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Mining & the mines, 1871

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Mines and Mining. Silver and Tin Mining

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 14

THE mineral wealth of New South Wales is daily incieasing; not only new discoveries of gold, but silver, copper, lead, tin, &c., are constantly being made. Many rich lodes no doubt have frequently…

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The Gold-fields

Empire · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 3

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs. Church and Baker, M.L.A.'s, waited on the Minister for Lands, at 11 a.m. yesterday, to ascertain the intention of the Government on the settlement of the gold-fields…

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Mining. Gold, and How it is Got. No. V.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 1321

THE Californian Pump (Fig. 19) is a very useful appliance for the miner, especially in working creek or river claims, where the paddock which is being stripped requires to be kept clear of the constant…

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New Copper Mine

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 1323

I RECENTLY had an opportunity of visiting the new Cobar copper mine, near Bourke, in company with Captain Lean, the mining manager, on arrival from Adelaide to take charge of the mine…

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The Tin Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 1323

THE Oban correspondent of the Armidale Express, writing on the 8th instant, says:—Since the date of my last letter, several additional leases have been applied for adjoining lands already leased, and…

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Gold News

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 1321

THE Gulgong Guardian mentions a case which has occurred on that field, and which is of very great importance to the whole mining community. A boy under twelve years of age, to whom a miner's right…

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Mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 6

The escort left as usual on Thursday morning conveying 3091 ozs. as the produce of the gold field for the past for[?]night. The various known leads are improving in…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 14

THE crushings, says the Tambaroora Times, for the past week were: Byers and Kerr crushed 22 tons, which jealized 650oz 11dwf; and 28 tons, from the same claim, realized 761oz 6dwt. Holman and Co. crushed…

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Mining News

The Irish Citizen · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 4

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Extraction of Gold from Iron Pyrites

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 1322

SIR,—The miner as well as capitalist occupied in gold mining are under obligations to the writers of the articles on the above subject, which have appeared in your publications of 18th September and 14th October, and still more to you…

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Mining Boards. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 15

SIR,—In your issue of the 25th instant, I notice a letter disparaging Mining Boards, and as the writer has received a number of letters inviting his opinion I must assume such opinion, when glvon, should carry a great weight with it. and…

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The New Swansea Copper Mines at Cow Flat. [From a Correspondent.]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 14

THE New Swansea Copper Mines at Cow Flat, near Bathurst, may be regarded as foremost amongst the successful enterprises of this description in the Western Districts, and from a consideration of the fact…

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Arrival of the Nevada with the English Mail Via California. English News to Nov. 7. Munificent Subscriptions in aid of the Chicago Sufferers. Illness of the Queen and Proposed Regency. Frightful Colliery Accident—Thirty Lives Lost. Proposed Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh to a Prussian Princess. Rumoured Republican Alliance between Peers and Workmen. The Tichborne Trial Resumed

Empire · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 3

BY the arrival of the N[?]vada yesterday, we are placed in possession of California papers to the 9th November, containing English news to the 7th, which although but a day or two later than the…

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The Gold-fields

Evening News · Monday 18 December 1871 · page 4

A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs. Church and Baker, M.L.A.'s, waited on the Minister for Lands, at 11 a.m. yesterday, to ascertain the intention of the Government on the settlement of the gold-fields…

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Mining Intelligence

Evening News · Monday 18 December 1871 · page 4

THE crushings, says the Tambaroora Times, for the past week were: Byers and Kerr crushed 22 tons, which realized 650oz lldwt; and 28 tons, from the same claim, realized 76loz 6dwt. Holman and Co. crushed…

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Report of the Commissioners to the Western Gold-fields. the Commissioners to the Western District to the Secretary for Lands. Sydney, 12th December, 1871

Empire · Monday 18 December 1871 · page 4

SIR,—We do ourselves the honor to report that, in fulfilment of the objects of our commission, we have visited Mudgee and the gold-fields of Gulgong and Tambaroora. We have directed such poisonal observation as it has been in our power…

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Report of the Commissioners to the Western Gold-fields. the Commissioners to the Western District to the Secretary for Lands. Sydney. 12th December, 1871

Evening News · Tuesday 19 December 1871 · page 4

SIR.—We do ourselves the honor to report that in [?] of the objects of [?] commission, we have visited Mudg[?] and the gold field of [?] and Tam[?]ra. We have directed such personal observation as it has been in our power…

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The New Swansea Copper Mines at Cow Flat. [From a Correspondent.]

Empire · Tuesday 19 December 1871 · page 3

THE New Swansea Copper Mines at Cow Flat, near Bathurst, may be regarded as foremost amongst the successful enterprises of this description in the Western Districts, and from a consideration of the fact…

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Parliamentary Paper. Report of the Commissioners to the Western Gold-fields. the Commissioners to the Western District to the Secretary for Lands. Sydney, 12th December, 1871

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 December 1871 · page 3

SIR,—We do ourselves the honour to report that, in fulfilment of the objects of our commission, wcehave visited Mudgee and the gold-fields of Gulgong and Tambaroora. We have directed such personal observation as it has been in our power to afford to the…

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Mining Intelligence

Empire · Friday 22 December 1871 · page 3

THE past week at Gulgong has been a dull one, owing to the continued dry weather, reducing washing operations [?]o the smallest limits, and rendering it advisable for claimholders to reduce the number of…

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