empire · Friday 15 October 1852 · page 3

The Gold market has flu[?]tanted very little this week, on account of the steady demand for the metal. It opened at 67s. 9d. The closing price was 68s. The supply however was scarcely equal…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 16 October 1852 · page 2

In the early part of the week, there was a brisk demand for gold, and prices Advanced from 3d, to 6d. per ounce on our previous sales at auction; several exlensive buyers held off for the…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 16 October 1852 · page 2

Since the issue of my last Circular, transactions in gold have received considerable auimation from various causes, but chiefly owing to the advices from Victoria which have been of a very…

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Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 October 1852 · page 5
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

IN the absence of any intelligence of peculiar importance from our mining districts, it is still our pleasing task to place on record the all but universal feeling expressed by our miners, of increasing satisfaction with…

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Melbourne Gold Circular

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 16 October 1852 · page 4

The Gold Market has fluctuated very little this week, on account of the steady demand for the metal. It opened at 67s. 9d. The closing price was 68s. The supply however was scarcely equal to the demand, towards the end of the week owing to the quantity…

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The Northern Gold Fields

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 16 October 1852 · page 2
Also in The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator

We learn from Maitland residents, who have just returned from the Hanging Rock, that the superabundance of water has lessened there to some extent, but still continues to interrupt the…

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