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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1873

2,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 103

Mining. Tuesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 June 1873 · page 5

THERE was no improvement perceptible in the Share market this morning. Gold shares were weaker, and Beyers and Holtermanns sold as low as 15s. 6d. A good number of Carroll…

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Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Wednesday 11 June 1873 · page 2

The manger of the Aurilian Quartz Mining Company, Solefrino, under date of June 3rd, writes—"The crosscut is being continued with two men, the progress consequently being slow. I have sunk 7 feet more on…

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Telegrams This Day Alleged Encroachment at Hill End. Scene in the Melbourne Assembly. Anticipated Attack on the Ministry of Victoria. Committal of Goodwin. the Secretary of State and the Carl Question. Mr. March's Successor. Proposed Vote of Censure on the Victorian Cabinet. the Mail Contract Business. the Victorian Estimates. Lavish Educational Expenditure. Anticipated Advance in Maize. Latest Mining and Commercial, &c., &c., &c. Hill End. Tuesday, 9.26 p.m

Evening News · Wednesday 11 June 1873 · page 2

A dispute has been raised between the proprietors of the Rose of England and Jeffree and Gellard's ground, it being alleged that the latter are encroaching…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Thursday 12 June 1873 · page 2

The manager of the Aurilian Quartz Mining Company, Solefrino, under date of June 3rd, writes—"The crosscut is being continued with two men, the progress consequently being slow. I have sunk 7 feet more on…

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Mining. Wednesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 June 1873 · page 5

THE Share market remains in about the same state that it was yesterday. Coal shares firm Waratah sold at 11[?], Shale Oil at 28s. 6d. to 29s. Peak Downs Copper easier, sales at 43s…

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Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Thursday 12 June 1873 · page 2

The Manager of the Queen of Denmark Gold-mining Company (limited), states for the information of the shareholders, that one of the directors has visited the claim, and is very favourably impressed with the…

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Mining. Thursday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1873 · page 5

TO-DAY'S Share market was rather a quiet one. Gold stocks dull, and in some cases lower. Carroll Beards sold at 39s., and offered; Eisenstaedter's brought 15s. Krohmanns were…

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Latest Mining. Evening News Office

Evening News · Friday 13 June 1873 · page 2

The mining manager (Mr. D. A. Brown) of the Lord Sheftesbury Gold Mining Company, Gundagai, writing under date June 9, states: "The new pump, also the tools, powder, &c, are now to hand. Have got the…

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Telegrams This Day Lincoln Sheep for Melbourne. Heavy Sales of Maize. Latest From New Zealand. Return of Mr. Samuel to Melbourne. New Zealand Declines to Cooperate Pacific Mails. Uncertainty of Affairs at the Waikato. More About the Victorian Mail Contract. the Victorian Finances. Desgraves V. M'mullen—verdict for the Plaintiff. Fire at Braidwood. Yield of Gold at Hill End. Latest From Bathurst. Indications of Floods. Singleton Tweed Factory. Legislation at Melbourne. Murder at Yarra Bend. Melbourne Grain Market. Adelaide Events. Latest Mining and Commercial, &c., &c., &c. [From Our Correspondents.] [A portion of the following appeared ia our second edition of yesterday.] GUNNEDAH. Thursday, 5.10 p.m

Evening News · Friday 13 June 1873 · page 2

The river is now running in Maitland-street, which is deserted. The town is surrounded with water. No mails can arrive or depart. The Liverpool Plains are covered with water…

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Gold Mining

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 758

GULGONG.—The report in the Guardian of Saturday remarks that the escort which left for Sydney on Thursday took down 3861 oz. 15 dwte, 5 grs. of gold, and £1334 in cash. The most copious and steady rain with which this…

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Mining Intelligence. Gold

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 6

HILL END AND VICINITY.—The Observer of Saturday reports that mining matters bear an improved aspect, more especially at the Hill At the top of the Hill payable gold is being…

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Mining Summary. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 5

HEAVY rains set in in the Western district last weet, and have furnished the miners on the alluvial workings with that great necessary, water, to proceed with their washings. It has,…

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Mines a Nd Mining

Empire · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 2

The amount of gold received by escort at the Sydney Branch of the Hoyal Mint for the month ending 81at May, was 22.000z from the Western Gold-fields, 2935oz from the Southern, 495oz from the Northern Gold-fields:—total,…

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Mines and Mining. On the Working of Auriferous Pyrites

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 14

IN Piedmont, where veins of auriferous pyrites have been worked from a very remote antiquity, the extraction of the gold is effected almost entirely by amalgamation. The…

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Port Darwin Gold-fields

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 745

INFORMATION as to the condition and prospects of the Port Darwin country, as a gold-field, is famished us by a miner, one of the unfortunate passengers of the Springbok, and if his statement be correct—and…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 2
Also in Evening News

The mining manager (Mr. D.A. Brown) of the Lord Shaftesbury Gold Mining Company, Gundagai, writing under date June 9, states; The new pump, also the tools, powder, &c., are now to hand. Have got the…

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Mining Reporta

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 15

The mining manager of Joffreo's Rose of England Gold Mining Co. (limited), sent a telegram on the evening of the 6th instant, as follows:—" Struck splendid stone in the shaft, 1000oz to the ton."…

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The English Coal Miner

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 23

As the last sitting of the Coal Supply Coummittee several colliery inspectors were examined,:— Mr. Wyna, inspector of collieries in North Staffordshire Shropshre. and Ohaahire, was the [?]at witness;…

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The Mining Record

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 758

AMONGST the most remarkable changes which have occurred in the share market lately are those in Krohmanns. On the 6th a dividend of 25 per cent, on the capital stock was paid out of…

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