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651 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 33
GULGONG.—The latest report of the Guardian states that the leading item of mining news this week is the discovery of gold in No. 10 South Happy Valley Lead, in payable quantities. As this claim is three chains south of Homer's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE news from the Tambaroora diggings continues to be satisfactory. The local paper says:—Hawkin's Hill, the sum of £450 was offered by one of the shareholders in Rapp and Co's claim for a quarter share in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS alluvial ground was opened in 1859 by eight Frenchmen, and named by them. There were about 500 people here at the end of that year, but the "Snowy" drew away the majority; there are several…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE principal item of news from Gulgong is that gold has been discovered in No. 10 South Happy Valley in payable proportion, and that three nuggets of 24 ounces each have been found at the Three Mile Rush…
Continued on Trove, page 598 →A GENTLEMAN, who arrived in Sydney from New Caledonia, by the Havilah, on Saturday, has favoured us with the following report on the gold-fields there:— These "fields" attracted some notice for seven or eight…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The reports from the various fields, of results obtained from crushing or washings up, we give below. Gulgong, it will be seen, is yet, by far, the chief centre of attraction to miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE gold-lacker lining of a Chinese cabinet in the Museum at Cassel peeled off, and thus gave Dr. Wiederhold the opportunity of studying the composition of this substance. On examining it he found particles of tin foil attached to the…
Continued on Trove, page 601 →THE news from the Tambaroora diggings continues to be satisfactory. The local paper says:—Hawkin's Hill, the sum of £450 was offered by one of the shareholders in Rapp and Co's claim for a quarter share in…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE Mining Commission have presented their report, and it appears from that document, of which the following is a digest, that they find the existing law so unsatisfactory and conflicting in many respects, and so…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →WE learn by the Ballarat Evening Mail that saccharate of quicksilver is highly spoken of and eminently successful as a gold extractor. We quote the following for the benefit of those interested in mining…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"WELL, you see, mates," continued Tom Drewe, " the next time as I see her was something more than eighteen months after the tune as I had told you on. I'd been told in Melbourne, on the trial of that same…
Continued on Trove, page 602 →WE learn by the Ballarat Evening Mail that sacchar ate of quicksilver is highly spoken of and eminently successful as a gold extractor. Wu quote the following for the benefit of those interested in mining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE intelligence received during the month from the various gold-fields of the colony is of the most encouraging description. A good payable reef has at last been discovered in the Bingera district. Something of the kind has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE news which has, from week to week, been received from the various gold-producing districts prove beyond doubt that mining in this colony has not at any previous time been productive of such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE learn by the Ballarat Evening Mail that sacchar ate of quicksilver is highly spoken of and eminently successfully as gold extractor. We quote the following for the benefit of those interested in mining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS alluvial ground was opened in 1859 by eight Frenchmen, and named by them. There were about 500 people here at the end of that year, but the "Snowy" drew away the majority; there are several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PEEL RIVER.—A week or so ago (says the Tamworth Examiner of Saturday), a party of miners, engaged on Price's Reef, Bowling Alley Point, struck gold in an abandoned shaft on the above reef, and got out seven tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS alluvial ground was opened in 1859 by eight Frenchmen, and named by them. There were about 500 people here at the end of that year, but the "Snowy" drew away the majority; there are several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Mining Commission have presented their report, and it appears from that document, of which the following is a digest, that they find the existing law so unsatisfactory and conflicting in many respects, and so…
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