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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1871

651 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 33

Forest Reefs. Mining on Church and School Lands

Evening News · Saturday 29 April 1871 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

A LARGE and influential meeting of miners was held at the Royal Hotel, Forest Reefs, on Saturday, the 22nd instant, to hear the report from the deputation appointed at a previous meeting to wait on the M[?]istcr for L[?]s, in reference to…

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Mudgee. More Rich Gold Discoveries at Gulgong Friday, 5.32 p.m

Evening News · Saturday 29 April 1871 · page 2

The owners of Nos. 10 and 11 South, Coming Event Lead, at G[?]gong, have struck gold, the former yielding 2oz to the load. The prospecting claim at the Happy Valley Lead has also struck…

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Parliament. Legislative Council. Friday, April. 28. the President took the chair at twenty-nine minutes past 4 o'clock. Liability of Mining Partnerships Act Amendment Bill

Evening News · Saturday 29 April 1871 · page 2

The PRESIDENT reported a message from his Excellency the Governor, who had, in her Majesty's name, assented to " An Act to amend an Act to Limit the Liability of Mining Partnerships."…

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Tambaroora Gold-fields. (From the Western Post.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 May 1871 · page 2

THE T[?]aroora district, which is now creating so much interest in New South Wales, was first worked so long ago as 1851, and there are now many residents on the field who were amongst the first comers. Although it has been…

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The Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 May 1871 · page 2

ARALUEN.—Great difficulties (says the Braidwood Monitor's correspondent) have still to be contended with in nearly all the claims in the Valley—the great body of water that has been so troublesome to the miners is still…

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Mining Intelligence

Evening News · Tuesday 2 May 1871 · page 4

FROM Gulgong better accounts are received this week. The Guardian says:—On the frontage leads there is nothing new to report, all being steadily prospected, some of them by three prospecting areas. Of course…

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The Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 May 1871 · page 2

GULGONG.—In its latest weekly report the Guardian observes that the long-expected change for the better has come at last, and the confidence of those who, despite exciting telegrams of now rushes, have steadily believed in…

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Thames Gold Diggings

Evening News · Thursday 4 May 1871 · page 3

The following telegrams were received from the Thames:—The crushing for Tookey's tributers is shewing well. A huge specimen has been found in the Karaka Creek. Seven hundredweight of…

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The Price of Coal-and the Question of Wages. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 4 May 1871 · page 3

SIR,—The vexed and long-pending questions of the price of coal at Newcastle and of colliers wages, appear to bo about to receive a solution from a quarter and in a manner but little expected…

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The Price of Coal and the Question of Wages. To the Editor of the Empire

Evening News · Thursday 4 May 1871 · page 3

SIR,—The vexed and long-pending questions of the price of coal at Newcastle, and of colliers' wages, appear to be about to receive a solution from a quarter and in a manner but little expected…

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Thames Gold Diggings

Empire · Friday 5 May 1871 · page 3

The following telegrams were received from the Thames:—The crushing for Tookoy's tributers is showing well. A huge specimen has been found in the Karaka [?]reek. Seven hundred weight of…

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Mining Intelligence

Evening News · Friday 5 May 1871 · page 3
Also in Empire

A correspondant of the Western Examiner writing from the Forest Reefs reports that.—The alluvial on Church and School Lands is turning out very good, leases are being taken out daily, and numbers are…

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Mines and Mining. The Richmond Beach Gold Workings. [From Our Travelling Reporter.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 15

THE gold-working here is similar in most respects to that already described on the Clarence coast, and extends from Evans's, or the Little River South, to within thirteen miles of Cape Byron, by which a…

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Tambaroora Gold-fields

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 302

THE Tambaroora district, which is bow creating so much interest in New South Wales, was first worked so long ago as 1851, and there are now many residents on the field who were amongst the first comers. Although it has been…

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Coal Militant

Sydney Punch · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 1

IN a report of Police Court proceedings, which appeared in Monday's issue of the Empire, a lump of coal was accused of being particeps criminis in an assault case. The report is as follows:-- "Mary Ann Emerson was charged with assaulting Mary Caseby…

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Mining

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 302

THE unfortunate miners in the Araluen Valley have been again flooded out. After bearing up against flood after flood for the last twelve months; and after struggling over difficulties of no ordinary…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 15

A correspondant of the "Westorn Examiner writing from the Forest Keefs reports that.—The alluvial on Ohuroh and School Lands is turning out very good, leases are being taken out daily, and numbers are…

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New Process for Extracting fine Gold

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 15

A NEW prooess of extracting fine gold from orea has been invented in Victoria, and is thus described in a recent number of the Ballarat Evening Mail:— "Sacoharate of Quicksilver.—The invention of Mr…

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