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IT is no uncommon thing for coal to be found cropping out on the surface, and yet at a short distance away it is found at vary considerable depth, and this owing to faults. At Lightmoor, in the Coalbrook Dale…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →I REMEMBER quite well there was some slight difficulty expected in passing the Gold-fields Estimates for 1853, so far as the Gold Commission was concerned, the expense of which was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →To an influential deputation who recently waited upon the Minister for Mines to urge upon the Government the necessity of restricting the employment of Chinese in the gold-fields, the Minister replied as follows:—"He…
Continued on Trove, page 1177 →PARKES.—"On Monday evening last" says Nemo in the Parkes Gazette of the 10th instant, " Mr. Joh n Medlyn called the attention of the new M.L. A's. to the fact that he believed this will ultimately prove to be one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1177 →MINING matters continue dull at Copeland, Barrington. In a fortnight Keating and Hayes, Temora, made 350 oz. from their claim…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Temora is realising our foretelling that it would prove a thoroughly good gold-field, and Government being alive to its importance has opened up telegraphic communication, and, through the hands of Mr. Baker, the Minister of Mines, is doing vigorous service, outside…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold-mining in the northern districts of Tasmania is being prosecuted with the utmost ardour. New companies are every now and then being formed, and line after line of reefs is opened up. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1176 →The Victory claim at Charters Towers crushed 61 tons of stone for 106oz 10dwt of gold. Eighty-seven tons of stone, from Nicholl's leasehold, Gympis, yielded 93oz 8dwt of retorted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Burlington pit at the Park Iron Mines, near Barrow-in-Furneas, has been of fire during the week, and the workmen employed there have not been able to go down into the pit to work…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A prospecting party near Lismore has found gold, but not in payable quantities. A sixth share of No. 6 North of Murray p.c. at Temora, Bold during; last week for £220…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →THE MURDER AND ARSON CASE.-The principal topic of discussion for the week has of course been the Jindera-road murder and arson, and certainly no more truthful subject for speculation could well be suggested. The crime is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE MURDER AND ARSON CASE.—The principal topic of discussion for the week has of course been the Jinderaroad murder and arson, and certainly no more fruitful subject for speculation could well be suggested. The crime is…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →The Day of Days arrived at lengtn, lingering as had been the diurnal period—or rather ages, toons, eternities—which precede it. But for the punctual appearance of the sun, that unfailing…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →At No. 1 North Glanmire, 226 tons of quartz returned 573oz 15dwt Ggr of smelted gold. 49 tons of stone reduced at the South Louisa Company's mine yielded 126oz ldwt 18gr of smelted gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some good Washings have to be recorded from the south end of the lead. One lot of 50 and another of 30 loads averaged l 1/2oz per ton. A nugget weighing 12oz 5dwt was picked out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From 141 tons of stone reduced at the Phocuix Co.'s mine yielded 39loz 14dwt Ggr of smelted gold. This gave a dividend of 1s per scrip…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Slee's anticipations that rich leaders would be found in the alluvial claims where the deposits of nuggoty gold have been unearthed have been verified in Bourke and party's claim, Lower Temora. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. S. Woolfson, who states that he has been connected with gold-mining operations for eighteen years, informs us that during a recent visit to the Natubuccra, Bellinger, and Macleay districts he believed he passed over some very rich…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forty-three and a half tons of stone, from No. 6, Lady Mary reef, when crushed, yielded 188oz of retorted gold, which gave a dividend of three pence per scrip on 24,000 in the company…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →UNION JACK G. M. Co., PERCYDALE, AVOCA.—The mining manager reports:—"The [?] north has been sunk to a depth of [?] feet from surface, sinking through the same favourable [?] of country as when last reported…
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