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688 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 35
NEW SOUTH WALES is especially rich in her coal-fields; she is the only colony which he created a large and prosperous trade out of this reource, and the one in which coal is the most bountifully and variously…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE chief dangers to which our underground workers are exposed are from falls, whether of themselves down shafts, or of the roof or timber supports above them; from irruptions of water;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS was about the most celebrated field in New South Wales for rich patches in small loaders, as much as 300 ounces of gold hoing found in a bucket of ore; still, though large blocks and quantities of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE persistent rainfall, and the succession of heavy floods in the creeks and rivers, still continues to affect mining industry most prejudicially, and only very little work is doing upon…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Braidwood Dispatch of Saturday says that several abortive attempts have been made to open some of the claims at Araluen, but the rain has almost prevented any active operations. Should the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →GRENFELL MINING REPORT.—The Mining Record says :—That this gold-field is rich, in both reefs and alluvial deposits, there can be no doubt. No one questions such an assertion. At…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE Mineral Statistics of Victoria for the year 1869, with the Report of the Minister of Mines thereupon, supply a comprehensive view of the state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Barnsley Naturalist's Society, Mr. Green, of the Geological Society, read a paper on "How Coal and its conjoint strata were formed. Mr. Green said, that the earth and its crust was much older than was generally…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →[?] (s.) for Galle; 34,421 [?] [?] or [?], onward, for Hongkong; 468 oz, gold. [?] [?] (s.) for Melbourne; 15,000 [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following notes were taken whilst on a somewhat rapid excursion through a portion of the Western Gold-fields. As they touch upon points in connection with the auriferous treasures of the land, you may…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ALDERMAN BOYD said the motion standing in his name was one about which there had been some rough talk; but he had still thought it necessary to bring it forward. He considered that the Press had insulted the Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TAMBAROORA.—The correspondent of the Bathurst Times writes:—There have been some fine returns obtained from Hawkins's Hill, since my last, the foremost being Appleby and CO.'s 1170 oz., from either 13 or 15 tons of quartz…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE People's Landa lay wasle and bare, And hungry creatures hanker'd For what poor provender was there.— The People's crops were kanker'd…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following notes were taken whilst on a somewhat rapid excursion through a portion of the Western Gold-fields. As they touch upon points in connection with the auriferous treasures of the land, you may…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Attention having been recently directed to the mineral producing properties of New South Wales, the result of which has been the appointment of a Royal Commission to revise the defective laws and regulations by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following notes were taken whilst on a somewhat rapid excursion through a portion of the Western Gold-fields. As they touch upon points in connection with the auriferous treasures of the land, you may…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →REPORTS have reached Albury that good wages and nothing better are being made on the new surface sometimes on the Victorian side of the [?]. Murray, working [?] to twenty miles from Wodonga. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE copper of Wood's Flat was rich, but unluckily there was too little of it. Eighty-five tons have heon smolted nt Cadia, but either there is no defined lode, or it has not yet been found. it is the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Braidwood Dispatch of Saturday last, in reporting upon the business of the gold-fields during the preceding week, remarks:â…
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