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The estimated value of all the gold in Europe and America, in the year 1848 (before gold was discovered in California), was £550,000,000; and the value of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold has been maintained throughout the week at 77s. The demand fur shipment to other quarters of the globe than Great Britain is increasing, which gives an upward tendency to the market…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An illustrious and voluminous historian favoured the world, not long ago, with an elaborate argument to show that the concentration of Anglo-Saxon colonists in certain Transatlantic and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In our last number of Peruvian news, we gave some information relative to the extraordinary discovery of gold in the bed of the river Amnzon. Since then we published, in the Spanish part of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Every friend and well-wisher of this colony has long painfully witnessed the continuance, week after week, of the issue of Gold Circulars, by some of the dealers in gold, and other merchants in this city. The minute returns of the quantities have been given…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →My communication this week must necessarily be short, there being nothing of general interest to report. The Christmas holidays are nearly over; a subject of congratulation to us certainly; for a more miserable Christmas I aever before…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hanging Rock, Saturday, Dec. 24, 1853. Captain Price has notified his intention of throwing open the Cordillera Company's diggings to the public. Licenses are to be granted on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is not much doing at Reid's Creek Diggings, or on Spring Creek. A ureat rush lias taken place to Buckland River, and parties, I believe, are doing exceedingly well. I know one party who realised on tire average 6 ozs. a day. Numbers are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain Price has notified his intention of thrown open the Cordillera Company's diggings to the public. Licenses are to be granted on Monday next. The license fee will be £3 5s. per month, £3 for the Company, and 5s. for the government. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OUR market has not been very active during the week, owing to the small quantity arriving. Many enquiries have been made for the Eastern trade; and £3 14s. 9d. for New South Wales, £3 17s. for Port Phillip, can be quoted as the present rates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THAT copper is to be found in many of the ranges in the western district has been long known, but it is only within the last four or five years that any systematic attempts have been made to test the quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE estimated value of all the gold in Europe and America, in the year 1848 (before gold was discovered in California), was £550,000,000; and the value of the annual produce of all the gold mines of the world,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great dullness has prevailed throughout the past week, and the operations in gold have been of a very limited character, with a tendency to a slight decline in price, but insufficient to alter my last quotations, viz.—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is another name formally added to the list of claimants for Government rewards, on account of being first gold discoverer in Australia. We think it a black, burning, shame to name him; but we must do it, even if we offend our own feelings in so doing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The gold market alightly rallied from the depression of last week, when the price rose from 76s. to 76s. A decided want of animation, however, was felt, which will to a certain extent continue until the arrival of next…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ordinary travellers, working gold diggers and scientific men who have visited the Tambaroora country, all agree in the opinion that so far as external appearances indicate the auriferous character of the earth, no more promising field offers itself to the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bathurst Free Press of Saturday contains some particulars of the recent discovery of a rich quartz vein at Tambaroora. About 150 diggers were working on the spot, many of whom were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—On the 27th December, 1853, a vein of Quartz was discovered at the Bald Hill, leading into the Golden Gully, Tambaroora, which for richness of production stands unrivalled in the annals of Quartz yielding Gold…
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