An Important Mining Case in Queensland
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1881 · page 841
The proceedings in the Day Dawn case, Charters Towers, which were commenced on the 21st of March, before Warden Selheim, were, after repeated adjournments, brought to a close on the 21st of April. There were in all thirty-two…
Continued on Trove, page 841 →Country and Mining News. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury. May 17
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 May 1881 · page 14
WATER SUPPLY— This question remains the principal local topic. The more the subject is discussed, the more clear it becomes that the ratepayers are decidedly adverse to committing themselves to a scheme which would entail…
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Evening News · Monday 23 May 1881 · page 2
LONDON, May 22.—A silver mine at Dacota, in America, has fallen in, through Heavy rains, but fortunately no one was in the mine at the time, and, consequently,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1881 · page 4
UNION JACK Q. M. CO. (NO LIABILITY), PERCYDALE. —Th emining manager reports: "The contrnctors are in full swing, and making good progress with the construction of dum. The leef at present in the north prospecting shaft…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 May 1881 · page 4
LONG TUNNEL GOLD-MINING COMPANY.—The mining manager's report for the fortnight ending 23rd instant:—"During the past fortnight the tunnel bus been extended 37 feet, making the toral length 1600 feet We have passed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Items from Temora. TEMORA
Evening News · Thursday 26 May 1881 · page 2
Rain fell on Tuesday. The escort left with over 2,000 oz. Two hundred loads from spare ground in Dentscher's averaged 2oz per load. £1,700 worth…
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Evening News · Friday 27 May 1881 · page 2
Three hundred and ninety-three tons of quartz, raised in eight weeks from No. 1 North Phoenix, yielded 3455oz. The mine has already produced this year 9084oz…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines and Mining. a Novel Quartz Stamper
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 22
THE illustration in this issue refers to an entirely new form of stamping machine, expressly adapted to the reduction of gold quartz, invented and patented by Mr. Humphrey B. Dunham, of New York. A…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 880
Mr. W. S. Keyes, mining engineer, reviews at great length, in the San Francisco Bulletin, the advance sheets of an important work on the "Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada," by Professor Whitney, formerly State Geologist…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 855
Barely noon on a fine, bright, Australian morning in spring, and a young man, of say twenty-six, standing on the slope of wooded Mount Kooyoorah. At a cursory glance you might see that he had been "camping out," and a thin…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 880
Also in Freeman's Journal
Mr. Joseph Palmer reports the yield for this week of the Black Horse United Gold Mine, Egerton, to be 112 ozs. Messrs. Melhado and Curtis report the yield of the…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 7
Long-tunnel Gold Mining Company, limited. -- Mining manager's report for fortnight ending May 23: --" During the past fortnight the tunnel has been extended 37 feet, making the total length 1600 feet,…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 9
LONDON, May 22— A silver mine at Dacota, in America, has fallen in, through heavy rains, but fortunately no one was in the mine at the time, and, consequently,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The St. Petersburg Dynamite Mine
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 856
The following account, says Nature (April 7), of the mine recently discovered in St. Petersburg, extracted from Russian sources, gives a remarkable picture of the state of society in the empire, where able chemists and expert…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 16
FIVE pounds' weight of gold has been obtained from the spare ground at Deutscher's. The water in two dame is exhausted. A nugget weighing nearly 3 oz. was found on Monday; and another weighing about 2 oz. in cement near the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 10
A good gold find is reported near Orlams, 15 miles west of Clermont. The Rockhampton ARGUS says a private letter states that a 116oz nugget was found at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Dynamite Mine in St. Petersburg
Evening News · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 7
The mine prepared in the Sadovoya street brings into yet higher relief than before the daring ingenuity and utter disregard of human life by which the Nihilists have won so terrible a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Late Mining. Adelong
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 870
The gold escort for the Bank of New South Wales took 646 oz. 16 grs. net; and for the Commercial Bank 201 oz. 9 dwts. 21 grs. Good returns continue to be obtained from the claims at Tarcutta; at…
Continued on Trove, page 870 →Mining Telegrams. Blayney
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 880
An assay of Marsden's copper lode, recently discovered, yielded 83 per cent of pure copper. BRAIDWOOD, MONDAY. The newly discovered reef at Molonglo River has…
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