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Mining & the mines, 1872

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Copper Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 84

From Yess it is reported in the Courier of the 12th instant that the copper lease on the Cumbamurra River has been jumped, on the ground that no work has been done for seven consecutive days. This time has been lost…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 15

Owing to the inclemency of the weather, says the Tambaroora Times of the 13th, many of the claims have been obliged to discontinue work in the absence of protection, and many others being busy securing the tops of shafts, which…

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Latest Mining

Evening News · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 2
Also in Empire

Northern Cow Flat Copper Mining Company.-The Following telegram was sent from Bathurst yesterday by Mr. John Hardy of Hunter-street, and Mr. Andrew Ballantine, who were specially deputed to inspect the…

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Mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 7

GULGONG.—The Guardian of Saturday says : —Mining matters at Gulgong have been brisk during the past week on all the workings, contseq[?]ent on the plentiful rain and new…

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Mining News

The Irish Citizen · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 9

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 82

THE past week was marked by a falling off in the demand for gold shares, and an increased inquiry for copper and tin investments. On the 12th, shares in the Peabody mine, which…

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Mining. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 8

THE rate at which new companies have been rushed forward during the last few days has had the effect of rendering the share market more dull than usual, and the sales effected…

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Mining Correspondence. the Solferino Diggings

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 72

IN my "Little River" report I wrote rather strongly on the hating system at present pursued. I found that in Solferino the system has been followed even to a greater and infinitely worse extent. Nearly every party of working…

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Quart Pot, Sugarloaf, and Ruby Creek Tin Mines

Empire · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

THE following is taken from the Armidale Express:— The Government township at Quart Pot Creek has been named Stanthorpe, and with such patronage the private town is likely to lose its name. It is laid out…

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The Chinese Gold-Diggers at Maitland Bar. [From Our Correspondent.] Maitland Bar, Meroo River, July 9

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 July 1872 · page 18

THIS bar is the head quarters, as it were, of the Chinamen in the district, They have quite a little village at the lower end of it, in which there are two general stores, kept by Chinese "merchants"—as they call…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Monday 22 July 1872 · page 3

Great Fulbeck Copper Company.—A very good specimen of ore from the mine of this proposed company, which is situated near Bathurst, has been received Mr. Westgarth, at whose office, in Spring-street it is…

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Mining News

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1872 · page 3

LATER FROM HILL END AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.— The Times of Wednesday says: With regard to the reported discovery of a rich copper lode in this neighbourhood, I have been unable to gain any further tidings as to its…

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Mining. Saturday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1872 · page 5

RUMOURS current in town to-day that richer stone than previously raised had been struck in Krohman's claim caused a run upon the shares, and sales were effected up to 43s…

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Mining Speculation. (From the London Mining Magazine and Review.)

Empire · Monday 22 July 1872 · page 4

AMONG the "comic" paragraphs, that go the round of the Press in the dull season, the following has had a wide circulation during the past month:…

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Latest Mining Evening News Office

Evening News · Monday 22 July 1872 · page 2

The following telegram from Melbourne was posted at Greville's this morning:-"The cause of the panic in the Hustler's has not yet been ascertained; sellers at £12 15s. Hustler's Tribute-sellers, £3 6s; buyers…

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Mining. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1872 · page 2

SIR,—The enclosed lines which I have just copied from an old scrap-book may not be considered inappropriate to our own circumstances now though written by a South Australian for the Adelaida people nearly twenty-seven years ago…

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Gold on Private Property. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1872 · page 6

SIR,—Much distutbance on the subject of gold mining on private land may be obviated by understanding exactly what is the claim to gold which Goverment has reserved on the same…

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Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 July 1872 · page 6

GULGONG.—The Guardian of Saturday states that the Escort which left on Thursday conveyed 4626 oz. gold as the produce of the gold-fleid for the provious fortnight, making the four weeks yield of 11,850 oz.—nearly [?]en…

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