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Mining & the mines, 1879

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Latest Mining Telegrams

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 11

COPELAND, Saturday.—Bagley, Stephenson, and party, tributers for No. 1 Bengal Tiger Right Hand Branch, crushed 100 tons for 95oz. The reef is 2ft wide. Brockwell, Paul, and party,…

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Mining Items. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 23

Ten ounces of gold is reported to have been washed from a dishful of quartz rubble at Bannedman, Young. A trial erushing of 20 tons quartz is to be had to…

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Gold at Deep Levels. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 22

SIR,—Your very interesting remarks under the heading of "gold at deep levels," in last Saturday's issue of the T. AND C., were read and appreciated by your numerous subscribers in this locality. I hope you…

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Country and Mining News. [From Our Correspondents.] Adelong. November 22

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 37

THE Tarcutta and Rillas Criek reefs continue working quietly. I had hoped in this week's report to have bee[?] able to give a return of a trial crushing of about 20 tous of quartz from the prospecting claim hold by Collior,…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 December 1879 · page 4

GREAT COBAR COPPER M. Co.—The mining manager reports, for the four weeks ending 15th November, as follows:—In the underground workings, the end going south from Becker's shaft at the 39-fathom level has been…

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Boorook Silver Mines

Evening News · Tuesday 2 December 1879 · page 2

TENTERFIELD, Tuesday.—A further development of the Golden Age claim this week shows that 16 tons of stone produced 1025oz of silver. The width of the crashing shift is six feet, and…

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Gympie Mining

Evening News · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 2

GYMPIE, ONE-MILE, Wednesday.-A favourable yield has been obtained form Nos. 2 and 3 north Hilton reef, the result of crushing 53 tons of stone, being a yield of 147oz of retorted gold…

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Large Gold Returns from a New Reef

Evening News · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 2

SOFALA, Wednesday.-About a mile and a half east of Sofala, on the Turon River, a new reef has been worked successfully. The first prospect that was got gave over 53oz to 180[?]of…

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Splendid Gold Returns. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sofala

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 5

Davis and Mannell have just finished crushing at Sandon's battery, Wattle Flat,11 tons of quartz from their claim at Bed Hill, one and a half miles easterly from Sofala, which has given the…

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Latest Telegrams. Copeland Goldfield

Evening News · Wednesday 3 December 1879 · page 2

COPELAND NORTH, Wednesday.-All shares in the Centennial prospecting claim, which have previously been offered for sale, are withdrawn form the market. The stone is looking splendid…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 December 1879 · page 7

The prospects of the Copeland gold-field are brightening. The reefs are showing splendid indications of extent and depth. The last crushings at the machines have been cleaned up and the yield was in every case better than was…

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Mining Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 December 1879 · page 4

KROHMANN'S AMALOAMATED G. M. Co.—Mining manager's reports:—"Hill End, December 2.—Since last report have driven 5 feet on the vein, at 594-feet level, north of shaft. Have broken down some of the vein: it is 4…

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Sofala Gold Escort

Evening News · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 2

SOFALA, Friday.-The escort, this day takes 800oz of gold, the produce of the Sofala goldfield; and if there was a permanent supply of water here, we could Bend at least on equal quantity…

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Colliery Explosion in Prussia. Berlin, December 2

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 3

A serious colliery explosion occurred at Chemintz, Saxony, resulting in 80 deaths…

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Serious Colliery Explosion in Saxony. Berlin, Dec. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 5

A serious colliery explosion has taken place at Chemintz, Saxony, resulting in the loss of eighty lives…

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Mines and Mining. Trip to the Copeland Diggings. Vi, (From Our Special Correspondent.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 22

THE gold strike from Copeland to the Korriput and Cobark very clearly dennes itself by possessing the same formations as at the formor place and the Bowman; soft slate and sandstone of the Uppeor Silurian,…

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Mining Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 1005

Messrs. Melhado and Curtis report the following, yield from the Band and Albion Consols Gold-mining Company for last week:—The company's battery, 207 oz.; public batter, 104 oz,; total, 311 oz…

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Latest Mining Telegrams

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 10

COPELAND, Friday.—At the Rainbow battory the prospectors of the Melbourne claim, crushed 9 tons for about 16oz. The Lady Mary, Kilbride and O'Neill, crushed 20 tons for 21dw[?]…

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Important Mining Results

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 22

THE Brown's Creek Gold Mining Co. has been working abont ten years. The present plant of SO heads of stamps, about eight years. The company's mine consists of an immense dyke of decomposed quartz, so…

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Mining Items. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 23

A further pa[?]el of 500oz of silver was sent from Boorook by Messrs. T. Horton and Co., on Monday last, to the Qneeusland National Bank at Stanthorpe, and we learn that the stone being crushed still…

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