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Mining & the mines, 1858

279 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 14

The Gold-fields. Mudgee. [From a Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 October 1858 · page 6

GOLD, GOLD, GOLD!!!—During the past week several large parcels of gold have been brought into mudgee by diggers from the Meroo, Pip[?]lay, and Guntawang diggings. Gold has likewise been obtained the last few days by one or two parties within a…

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The Fitz Roy Gold Field

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 October 1858 · page 2

The people are returning from the Fitz Roy more rapidly, if possible, than they rushed thither. The Admella (s) arrived last Sunday, with 15 cabin, and 170 cabin passengers. The Grand Trianon, ship, arrived on…

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Fitzroy Gold-fields. [From Our Special Commissioner.] No. V. Rockhampton, 25th October, 1858

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 October 1858 · page 4

EVERYTHING here remains in statu quo, and but for the arrivals and departures there would be a complete stagnation. Nothing doing—no news—no money stirring; all at the very last…

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Gold News.—campbelltown. [From Our Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 November 1858 · page 5

SATURDAY EVENING.—There is considerable excitement now in our locality relative to the existence of gold in two or three places, and a sample has been produced to verify the fact. Whether it exists in…

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Our Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 November 1858 · page 4

MEETING TO DEVELOPE THE AURIFEROUS WEALTH OF ARGYLE.—A meeting to consider the means necessary to develope the auriferous wealth of the county of Argyle was held yesterday evening, at the…

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The Fitz Roy Gold Field

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 November 1858 · page 2

Vessels have continued to arrive throughout the week, bringing back their living freights nf disappointed dig gers; the intellignce being still of an unsatisfactory, discouraging description…

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Fitzroy Gold-fields. [From Our Special Commissioner.] No. VI. Rockhampton, October 29, 1858

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 November 1858 · page 5

YOU will have learnt by the Yarra Yarra that the report circulated here that it was the Rialto that had gone ashore on the spit, in Keppel Bay, was incorrect, in so far as the name of the vessel…

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The Fraser River Gold-fields, &c. (From the Correspondent of the Alta California.) Victoria, September 5, 1858

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 November 1858 · page 3

AFFAIRS in Victoria, I am obliged to say, have been growing from bad to worse for the last five weeks. Everything has been flattened out—subsided—wil[?]ed. We have a town of stores, filled with goods, and few…

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The Transient Prosperity of Gold Countries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 November 1858 · page 6

WE gather from the Melbourne Press that the migration to Port Curtis has produced in many minds very serious forebodings. Those who had looked closely into the history of gold mining…

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One Hundred and Twenty Pounds Weight of Gold Found in One Lump of Quartz. [From Our Burrendong Correspondent]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 November 1858 · page 4

NOVEMBER 6.—On Monday evening, 1st instant, a steady working party, consisting of Messrs. Johnson (2), Travers, and T. Grecian, owning a claim on the same line, but about 150 yards…

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Postscript to the Summary for England. an Enormous Gold Find

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 November 1858 · page 2

OUR Burrendong correspondent writes to us on the 5th November:—"On Monday evening, 1st instant, a steady working party, consisting of Messrs. Johnson (2), Travers, and T. Grecian, owning a claim on the…

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BURRENDONG. (From Correspondent of Bathurst Times, Nov. 10) Another Enormous Yield of Gold

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 November 1858 · page 2

Hearing that a large mass of gold had been found at Burrendong, I went there without delay to assure myself of the truth of the statement; and to my astonishment, was shown a bucket full of bruised and battered gold,…

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One Hundred and Twenty Pounds Weight of Gold Found in One Lump Op Quartz

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1858 · page 2

November 6.— On Monday evening, 1st instant a steady working party, consisting of Messrs. Johnson (2), Travers, and T. Grecian, owning a claim on the same line, but about 150 yards from…

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Fitzroy Iron and Coal Works

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1858 · page 5

A MEETING of the proprietors of the Fitzroy Iron and Coal Works, was held on Thursday, at the office of Mr. H. W. Johnson, the Chairman of the Board of Management, Sussex-street. This was the first…

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The Rise, Fury, and Fall of the Vancouver Gold Fever. (From the San Francisco Daily Bulletin, 15th September.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 November 1858 · page 7

AN old correspondent from the North gives us an amusing narrative of the origin, progress, and decline of a violent gold-fever, which recently broke out at Victoria, Vancouver Island. Our readers will…

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Fitzroy Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 December 1858 · page 5

EXTRACT from a letter received by the Eagle:- "December 1.—I am glad you received the gold by Simmons, and I suppose you did not think we should get any here; but you will receive by the Eagle a receipt for 41 oz., for which I gave…

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A Visit to the Western Goldfields. [From Our Special Reporter] No. III

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 December 1858 · page 2

RESUMING the road at Atkinson's Creek, on the right is a dead level, three-quarters of a mile wide, becoming contracted as it approaches the ranges. There are a few puddlers here, doing well; and fragments of…

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A Visit to the Western Goldfields. [From Our Special Reporter.] No. IV

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 December 1858 · page 3

TAXING a farewell of Palmer's Oakey, and following the river to the westward through the narrow defile in the mountains known as, the Gulf, from which it has burst, overcoming all obstacles to its downward course,…

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The Fitzroy Gold-fields. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 December 1858 · page 3

SIR,—The Fi[?]zroy Canoona gold-fields are like the Bingera surface diggings in the Liverpool Plains district-in the manner its gold, of a considerable size, is scattered broadcast over a flat country, and in its…

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Supposed Gold-field Near Maitland. (From Yesterday's Mercury)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 December 1858 · page 5

ON Tuesday evening a public meeting was held at the Commercial Hotel, West Maitland, for the purpose of taking further steps with reference to the reported discovery of a gold-field near the Paterson. The meeting…

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