A School of Mines
Nothing so retards the development of our mineral [?] and makes investments in them so hazardous [?] of trained scientific engineers geologists, as the [?] Whether money can of cannot be…
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Visit to the Quedong Copper Mine, Maneroo. [From a Correspondent.]
To attempt producing an interest in New South Wales by showing the commercial advantages of mining to its community is not the object of the present communication, but merely to chronicle a visit…
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OUR gold-fields continue in a most depressed and languishing condition, and [?]s a general rule, it may be and that they are so far worked out that the day of the individual miner has gone by. The digger, with his pick, shovel,…
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There is but little to report with reference to our gold-fields since the departure of the last mail via Suez. The escorts from the Western distrit continue to convey to the Mint rather more than the average…
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The total amount of coin issued from May 25 to June 22, was 187,000 sovereigns. The quantity of gold imported for the purpose of coinage during the same poried, was 39,740 ounces…
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Monday, April 9th the Barwon, steamer, arrived here from Dunedin, New Zealand, bringing amongst other fright, twenty-two boxes of gold dust, each containing 1000 ounces. The Barwon possessed no…
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A correspondent sonds the following account of the condition and prospects of these mines:- You will recollect last year I reported the beginning of the working ot these mines. After nearly twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Quartz Mines of Victoria. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—The accompanying report upon the quarts mines of Victoria, from my friend Mr. Nash, who made a trip to that colony at my request for the purpose of obtaining every information in connection with their working,…
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T. S. MORT, Esq, Sydney. DEAR SIR,—I have already extanded this report to larger dimensions than I conterplated, so I will only allude to one more reef at Malden, although there are many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold-fields Management. No. 11. to the Editor of the Empire
Sir,—In my last communication respecting the proposed new Gold-fields Act, I endeavoured to show the necessity of its being provided that some competent authority should have the power to frame mining laws…
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EXTRACT from "Dicker's Mining Record," January 24th, 1864, Vol. 3, No. 1, page 11:—"Mining Enterprise and Mining Speculation.—We copy the following from the London Mining Journal: 'We say now, what we have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Quartz Mines of Victoria. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR, â The accompanying report upon the quartz mines of Victoria, from my friend Mr. [?], who made a trip to that colony at my request for the purpose of obtaining every information in connection with their working,…
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A public meeting of shipowners, ship captains, coal morchants, and others interested, was held at Scott's Hotel on Tuesday afternoon, to consider the great detontion experienced by sailing veasels loading at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Ta[?]worth Examiner, June 30.)
THE PREL RIVER QUARTZ REEFS.—We are glad to be able to announce that the Alliance Quartz Mining Company have succeeded in completing the erection of the new boiler for their crushing, and that the machine…
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The following is copy of a petition lately forwarded to the Minister for Lands, from Burrangong, on the subject of the managment of the gold-fleds in New South Wales:…
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SIR,—The Melbourne Argus, 28th ultimo, contained an account of an influential meeting held there relative to certain difficulties experienced by sailing ships in this port. I hand you herewith a copy of a memorial upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Impolicy of the Gold Fields Laws and Regulations. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Aregold-fields more desirable, more precious, or more conducive to the wealth, and substantial prosperity of a nation, than mines of silver, or lead, or copper, or coal, or iron, &c.? Let those answer who are competent for the…
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A NEW alluvial diggings has been recently opened at Spicer's Creek, about sixteen miles beyond Mont[?]res, a township lying out westward of Wellington. The claims run from twenty-five to thirty feet deep, with a good supply…
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The following is a copy of a petition lately forwarded to the Minister for Lands, from Murrungong, on the subject of the management of the gold-fields in New South Wales:—…
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THE ROCKY RIVER.—Several years ago a tunnel known as the Cosmopolitan was driven into and through Mount Fungi, altogether a distance of upwurds of 500 feet, but, like many other such undertakings, the stuff when…
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