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The Anvil Creek coal-miners are still out on strike, and their difference with the proprietors of the colliery, we regret to say, appears to be as far from settlement as when the strike commenced, four months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TRUNKERY Creek Quartz Mining Co. (Limited).—The mining manager reports:—"The progress of the tunnel going north along the vein, for the weekended 22nd instant, is 16 feet, making 387 feet from starting point. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Monday we published a very important report from Mr. Warden Graham, to the Under-Secretary for Mines, on the now silver discoveries at Boorook, near Tenterfield. Mr. Graham sent a quantity of picked specimens of stone,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BEYERS and Holtermann's G. M. Co.—Hill End, June 25, —Since my last report of the 17th instant I have crushed. 24 tons of quartz at Beyers' Enterprise battery, for a yield of 23 oz. 11 dwts. 12 grs. The underlay shaft in crosscut at 90…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Good news is in from Charters Towers. 68 tons from the Rainbow Reef yielded 175oz. In the Bryan O'Lynn claim, 416oz is the result of the fortnight's work. The Queen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CARROLL and Board's G. M. Co.—Mining manager telegraphs June 25:—"Have finished crushing 22 tons qiartz; yield, 20 oz. 2 dwts. 4 grs. retorted gold; placed in bank." Krohman's G. M. Co.— Mining manager telegraphs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cooktown papers of the 15th instant publish the following letters:- "New Guinea, May 28,1878.—Mr Flood,—Dear Sir,— Respecting our exploring expedition I must tell you that up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—Lady Robinson left Melbourne yesterday afternoon for Wedonga, intending to return to Sydney oveland, accompanied by Miss Robinson and Master hercules robinson. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are indebted to the Mining Department for the following copy of a report on the gold and silver mine at Tenterfield:— Warden's Office, Tenterfield,…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The following are extracts from a report forwarded on the 13th instant from Mr. J. B. Graham, the warden of the Tenterfield district, to the Under Secretary for Mines:—"I do myself the honour to inform you, that in…
Continued on Trove, page 938 →THE BARRINGTON.—The first escort from the Barrington arrived in Newcastle a few days ago, having in charge gold to the value of about £1000. This was contained in two cakes weighing about 300 oz., the yield of a recent crushing…
Continued on Trove, page 939 →The Mining Department, through our business columns, has invited applications from persons desirous of participating in the vote for prospecting. The regulations will be…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →OF the various copper mines at present at work in New South Wales, perhaps there is not one with prospects brighter, nor of greater importance, than Messrs. Deer Bros.' mine at Frogmoor, of which we…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →A RESIDENT on this field (says the CHARTERS TOWERS HERALD, of the 12th instant) received by the last mail a letter from an old mate, dated New Guinea, 17th May, in which it was stated that the party had…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ACCORDING to the NEWS, mining on the Hodgkinson is looking up. Good gold has been struck in several of the claims down the river which were lying abandoned a few months past. On the Four-Leaved Shamrock…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A MINER who has been for some time working on the Charters Towers gold-field has furnished the Charters Towers Herald with some information regarding the discovery of payable gold in New guinea, and from the…
Continued on Trove, page 939 →Weather very keen morning and evening; days very pleasant and agreeable. The late heavy westerly winds have completely dried up all the herbage, and little cattle feed on the flats, and the season is likely to be a trying one for the…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →THE following regulations relating to the vote for the purpose of assisting prospecting for gold made by his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council, inpursuance of a resolution…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →BOBART, TOWN, Saturday.—Ministers have refused Mr. Grant request to have the public opinion of the English Attorney-General on the Main Line Railway difficulty.—The new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE mining manager of the Trunkey Creek Quartz Mining Co. (limited) reports:—"Progress of tunnel, for week ended 29th June, 4 feet (making total length of tunnel along the vein 391 feet). The vein has increased to four…
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