The Gold-fields
THE weather has been almost continuously wet for the past month, and the escort returns for the last two months show a considerable falling off as compared with the corresponding period of 1869. In…
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Gold and Other Mining
THE most important feature in our gold history-for the past month has been undoubtedly the passing of a resolution by the Assembly calling on the Government to appoint a Commission to inquire into the…
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THE weather has been almost continuously wet for the past month, and the escort returns for the last two months show a considerable falling off as compared with the corresponding period of 1869. In…
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THE weather has been almost continuously wet for the past month, and the escort returns for the last two months show a considerable falling off as compared with the corresponding period of 1869…
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THE " arrastre " is one of the simplest forms of apparatus used by the poor, diligent Mexican miners for the simple extraction of gold from quartz or other goldbearing rocks. The construction is very similar in…
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WITH regard to the Jacqua quartz reefs, near Bungonia, the Goulburn Herald of Saturday last says:— We are informed that a discovery, which is regarded as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Colliery Riots. (From the Times, January 22.)
The threatened attack upon the property of Messrs. Newton, Chambers, and Co., of Thorn[?]liffe, neer Sheffield and upon the houses of the mon in their employ was made yostorday morning…
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A number of gentlomen, including the Hon. the Colonial Treasurer, the Hon. the Minister for Lands, tho Hon. Mr. Owen, tho Hon. John Robertson, Mr. Raker, M.L.A., and other gentlemen connected-with…
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AT a recent meeting of the Wellington (New Zealand) Philosophical Society, a vory interesting paper on a new method of detecting the presence of gold in quartz, was read by Mr. Skey, a gentleman attached to the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Terrible Mining Accident
A terrible mining accident occurred on Saturday morning, at 5 o'clock, at the village of Stockton, near Hazloton. At the hour named, the community was startled from slumber by a loud noise, caused by…
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TUENA.—The correspondent of a western journal writes: —"I have to report the discovery of two new reefs, one at the Junction-point, not far from the Great Britain, and the other, called Pembrokeshire, about twenty miles distant…
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THE now gold-fields measure introduced by Mr. Forster on the 15th March contains one hundred and two clauses. The principal enactments authorize the Government to grant leases at £2 an acre, and…
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We hear from Burrangong that the wot weather of late has greatly retarded the operations of the Belmore Mining Company, in consequence of the principal part of the work having to be done in an open…
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EMU CREEK COLD FIELD, MARCH 27.—The correspondent of the Yass Courier writes:—We have here little to excite us ; our leads are progressing in their work slowly, but…
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We take the following remarks upon the action of the Belmore Mining Company from the columns of the Burrangong Argus:— The wet weather of late has greatly retarded the…
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THE Tuena correspondent of the Bathurst Free Press sends the following to that Journal:— I have to report the discovery of two new reefs, one at the Junction-point, not far from the Great Britain, and the…
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FOUR children were sitting round the fire one cold winter's afternoon. It was the time "between the lights," as it is called; the time when it is not dark enough to light the lamp, and not light enough to see…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Water Supply on the Goldfields
AMONG the absolute necessaries for the success of gold mining, a plentiful supply of water is at once the greatest and most difficult of attainment; and when the people who occupy themselves in this industry are…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Gold-mining Companies. (From a Correspondents.)
I THINK it will be acknowledged eventually, that one of the great mistakes committed by the founders (bona fide) of most companies formod for the purpose of gold-mining in this colony is this—that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Uralla. Monday. Nomination for the Northern Gold Fields
The nomination for the election of a member to serve in the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Gold-fields electorate took place to-day. Mr. J. F. Burns was proposed by Mr. Henry Ingle, and…
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