Mining Items
MINING matters at Adelong continue in the same condition as last reported; if anything looking a shade better. At Tumut, on a newly discovered quartz reef, Brown…
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Mining Intelligence
GRENFELL MINING REPORT.—The subjoined table of washings and of dirt from the different leads shows rather a higher standard of estimate as to the value of the alluvial ground at present…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Notes on Mr. Hacket's Collection of Rocks and Fossils Frow the Gympie Gold Fields. by the Rev. W. B. Clarke, A.m
1. THIS collection comprses two series of rocks, the [?] sedimentary, the other intrusive. 2. The latter consists of varieties of the greenstone group of the Plutonic formattions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water for Gold-Mining Purposes
IN dealing with, any water scheme of magnitude for the advancement of the mining interest of the colony, thero are several different features which require to be brought undernotice. The question, therefore, as to water…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mines and Mining. Our Mining Letter: [From Our Travelling Reporter.] Forbes (The Lachlan), Cargo, Cadia
OF the 30,000 people who once swarmed on this popular gold-field and wrought out the celebrated alluvial leads which head away in almost every direction from the site of the town, not many more…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mining Gazette. Araluen
IN the Moruya Telegraph of the 28th ultimo we find the following from the Araluen correspondent of that paper:â The engine buried at Crown Flat in Piggott's claim has…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Items. Newly Discovered Copper Lode
WE mentioned some few weeks since that, in consequence of the discovery of an extensive and valuable lode of copper said to exist in the Maneroo district, a company had been formed in Melbourne to prospect and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Barbelle. Winner of the Sydney Gold Gup: April 28th, 1870
THE mare whose portrait we give to-day is the property of Mr. George Lee, of Kelso, near Bathurst, and was bred by that gentleman in 1865. She is own sister to the celebrated Barb, got by Sir Hercules from Young…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Our Forbes Mining Letter
OF the 30,000 people who once swarmed on this popular gold-field and wrought out the celebrated alluvial leads which head away in almost every direction from the site of the town, not many more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold-fields
ADELONG.—The correspondent of the Gundagai Times writes on the 4th instant:—I have nothing to report this week as to mining matters, further than that the claims are all looking as well as ever, and that those who were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water for Gold Mining Purposes
IN dealing with any water scheme of magnitude for the advancement of the mining interest of the colony, there are several different features which require to be brought under notice. The question, therefore, as to water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold-fields Commission. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—After a rapid tour of inspection over the principal gold disiricts of this colony, I must say that a great many alterations are necessary in the laws and regulations relating thereto, so as to induce now blood into the mining…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mines and Mining. Our Mining Letter. Orange District. [From Our Travelling Reporter.] Burnt Yards
THE geological formation of the Prince of Wales Reef, Burnt Yards, is a study for science, and a caution to miners who are too apt to suppose that nothing but genuine quartz contains gold. A local…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Currawang Copper Mines
The Goulburn Herald of last week says with regard to the Currawang Copper Mines:— A letter from those mines, dated 3rd instant, says:—We have commenced mining operations here, and shall…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Woolgarloo Lead Mines
With regard to the Woolgarlo Lead Mines, which suffered some loss by the late floods, the Yass Courier of the 9th writes:— We are glad to be able to state that it is the intention of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Intelligence
TRUNKEY CREEK —The correspondent of the Bathurst Times says.—Through the kindness of a gentleman of this place, and who can be relied upon, I am in a position to give you the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Items
A LARGE number of auriferous tracts (held under no less than 172 leases) have been forfeited for the non-payment of the rental for 1870. They are mostly about the Lachlan, Mudgee, Bathurst, Wellington, and Trunkey…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mining Gazette. Araluen Valley
WRITING from the Araluen Valley on the 5th instant, the correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch gives the following dreary picture of the state of affairs there:â…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. Milner Stephen's Gold and Diamond Cradle Amalgamator. To the Editor of the Town and Country Journal
SIR,—As you have done me the service, it not the miners generally, of so often noticing the performances of my new patent machine, I shall be glad if you will publish in your widely circulating journal the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold-fields Commission. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—I notice that some of your correspondents deprecate the idea of members of Parliament being appointed on the Gold-fields Commission; and in a letter signed "GeoPringle, Mining Surveyor," a good deal is said about…
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