Mining Gazette
A PLENTIFUL supply of water has put our gold miners once more into good heart, and has set them busily at work. Writing from Araluen on the 11th, the correspondent of the…
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The Gold-fields
APPLETREE FLAT GOLD-FIELDS.âWe (Western Post) have little to report from these diggings, as the lack of water has been severely felt for some time. The alluvial diggings still return a remunerative yield in many cases,…
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THE ROCKY RIVER—The correspondent of the Armidale Express writes, on the 15th instant:—From Doherty's Hill, running northwards, is a narrow ridge, on which several shafts have been sunk lately, and several two-acre claims…
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The quantity of gold received by the escorts during the month of January amounted to 20,412 ozs., of which 12,364 ozs; were from the Western districts, 6263 ozs, from the Southern districts, and 1885 from the…
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Bombay, for Galle: 74,878 sovereigns. Onward, for Hongkong: 323 oz. gold…
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There here been. altogether twenty-four deaths resulting from the explosion at the Haydock coilleries, near St. Helens. The pit where the accident took place is the property of Messrs. Richard Evans and Co., and is known by…
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GOLD QUARTZ.—The Queanbeyan Age says:—We were shown a specimen of auriferous quartz a few days ago which was found by Mr. Royal on the main road between Queanbeyan and Bungendore, just above Mr. Royal's…
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WE find in the Braidwood Dispatch of Saturday last, the following notice of the gold-fields in the Braidwood districts. It says :— There has been a marked improvement in business in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Victoria Turf. Ballarat Miners' Races
There was a very good little meeting last week at the Ballarat Miners' racecourse. The races were very well contested. Marine von the Hurdle Race, and in a subsequent event still further added to his laurels; he is a nice…
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THE NARANDERA REEFS.—We understand (says the Denitiquin Chronicle) that at Pyke's Reef a recent crushing of stone gave as much as 8 oz. to the ton. The Boree (Countess of Belmore) Reef is now down 146 feet, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quicksilver Mines at Cudgegong— Experimental Test of the Ore
YESTERDAY morning Mr. Charles Watt, well known in all these colonies as an analytical chemist of great experience and ability, began, in the presence of a number of gentlemen, a series of important experiments, for the…
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EMU CHEEK.—The Mining Record of Saturday states:— The machines have all of them but one been at work this week, but as yet there has been little clearing up and retorting. Some of them are on large contracts, and we…
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APPLETREE FLAT.—The Western Post, of Tuesday, reports the crushing machine recently erected by Messrs. Tuckermnn, Little, and Co., was started last week, and so far as the working of the machinery was concerned, nothing…
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SIR, —In an article, headed as above, in Tuesday's Herald, the writer expresses uncertainty as to "when and by whom this quicksilver was originally noticed," endeavouring to trace it to gold-diggers of the neighbourhood…
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SIR,—Referring to Mr. Clarke's letter, in your issue of to-day, respecting the original discovery of cinnabar near Mudgee, I beg t[?] state, for general information, that the sample Mr. Clarke refers to is no doubt…
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THE supply of water recently furnished by the heavy downpour of the last month made work brisk upon most of our diggings, and has given the chance for testing much of the ground that was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Quicksilver Mines at Cudgegong— Experimental Test of the Ore
ON Monday morning, the 1st install, Mr. Charles Watt, well known at an analytical chemist of great experience and ability, began, in the presence of a number of gentlemen, a series of important experiments, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Discovery at Havelock. Wellington, February 22
Gold has been discovered at Havelock Terrace, near Wilson's, Marlborough, Prospect of three ounces to the dish, There has been a great rush to the spot, and Havelock is deserted. News since confirmed…
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A NEW RUSH.—The Burrangong Argus of Saturday states that a new rush has set in about two-and-a-half miles from Wombat. The workings are as yet confined to two gullies, the name of the one being New Year's Gully,…
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EMU CREEK.—From the Mining Record of Saturday we take the following:—The retortings this week are reported to us as follows:—The Victorian—from 132 tons No. 1 south Homeward Bound, a yield of three pennyweights eighteen…
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