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Mining & the mines, 1875

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The Albury Gold-fields Maiden Crushing Yielded £2280. (From the Border Post.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1875 · page 6

THE mineral resources of the Albury district, without any exaggeration, may be said to be very valuable, and only require capital, labour, and enterprise to have them thoroughly developed. Hitherto we have been very chary…

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Mining Board of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1875 · page 7

THE Board met yesterday morning at the Board-room, Public Works Office. Present—Messrs. Thompson (chair), Baker, W. Brown, Griffin, Burns, Sweeny, Mongan, De C. Browne, and Copeland…

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Facts in American Mining. [A Paper Head by Mr. Bensusan Before the Royal Society.] Treatment of the METALS.—No. 3. (Continued from June 14.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1875 · page 6

IN nearly all the mills of the States some apparatus is used as an adjunct to the stamper battery—amalgamating pans, arrastra, Beath's grinder, centrifugal grinder, Ryerson's pulverizer, superheated steam apparatus, shaking tables,…

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Mining Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 June 1875 · page 5

PAXTON'S G. M. Co.—The mine manager reports under date the 12th June:—"Star of Peace Vein: Sunk north shaft on this vein 2 feet during the week, making total depth 367 feet, also carrying the stope north of shaft down…

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Serious and Fatal Mining Accident

Evening News · Thursday 17 June 1875 · page 3

THE Clunes correspondent of the BALLARAT STAR writes: —"Following the melancholy suicide of Dr. Rose yesterday was a fatal accident at the New Lothair mine this morning (Tuesday). Two…

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Mining Board of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 June 1875 · page 3

THE Board met yesterday morning at the Board-room, Public Works Office. Present—Messrs. Thompso[?] (chair), Baker, Copeland, W. Brown, Griffin, Sweeny, De C. Browne, Burns, and Mongan…

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News of the Day. The Mining Board

Evening News · Thursday 17 June 1875 · page 2

The Board, yesterday, declined to deal with the question of unsurveyed tenements and other matters. indicated in a letter from the Mining Department, as they considered they had provided for them in the…

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Shipment of Coal From Newcastle. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 June 1875 · page 6

SIR,—Several letters having appeared in your columns on the above subject, I trust you will allow me a small space to endeavour to place the matter in its true light before the public, being confident the more the subject is…

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Mining Board of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 June 1875 · page 3

THE Boardmet yesterday morning at the Board-room, Public Works Office. Present—Messrs. Thompson (chair), Baker, W. Brown, Griffin, Burns, Mongan, De C. Browne, and Sweeny…

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Mines and Mining. Recent Australian Patents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 18

MESSRS. H. Samwells, J. Dunn, and J. E. Henderson have patonted some improvements in the process of and furnaces for, calcining metalliferous pyrites and other material in which tar and sawdust are mixed…

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Facts in American Mining. Methods of Gold Mining

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 778

HYDRAULIC mining is in great favour in California; but in New South Wales its existence is hardly known. Immense works are undertakes by the enterprising Americans for carrying on this method of mining on a large…

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The Albury Gold-fields

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 12

OUR Albury correspondent referred to the auriferous nature of the Yarara district a few weeks back. He now informs us in a private note that the mountain ranges of the Upper…

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Mining

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 9

BURNT YARDS —We (Carcoar Chronicle) have been informed that the stone now being obtained from the P. W. claim is something won-derful. One person has described it as being…

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The Mining Record. Mining Board

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 778

THE Board met on Tuesday morning at the Board-room, Public Works Office. Present—Messrs. Thompson (chair), Baker, W. Brown, Griffin, Burns, Sweeny, Mongan, Do C. Browne, and Copeland…

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Mining Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 19

The escort from Carcoar on Monday, the 7th, took 291 oz 18 dwts 21 grs, 223 oz 10 dwts of which was from Brown's Creek. Respecting the new rush and Bald Hilis, the…

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The Albury Gold-Fields. Maiden Crushing Fielded £2280

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 778

THE mineral resources of the Albury district, without any exaggeration, may be said to be very valuable, and only require capital, labour, and enterprise to have them thoroughly developed. Hitherto we have been very chary…

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Fearful Mining Accident

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 19

A SHOCKING and fatal mining accident occurred at the North Old Chum claim, at Sandhurst, on Friday morning to a man named Thomas Richards. He was going down to work at 7 a.m., at a depth of…

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The Mining Board

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 10

THE Mining Board has been waiting through the week for the amended mining regulations to be returned from the Minister for Mines, to whom they were forwarded after being passed by the Board…

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Country and Mining News. PENRITH

Evening News · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 8

THE WEATHER —The weather has been fine, but rather cold, for the past week. We had a few showers last Sunday night, but have had no rain since, and we do not require any more for a considerable period…

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America. the Gold Mountain. Thurlow Weed and Father De Smet

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 6

THE recent letter "of General Sheridan to General Sherman on the subject of the gold deposits in the Black Hills country excited great interest throughout…

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