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Mining & the mines, 1869

403 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 21

Mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 2

GOWARBER REEF.—Since my last communication to you, mining operations have been steadily progressing here. The greater part of the men employed upon Pike's claim am busily engaged…

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Extraordinary Proceedings in Connexion with a Mine

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 7

REVELATIONS at Ballarat in regard to defalcations by mining managers and miners have somewhat prepared people in the Sandhurst excited in Sandhurst on Monday…

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Our Gold Fields. by an Old Miner

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 3

To any one at all acquainted with the numerous Gold Fields in New South Wales, the want of power requisite for a fuller development and more systematic method of working, and of economising labour must be very apparent…

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Our Temperance Column. My Mother's Gold Ring

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 28 August 1869 · page 12

I HAVE one of the kindest husbands; he is a carpenter by trade, and our flock of little children has one of the kindest fathers in the county. I was thought the happiest girl in the…

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The Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 August 1869 · page 3

SEBASTOPOL REEFS.—The Wagga Wagga Express says —Upon these reefs, which are about ten miles distant from Wall tt's, the Junee reef proper, and fifteen from the Junee Post-office, there is settled an actively and profitably…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1869 · page 5

BOWLING ALLEY POINT.—The Tamworth Examiner of Saturday says:—We stated in our last issue that a valuable block of quartz had been obtained from the claim held by Messrs. Tomison, Christie, and Co., at Bowling Alley…

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Mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 2

MAJOR'S CREEK.—Of the diggings in the above locality the Braidwood Dispatch says :—She richness of our quartz veins—which seem to surround us—is of such a character that it is…

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Mining Gazette

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 9

ANOTHER auriferous quartz reef has, it would seem, been discovered in the Bungonia district. The Goulburn Herald, of Saturday last, observes:…

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New Zealand. Gold Discoveries

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 11

For some weeks past, since accounts of extraordinary finds from come of the claims at the Thames were circulated, the colony has bees kept in a state of constant excitement by reports of gold discoveries in various parts…

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Our Temperance Column. My Mother's Gold Ring

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 12

It was not long before we reached the door of our cottage. Farmer Job son took out the children; and while I was trying to find words t[?] thank him for his kind ess he was up in his…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 September 1869 · page 3

HARGRAVES.—The correspondent of the Western Post writes on the 30th ultimo:—Since my last, M'Gowan and [?] crushed thirty tons of stone, which yielded 8 dwts. per [?] Daniels and Co. crushed ten tons, at 18 dwts, per…

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Gold and Other Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1869 · page 5

THE start ahead which gold-mining in this colony has taken within the last few months has been maintained, and we continue to receive good, accounts from the several diggings and quartz reefs. At the same time hardly a day…

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Mining

Empire · Wednesday 8 September 1869 · page 2

The receipts of gold per escort during the month last past tend to show a decrease of near 6000 ounces in the total of the year as far as it has gone, in comparison with the…

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Exports of Gold and Specie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1869 · page 9

Geelong, for Gallo, 144,738 sovereigns, 8137 oz gold. Ziska, for Mauritius, 15,000 sovereigns…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 September 1869 · page 3

EMU CREEK.—The Mining Record of Saturday says—The chief item of mining news this week is the very glowing reports that have come in from Combaning, near Junee. Properly speaking the locality is not in the Emu Creek…

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Mining Cazette

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 September 1869 · page 9

THE reefs in the Bungonia district will at all events be fa[?]ly tested. It is contemplated to erect another machine there, for the Goulburn He[?] says:—…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1869 · page 3

TRUNKEY CREEK.—The correspondent of the Bathurst Times writes the 9th instant:— "I have personally visited many of the more important claims this week, and can say that, while the renowned No. 5, 'Crummie's,' still…

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mining Casette

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 9

Whiting from Spring Creek, Bungonia, on the 11th instant, a correspondent of the Southern Argus says:— A company is being started, to be called "The Bungonia…

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A Bit Prom the Mining Districts

Sydney Punch · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 8

MR. PUNCH being aware of the present rage for poetical "puffs" by tradesmen, submits the following account of a "miraculous escape" which he has lately received from a correspondent in the mining districts. It is especially adapted for cheap tailors of Israelitish…

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The Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 September 1869 · page 2

KIANK[?]A.—The correspondent of the Gundagai Times relates:—Mining matters are very dull, and the Broken Cart reef excitement is likely to take a few of our diggers from us. The accounts received of it are encouraging, and from…

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