Mining
OUR latest intelligence from Hill End gives the retorting of the balance of the amalgam from Krohman's claim at 106 oz. This brings up the yield of the 18 tone to 2236 oz., or 124 oz. to the ton. In addition to…
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Mark Brown's Wife: A Tale of the Gold-fields. Part Ii.—the Downward Path. Chapter X.—cicely
AFTER the abrupt termination of the meeting with. Tom Drewe, Cicely was borne back to her so-called home at St. Kilda in a state of insensibility. Nearly two hours had elapsed, after she reached this…
Continued on Trove, page 762 →Testing for Gold with Iodine and Bromine
W. SKEY, in the Chemical News, gives a method for detecting small quantities of gold bty the use of iodine and bromine. Two grammes of roasted quartz sand. which contained two ounces of gold to the ton, was…
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HILL END AND TAMBAROORA.—In its issue of the 12th the Times gives the subjoined report of local mining:— Chappell's machine has just finished crushing 400 tons of stone for Cock and Dwyer, which averaged 3 ounces to the…
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CHAPPELL's machine at Hill End has just finished crushing 400 tons of stone for Cock and Dwyer, which averaged 3 oz to the ton. After washing out on Friday, says the Times of the 12th instant, the same…
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PITTSTON, Pann, May 28.—A column of smoke which soon grew dense, rising from the shaft of the West Pittston mine yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, told that the shaft wag on fire, and caused an…
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THE accounts from Hill End still continue of the roost encouraging character. Our correspondent informs us of a new vein having been struck on the Red Hill, whilst in other claims veins of a promising…
Continued on Trove, page 782 →Mines and Mining. Sebastopol and Junee. [From Our Correspondent.] Sebastopol, August 5th, 1871
IT is some time since I troubled you, but positively there hass been nothing to write about. This place has almost been a thing of the past; public houses dwindled down to one; stores, of which at one time there were…
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It has now become an accomplished fact that Guigong ia a payable gold field, and that it is one of the greatest hitherto discovered for years in this colony. And though it is not so rich—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mark Brown's Wife: A Tale of the Gold-fields. Part Iii.—the Wages of Sin. Chapter I.—information Received
"THE last time as I see her, mates," continued Tom Drew, and it must be remembered that his narrative was consecutive," was the saddest time of all. I was knocked over above a bit when I met her before…
Continued on Trove, page 794 →A Coal Shaft on Fire. (From the New York Tribune, May 30.)
PITTSTON, Penn., May 28.—A column of smoke, which soon grew dense, rising from the shaft of the West Pittston mine yesterday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, told that the shaft was on fire, and caused an…
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THE Gulgong report in the Guardian of the 19th states that the fortnightly gold escort left Gulgong on Tuesday morning, conveying 3264 oz., 19 dwts. 20 grs., which, though up to the average, would have been one-third…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines and Mining. The Reinfry Separator
THE Renifry Separator consists of a wrought iron trough nud east iron standard, the bottom being semicylindrical. This trough is divided transversely into two parts by a division reaching from the bottom to…
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THE Gulgong Guardian, in a leading article, calls attention to the necessity of leaving the Gold-fields Commissioner on a large and populous gold-lield free to do the real business for which he has been appointed,…
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THE Hawkin's Hill claims at Hill End, are. as usual, Busily eugaged in raising stone for crushing. Chappell, says the Times, is still crushing for Mr. James Brown, vickery's engine is engaged upon Rawnthorne, Porter,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Successful School of Mines
THE New York school of mines was founded in 1864. The number of students on its opening day was twenty, and before the year closed there were fifty. It has since had an average of fifty new pupils each year. A…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Water-pressure Engines for Mines
THERE is much room for improvement yet in waterpressure engines, and we know tuat many accomplished engineers are studying to make such advances in this branch of engineering as shall better adapt these…
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THE Boston correspondent of the St. John Globe, in a letter to that paper giving the following important imformation:—"I am enabled to communicate to you, in advance of publication here, the very important fact…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mark Brown's Wife: A Tale of the Gold-fields. Part Iii.—the Wages of Sin. Chapter Iii.—the Crowning Crime
THERE is a comfortably furnished and well lighted apartment in a small and decent house, and two persons have just entered it. One is Cicely Brown, the other is the individual who has been spoken of as…
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