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Mining & the mines, 1872

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Mining Reports

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 556

We are informed that the All Nations Claim, Hawkins Bill, has changed hands for £16,000. It is said that Crichton and Beard's has also been purchased by Sydney proprietors en private terms, reported to be about £37,000…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 3

Mr. J. T. Hobbs of the Golden Gate Gold-mining Company, Chambers' Creek, reports that the claims on the Nuegety and General Bourke Reefs, which are traced through this company's claim, increasing daily in…

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Mining News

The Irish Citizen · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 4

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 15

WE take the following from the Tambaroora Times of Saturday:— The one great object of interest for the week has been to watch the crushing of the match talked of stone, from…

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Mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 2

GULGONG.—The escort left on Thursday with 2952 ozs.; as the yield for the previous fortnight. The past week has been another dull one, with little promise of a change until rain falls profusely…

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 553

So soon after the great crushing at Krohmann's other events are likely to look small, and indeed at Tambaroora and Hill End there is little to chronicle, but the continuous working of leases with varying success,…

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The Great Gold Cake, Hill End

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 6

The retorting of the enormous mass of gold recently obtained from sixteen tons of stone taken from Krohmann's claim, on Hawkins Hill, was an operation requiring no small…

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Mining on Private Property. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 May 1872 · page 17

[?] to mine of last week was to some extent satisfactory, but what I wished to condemn was the state of things which allows landed properties to give to whom they chose authority to dig, and possess themselve of gold to…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 May 1872 · page 6

MR. Ditchburs, one of the directors of Brown's Gold Mining Company, who left town on hearing report of the attempted jumping, [?]n arrival at Tambaroora found the whole matte[?] settled by the Commissioner in favour of the…

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The New Gold Mining Regulations. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 May 1872 · page 3

SIR,—The new regulations appear to be distasteful to gold miners, various objections have been taken to them in public meetings and otherwise, and I understand petitions to Parliament against them are in course of siggnature; but…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Monday 6 May 1872 · page 2
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Holman's Paddock— At a meeting of the lessees and owners of Holman's Paddock, Hill End, it was deter mined to form a company of £50000, of which. 25,000 to 30,000 shares are reserved for Hill End, and out…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 May 1872 · page 5

HERMAN'S Gold-mining Company (Limited).—Mr. J. Mull[?]ns reports that a meeting of the proprietors of the claim at Hawkins Hill, Known as Herman's, was h[?]ld at the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday, when it was resolved…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Tuesday 7 May 1872 · page 3

Great Hawkins' Hill South Extended Company, Hill End— The mining manager reported yesterday to the legal manager in Sydney, that good payable gold had been truck in one of the shafts on the ground…

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Latest Mining Evening News Office

Evening News · Tuesday 7 May 1872 · page 2

Ruby Tin Mining Company (limited.)—The mining manager reports six tons of ore started from the mine; and that the yield is now one ton per day. Mr. R. Peek, jun., reports: Having received more…

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The Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 May 1872 · page 7

GULGONG.—In its report on the 4th instant the Guardian states the Camidian lead country promises to be an important portion of the gold-field; indeed, at present i[?] wears the busiest appearance of any portion of the field,…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 May 1872 · page 6

PRIVATE letters from the Tenierfield district report further discoveries of tin-bearing ground in that locality, and of the astenishing richness of some of the ground taken up some time ago. Several of the companies previously…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Wednesday 8 May 1872 · page 2

The yield of the Wynyard Gold-mining Company for the past fortnight is 143oz 10dwt 12grs. Ironclad Roof Gold: There was on view yesterday, at the Sydney Exchange, an inerot of very quality gold,…

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The Gold Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 May 1872 · page 6

A supplement to the Governmet Gazette, published yesterday, contains two proclamations setting forth that the following shall be deemed gold fields within the meaning of the Gold Fields Act of 1866:—…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Thursday 9 May 1872 · page 2

Great Australian Gold-mining Co— A meeting of shareholders was held last evening at the Chamber of Commorce, when the following gentlemen were elected: Trustees, MessrB. Downes and Co. directors, Messrs…

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