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Mining & the mines, 1873

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Gold and Silver Extraction by Smelting To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 15

Sir,—I observe in your issue of the 13tth inst. a paragraph, that Christian Ludwig Qwist and Stephen Thomas Leigh, both of Sydney, have applied for a patent in Victoria, described as a new method of extracting gold and silver from…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.) Parramatta. January 23

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 6

BOROUGH COUNCIL.—Present: His Worship the Mayor in the chair: Aldermen Trott, Parker, Gallaway. Coates, J. Taylor, Mason, Pye, and Byrnes. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. The finance committee's…

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Missing Goods From the Mooltan. Improvement in Maize. Extensive Business Premises Purchased in Melbourne. the Newcastle Strike Continues. Fire at West Maitland. the Queensland Tin Mines. Attempt to Murder a Child at Rockhampton. Accident at Stawell. Latest Commerical. &c, &c., &c. Home Rule, Gulgong, Via Mudgee. Friday, 8.52 p.m

Evening News · Saturday 25 January 1873 · page 2

Mr. Murray, the road inspector of the district, will, it is believed, advise the erection of a bridge over Cooyal Creek, and recommend other repairs to the road…

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Mining Summary. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1873 · page 5

OWING to the holidays, the dry weather in some districts and too much wet in others, the mining operations have not been very briskly carried on during the past mouth. The holiday season may…

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Meeting of Coal Miners at Wollongong

Evening News · Monday 27 January 1873 · page 2

A MEETING of the Wollongong miners is convened for tomorrow (Tuesday), and it is believed that the object is to consider the advisability of providing funds for the maintenance of the Newcastle miners while they are out…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Monday 27 January 1873 · page 2

The mining manager of the Dayspring Amalgamated Gold-mining Company, limited, reports having crushed three hundred and forty-three tons of quartz, which yielded 350oz gold…

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Mining News

Empire · Monday 27 January 1873 · page 3

THE holiday-keeping in the carly portion of the month apparently decreased the yield of gold, but as the miners have act in to work with good will it is probable that the returns of next month will show more, than an…

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Mining. Saturday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1873 · page 9

THERE was hardly anything done in the share market to-day. Beyers and Holtermans were firmer in consequence of telegrams from Hill End…

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Gold at the Richmond River. [From a Correspondent.] Duck Creek, 20th January, 1873

Empire · Monday 27 January 1873 · page 4

I HASTEN to inform you of what you have, doubtless, already heard, viz, the discovery of quartz reefs within two miles of the Alstonville Post Office, and about six miles as the crow flies from Ballin, Richmond River…

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Telegrams This Day the Melbourne Paper Mills Burned Down Decline in the Price of Tallow the Illness of Dr. Pusey Another Case of Infanticide Murder of a Chinaman at Kiandra Robbery of a Mining Race Stock of Coals in Melbourne Memorial Tablet to Sir James Palmer Latest From Adelaide Latest Commerical and Mining Intelligence &c., &c., &c., BATHURST Saturday, 8.30 p.m

Evening News · Monday 27 January 1873 · page 2

The case against the prisoners charged with causing the death of Michael Dynan was concluded to-day. The prisoners were committed for trial, and after long deliberation bail was…

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Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1873 · page 6

HILL END AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.—The Observer in its report of Saturday, speaking of Beyer's and Holtermann's claim, states that a recent shot shows the stone to be far heavier than any previously crushed, and this is attributable…

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Meeting of Coal Miners at Wollongong

Evening News · Tuesday 28 January 1873 · page 2

A MEETING of the Wollongong miners is convened for this day (Tuesday), and it is believed that the object is to consider the advisability of providing funds for the Maintenance of the Newcastle miners while they are out…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Tuesday 28 January 1873 · page 2

The mining manager of the New Independent Gold Mining Company, Oakey Creek (limited) reports under date 25th instant:—Messrs. Cowdery Brothers were engaged in tracing the main line from Krohman's to…

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Mining. Monday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1873 · page 5

HARDEY any change was perceptible in the Share market to-day. The improvement noticed in Beyers and Holtermanns on Saturday was supported, and sales made at 69s. to 70s. Carroll…

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Meeting of Coal Minees at Wollongong

Empire · Tuesday 28 January 1873 · page 2

A MEETING of the Wollongong miners is convoned for this day (Tuesday), and it is believed that the object is to consider the advisability of providing funds for the maintenance of the Newcastle miners while they are out…

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Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Tuesday 28 January 1873 · page 2

The mining manager of tho New Independent (Gold Mining Company, Oakey Creek (limited) reports under date 25th instant:—Messrs. Cowdery Brothers were engaged in tracing the main lino from Krohmann's to…

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Dreadful Colliery Disaster

Empire · Wednesday 29 January 1873 · page 3
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WE have had to record another shocking colliery disaster. An immense volume of water from some old and unknown workings burst into the Kelsall-hall Colliery Some fifty men were at work, when an alarming ory…

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Hydraulic Mining. (From Crohise's "Natural Wealth of California.")

Empire · Wednesday 29 January 1873 · page 4

EXPERIENCE has demonstrated that the larger the volume of water employed in the process of hydraulic mining, the greater the efficiency, and economy of the operation. The proper…

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Telegrams This Day. Railway Station in Victoria Destroyed by Fire Cricket at Bathurst. Favourable Yield of Gold at Solferino. Intercolonial Conference Proceedings. Important Sales of Sugar. Sudden Death at Adelaide. Meeting of Miners at Wollongong. Misconduct of a Victorian Volunteer. Latest Mining and Commerical Intelligence. &c., &c., &c. BATHURST. Tuesday, 8.36 p.m

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1873 · page 2

At the cricket match to-day the Bathurst team scored 75, the Alberts 120. The weather was fine and the attendance large…

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