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HILL END.—The Times reports that one of the mos noticeable facts in connection with mining on the Hill at present is the close proximity to the workings of Carroll and Beard's to Rapp's boundary—only a space of 2 feet at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As there has been a great outory respecting the want of proper facilities for loading Testais coming to the port of Newcastle, the following information respecting the eapabilities of the coal staiths at that port, as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE brokers experienced great difficulty in effecting sales of any kind of mining shares to-day, and a further decline took place in prices. In gold, transactions were limited to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following is the mining manager's report of the Williams' G. M. Co. for the week ending on 5th instant: —200 feet level slopes Nos. 1 and 2 are being continued on as usual; the thickness of the lode being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the extraordinary meeting of the Municipal Council of Parramatta, held this day, Mr. Alderman Hugh Taylor, M.P., was re-elected Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CARGELLIGO.âThe Lower Lachlan corresponden of the Wagga Wagga Express states:âOur Cargelligo diggings are not progressing very favourably as yet. There are two reefs, one of which appears to be very rich in…
Continued on Trove, page 50 →As regards the gold-fields generally, it must be confessed that business is very flat, owing to the fact, which we have before had occasion to refer to, that persons have their hands so full of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SUPPLEMENT to the Government Gazette, published on Wednesday, contains the following proclamation by bis Excellency the Governor:— "In pursuance of the provisions of the Gold-fields Act…
Continued on Trove, page 51 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A strike of Scotch miners is imminent…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →NOT many months ago mining companies by the sco were issuing prospectuses which promised the most ex travagant returns for outlay in the ventures, of which they professed to give particulars. A great many of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Unaffected by the collapse of many undertaking heedlessly launched by Sydney speculators, mining operations are being carried on with considerable spirit in the interior. The yield of gold, as evidenced by that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Bingera correspondent wrote on the 3rd instant as follows:- At the diamond mines tmtllttle has been done since the floods. Messrs M'Caw and Westcott are at work, and still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The manager of the Aurelian Quartz Mining Company, under date of June 26, advises:—The weather has been so wet, and the water consequently so quick, that we have made little progress, and have been swamped…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →GULGONG.—The Gulgong Argus of Saturday reports:—From the Red Lead we have a most encouraging account. From a shaft bottomed yesterday morning close by the fence, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A correspondent of the Maitland Mercury, riting from Stroud on July 1st, says: Gold-mining at Nowendoo, I am told, is on the wane. Two diggers passed here this morning, who report that very little gold has been…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →ON Wednesday last, a deputation of mining delegates representing Wallsend, and Co-operative collieries, waited upon the Minister for Lands to offer certain suggestions relative to the framing of a Coal Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE state of the Share market to-day was somewhat similar to what it has been during the week. Coal shares firm, demand moderate; sales of Waratah at 12½. Shale Oil sold at 28s.,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →IT was a serious omission that deprived Victoria of gigantic coal-fields like those which are below the surface of this colony. It is true that gold was found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is now about twelve months since I last visited these mines, a report of which duly appeared in the Town and Country Journal, in June, 1871. The changes which have taken place during that period are very great and…
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