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SIR,—In answer to "K.", the purity of gold is ascertained by the touch; the writer has personally seen it (in China) in practice. A particular kind of stone is used, brought from Germany, and called, from this use, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EIGHT miles from Berrima. (Camden county) occurs an extensive vein of iron ore, which has been purchased by a company; various buildings erected, and some machinery, but no furnace sufficiently powerful…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THERE is a noticeable difference between the spaculations in gold and those in silver and nickel, viz, that gold is really almost unnecessary in ordinary business transactions. The Government needs some gold to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday morning, about one hundred and fifty gentlemen, many of them connected with leading mercantile firms in this city, who had been invited by the directors of the Bulli Cost Mining Company to spend the day in a visit to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OF all the gold-fields that we have recently visited, there are nene in point of richness equal to those of Upper Adelong, Reedy Flat, and Tumbarumba. The only drawback appears to be want of population, but…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE DIGGINGS UPON THE SHOALHAVEN.—Aa other places begin to fail the miners are betaking themselves in considerable numbers to the banks of the Shoalhaven river. Large parties…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[This paper was written before the present renewal of work at the mines.] BIGHT miles from Berrima (Camdea country) occurs an extensive vein of iron ore, which has been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →8TH JUNE.—Since the proprietorship of Minmi has merged into a company, principally of Melbourne gentlemen, great changes have been made in the management of the colliery here, so much so that all the old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW RUSH AT BURRANGONG.—Another rush, which promises to be successful, has taken place to a new spot of ground at the head of Duffer Gully. On Saturday six holes were bottomed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THAT the Gold Fields of New South Wales are one of the principal sources of its wealth and prosperity is a truism which is admitted by all parties, but is acted upon by none. It is a subject which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAKE MAQUARIE, 15th June.—In my last communication to yon I promised, at no distant date, to give you some information relative to the progress of free selection in this part of the [?]clony, for since the passing of the Land…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JUNE 8.—A prospecting association has been formed here, through the agency of which one party has been equipped, and has already commenced operations. To follow in its track another is in process of formation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE is scarcely an iota of intelligence connected with mining that has not already been exhausted. Nothing new has transpired to relieve tbe prevailing dullness. A few additional calims on the South Lead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Hon. Secretary for Lands appears at last to have come to the conc[?] that the administration of the goldfields is not quite so perfect as it might be; and, in order to take steps towerds doing what [?] be done by way of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the Lachlan, the old claims are now fast washing up, the results f[?] answering anticipations, averaging on the whole about 1 oz. to the load. Nothing new has been done, although prospects have been tried in several places. These…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burrangong is once more holding up its head, for though the Back Creek rush has not proved so favourable as had been anticipated, yet a large number of good payable holes have been bottomed, and have given employment to many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accounts from the Rocky River state that very severe frosty weather has set in there, the mornings and nights being excessively cold. Mining affairs continue very dull here…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The intelligence from the Moruya Silver Mine continues to be satisfactory. The company have just finished the erection of their steam engine for pumping and hauling, end are now enabled to keep out the water, and to proceed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THE BURRANGONG GOLD FIELDS.—The Herald's correspondent at Young writes respecting these gold-fields as follows:—"Since my last report of these gold-fields two new rushes have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GOLD AND COPPER.—The following is an extract from a letter to a mer[?]t in Rockhampton : —"Yesterday I visited the copper and gold mines, and found about sixty diggers at work, all of them…
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