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Reports from Tucker's Creek are tolerably fair this week. There are about 80 men on the ground altogether, but all of these are not earning wages. A nugget found at Tucker's weighing nearly 3 ozs., was sold at the Australian Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 543 →The finding of small nuggets of from one to three ounces last week has caused a small rush to Tucker's Creek. About 100 are now there. All the diggers from there, however, persist in saying that very few…
Continued on Trove, page 567 →WHETHER protection all round is the right or the wrong kind of thing it is not our purpose to discuss; but in this professedly free trade colony there has existed for some years a protection of a most…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →It has always been understood that gold associated with pyrites was held in chemical union, and that therefore the metal could not be liberated except by first roasting it. It is well known that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The rain we had about a week since has already made a [?]sible improvement upon the country, which now bears in aspect of refreshing verdure, and must be taken as a very satisfactory start for the autumn season: not enough,…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →URALLA, Friday.—It is no use diggers coming to Uralla, as all the ground is monopolised by large leases having been granted. The depth in the company's shaft is 120ft…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE-MILE, GYMPIE, Saturday.—The result of a crushing of 50 tons 13cwt of stone from the Lady Mary reef gave the astounding yield of 666oz ret[?]ied gold. Three weeks' crushing from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONG TUNNEL GOLD MINING COMPANY (LIMITED) --The mining manager reports for the fortnight ending March 16, as follows:--The drive from the rise has been extended 70 feet during the past fortnight,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COPELAND, Monday.—The Kerriput mill-race for the machine is now being made, and four men are working at it. The Cobark machine is expected to be ready in three weeks. The prospects of both…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The operations in connection with the boring for coal at Moore Park were of a most interesting character on Saturday. The workmen commenced drawing the 1850 feet of tubing about 6 o'clock, and completed their labours at 10,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—On Saturday afternoon a miners' conference was held at Waratah, when the following resolutions were agreed to:—1st. " That this conference is of opinion that, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE month notice given by the colliery proprietors to the coalminers of the Newcastle district will soon expire, and whether the price of coal in Port Hunter will be reduced from 14s to 10s 6d per ton is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--As bearing somewhat upon the excitement caused by the supposed discovery of kerosene in the formations underlying Moore Park, it may not be without interest to your readers to be informed that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELONG, Tuesday.—There, is a small rash to Hillas's Creek, near Tarcutta, where alluvial wash-dirt at 10ft sinking is yielding payable gold. £5 per man per week is obtained. The prospectors'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The A.A. Company's miners were officially served with notices of the reduction in hewing prices on Monday last. The notice was to following effect:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An important conference of representative miners from the different collieries in this district took place at Waratah on Saturday evening last. The proceedings were opened by the chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A minor who left Sydney on hearing of the new gold find at the Bullion Company's Claim, Uralla, a few days since, writes to us as follows:—"This place is taken up in large leases on both sides of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The most important news in the mining department for this mail is the notion of the Associated Colliery musters, at Newcastle. The coal trade has been very stagnant lately, and a hold step has been taken the Associated Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →According to the Adelong correspondent of the Gundagai Times, a small rush has set in to Hillas'a Crook. Some half-dozen claims are pegged out. Some persons are also prospecting in Mr. Horsley's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →KROHMANN'S AMALGAMATED G. M. Co.—The mining manager reports:—"Hill End, 23rd march, 1880.—Perpendicular shaft has been sunk a further depth of 5 feet, making present depth 651 feet, still sinking through slate…
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