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Mining & the mines, 1872

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Colonial Reminiscences. My First Mining Speculation

Empire · Wednesday 21 August 1872 · page 4
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DOWN sixty-three feet, just struck rich lead, intend to tunnel. Such was the telegram I lately, received from a friend of mine at Hawkins'Hill. He had promised to let me know his success, as soon…

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Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 August 1872 · page 6

THERE is but little to chronicle in rogard to the reefs at Nanama since our last publication. Work progresses slowly, and only in a few of the claims, but prospects are as cheering as over they were. Gold is still seen in the…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Thursday 22 August 1872 · page 2

Messrs. Gilchrist and Weston reports:—At a special general meeting of the shareholders in the Ophir Copper Mining Company, held at the offices of the Company, 5, Spring-street, it was resolved to increase…

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Mining. Wednesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 August 1872 · page 5

A VERY dull feeling prevailed in copper shares to-day, sales confined to Peak Downs at 6¾ to 6?, closing at the latter. The inquiry for Gold shares was almost the same as yesterday,…

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Latest Mining Evening News Office

Evening News · Thursday 22 August 1872 · page 2

Messrs. Campbell and Son report having received some excellent specimens of gold quartz from the Young Australian, Sawpit Gully, and adjoining the well-known Rhineland, on the Canton line of reef. The Young…

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Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 August 1872 · page 3

LATER FROM HILT END.—The Times of Wednesday reports of Red Hill:—Napoleon: Still remains registered. Scandinavian The engine shaft is still being sunk. Present depth 230 feet. the wafer is not quite so strong…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Friday 23 August 1872 · page 2

A meeting of the Baron Rothschild Gold-mining Company, Wattle Flat, was held last week, at Mr. Alexander Farthing's, Newcastle, when the following officers were appointed—Messrs. F. Ash, H. Stockes, Robert…

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Mining. Thursday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 August 1872 · page 5

THE demand for shares in the Hill End claims has almost superseded inquiry for copper and tin shares. Beyers and Holterman's are now worth as much as Krohmann's; the market was…

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To the Shareholders of the Various Peak Downs Mining Companies. [Per Favour of the Herald.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 August 1872 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—The distance separating most of you from your Peak DOWUS property, and the comparative newness of the country, naturally prevent your appreciating many circumstances seriously affecting your interests, which are…

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Mines and Mining. From Tambaroora to the Inverell Tin Mines. [From a Correspondent.] August 12

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 14

HAVING decided on visiting some of the northern tin mines, I started early one morning about a fortnight back, from Tambaroora. I was also at time of starting determined to spend a little while on the road…

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Tin Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 245

From Inverell the subjoined telegram is given in the Courier of the 14th:—Curry and Glass: We hear that this mine, consisting of 40 acres on Middle Creek, is being actively worked by three men, and that in ten days' work…

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Copper Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 245

The Wallabadah correspondent of the Murrurundi Times, 17th, writes:—There is not much stirring here, except that there are four or five working parties searching for a lode of copper which most exist somewhere near, as so many…

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On Gold Companies

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 21

The words in italics are those of Gold Companies, lately formed in the colony. Ida, formerly of Hill End, but more lately the Belle of Wattle Flat, determined to pay a visit to the City of…

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Mining News

The Irish Citizen · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 9

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Mining Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 2

HOME RULE AND GULGONG.—The Guardian reports that the Home Rule Rush still maintains its name as an attraction to miners, who are now flocking in from all quarters to it. The…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 15

Telegrams have heen received in Tenterfield, stating that a quantity of tin are forwarded to Sydney via Warwick and Brisbane readied its destination marked with some other substance not tin—the baga having been opened…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 2

Messrs. D. A. Crichton and Co., report, that a meeting of the Lord Byron Gold Mining Company, of Box Ridge, was held on Thursday evening at the Masonic Hall, when the following…

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 242

THERE was less business doing in the Share Market on the 15th instant The reaction that let in lately against copper shares had not yet [?]eased, and Peak Downs alone maintain their…

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Latest Mining News

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1872 · page 243

LATER FROM HILL END.—The Times of Wednesday reports of Bed Hill:—Napoleon: Still remains registered Scandinavian: The engine shaft is still being sunk. Present depth 230 feet. The water is not quite so strong…

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