Bulli Coal Mining Company
THE half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday, at 3 o'clock, at the offices of the company, Sydney Exchange. Mr, G. W. Allen occupied the chair…
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The Icely Copper Mines
IN our last summary we noticed the progress that had been made in developing the richness of the Icely copper miues. The following report, by Captain Gundry, has been handed to us for publication, with reference to this and the…
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Yesterday afternoon, the seventh half-yearly general meeting of the above company was held in the Chamber of Commerce. According to the report, it appeared that at the last half-yerly meeting it was resolved by…
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THE half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday, at the offices of the company, Pitt-street, at 12 o'clock. Mr. Benjamin Buchanan in the chair…
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IN the last number of the Quarterly Journal of Soience is an article on British gold mines, by Mr. Robert Hunt, F.R.S., in which occurs the following reference to the new discovery of the sodium process…
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IN the last number of the Quarterly Journal of Science is an article on British gold mines, by MR. Robert Hunt, F.R.S., in which occurs the following reference to the new discovery of the sodium process…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand. Latest From Hokitika and the Grey River Gold-fields
WE have papers from the West Coast to the 22nd ultimo. There have been heavy rains and considerable destraction of property, particularly along the coast, the roads in many paris being all but impassable…
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Information was last night received by telegram, of a most daring robbery at the Ironbark diggings, between Ornnge and Wellington. Two robbers on horseback, and well armed, rode up to Smith's quartz crushing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold Commissioners and Retrenchment. to the Editor of the Empire
Sir,—The reading world has at length been favoured, through your columns, with the produce of the labours of the official triumvirate appointed by Mr. Cowper to shape out some scheme of retrenchment for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Xperience of an Onedicated Quarts Miner. Wild Cat Mining District. Utopia City, Oct. the 1st. 1865
EDITURS SPIRIT:—It hez bin sum time sence I hev taken my gra goose quill in hand havin not had the use of the same (meanin the hand) hevin fallen oph a dump where I was lookin to see if they had struck any of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Nundle Gold-fields. "Palmam qui meruit ferat." To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Observing in your publication of 26th ultimo a very interesting letter from your correspondent of the Rocky River, wherein there is a liborious attempt by a fulile array of figures to assume for that locality the first rank in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Oyster Mine
Dieppe (it is an old saying) is built upon oyster) shells. The fine road stretching away to Pourville is a vast oyster bed. An enthusiastic consumer said to me (writes a correspondent, of the Morning Post,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →View in Gipps' Land.—gold Mining on the Dargo
THE Dargo is one of the rivers in the highly auriferous district of Gipps' Land, which immediately joins the southern boundary of New South Wales. Gold is found in greater or less abundance at the heads of most of the Gipps' Land rivers, but it is…
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OUR gold-mines continue to show a falling-off in the yield of the precious metal. Whether the drought, which has prevented alluvial digging, has had any share in bringing this about we are not prepared to say, since the…
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A layer of bituminous coal has been opened on the grounds of the Fitzroy Iron Company, from which coke, suitable for puddling purposes, can be made. Preparations are making for erecting two new furnaces…
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The Westorn escort arrived during the week, and delivered at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint, the following quantities of gold dust:—From Sofala, 1019 ozs. 12 dwts. 22 grs.; Bathurst, 931 oz. 10 dwts. 22…
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The incessant rains on some of our gold-fields have been nearly as much against the prosecution of mining matters, as the previous long continued drought. In some localities claims have been entirely flooded, and it…
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Early last Spring we called the attention of the public to reveral processes for obtaining the precious metals from the ores then in use or undergoing experiment. Among those attracting the most attention was…
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