Mining Intelligence
LAUCHLAN Escorts.—The smallness of the Lachlan escorts for the last few weeks baa given rise to gloomy forebodings of the decline of the goldfield. More rational individuals only realize what they…
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The Waratah Coal Mine
By the last mail advices were received from England stating that the orders for waggons, rails, and other mining plant for the Waratah coal-mine were in course of execution. The works for the formation…
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THE record of the past month is one that presents but few features of interest. The continuance of the drought materially affects the miner as it does the agriculturist. Nay even…
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It would appear that the long continued drought has enabled a number of miners to set in to work upon Maitland Point on the Rocky River, a spot hitherto unworkable by reason of the impossibility of keeping…
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From the Lachlan, the accounts continue to be encouraging, the different claims as they get down striking gold, in larger or smaller quantities, but always large enough to pay. Luckily this has been…
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The Great Southern Railway being about to be extended as far as Mittagong, negotiations have recently been entered into with a view to the working of the iron mine at that place. Several years ago a company…
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We have in previous Summaries alluded to the erection of extensive smelting works at the Cadiangullong mine near Orange, the property of the Scottish Australian Mining Company, and we have now to…
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WE reported in our last Summary, that two or three Sydney capitalists had formed themselves into a company, for the purpose of working an extraordinarily rich copper mine, recently discovered, at the…
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HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to make the following further regulations, under the Gold-fields Act of 1861. JOHN ROBERTSON,…
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THE OVENS.—How grand is the future of this country; the heart swells when we think of the millions of our fellow country men that will one day find happy homes and plenty of work amongst…
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ANOTHER NEW REEF AT ADELONG.—On Tuesday last application was made to the commissioner for a claim in the neighbourhood of Williamstown, by Mr. William Williams, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Frogs in Coal. To the Editor of the Times
SIR,—Among the specimens of coal in the British collection there is one which is deserving of attention for beyond all others, and to judge from the numbers of persons whom I have repeatedly seen assembled before…
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A VISIT TO OPHIR.—This, the first and oldest gold-field in New South Wales, is chiefly by the Chinese and a handful of Europeans. Why it should be all but deserted it is difficult to understand,…
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The Otago Daily Times, of the 1st instant, states that the usual fortnightly escort arrived in Dunedin on the afternoon of the 31st ultimo, bringing the following quantities of gold:—…
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THE FITZROY IRON MINE.—The Great Southern Railway being about to be extended as far as Mittagong, negotiations have recently been entered into with a view to the working of the iron mine…
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On Thursday last the Culloden steamer brought up from Port Arthur, the penal settlement of the colony, some specimens of quartz very rich in gold. If these were actually obtained from a reef in that locality, there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Orange Copper Mines. (From the Western Examiner.)
SOME time has elapsed since we were in a position to afford reliable information as to the condition and prospects of the Orange [?] Mines. From a personal inspection made a few days ago, we lay the following…
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NEW DIGGINGS.—The following information reached our office a few days ago:—"A new diggings has been found on Woredong Creek, about lour miles from Louisa Creek, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. Presentation of the Gold Medals to the Representative of the Late Richard O'hara Burke and to Captain Blak[?]ston, R.a
THE PRESIDENT said—The first duty which I have to perform is to present the medals. But before I do so I may, perhaps, be allowed to remind you that these honours are not the gift of a society of private…
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JEMBAICUMBENE DIGGINS.—Reports from these digging affirm that most of the miners located there are doing a fair stroke, the want of water not being nearly so much felt as upon most of the other…
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