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Mining & the mines, 1853

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Geelong Gold Circular

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 July 1853 · page 3

The price this week has declined a little, 77s. being now the buying figure, and with the appearance of being still lower, It is perfectly evident that even the present quotation is an extreme one…

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Melbourne Gold Circular

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 16 July 1853 · page 7

The price of gold remains at 77s., and the quantities offered for sale have been readily purchased. Following up the first quarterly statements, ending March last of the amount of gold brought by escorts to Melbourne and…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Braidwood

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 16 July 1853 · page 5

July 4. -- My weekly budget will contain but few items of information. Every other subject is absorbed in one -- the flood. Yesterday week we had showers and the threatening appearances that usually precede wet weather. On Monday evening it began…

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Mining Intelligence. the Turon

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 16 July 1853 · page 5

The heavy falls of rain and snow have seriously impeded the operations of the diggers, and the constantly flooded state of the river has caused them to abandon all hopes of working their claims, for some months to come. On some parts of the surrounding…

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The Northern Gold Fields. the Hanging Rock. Hanging Rock, July 2, 1853

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 16 July 1853 · page 7

This place at present has a most desolate and deserted appearance, and numbers are daily leaving; for the last month we have had very unfavourable weather for mining purposes, not more than one party out of twenty I should think have been able…

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Mints in Australia, and Prices of Gold. (From the Examiner, March 12.)

Empire · Saturday 16 July 1853 · page 7

In treating the subject of gold and its prices we have given some reasons for thinking that little disturbance in the value of property is to be apprehended from the…

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The Indian Govenrment and the Gold Coinage. (From the Economist, April 2.)

Empire · Saturday 16 July 1853 · page 8

Grave misconceptions appear to exist in the public mind, and most dangerous and subversive doctrines are openly advocated, in relation to the late act of the Indian Government, in refusing to…

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The Gold Fields

Empire · Wednesday 20 July 1853 · page 2

Correspondents to the Goulburn Herald of last Saturday communicate the following intelligence:— BRAIDWOOD…

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Export of Australian Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 July 1853 · page 4

List of consignees, and quantities of Australian gold, by the ship Childe Harold, Captain Prymm, which sailed yesterday, for London:— Ozs. dwts. grs…

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Sydney Gold Escort Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 July 1853 · page 2
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THE half-yearly Meeting of this Company was held at the Company's Office, yesterday. Mr. George A. Lloyd in taking the chair, stated that he occupied that position in consequence of having been sent into the direction at the…

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Returns of Gold Revenue

Empire · Friday 22 July 1853 · page 2

FROM the returns of Gold Revenue, laid on the table by the Colonial Secretary, May 18, we learn that the total amount of revenue received during the seven…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 23 July 1853 · page 5

The weather having elcared up, and the roads become passable; was have received the usual escorts, but the quantities of gold coming forward fall short of the usual supply from many of the mining…

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Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 July 1853 · page 5

THE receipts of gold per escort at the Treasury, during the past fortnight, have been from Braidwood, 234 ozs.; from Major's Creek, 65 ozs.; from Goulburn, 22 ozs.; from Bathurst, 70 ozs.; from Sofala, 882 ozs.; from…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 23 July 1853 · page 5

The demand for gold has continued this week, and prices fully maintained, and higher prices have been given for large parcels. The only gold now offering is the produce of our own mines. Scarcely any Port Phillip…

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Mining Intelligence the Turon

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 23 July 1853 · page 7

The Turon has again been visited with a heavy flood, heavier than any we have experienced during the present year, and attended I regret to say with loss of life. One individual we know has been hurried into eternity whilst in a state of inebriety…

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The Southern Gold Fields. Braid Wood. June 28, 1853

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 23 July 1853 · page 7

The total quantity of gold transmitted by Escort and Mail since the beginning of this year does not exceed 15,000 ounces. Some 2,500 ounces however have been forwarded from Goulburn. and no doubt some of this has been the produce of this district…

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The Gold Fields. the OVENS.—No. XVI. (From our Special Reporter.) Spring Creek, July 5th, 1853

Empire · Saturday 23 July 1853 · page 6

During the past week the fine weather has enabled the diggers to continue their washing operations, and if the weather keep fine it is probable that the amount…

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The Northern Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 July 1853 · page 2

THE HANGING ROCK, July 16.—The weather is still very unsettled, but the diggers have taken advantage of the few days fine weather for mining purposes. Most parties are making…

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Geelong Gold Circular

Empire · Tuesday 26 July 1853 · page 3

The buying price has advanced slightly on that of last week, 77s. 3d. being at this date the quotation. There has been an awakened demand for the article, with the supply under the weekly average…

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