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403 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 21
THE FIRST CRUSHING AT LITTLE RIVER.—The Braidwood Dispatch states the washing up of the first parcel of the Alma stone was finished on Saturday last. The quantity of stone crushed was 23 tons, which gave a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The diggers a the Sutherland gold-Heidi complain that they have some difficulty in keeping up the average find of gold. But the fact is, that the men are generally very secret as to what they are doing, and try to avoid the subject. They feel the position…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There is another item of vast importance to every miner in the colony, and which it would be worth his while to give serious attentin to, and endeavour, along with other things, to obtain possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE GOGANGA DIGGINS, QUEENSLAND.—The Rockhampton Bulletin of the 15th instant, states that a gentleman who visited the Goganga diggings on Tuesday informs us that there are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM the Goulburn Herald of Tuesday last we take the following notice of the Bungonia quartz reefs:— Crushing operations commenced at these reefs on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →RECENT improvements in apparatus for extracting gold from quartz nave generally had for their object the separation from siliceous refuse, and utilisation of the various sulphides known amongst miners as " mundic" or…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WELLINGTON.—The correspondent of the Western Examiner writes:—"Of reefs, I have nothing fresh to say, that is in any way reliable. The alluvial at the Jawbone is still progressing, but very slowly; a few are making wages, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Royal Commission on British Coal-fields is still prosecuting its labours, but a very reassuring forecast of its promised report was offered by Mr. Hussey Vivian on Tuesday evening. The panic which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE first half-yearly general meeting of shareholders was held at the City Hall, New[?] le, on Saturday, 24th day of July, Mr. F. J. Shaw in the chair. The advertisement can[?]ing the meeting having been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →M'INTYRE FLAT.—The Armidale Express says:—A miner who has been working some time at Tait's Gully and M'Intyre Flat called upon us this week, to inform us that the Flat has not turned out at all according to expectations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following petition was yesterday presented to the Honorable the Minister for Lands, at his office, by Messrs. Walter Church and James Hoskins, as representatives of the Western and Northern Gold-flolds:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TRUNKEY CREEK.—The Bathurst Times states there stems to be a gradually awakening interest in quartz roofs throughout the district, and prospecting is going on in all directions which is likely are long to lead to important…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM the Braidwood Dispatch of the 00th we learn that at a general meeting of the shareholders of the St. Vincent Quartz Crushing Company, held at Araluen on the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Since writing my last communication I have observed that several of the papers published on the gold-fields have set to work in earnest, and are strenuously urging the miners and all interested to assist in having the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American papers contain long reports of a speech which Mr. Goldwin Smith delivered on the 19th of May, before the members of the Cornell University and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →REVELATIONS at Ballarat in regard to defalcations by mining managers and miners have somewhat prepared people in the Sandhurst district for similar revelations on Bendigo, but the surpise excited in Sandhurst on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ARALUEN.—The correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch writes:—Mining is quiet, the only item of importance I have to record is the completion of the plan of drawing up the washdirt to the long boxes by means of an inclined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revelations at Ballarat in regard to defalcations by mining managers and miners have somewhat prepared people in the Sandhurst district for similar revelations on Bendigo, but the surprise excited in Sandhurst on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BOWLING ALLEY POINT.—The Tamworth Examiner of Saturday says:—A discovery has been made at BowlingI Alley Point, which, up to the present, the country is in total ignorance of. The information came to us in a very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining is quiet, the only item of importance I have to record is the completion of the plan of drawing up the washdirt to the long boxes by means of an inclined plane and trucks, the moving power being steam. The…
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