Gold Mining
BRAIDWOOD GOLD-FIELDS.—There was some talk in town yesterday of a new rush in Araluen, gold having been struck in the Police Paddock, and some very payable prospects having been obtained. We hare yet had no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining & the mines, 1867
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The Gold-fields
THE news under this head is not very important or copious, but on the whole it is favourable. Emu Creek is gaining favour, and the yield of gold there latterly has been very good indeed. F[?]w new discoveries have been made, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Pick, the Gold-miner. Letter Vii. Upon Gold-fields' Agitators
IF you take the diggers in the lump, you won't find a quieter or more easily-managed lot of chaps anywhere. They don't care one red cent about politics, and don't trouble themselves a bit about whose in office, or what…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Currawang Copper Mine
We have been furnished with the following extracts from a letter received by the Secretary of the above copper mine :— We are ready to resume sinking the engine shafts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold Fields
The news from the various gold-fields of the colony has been of a very satisfactory character during the past mouth; in fact there appears to be at the present time a grantor amount of real prosperity amongst the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Defences—the Fitzroy Iron Mines. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR.—Now that the acerbity of feeling, manifested in several quarters at the application of the Fitzroy Company to Goverment for assistance, seems to have subsided, you will perhaps permit a person free from all party bias, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Pick, the Gold-miner. Letter Vii. (From the Sydney Mail, June 22) Upon Gold-fields' Agitators
IF you take the diggers in the lump, you won't find a quieter or more easily-managed lot of chaps anywhere. They don't care one red cent about politics, and don't trouble themselves a bit about whose in office, or what…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Better Than Gold
Better than gold is the sweet repose Of the sons of toil when their labours close; Better than gold is the poor man's sleep, And the balm that drops on his slumbers deep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Pick. the Gold Miner. Letter Viii. on Fees
WHEN I come to this Emu Creek rush, I wasn't early enough to get a good claim on tho main gully; but I set in upon the creek itself, a good bit below where the gully comes into it, and nearly in a line with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Gold-fields
THE news under this head is not very important or copious, but on the whole it is favourable. Emu Creek is gaining favour, and the yield of gold there latterly has been very good indeed. Few new discoveries have been made, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Pick, the Gold Miner. Letter Viii. (From the Sydney Mail, June 20.) on Fees
WHEN I came to this Emu Creek rush, I wasn't early enough to get a good claim on the main gully; but I set in upon the creek itself, a good bit below where the gully comes into it, and nearly in a line with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fearful Scene in a Cornish Mine
A sad accident occurred in North Levant Mine, St. Just, on Monday. Two minors were stopping in the 70-fathom level, going east, and knew that they approached part of an ajacent mine, Wheal Maitland,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Pick the Gold Miner. Letter Ix. on Official Demeanour
I've met with a precious lot of curious characters among the official chaps at the different diggings I've been working on. At first, that's when the goldfields first broke out, they were all a rough and ready…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Pick the Gold Miner. Letter Ix. (From the Sydney Mail, July 6) on Official Demeanour
I'VE met with a precious lot of curious characters among the official chaps at the different diggings I've been working on. At first, that's when the goldfields first broke out, they were all a rough and ready…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Labuan Coal Company. (From the Times.)
THE following extracts of a report from the Acting Governor of Labuan to the Colonial Office with regard to the operations of the China Steamship and Labuan Coal Company would seem to indicate that,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Mining
ARALUEN GOLD-FIELDS.—A correspondent of the Braid-wood Dispatch writes : With regard to mining nutters but little progress has been made during the put week. Those claims that are opening again are steadily carrying on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Foreign Intelligence. Great Britain. Accident in a Cornish Mine
A lamentable catastrophe is reported from the North Levant Mine St. Just. Two miners were stopping in the 70 fathom level, going east, and knew that they approached part of an adjacent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr.pick the Gold Miner. Letter X. Old Nugget
I'LL tell you how I first got hold of my horse Nugget. It ain't an every-day yarn, though there's many that, I've told it to. But, look here, I ain't one of them coves that goes about blowing of this, that, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Pick the Gold Miner. Letter X. (From the Sydney Mail, July 13) Old Nugget
I'LL tell you how I first got hold of my horse Nugget. It ain't an every-day yarn, though there's many that I've told it to. But, look here, I ain't one of them ooves that goes about blowing of this, that, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Pick, the Gold Miner. Letter Xi. Old Nugget (continued)
"THAT was a close shave," says the chap, about ten minutes after I'd got him on the bank, and he'd come round so as to be able to talk; "I almost give it up one time."…
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