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688 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 35
WE are indebted to the Secretary of Mines in Victoria, for a copy of the reports of the mining surveyors and registrars for the quarter ending 30th Juue, 1870. It appears from the opening summary of gold mining…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The east gallery contains some excellent cases of minerals exhibited by S. Samuel, Esq., Dr. Thomson, the Rev. W. B. Clarke, and others. Here is copper in all its varieties of carbonates and sulphate, black oxide, red oxide, and peacock…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A HUNDRED years ago a circumnavigator, intent only on discovery, and thinking little of colonisation, landed a portion of his ship's company on the shores of Botany Bay. We…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ARALUEN.âThe Braidwood Monitor of the 2nd instant says:âTwo or three more of the claims have started washing since my last, and are turning out pretty well. The Perseverance had very good washings the latter part of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Full accounts have reached Sydney of the successful working of four new reefs, which have for the past four or five mouths been opened, and worked' in the neighbourhood of Barraba, at the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cathaya, for Hongkong, 270 oz. gold. Dandenong (s.), for Melbourne, 10,000 sovereigns. Malta (s.), for Galle, 17,671 oz. gold, 35,687 sovereigns. Dandenong (s.), for Melbourne, 10,000 sovereigns…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SPRING CREEK, B[?]GONIA.—The Southern Argus, of the 6th instant, says:—We have this week been favoured with a glance at a very fine cake of re[?]ted gold, weighing 14¼ ounces, the result of a crushing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal and the strata immediately connected with it are better illustrated in the Exhibition than any other branch of either art or science. The fine collection of carbonaceous shales sent by Mr. Keene, Government Examiner of Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THIS is the premier gold field of Australia, for here at the junction of Summorhill Creek with Lewis's Ponds, Messrs. Hargraves and J. Tom washed out the first prospect. Mr. Tom has still got the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The receipts of gold per escort at the Sydney Mint appear unusually small for the past month, namely 7196oz, of which 5708oz were from the Southern, and 1489oz from the Northern mines. The usual returns…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →WE have been favoured by the Hon. the Minuter for lands with the subjoined official information relative to the new gold-field discovered on the beach near the Richmond River Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A[?]ALUEN.âThe correspondent of the Braidwood Monitor of the 9th instant, says:âI have not very encouraging news. to chronicle this week in mining matters, what with the heavy leajage and the claims that are washing being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE whole of the bodies have been recovered, making nineteen in all. The inquest was resumed on Saturday, when the remainder of the bodies were identified. John Barrett, a hocker-on, said the four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have been favoured by the Hon. the Minister for Lands with the subjoined official information relative to the new gold-field discovered on the beach near the Richmond River Heads:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The discussions that took place in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday last on the motion for adjournment, by Mr. Baker, member for the Southern Gold-fields, in order to give vent to his new grievance—the want of a gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This is the premier gold field of Australia, for her at the junction of Summerhill Creek with Lewis's Ponds, Messrs. Hargraves and J. Tom washed out the first prospect. Mr. Tom has still got the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE weather has during the past week been generally favourable to mining operations, and the reports from the gold fields are tolerably satisfactory. From Grenfell we hear that there has been a rush…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WARBURTON.—A correspondent of the Western Post writes that the only item of importance is the discovery (about three weeks ago) of a quartz leader on the range at the back of the deep lead by Fitzpatrick and party. They…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE whole of the bodies have been recovered, making nineteen in all. The inquest was resumed on Saturday, when the remainder of the bodies were identified. John Barrett, a hooker-on, said the four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The township of cargo lies in a valley, surrounded with grassy undulating slopes, lightly timbered, and gently rising for a distance of 400 yards, terminating in a line of ridge at an elevation of 300 feet on its…
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