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Mining & the mines, 1873

2,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 103

Iron Mining in Tasmania

Empire · Wednesday 21 May 1873 · page 3

THE Launceston correspondent of the Hobart Town Mercury writes:—I am happy to say that our iron industriel are progressing very favourably. Two gentlemen from Melbourne have recently visited the…

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Telegrams This Day the Gulgong Libel Case. Sentence of Felix Kabat. the Sandhurst Murderer. the Staffordshire Case. Mail Steamer Quarantined. the Submarine Telegraph Line. New Victorian Postal Act. Suicide at Campbell's Creek. Latest Prom Port Darwin. the Adelaide Wheat Market. Latest Commercial and Mining. &c., &c., &c. GULGONG

Evening News · Wednesday 21 May 1873 · page 2

Five hundred miners and business people have petitioned the Governor for a remission of Mr. De Courcy Browne's sentence. The settling for the races was generally…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Thursday 22 May 1873 · page 3

THE mining manager of Jeffree and Gillard's Amalgainated Gold Mining Company (Limited), reports on the 21th instant as follows:—"The top level is in 118 feet—three shifts continuing the straight drive, one day…

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Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Thursday 22 May 1873 · page 2

THE mining manager of Jeffree and Gillard's Amalgamated Gold Milling Company (Limited), reports on the 29th instant as follows:—"The top level is in 118 feet—three shifts continuing the straight drive, one day…

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Telegrams This Day Brawling in a Church at Wangaratta. the Gulgong Escort. the Royal Mint Lease Crushing. Latest From Hill End. the Melbourne Sheep and Cattle Sales. the R.M.S. Baroda. the Suez Mail Contract. Projected Reduction of Newspaper Postage, Victoria. Libel Actions at Melbourne. Eight Hours' Movement at Adelaide. Salmon Ova for New Zealand. New Roman Catholic Paper at Dunedin. the Waikato Trouble. Pastoral Rents, Christchurch. the Cambridge Murder. the Heart of Luthoan. Wollongong Sessions. Adelaide Markets. Latest Mining. &c., &c., &c. Hill End. Thursday, 11.48 a.m

Evening News · Thursday 22 May 1873 · page 2

In Brown's claim, at Hawkins' Bill, a portion of the easterly vein has been broken down, showing gold equal to five ounces per ton, and of a permanent character. Hickson and…

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Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 May 1873 · page 6

IN a supplement to the New South Wales Government Gazette, published yesterday, the following gold-fields are proclaimed:— CARGO…

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Coal and Crime

Empire · Friday 23 May 1873 · page 3

The high price of coal seems likely to find, says the Manchester Examiner a little extra work for our magistrates It is getting out of the questin for very poor people to pay for this indispensable [?] and, if…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Friday 23 May 1873 · page 3

The following extract of report from the mining manager of the No. 1 Independenty Quarter Mining Company, Tambarora, of 29th May, will be interesting to the sharcheldera and those interested in the…

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Coal in New Zealand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 May 1873 · page 2

THE colonists in the province of Canterbury, New Zealand (on the south-eastern coast of the Middle Island), are evidently directing an increased amount of attention to mining research after coal, and seem…

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Mining. Thursday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 May 1873 · page 5

REPORTS of rich stone being struck in Brown's caused a run on that company's shares this morning, and sent them from 8s. to 11s. Beye[?]s and Holtermans were sold at 26s.; and Carroll…

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Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Friday 23 May 1873 · page 2

The following extract of report from tho mining manager of the No. 1 Independent Quartz Mining Company, Tambareora, of 20th May, will be interesting to the shareholders, and those interested in the…

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Gold Mining

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 659

HILL END AND VICINITY.—The subjoined items are from the Observer's report of Saturday:—In Eisenstaedter's Royal Standard sinking is being vigorously proceeded with in the main shaft, and good work is being done. In the…

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Mining Intelligence. Gold

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 6

HILL END AND VICINITY.—The subjoined items are from the Obtervor's report of Saturday:—In Eisenstaedter's Royal Standard sinking is being vigorously proceeded wit in the main…

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Mines and Mining. Hints on the Discovery of Tin and Copper Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 14

FEW things are so extraordinary to those who have a practical acquaintance with the Cornish tin mines—the main source in the world of that valuable metal—as the fact that several…

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Inexhaustible Coal Supply

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 4

A remarkable statement was made in the House of Commons on Monday about coal. Mr. Akroyd asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he was aware that…

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Latest Mining

Evening News · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 2
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The manager of the Victorian Trunkey Gold Mining Company reports : Pioneer shaft at the Western crosscut at the 230 feet level, a large mundic vein has been gone through, and from the heavy flow of water he…

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Mining Reports

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 15

The mining manager of the Native Rose, Sally's Flat, in his report of 13th instant, says:—" I am still driving in 52 feet level, and am now in 28 feet, having driven 8 feet since my last report; reef well defined, and…

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 658

THE Share market was worse on the 16th than it has been at any previous portion of the year. The sales reported from the brokers' room did not convey a fair indication of the state of the…

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Saving Gold. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 May 1873 · page 7

Sir,—Having been interested for some time past in goldmining, I have found from experience that one of the great hindrances to its progress is, not knowing how to save the gold after you have got the stone with the gold in it…

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