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Mining & the mines, 1872

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Latest Mining

Empire · Thursday 11 July 1872 · page 2
Also in Evening News

The secretary of the Mount Perry Copper Mining Company, reports the receipt by the Lord Ashley (s), from Maryborough, of 528 bags copper ore, weight 36 tons 9 owt.; and 219 bags regulus, weight 13 tons…

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Mining. Wednesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1872 · page 5

A QUIET Share Market was reported to-day. Copper shares steady. Sales of Cobar at 46s., Mount Perry at 39s., and Western Peak Downs at 3s. 3d. In gold, the principal transactions…

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Mining News. Tin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1872 · page 3

FROM Inverell there is intelligence to the 6th instant. The Courier of that date has the subjoined communication relating to Cope's Creek by its special reporter:—Samni's Mine, Cope's Creek: Working operations have only lately…

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A Visit to the Cobar Copper Mine. [By Our Travelling Reporter—north-west.] From Dourke to the Mine, Cobar, June 12

Empire · Thursday 11 July 1872 · page 4

ALTHOUGH not strictly within the compass of my programme, still I decided upon visiting Cobar for several reasons. The conversation in Bourke was very coppery. Nearly everyone had a touch of copper on the…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Friday 12 July 1872 · page 2

At a meeting; of the shareholders of the Tuena Creek Gold-sluicing Company, held yesterday, at the office of Mr. Wm. Holme Davis, Messrs J. B. Watt and F. Macnub were elected trustees of the company; Messrs…

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Mining. Thursday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 July 1872 · page 5

TRANSACTIONS in shares this morning were neither numerous nor heavy. Copper shares in less request than they have been for some days past, and the only sales reported were Co[?]…

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Mining Laws in the United States

Empire · Friday 12 July 1872 · page 4
Also in Evening News

AT the present time, when public attention is particularly directed towards a reform of the many evils suffered by the mining interest of New South Wales, in consequence of the unsatisfactory state of our mining…

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Latest Mining Evening News Officer

Evening News · Friday 12 July 1872 · page 2

Mr. E. N. Emmett reports that the half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in the Lady Belmore Company, was held at the office of the company, 362, George-street, Sydney, on Thursday, the 11th instant,…

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Gold Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 50

GILL END AND TAMBAROORA.—There is nothing of importance (says the Times of the 6th instant) to chronicle this week, beyond the fact of the Excelsior Company, Sargeant's Reef, proving a gold bearing vein at a depth of 205…

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Mining Summary. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 5

THE yield of our gold-fields is increasing month by month, and the receipts for the six months ending 30th June last, show a considerable increase over those of the corresponding period of…

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Mines and Mining. Mining Laws in the United States

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 11

AT the present time, when public attention is particularly directed towards a reform of the many evils suffered by the mining interest of New South Wales, in consequence of the unsatisfactory state of our mining…

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Copper Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 52

DURING the week (observes the Bathurst Press of Saturday) a new lode has been discovered in the Belmore Copper Mining Company's ground, and one of the two shafts that are being sunk has struck another. It is expected that…

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Tin Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 52

FROM Inverell there is intelligence to the 6th instant. The Courier of that date has the subjoined communication relating to Cope's Creek by its special reporter:—Samoni's Mine, Cope's Creek: Working operations have only lately…

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Mining

Empire · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 3

During the month now passod, continued activity in all mining matters has to be reported. The wild fit of speculation, amounting to a positive manin, which had scized upon all classcs of society has disappeared, and in…

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LITERATURE. Review. the Mining and Metallurgy of Gold and Silver. By J. Arthur Phillips, Mining Engineer

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 18

THOUGH this book was published in 1867, it will, doubtless, be new to some of our mining readers, whose special benefit the work is admirably fitted to advance. The author, both as a…

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The Western and Northern GoldFields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 24

"WE give hereunder an abstract of the reports of Mr. Johnson, Commissioner for the Western Gold-fields, and of Mr. Buchanan, Commissioner for the Northern Gold-fields…

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Western Gold-fields. The Commissioner, Western Gold-Fields, to the Under-Secretary for Lands. Western Gold-Fields Office, Bathurst, 22nd April, 1872

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 52

Sir,—I do myself the honour, for the information of the Honorable the Minister for Lands, to submit my report upon the Western Gold-Fields, for the year 1871, 2. My unavoidable absence from Bathurst during the early part of…

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The Inverell Tin Mines

Evening News · Saturday 13 July 1872 · page 2

Ruby Vale Company: Auburn Vale, 280 acres. At present there are but two men at work, making preparations for sluicing when a supply of water can be obtained. The prospects are from 1 to 2 lbs to the dish of good ruby tin. Cope's…

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