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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1860

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Gold News

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 August 1860 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, Freeman's Journal

THE KIANDRA DIGGINGS.—A gentleman who has just arrived from Kiandra informs us that when he left there were between fifteen and sixteen hundred persons on the diggings, including a number of…

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Defence of Colonel Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 August 1860 · page 8

OUR Auckland contemporary, the New Zealander, of the 1st instant, contains the following extracts from a private letter, which had been forwarded to the Editor for publication. The writer says:—…

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Our Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 August 1860 · page 8

IN noticing the mining prospects of the district, the Braidwood Obstruer of Saturday last says:-" During the week we have spent a couple of days at the various diggings, and are pleased to find that the…

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Gold News

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 August 1860 · page 4

10TH AUGUST.—The weather continued unusually fine up to the evening of the 8th instant. A south-west wind then set in, accompanied by a slight fall of snow, with sleet at intervals…

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Australian Geology and Mine Ralogy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 August 1860 · page 5

UPON the occasion of Archbishop Polding's last visit to Rome, some few years ago, he was requested by Signor Sanguinetti, Professor of the Geological Museum of the Sapienza College of that city, to…

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The Gold-fields

Empire · Tuesday 21 August 1860 · page 2

The past month has been marked by events which have excited renewed interest in the progress of gold mining in this colony. On the 21st July a nugget weighing 27 lbs. was discovered near the surface of the ground, at Surface…

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Our Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 August 1860 · page 7

WHILST the attention of our people has been principally directed to the Snowy River diggings as the most promising of our gold-fields, nothing has transpired since our last notice of…

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Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 August 1860 · page 8

THE half-yearly general meeting of the sharsr sholders of this Company waa held on 23rd July, at. their office, in the Exchange. Mr. C. Kemp, M L.A., took the chair. The following report was read and…

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Chaplains for the Gold-fields. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 August 1860 · page 8

SIR,—I am glad your correspondent has noticed, so prominently, the necessity of providing for the celebration of public worship at the Snowy River. I think, however, his remarks have taken the wrong…

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Gold News

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 August 1860 · page 4

GOLD FROM BUNGONIA.—Which all eyes are turned to the Snowy River, and all hearts filled with the wildest anticipations of [?]s riches and favourable effect upon the material prosperity of the district, the feyer of excitement is not likely to be stated by…

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Consumption of Gold

The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 25 August 1860 · page 17

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Gold News

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 August 1860 · page 5

THE WASHED-AWAY CHEEK.—A young man who has just returned from the Washed-away Creek; near Bungonia, informs us that he saw between twenty and thirty persons at work there, all of whom appeared to be getting gold, though not in…

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Reminiscences of a Gold-digger

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 August 1860 · page 5

ON the gold-fields, some few years ago, when the claims were much smaller than those allowed now, in consequence of the richness of the ground, scarcely a day passed but there were several disputes, and the commissioner was…

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Quartz Mining

Empire · Friday 31 August 1860 · page 5

THE following letter from parties anxious to enter into quartz crashing operation at Adelong, has been towarded to J. B. Wilson, Esq., the member for the Southern Gold-flields…

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Southern Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 September 1860 · page 6

THE Deputy Master of the Mint and Professor Smith, University of Sydney, to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, reporting on their visit to the Southern Gold-fields…

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Our Southern Gold Fields

Sydney Mail · Saturday 1 September 1860 · page 2

THE Rev. Mr. CLARKE has just re-issued from the press his official reports on the Southern Gold-fields, a detailed notice of which we mast postpone till a future occasion. These…

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Scientific Gold Seeking. Researches in the Southern Gold-Fields of New south Wales, by the Rev. W.B.CLARKES, M.A., &c., &c., &c

Empire · Saturday 1 September 1860 · page 3

THE individuals Comprising the mining populations of New, south Wales belong to a Very difference class of men in,1860 from those who, in the ealier days of our gold history pursued thi branch…

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Premiscences of a Gold-digger

Sydney Mail · Saturday 1 September 1860 · page 2

ON the gold-fields, some few years ago, when the claims were much smaller than those allowed now, in consequence of the richness of the ground, scarcely a day passed but there were several disputes, and the commissioner was…

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