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NYMAGEE COPPER MINING CO.—The mining manager reports, on December 16th: "Pope's shaft is down 161 feet; the drive south from this shaft is in 162 feet; the lode in both places continues about the same in quality as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A rush is going on now to the flat fronting the Courthouse ridge, owing to its becoming known that Hunter and party had been picking out coarse gold, tip to 2 oz. 15 dwts., for some time past, from an abandoned shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From the North Glanmire Co.'s mine a parcel of 409 tons has been reduced, and yielded 570oz of retorted gold. No. 1 North [?] crushed 152 tons, which yielded 276oz ol retorted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →That the field around Copeland is still in its infancy and that what has been done there is only as surface scratching compared with what is likely to be done are the opinions of many practical miners on the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Sunday, the 12th instant, a boy about 12 years of age, son of Mr. T. Screen, of Charlestown, was taken very ill. Dr. Hill and his assistant, Dr. Gabriel, attended to the case, and pronounced it to be one of sunstroke. The boy…
Continued on Trove, page 1220 →For the past three months occasional allusions to a small rush in the neighbourhood of Junee in the public Press have not been unfrequent, and, now that it has assumed larger dimensions, and a goodly number of miners in all…
Continued on Trove, page 1217 →The gold received for coinage at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint from December 17 to 22 was 1321-21 oz. The coin issued during the same period amounted to 30,000 sovereigns…
Continued on Trove, page 1214 →HAVING had some opportunities of judging, I am of opinion that the first chiefs of those gold-fields and police departments were both well fitted for the positions; which may also be assumed from…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE BONANZA KING.—We learn from a New Zealand journal that Mr. James Macky, one of the principal shareholders in the Bonanza Goldmining Company (the Pride of America, in New Zealand) recently from Te Aroba…
Continued on Trove, page 1218 →Nymagee Copper Mining Company, Limited.-- Mining manager reports on December 16:--Pope's shaft is down 102 feet. The drive south from this shaft is in 161 feet; the lode in both places continues…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At No. 1 North Glanmire, Gympie, 220 tons of quartz returned 573oz 15dwt 6gr of smelted gold. 49 tons of stone reduced at the South Louisa Company's mine yielded 126oz ldwb 18gr of smelted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wantrool diggins are situate six miles south-east from Junee, on a selection held by Mr. M'Nicol, on the watershed dividing Wantrool and Billabong waters. Two gullies are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE first; time I met Sir Thomas Wade, the British Minister at Peking, he began the conversation by remarking: that the end of Government was the preservation of the people, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Within the past few weeks two falls of large bodies of stone have occurred at the Ellenborough mine, Eaglehawk, but fortunately no serious consequences ensued on either occasion. At about 9…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Deutscher has received an intimation from Sydney to the effect that the two parcels of stone sent for assay from the Caledonian Reef have yielded at the rate of 9oz and 9 1/2 oz per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. S. Woolfson, who states that he has been connected with gold-mining oporntions for eighteen years, informs us that during a recent visit to the Nambuccra, Bellinger and Macleay districts he believed he passed over some very rich…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Krohmann's Amalgamated G. M. Co. (Limited), Hill End, December 28.—The main shaft has been sunk a further depth of 5 feet, making present depth 713 feet; two small quartz leaders recently cut have altered their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Krohmann's Amalgamated Gold Alining Company (Limited), Hill Rod. December 28, 1880.—Main shaft has been sunk a further depth of 5 feet, making present depth 713 feet. Two small quartz leaders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE WEATHER.-The last few days have been very on pressive. We have had a deal of thunder and dust storms but no rain, and water is becoming short. The thermometer has registered from 100deg to 110deg in the shade,…
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