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Mining & the mines, 1873

2,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 103

Mining. Tuesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 June 1873 · page 5

INQUIRY for coal shares may be said to keep the Share market from absolute stagnation. It is hardly any use offering gold shares even at a reduced value, unless sellers are prepared…

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Coal. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 June 1873 · page 6

SIR,—The Legislature has not neglected the matter referred to by "A Housekeeper." The 9th Victoria, No. 8, enacts that coal shall be sold by weight; 10 Victoria, No. 2, requires thatevery carter conveying coal to…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Thursday 26 June 1873 · page 2

The Tuena correspondent of the Goulburn Herald writes:—Good news in this (the mining) line. Messrs. Gifford and Wheat have discovered a reef on the Bald Hill, situate on the property of Mr. Jones, the specimens…

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Mining. Wednesday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 June 1873 · page 5

THERE is still a tendency to lower figures in the value of copper shares. Peak Downs sold to-day at 32s., and more offered at that price; Wolca were quitted at 2s. 6d. Coal very firm;…

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Mining. Thursday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 June 1873 · page 5

THE state of the Share market to-day was a near approach to absolute stagnation. To effect sales lower prices had to be accepted, and quotations reached a lower point than at any…

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Substances Ofthe Mistaken for Gold

Empire · Friday 27 June 1873 · page 4

THOUGH gold, is its separate aud pure state, is readily distinguishable from other metals and minerals, by its color, softness, high specific gravity, and insolubility in the simple acids,…

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Country and Mining News. CAMPBELLTOWN

Evening News · Friday 27 June 1873 · page 3

A public meeting was held in the court-house, Campbell town, yesterday afternoon, to consider the best means to occurs the re-erection of the Menangie bridge. The chair was occupied by W. Fowler, Esq., J.P., of Eschol Park. It…

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Clarence River Gold Fields.—little River Reefs. (From Our Correspondent). June 14

Empire · Friday 27 June 1873 · page 3
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VERY little work has been done here lately, except upon the Perseverance Hill; owing to the heavy rains, Nearly the whole of the hill is now in the hands of Sydney capitalists, and work is progressing on it with…

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Telegrams This Day a Seaman Drowned. Presentation to Captain Lake. Bridge Over the Murray. the Suez Mail Contract. Nimblefoot Scratched. Fire in Queen-street. Latest Mining, &C., &C., &C. Bathurst. Friday

Evening News · Friday 27 June 1873 · page 2

The inquest on the man Charles Hosier, who hanged himself in the lock-up, was held yesterday. He was arrested on Tuesday as a supposed lunatic, having previously attempted…

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Gold Mining

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 822

HILL END AND VICINITY.—In the report by the Observer of Saturday it is stated that at Rawsthorne's, the prospecting drive to the east has cut a fresh vein, about 4 or 5 inches in thickness, which shows something like 2 or…

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Mining Intelligence. Gold

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 6

ADELONG.—The Adelong United Gold Mining Corapaay, with a quantity of gold in view, have bad to stop operations for want of laths. The reef claims are looking as well if not better,…

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Coal

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 823

Some interesting facts of the coal trade at Port Hunter were mentioned at the banquet given to the Hon. Colonial Treasurer, at Newcastle. They show that the commercial greatness and importance of the port are…

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Mines and Mining. On the Treatment of Auriferous Pyrites by Burning

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 14

IN the official report on the "Mineral Statistics of Victoria, for 1872," appeared the following paragraph:— " Gold can be separated from pyrites, quartz…

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The Mulloon Copper Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 810

Taking the Goulburn road from Braid wood nine miles from that township, the Shoalhaven River is reached at the Warri crossing, where a bridge is in course of erection—long sought for, and at last granted. The…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 15

The Gulgong Argus, says:—The Commissioner (T. A. Browno, Esq.) visited Spring Flat yesterday, and granted the prospectors three weeks' time to enable them to erect their whim, slab up their shaft, and empty their…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 2
Also in Evening News

The mining manager of Jeffrce's Rose of England Gold Mining Co. (limited), reports, on the 25th, as follows:—"Yesterday we washed out 132oz of nearly pure gold from a bucketful of washdirt. Total amount…

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Mining Reports

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 15

The manager of the Great Shakspearo Gold Mining Company, Box Ridge, reports having received a telegram from mining manager of a trial crushing taken from the lower level which yielded 3½oz to the ton…

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Mining. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 8

THE Share market to-day was even worse than yesterday, both as regards prices and demand. In copper there were few sales, and these at a fall. Peak Downs declined to…

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