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Mining & the mines, 1873

2,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 103

Mining

Empire · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 3

DURING the month ending the 31st ultimo, 27,278oz of gold were received from the Western district, 2318oz from the Southern, and 620oz from the Northern, making a total of 40,2l6oz. The aggregate receipts for the…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 14

Work [?] the B[?] A[?]gas) was on Monday morning commenced on a piece of ground leased by Woolley and party adjoining the Burragong Reef Company's ground at Stony Creek. The erection of the Burrangong…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 2

Comet, Wattle Flat.—Under date 15th instant, the mining manager reports: "I made but poor progress last week, as I had great delay in getting the timber in from the bush. I have now timbered 8 feet, making…

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Mining Reports

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 14

The mining manager (Mr. C. Rebello) of the Boggy Creek Tin and Gold [?]uicing Company, Tumberumba, writes 14th April, reporting the result of his investigations to that date. He adds: "In the success of your…

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Ironbarks Gold-field. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 503

SIR,—I am a miner, and was induced to come to this place from reading the flourishing reports given from time to time. I am sure the public are not aware of the extent of the misrepresentations that have been made. A new…

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Mining. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 13

THERE was a better feeling to-day in Krohmans and Carroll Beards shares, holders asking advanced rates. No sales reported. The managers of the Cowflat Copper Co…

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[?]Es and Mining. How to Use Dynamite

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 14

MR. RICH. LENTZ, writing to the Hill End Observer gives a few plain directions as to the proper use_of dynamite, which may be instrumental in preventing furthur accidents. First of all it may be said that…

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Country and Mining News. [From Our Correspondent.] Parramatta. 6th April

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 7

PUBLIC SCHOOL EXIHIBITION.—On Thursday last the annual exhibition of the Public School children's work took place in the presence of a number of the townspeople, amongst whom I noticed the Revs. G. F. M'Arthur, Bloomfield, and Forsaith,…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1873 · page 5

RAPPS G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports, under date 17th April, as follows:—"The sinking of last week is 2½ feet; total depth of shaft, 385½ feet; the ground is hard yet. We got a leader in shaft ½-inch thick. The…

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Latest Mining

Evening News · Monday 21 April 1873 · page 2
Also in Empire

THE manager of the Reform Gold Mining Company, Buckinbah, reports:—The shaft is now at a depth of forty feet, with a lode of about two feet three inches, with another lode coining into it from the west…

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Telegrams This Day Scurvy on Board a French Transport Ship. the New Zealand 4 Per Cent Loan. Swearing in of Mr. Vogel. Eight-hours Demonstration in Melbourne. Border Question Beyon Settlement. Immigrants in Quarantine. Opposition Silk Company in Victoria. the Cutter Yacht Lcelia. the Melbourne Herald and the Randwick Cup Race. Pall of £100,000 in Hustler's Stock Latest Mining. Death of Leaper, the Alleged Bigamist. an Abandoned Ship. Shipping for Sydney. Adelaide Wheat Damaged. Latest Commercial. &c., &c., &c. [Per Anglo-australian Press Telegram Agency.] Melbourne. Saturday, 2.50 p.m

Evening News · Monday 21 April 1873 · page 2

Mr. Parkes has telegraphed bis ultimatum to Mr. Francis. It virtually settles the Border question. The Victorian Government will not agree…

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Australian Gold Mining Company. London, April 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1873 · page 5

A Great Australian Gold Mining Company has been announced with a capital of £200,000…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Tuesday 22 April 1873 · page 2
Also in Evening News

THE mining manager of the Star Gold Quartz Mining Company, Trunkey, writing on the 17th instant, reports that the weather has been very unfavourable since he last wrote, but that the contractors are still carrying…

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Condobolin. New Gold-field at Cargilligo Lake. April 18

Evening News · Tuesday 22 April 1873 · page 2

Just as I finished my last letter, and even before I had time to post it, news arrived that a new gold field had been discovered, but where was the great secret. The parties would by no means tell, and were rather…

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Mining. Monday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1873 · page 6

THE cessation of business in the Share market during half of last week has not made much improvement in business, and no great amount of sales was reported to-day. Amongst the gold…

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Telegrams This Day Some Rule Race Entries. Singular Malformation. a Constable Tried for Drunkenness. the Caloola Reefs. the Gulgong Libel Case. Latest Mining Intelligence. Latest From Port Darwin. the Goulburn Excursionists. the Chief Justice at Mudgee. Home Rule, Via Mudgee. Monday, 5.4 p.m

Evening News · Tuesday 22 April 1873 · page 2

The libel action, Browne v. Browne, has been adjourned to the Supreme Court, Sydney, 15th May next. Weather fine…

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The Consumption of Coal

Empire · Wednesday 23 April 1873 · page 4

ON Saturday afternoon Sir William Armstrong, C.B. delivered his inaugural address as President of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, in the Wood Memorial Hall in…

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Mining. Tuesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1873 · page 5

NO important change occurred in the Share market to-day. The inquiry was light, and prices generally about the same as yesterday. Coal shares not in much demand. Shale Oil…

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