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HILL END AND VICINITY.—On Saturday the Times publishes a report, dated the previous day, in which it says:—Mathewson's Shakespeare has cut the Star of Peace vein, and they are at present raising some first-class stone…
Continued on Trove, page 563 →HILL END AND VICINITY.—In the Observer of Wedmesday, it is reported that on Monday, at Jeffree and Gillard's claim, from two dishes a washing of about 15 oz. was taken, consisting not only of fine gold, but small nuggets. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE most common ore of manganese is the pyrolusite, or grey manganese. It has a metallie lustre, a steel groy colour, and affords a black powder. Specific gravity 485. It efferveces…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mr. John Mackenzie, F.G.S., the Government Examiner of Coalfields, has taken a great amount of trouble to exemplify our coal-fields in the most practical manner possible. He exhibits first of all a map or plan of the colony showing…
Continued on Trove, page 566 →COAL.—Shale and Oil are offered at 27s; Wallsend Coal at Lll 10s ; Bulli are wanted at Lll 17s 6d. COPPER.—No sales are reported. Speculators refuse to pay present quotations, and do not meet holders even…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday, the 21st February, in the House of Commons, Mr. Mandella moved for a select committee to inquire into the causes of the present dearness and scarcity of coal. He did not say that there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →In the south aisle of the building is exhibited one of Rochm, Hurley, and Co.'s patent dry crushing machines, but as this has been so recently described in our columns, and with a descriptive wood-cut in the Sydney Mail, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 566 →BUSHMAN LEAD.—A correspondent to a contemporary says :—The prospectors at Bartlett's Creek have ab last abandoned their task, not having obtained any gold payable. They deserve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the general meeting of shareholders of the British Empire Gold Mining Company held on Thursday last the report of the directors and balance sheet were adopted and the whole of the directoral unanimously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A consignment of copper ore from the CoolaIantro mine, in the district of Manuro, arrived [?] Sydney by the steamer Illalong from Eden on Monday. The shipment consists of 232 bags, weighing 13 tons, and it is to be forwarded…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The parcel of stone, weighing 54lb (taken out of the reef in one block, and quite promiscuously, of the Rebecca Gold-mining Company, Wattle Flat), was crushed at Messrs. Mort and Co.'s, and yielded gold at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →How fortune turns upon a man and how she faces about may be seen in the history of the new gold-field just discovered on the upper Lachlan. A party of fencers were working on Holt and M'Kellar's run, Cudgelligo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE think it rather a healthy sign that the Share market is undergoing a gradual recovery rather than going up spasmodically. Sellers are not so numerous as might he imagined, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A FURTHER decline in the value of gold shares occurred on April 25; there was little disposition to buy, except at still lower prices than holder required. Copper shares dull. Drummond…
Continued on Trove, page 562 →A FRIGHTFUL, explosion of gas occurred this afternoon In the North Staffordshire Coal and Iron Company's Colliery, Talke, the scene of the calamity of December, 1869. It happened in the fight foot seam, where…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →WHEN the principle of the Davy lamp was mode known by its inventor, it was supposed that a means had been discovered of putting an end to all accidents from fire damp— and so far as these arose from the immediate contact of the…
Continued on Trove, page 568 →THE EXHIBITION.—It is estimated that during the first seven days of the Exhibition over three thousand persons from Parramatta alone visited it. ST. PATRICK'S SOIREE.—A soir[?] will take place in St…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →RAPPS G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports, under date 1st May, as follows:—"The sinking of last week is 2½ feet; total depth of shaft 390½ feet. The driving is 4 feet, length of drive 50 feet, cut a leader indrive at 47 feet,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE works of the Ravenswood (Queensland) Pyrites Company are at length in working order. In some remarks on the mechanical appliances brought to bear, the Miner states that at present the stuff to be treated is taken to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Hodgkinson is removing the Monitor Machine, Etheridge Diggings, from the Dolaney to Western Creek, fifteen miles away. There were no provisions or [?] at Etheridge, with the exception of beef and mutton…
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