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978 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 49
IT is not generally known that, during the administration of the Hon. John Lucas of the affairs of the Mining Department, two or three boring drills were purchased by the Government for the use of mines and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →THE WEATHER.—For some time post we, like other parts of the colony, have been much in want of rain, tanks and creeks being very low, and the green crops looking very yellow and withered. But about midday on Thursday last it…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →BUT few of the writers who treat of the working of gold and silver ores do more than describe the practiced methods, without attempting to criticise them or suggest possible improvements; and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Back Creek, or Barrington Diggings, have now been worked nearly two years. Some cedar getters (Messrs. Saxby, Brothers, if I am rightly informed) found alluvial gold, and shortly after the Rainbow Reef, in the bed of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The overseer at Burrows' Duckenfield Colliery was killed to-day at 1 o'clock, through a quantity of timber falling on him. Mr. M'Kenzie, examiner of coalfields and Mr. Shaw…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COOKTOWN, Wednesday.—The prospectors of the Cowan River have officially reported the discovery of a payable goldfield on the Cowan River to Mr. St. George, the local warden, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Mining Board of Ballarat, remarks the Melbourne Argus, is preparing a position to the Minister of [?] is which are suggested some very sweeping changes in the management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From the past fortnight's mining intelligence, we gather that affairs at Hill End are becoming flatter, and from the various claims on the hill there is a diminution of the rich quartz, the crushings being small, and the yield of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GRENFELL, Thursday.—The Enterprise Company's crushing of 114 tons yielded 155oz gold. Bolton and party's crushing of 15 tons gave 30oz of gold.—No rain has fallen; it is much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEYERS and Holtermann's G. M. Co.—"Hill End, 3rd June. The underlay shaft going down on the vein in the crosscut at 90-feet level has been deepened 5 feet this week, making its present depth 17 feet; the vein has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GLOUCESTER, Friday.—The prospectors of the Rose and Thistle at the Barrington have struck the reef in their new shaft. The specimens are splendid, and much richer than any yet obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Mining Board of Ballarat, remarks the Melbourne Argus, is preparing a petition to the Minister of Mines, in which are suggested some very sweeping changes in the management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →THE Back Creek, or Barrington Diggings, have now been worked nearly two years. Some cedar getters (Messrs. Saxby, Brothers, if I am rightly informed) found alluvial gold, and shortly after the Rainbow Beef, in the bed of…
Continued on Trove, page 819 →AT a recent meeting of the Manchester Geological Society, the president, Mr. J. Dickinson, F.G.S., one of the inspectors of mines, read a paper on the Davy Lamp and Blasting in Mines. Mr. Dickinson…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →WE have already referred to some of the hardships the gold miner had to suffer, the prejudices to contend against, and, generally speaking, placed before our…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MINERS FOR TASMANIA.—In response to an advertisement requiring miners for the tin mines at Mount Bischoff, Tasmania, about 150 men (the Bendigo Independent says) applied to the agent for the company in Sandhurst, Mr. C. H. Hall, for…
Continued on Trove, page 819 →THE news received during the week from the outlying districts (says the Ballarat correspondent of the AUSTRALASIAN) has been tolerably satisfactory from the most of them, Egerton for quartz, and Kingston…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Complaints which were so general that they wore admitted to be reasonable were made a few months ago of the general depression of hade in this city and the neighbourhood. The shipping trade, there is no doubt, was slack. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 819 →GENTLEMEN,—In presenting you with the first Half-Yearly Report since this Mine came into your possession, I must congratulate you upon the success that has thus far attended its development, and the prospect of a successful…
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