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Mining & the mines, 1872

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The Cape Gold-Fields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 15

ITEMS of news from Cape papers como to us via Mauritius, by the barque Elizabeth, just arrived from Fort ' Louis. In addition to tho diamonds there was also gold being found in tho Transvaal, and tho rush…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 7

A MEETING of shareholders in the Hawkins Hill View Company was held at the Royal Hotel yeaterday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, when the Company was declared to be formed, the whole of the shares having been allotted according to…

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The Tin Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 468

ACTIVE preparations are being made at many of the claims in New England to forward tin to market, and from others various quantities have already been sent away. The Tenterfield Star of the 4th says:—At the Twe-mile…

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Latest Mining

Evening News · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 2
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At the office of Mr. Walker, Pitt-street, there are on view some rich specimens of quarts from the ground of the Great Australian Gold-mining Company, Golden Gully…

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Mining News

The Irish Citizen · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 4

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Mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 2

GULGONG.—The whole of the probably golden leads, now occupied, are overlaid by a heavy deposit of basalt-rock, which varies much in its degrees of hardness. On some leads, it can be…

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Mining Matters

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 3

IN our article "The Month" we have given a synopsis of the mining intelligence of the past few weeks. From the Hill End Times, we glean the following particulars:—…

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Mining items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 15

The Tambaroora Times of tho 6th instant says:— At Dun Dun Creek, about nine miles from Tambaroora, the reefs run north-west and south-east, on a second bench from the main ridge of mountains…

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Mining Reports

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 467

MR. Bingham reports very rich stone to hand from the Great Wheel of Fortune; also, that a rich vein has been, struck 300 feet still more easterly of the Wheel of Fortune, showing payable gold…

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Gold in Northern Australia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 15

THE South Australian Register publishes the following extract from a letter sent from the Roper River by a member of Mr. Todd's telegraph expedition:— Whereever you go you seo indications of gold, and I firmly…

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Correspondence. the Northern Gold-fields. Denison—hanging Rock—peel River

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 467

IF rumour speak truth, and the prophets upon 'Change do not prophecy falsely, New South Wales is upon the eve of her Golden Age. The spirit of speculation has seized upon her colonists…

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 466

ADVICES from the mining districts are not of more than usual interest this week. The operations, however, seem to have uudergone no relaxation, and the yields continue good. At Gulgong affairs are somewhat…

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Reduction of Gold and other Ores by a Dry Process

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1872 · page 468

My father was manager to the largest iron and tin works at Tipton, Staffordshire, England. There were 500 men employed night and day, two blast furnaces regularly at work night and day, except the Sabbath day, and then…

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The Cape Gold-fields

Empire · Monday 15 April 1872 · page 3

ITEMS of news from Cape papers oome to us via Mauritius, by the barque Elizabeth, just arrived from Port Louis. In addition to the diamonds there was also gold being found in the Transvaal, and the rush…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Monday 15 April 1872 · page 3

Messrs. Alexander Sim and H. M. Caldwell report that the Crinoline company's share list has nearly closed, the well known richness of the claim having given an impetus to the speculation. There are over…

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The Cape Gold Fields

Evening News · Monday 15 April 1872 · page 2

ITEMS of news from Cape papers come to us via Mauritius, by the barque Elizabeth, just arrived from Port Louis. In addition to the diamonds there was also gold being found in the Transvael, and the rush…

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Latest Mining Evening News Office

Evening News · Monday 15 April 1872 · page 2

The Crinoline Gold-miuing Company.-Messrs. Alexander Sim and H. M. Caldwell report: The Crinoline Company has been in much favour this morning, and the transactions indicate an early closing…

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The Mudgee Road Gold Diggings.— Obstructing the Highway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 April 1872 · page 3

THE following important case was heard before the Mudgee Police Court on Friday, the 5th instant, the report of which we abridge from the Western Post:— The following is a copy of the summons issued in the…

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Liability of Mining Partnerships. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 April 1872 · page 5

SIR,—In Friday morning's Herald you erroneously stated in answer to a correspondent's question, that the liability of these partnerships was at present governed by the 24th Victoria, No. 1 section 24. Another correspondent has…

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