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Mining & the mines, 1868

282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 15

Saving Gold in the Mill. (From the Alta California.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1868 · page 3

BY ordinary milling in California 50 per cent, is the average that we can obtain of the gold which, can be got from the same ore by fire assay. That is to say, we lose fifty of every one hundred dollars that are in…

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Saving Gold in the Mill

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 January 1868 · page 7

BY ordinary milling in California 50 per cent, is the average that we can obtain of the gold which can be got from the same ore by fire assay. That is to say, we lose fifty of every one hundred dollars that are is…

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Arrival of the Alexandra at Adelaide. with the English Mail. Alteration in Despatch of the Mails. £2,000,000 Sterling Voted for Abyssinian Expedition. Execution of Fenians. Colliery Explosion, 170 Persons Killed. [From Our King George's Sound Telegraphic Correspondent.] Adelaide, Saturday, 6 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1868 · page 5

THE Alexandra (s.), Captain Brown, arrived at Glenelg at 3 p.m., after a fine passage of ninety-nine hours from the Sound. The upward trip occupied 121 hours, against a strong westerly…

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The Terrible Explosion at the Ferndale Colliery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1868 · page 6

ANOTHER of those dreadful catastrophes, says the Times of November 12, which of late have appeared to succeed each other with unaccustomed rapidity is now reported from South Wales. An explosion in a…

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The Terrible Explosion at the Ferndale Colliery

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 January 1868 · page 3

ANOTHER of those dreadful catastrophes, says the Times of November 12, which of late have appeared to succeed each other with unaccustomed rapidity is now reported from South Wales. An explosion in a…

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The Bulli Coal Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1868 · page 5

THE half-yearly meeting of the above company was held in the Exchange yesterday. Mr. G. W. Allen presided. The following report and balance sheets were submitted to the shareholders:—…

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Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1868 · page 5

THE half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the obove Company was held at half-past 11 o'clock a m. yesterday, in the Chamber of Commerce. The following report and balance-sheet were submitted to the meeting by the…

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Mining

Sydney Mail · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 14

THE genial rains of the last fortnight have penetrated far into the interior, and, besides refreshing the parched earth and renewing the fast perishing vegetation, have, with but few…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 11

UNDER this head there is really nothing to report. The yield of gold remains at pretty much, the same average, nor have any new and rich auriferous discoveries been reported…

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Peak Downs Copper Mining Company

Empire · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 5

Yesterday morning the tenth half-yearly meeting of the company was held at the company's offices, Pitt-street, Benjamin Buchanan, Esq., in the chair. The sceretary road the report, of which the following…

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Carrawang Copper Mining Company (Limited)

Empire · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 5

The adjourned third half-yearly meeting of the above company was held yesterday at their offices, Lyonsbuildings, George-street, Mr M Consett Stephen in the chair. There was a full attendance. The…

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Mining

Sydney Mail · Saturday 8 February 1868 · page 14

SINCE our last report upon the gold-fields of new South Wales, news has been received of heavy falls of rain on most of the diggings, all of which are now plentifully supplied with water. Owing…

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The Coal-mines of New Zealand. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 February 1868 · page 3

SIR,—A good steam coal, accessible to sea going vessels, is a want about to be supplied to the northern part of this colony. The Whangarei and Kawa Kawa coal-mines are not before the world for the first time…

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The Colliery Explosion at Ferndale

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 13

In the course of au article on this terrible disater, the Times says :— The Ferndale Colliery—the scene of thin appalling calamity—is situated in the Rhondda…

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Mining

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 February 1868 · page 15

THE people of the Illawarra district are beginning to agitate the question as to the probability of discovering gold in payable quantities on the coast immediately to the south…

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Robbing a Gold Digger of £213. (From the Newcastle Chronicle.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1868 · page 5

AT the Newcastle Police Court on Monday, Mary Tommins was brought before the Court, in custody, charged with robbing one Jumes Loughran, of a £200 bank draft and the sum of £13 in one-pound notes…

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The Gold-fields

Empire · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 2

The news from the gold-fields is of a less exciting character than usual, as a partial suspension of operations has taken place in the principal gold mining districts, through the extensive emigration that has set…

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Mining

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 15

THE late heavy weather has been almost ruinous to the miners on the diggings lying on the coast-fall of the main range to the south of Sydney; elsewhere, it has given only the…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 3

On many of the gold diggings the late heavy rains have been of benefit, inasmuch as they have made water plentiful and enabled the miners to choose their work. But there are some localities where the continued wet weather…

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Robbing a Gold-digger of £213

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 3

AT the Newcastle Police Court on Monday, Mary Tommins was brought before the Court, in custody, charged with robbing one James Loughran, of a £200 bank draft and the sum of £13 in one-pound notes…

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