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Mining & the mines, 1853

822 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 42

Great Nugget Vein Gold Mining Company of Australia

Empire · Saturday 6 August 1853 · page 6

A General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Great Nugget Vein Gold Mining Company of Australia was held at the Long Room, Mort's Commercial Buildings, Pitt-street, Sydney, on…

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Gold Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 August 1853 · page 4
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

WE have further advices from Braidwood, confirming previous reports of fresh deposits of great richness having been discovered on Major'a Creek and Bell's Creek. These diggings are quite alive again owing to the…

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Mining Intelligence

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 August 1853 · page 6

The repeated floods render my communication this week very meagre. The weather is very changeable; frequent showers have fallen; the days are warm, but the nights are cold and frosty. With regard to mining affairs there is nothing peculiarly…

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Gold, Its Past, Present, and Future. (From the Home News, May 9.)

Empire · Saturday 6 August 1853 · page 7

The substance of the following curious and interesting paper is derived from the last number of the New Quarterly Review. The writer sets out by laying down a great monetary law, drawn…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Monday 8 August 1853 · page 2

The more settled weather of the last fortnight has produced its good effects at our Western Digaings, as is shown in the quantity received by this day's Escort. The scattered population on our mines is little better…

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Gold Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 August 1853 · page 5

WE are unwilling to allow the Argo to depart from our shores for home, without the latest information as to our present condition and prospects, although but little alteration has taken place since the departure of the…

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Gold Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 August 1853 · page 5

THE market, this week, has been very active, every shipper availing himself of the opportunity of shipping by the steamer Argo, which vessel will take upwards of 30,000 ounces from this port. There is a large…

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Melbourne Gold Circular

Empire · Tuesday 9 August 1853 · page 3

Gold has maintained its price (£3 17s. 6d.) firm throughout the week, and the demand for shipment by the Argo having begun, it is not anticipated there will be any alteration until the sailing of that vessel…

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The Gold Fields. (From our Special Reporter.) THE OVENS.—No. VIII. Spring Creek, July 26th, 1853

Empire · Wednesday 10 August 1853 · page 3

The population continues rapidly to increase at these diggings. Teams daily pour in, accompained by scores of diggers, chiefly from the Melbourne side. Great numbers of the old Ovens…

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Council Paper. Tambaroora Gold Mines. (Garden Plots.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 August 1853 · page 2

LETTER from Mr. Commissioner Green to the Colonial Secretary. Gold Commissioner's Office, Bathurst, 22nd July, 1853…

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Gold Shipped in the Argo

Empire · Thursday 11 August 1853 · page 2

Oz. dwt. gr. Additional—Australian Gold Co.... 628 0 0 R. Thomas......... 72 15 0 John Bernasconi... 52 11 0…

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The Southern Gold Fields. (From the Goulburn Herald's Correspondent.)

Empire · Thursday 11 August 1853 · page 2

At Bell's Creek, Mr. Duguid's party have splendid prospects now revealed to them. A little outlay will be necessary to repair some of the mischief that has been done, but that being…

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The Northern Gold Fields. Iron Bark, Bingera, and Rocky River Diggings

Empire · Thursday 11 August 1853 · page 2

A correspondent of the Mailland Mercury, under date August 2, writes we follows:— As I have lately visited the Rocky River, Bin[?]era, and Wyndham's Bingera Spring Creek…

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This Northern Gold Fields. Iron Bark, Binoera, and Rocky River Diggings. (From a Correspondent of the Maitland Mercury,)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 August 1853 · page 2

AUGUST 2, 1853.—As I have lately visited the Rocky River, Bingera, and Wyndham's Bingera Spring Creek Diggings, I send you the following report…

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Original Correspondence. Gold Fields Regulation Act. Sale or Lease Preferable to License. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 August 1853 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Before the Select Committee appointed by the Legislative Council, on the subject of the Regulation of the Gold Fields make their report, I am desirous to offer a suggestion,…

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Mining Intelligence. Current Price of Gold

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 August 1853 · page 2

£ s. d. New South Wales.... 3 15 6 Victoria........... 3 17 6 to 3 17 9 Ovens.............. 3 16 0 to 3 17 0…

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Gold Circulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 August 1853 · page 5

THE latest news from all our mines continues to show signs of reviving activity and prosperity. We must remain contented with these glimpses of future wellbeing until the weather becomes more settled, but yet…

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Gold Circular

Empire · Saturday 13 August 1853 · page 3

This week does not afford any thing of interest, respecting the progress of our mining operations. The continued rains have so inundated the roads that no communication or escorts have been resolved during the…

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Melbourne Gold Circular

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 August 1853 · page 7

Gold has maintained its price (£3 17s, 6d.) firm throughout the week, and the demand for shipment by the Argo having begun it is not anticipated there will be any alteration until the sailing of that vessel…

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