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Mining & the mines, 1872

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Latest Mining

Empire · Thursday 26 September 1872 · page 2

The manager of the Peberdy Tin-mining Company, Cemetery Creke, reports satisfactory progress at the scene of operations. He is using every exertion to complete his dams before the spring rains. The second…

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Mining. Wednesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 September 1872 · page 5

INQUIRY for shares was less active to-day. In copper there was hardly anything done; Peak Downs were offered at 5½, buyers offering 5s. less. The contingent dividend of 5s.,…

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Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Thursday 26 September 1872 · page 2

Messrs. H. Fairfax and Co., report, that the list of the Yetholme Gold Mining Promoters Company is fast filling up, it is their intention to close it early next week, when a meeting will be called, and operations…

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Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 September 1872 · page 2

LATEST FROM HILL END.—The report in the Times of Wednesday is as under:—Hawkins Hill: Shakspere (Matheson's)—Recomnmenced to strip vein. The claim is now in first-rate working order. Crown Prince and…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Friday 27 September 1872 · page 2

Messrs. H. Fairfax and Co., report, that the list of the Yetholme Gold Mining Promotors, Company is fast filling up, it is their intention to close it early next week, when a meeting will be called, and operations…

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Mining. Thursday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 September 1872 · page 6

A RATHER quiet day was passed in the share market. In gold companies, Beyers and Holtermanns commanded most inquiry; sales at 50s. to 51s. 3d., closing with sellers at 51s…

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New Zealand Mining Trammway System

Empire · Friday 27 September 1872 · page 2

THE following interesting return illustrative of the wire and other tramways at the Thames Gold-field will be rend with interest by persons interested in mining operations. The return shows the length of tram way…

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Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Friday 27 September 1872 · page 2

Mr. G. S. Roberts reports: A meeting of shareholders of the Great Britain Gold and Tin Mining Company, Sandy Creek, Tumut, was held at Owen's hotel, on the 19th. The company was declared successfully…

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Progress in New South Wales. (From the Mining Journal.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 September 1872 · page 5

NEW South Wales appears to have entered upon a new phase of its industrial exstence. For 35 years it was regarded merely, as a fit place to which to deport our criminal classes, and the d[?]ful state to which…

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Mining Intelligence. Solferino Gold Fields

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 2

says:—Nothing much to report since I last wrote. The Commissioner has been here and bas decided about thirty disputes about claims and leases. A resident Commissioner is much…

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Mines and Mining. Characteristi[?]s of Minerals. PLATINUM

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 14

PLATINUM is a metal of a greyish[?]white colour. It is harder than silver, of about double its density being of specific gravity 21. It is so infusible, that no considerable portion of it can be melted by the strongest…

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Gem Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 404

Speaking of the diamonds found near Bingera, the Stan-borough correspondent of the Inverell Courier, on the 19th, writes:—The diamonds shown to me, small though they were, there could be no mistake about their genuineness…

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Tin Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 404

There has lately been so much said about the wonderful richness of the claims on the Sugarloaf Creek and its tributary gullies that the correspondent of the Border Post recently paid a visit to the neighbourhood, with a view to…

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Copper Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 404

We have to record another (the third) discovery of copper ore in the Queanbeyan district. In the present instance Mr. M. Hayes, of Micalago, was the discoverer, and he has, we hear, been offered and taken £50 for his discovery, with…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 3

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Lion Reef Gold-mining Company, hold on the 18th September, the company was declared duly formed, and the following gentlemen were appointed directors:- Messrs S. A…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 15

Within the past few days, says the News, it has been reported m Shoalhaven that a very rich lode of copper has been discovered in the Cambewarra mountains. Wo may mention that pieces of copper, apparently with a…

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Mining Matters

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 3

DURING the whole of the month the tone of the share market has been very depressed. This may be accounted for by the immense amount of capital invested in mining…

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Mining in Victoria

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 405

THE Melbourne Argus supplies the following statistics, obtained from the mining department of Victoria:— The reports of the Government mining registrars and surveyors for the quarter ending 30th June last, which…

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Latest Mining News

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 402

LATEST FROM HILL END,—The report in the Times of Wednesday is as under:—Hawkins Hill: Shakspeare (Matheson's)—Recommenced to strip vein. The claim is now in first-rate working order. Crown Prince and…

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1872 · page 402

NEWS from England of a fall in the value of copper had a prejudicial effect on Peak Downs shares on 20th instant, when, after selling at 6¼ and 6, were offered at 5¾. Cowflat sold at…

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