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Mining & the mines, 1873

2,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 103

The Mining Record

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

A STILL duller market and easier prices is what we have to report at the close of the unusually slack week which ended on the 20th instant. The only description of…

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Bourke Mining News. [From a Correspondent.]

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

SEVERAL of our leading townsm[?]n having recently visited the Co[?]ar Mines, I am in a position to give their v[?]rbal reports respecting the progress of the mines—a progress 1 had hoped to inspect personally at this time, but the…

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Fire at Wallsend. Plant, Premises, &C., of the "Miners' Advocate" Destroyed

Empire · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 3

SHORTLY after 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the promises occupied by the Miners Advocate, at Plattsburg, near Wallsend, were discovered to be on fire, and, within a very short time, were totally destroyed, being…

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Fire at Wallsend. Plant, Premises, &c, of the "Miners' Advocate' Destroyed

Evening News · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 3

SHORTLY after 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the premises occupied by the Miners' Advocate, at Plattsburg, near Wallsend, were discovered to be on fire, and within a very short time, were totally destroyed, being…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondent.) Campbelltown

Empire · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 4

A public meeting was held is the court-house, Campbelltown, yesterday afternoon, to consider the best means to secure the re-ereetion of the Menangle bridge. The chair was occupied by W. Fowler, Esq., J.P., of Es[?] Park. It…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.) Parramatta. June 26

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 6

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.—The usual bi-menthly meeting of the above council was held on Tuesday last. Freeent—H. Taylor, Esq. (Mayor), aldermen Galloway, Coates, Trott, Taylor, and Parker. When the minutes of the previous special…

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Clarence River Gold Fields-Little River Reefs. (From Our Correspondent). June 14

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

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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Extensive Gold Sluicing Operations. Reedy Flat and Gilmore Company's Claim (Late "Workman and Sutton's.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 16

EXTENSIVE gold-mining operations are being carried on in the recesses of the mountain country surrounding the Adelong and Tumberumba gold-fields. Claims of great magnitude, yearly producing large quantities of…

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The Australian Town & Country Journal Sydney, Saturday, June 28, 1873. Decline of Gold Production in Victoria

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 June 1873 · page 8

THE position claimed for Victoria of late, by some of her politicians, has awakened in many quarters a spirit of cuiiosity concerning the actual nature of the grounds for…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Monday 30 June 1873 · page 2

The mining manager of the Golden Belt, Tambaroora, under date 21st instant says:—There are between 40 and 50 tons of stone at grass, and as I intend putting all into the stopes whom I can get there, I expect to…

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Threatened Strike at the Co-operative Colliery

Empire · Monday 30 June 1873 · page 3

WE (Newcastle Chronicle) are in a position to state, authoritatively, that the miners at the Co-operative Colliery, Wallsend, have sent in their fourteen days' notice to stop work. The reason assigned for this is,…

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Mining. Saturday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 June 1873 · page 5

Marshall's Rich Vein G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports under the 27th June:—"We finished crushing last night; we had 45 oz. out of 11 tons; the last stone we took up from the bottom of the shaff showed to go from 8 to 10…

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The Queensland Copper Mines. (From the Maryborough Chronicle, June 24.)

Empire · Monday 30 June 1873 · page 3

KROOMBIT COPPER MINES.—We have been fornished with the following notes by Mr. Bensusan, who has just returned from a visit of inspection on behalf of the shareholdere. The lode is composed, on…

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Telegrams This Day Lord Canterbury's Chair. the Drainage of Melbourne. the Silver Coinage. Geelong Paces, &c. the Treating of Pyrites. Volunteer Intelligence. Fatal Accident at Grenfell. Gas Explosion at Melbourne. New Rocket Signals. Latest From New Zealand. the Overland Telegraph Line. Latest Mining and Commercial, &c., &c., &c. BATHURST

Evening News · Monday 30 June 1873 · page 2

Madame Goddard's agent is negociating for a trip to Bathurst, which will probably be deferred till that lady's return from Queensland…

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Mining News. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 July 1873 · page 6

BALD HILLS GOLD-FIELD.—Writing on the 23rd ultimo, the correspondent of the Hay Standard remarks:—No doubt you have heard that al[?]uvial gold has been discovered here, but there is nothing as yet to warrant a rush. A[?]…

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Co-operative Colliery, Newcastle

Empire · Tuesday 1 July 1873 · page 2
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IN reference to the paragraph which appeared in yesterday's issue—of a threatened strike at the above colliery— weare authorised by the proprietor to state that the notices have been withdrawn…

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Latest Mining

Evening News · Tuesday 1 July 1873 · page 3

The mining manager of the Golden Belt, Tambaroora, [?]er date 21st instant says:—There are between 40 [?] 50 tons of stone at grass, and as I intend putting into the stopes whom I can get there, I expect to…

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Police Courts This Day Water Police Court. (Before Messrs. G[?]old and Hunt.)

Evening News · Tuesday 1 July 1873 · page 3

James Canning, Jesse Latter, George Muddle, and Andrew Ridley, were fined 5s for drunkenness. William Wentworth was fined 10s for having been [?]unk and disorderly on the South Head-road…

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Latest Mining

Empire · Wednesday 2 July 1873 · page 2

The mining manager of the Armstrong Gold Mining Company, Hawkins' Hill (limited), reports on the 28th June as follows:—The main tunnel is in 414 feet. The ber we are going through is very hard, but the face…

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