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Mining & the mines, 1875

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Country and Mining Mews. (From Our Correspondents.) Penrith. June 16

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 32

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

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The Yarara, Goldfield

Evening News · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 3

THE Four-mile Creek and, Yarara Goldfields are situate about a distance of 55 miles from the town of Albury between the Main Sydney Road and the River Murray. On the 25th March, 1873, Mr.l Henry Palmer, after…

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The Yarara Goldfield

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

THE Four-mile Creek and Yarara Goldfields aro situate about a distance of 55 miles from the town of Albury, between the Main Sydney Road and the River Murray. On the 25th March, 1873, Mr. Henry Palmer, after…

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Mining Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 June 1875 · page 5

BEYERS and Holtermann's G.M. Co.—Under date June 16, the mining manager reports as follows:—"The prospecting crosscut eastward, at the 261-feet level, has been put in 4 feet further this week, making the length from shaft 32…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 June 1875 · page 2

SIR,—Permit me to make a few remarks and suggest a remedy for the evil under which the trade of this port is suffering in consequence of the bungling policy of the Government…

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Facts in American Mining. [A Paper Read by Mr. Bensusan Before the Royal Society.] Statistics.—no. 4. (Concluded)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 June 1875 · page 3

THE gold yield of California in 1853 exceeded eleven millions sterling. The gross yield from quartz mines is increasing slowly. The capital investe in mines and mining is returnign about 20 per cent. The average…

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Newcastle Coal Trade

Evening News · Tuesday 22 June 1875 · page 2

A meeting of parsons owning small sailing colliers, and otherwise engaged in the Newcastle coal trade, was held in the Exchange, yesterday; Mr. S. Blue in the chair. Its object was to bring under the…

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Mining Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 June 1875 · page 6

STAR of Peace G. M. Co.—Under date 19th June, the mining manager reports as follows:—"The main shaft is being sunk 69 feet below the 410-feet level, making 470 felt from surface; the vein is 9 inches wide, equal…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 June 1875 · page 6

KROBMANN'S G. M. Co.—Under dato June 23, the mining manager reports as follows:—"In the prospecting crosscut in the north shafe, at the 392 feet level, we have driven two and a half feet this week, making the distance in from…

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The Mining Record. Mining Reports

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 809

BEYERS and Holtermann's G.M. Co.—Under date June 16, the mining manager reports as follows:— "The prospecting crosscut easiward, at the 261-feet level, has been put in 4 feet further this week, making the length from shaft 32…

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Sluicing for Alluvial Gold

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 7

THE four sketches we present to our readers in the present issue illustrate the nature of operations carried on in sluicing alluvial ground, by means of hydraulic power, as employed in California. The credit of the introduction of this…

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Sluicing for Alluvial Gold

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 9

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The Gold Production of the World

Evening News · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 5

THE gold coinage of Germany has (says the PALL MALL GAZETTE) so seriously disturbed the money markets of the world, and there is so much apprehension with regard to the future demands for that…

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Country and Mining News. GRAFTON. June [?]

Evening News · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 4

The Weather the last week has continued fine. A tex meeting was held on Wednesday evening last at the School of Arts, in aid of the debt on the new Presbyterian Manse' about [?] down. After tea a public meeting was…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.) Penrith. June 23

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 32

TUE WEATHER, &C.— The weather hyas been very cold for the pam week. We have had no rain, but heavy frosts are frequent. The crops ol oats are just appearing aboveground; the corn is a pulled, and the farmers ate waiting for a…

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Facts in American Mining. [A Pater Read by Mr. Bensusan Before the Royal Society.] Treatment of the METALS.—No.3

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 809

IN newly all the mills ef the States some apparatus is used as an adjunct to the stamper battery—amalgamating pans, arr[?]tra, Beath's grinder, centrifugal grinder, Ryerson's pulverizer, superheated steam apparatus, shaking tables,…

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Ravelston. by Charles Gibbon, Author of "Robin Gray," "For Lack of Gold," "For the King." [The right of publication has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.]CHAPTER XXXVI.—NETTLES

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 826

THE races over, there was a continuous din of voices, talking, disputing, hallooing for lost companions, then a contused movement in the crowd, as if half-a-dozen sets in the lancers had got mingled together and could…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

Evening News · Monday 28 June 1875 · page 3

A terrible explosion occurred on April 30, at the Bunker's Hill Colliery, North Staffordshire, belonging to Messrs. Williams, Rigby, and Co., and it is feared that between thirty end forty lives have…

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Mining Items

Evening News · Monday 28 June 1875 · page 3

The Black Range Creek (says the BORDER POST) is again before the notice of the miners of that locatity. For some time past considerable efforts have been made by a working party and a contributing party to put down a chaft…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1875 · page 7

A terrible explotion coourred on April 30, at the Bunker's Hill Colliery, North Staffordshire, belonging to Messrs. Williams, Rigby, and Co., and it is feared that between thirty and forty lives have been lost. The mine is not far…

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