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Mining & the mines, 1881

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Country and Mining News. ADELONG. May 30

Evening News · Saturday 4 June 1881 · page 3

MORE PROMISING.-The past week lisa been fine, with showers. Grass is plentiful everywhere. Cattle ate improving and retting into condition, bat prices rule very low. The rain has enabled the alluvial diggers to pet to…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Adelong. May 30

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1881 · page 13

MORE PROMISING— The past week has been fine, with showers. Grass is plentiful everywhere. Cattle are improving and getting into condition, but prices rule very low. The rain enabled the alluvial diggers, to get to…

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Amerioan Watch Company, Waltham, Ka[?] U. S. A., Awarded First-class Gold Medal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 June 1881 · page 8

Engraving and E[?]amelling Watch Cases. From the venerable East to the young West is a great geographical stride, but it is due to the American Watch Company of Waltham, Mass, in the United States of America, to repeat…

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American Watch Company, Waltham, Mass., U.S.A., Awarded First-class Gold Medal, Engraving and Enamelling Watch Cases

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1881 · page 914

From the venerable East to the young West is a great geographical stride, but it is due to the American Watch Company of Waltham, Mass., in the United States of America, to repeat that the enamellers and engravers in…

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Mining at Carcoar. CARCOAR

Evening News · Tuesday 7 June 1881 · page 2

Patterson, and party finished crushing on Saturday last of 118 tons at Bennett's battery, from their claim at Milburn Creek. They realised 94oz 15dwt, and have not yet got through the…

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Mining Imports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 June 1881 · page 4

QUEEN OF THE NORTH CO., BALLARAT.—The mining manager reports:—"During the week No. 2 shaft has beenn sunk 7 feet, present depth 65 feet, which is slabed and centred, with lader way in. The ground…

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The Diggings at Mt. Browne. THE Minister for Mines courteously supplies us with the following copy of a telegram received from Mr. Warden Thompson, at Mt. Browne diggings:—"Wilcannia

Evening News · Wednesday 8 June 1881 · page 3

"Some flour arrived on the diggings last week, and was all sold at 8d per lb, but there was not sufficient to supply all the men. I have visited all the northern rushes on…

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The New Gold-fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 June 1881 · page 6

We have been favoured with the following report which Mr. Warden Tompson has just forwarded from Wilcannia to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Sydney:- "Some flour arrived on the diggings last week, and was…

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Mining Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 June 1881 · page 4

LONG TUNNEL GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).— The mining manager reports, for the fortnight ended June 6:—"During the past fortnight the tunnel has been extended a further distance of 22 feet, making the total length…

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Coal Seam Discovered. GOULBURN

Evening News · Thursday 9 June 1881 · page 2

An important discovery of a seam of coal has been made at Marulan, near the Great Southern Bail way, two chains from which a trial bore was put down, catting the seam at a depth of 120 feet. The…

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Mining Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 June 1881 · page 4

NYMAGEE COPPER MINING CO. (LIMITED).—The mining manager reports on 2nd instant as follows:—Pope's Shaft: The lode in this shaft is composed of yellow sulphurets, and yields fully 14 tons of ore per fathom. We…

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The Wrecked Barque Queen of Nations. the Coal Cliff Jetty Washed Away. Wollongong

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 June 1881 · page 3

The line weather which has been continuous ever since the barque Queen of Nations was stranded came to a termination this morning. A stevedore from Sydney, with a gang of men, arrived…

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The New Gold-fields

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 961

We have been favoured with the following report which Mr. Warden Tompson has just forwarded from Wilcannia to the Under-Secretery for Mines, Sydney;—…

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Late Mining. Weekly Return of Gold, Copper, and Tin

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 949

The gold received for coinage at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint during the week ending 9th June was 12108-80 oz. The coin issued during the same period amounted to 11,000 sovereigns…

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Gold-fields Recollections. No. 28

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 17

I CAN no further go without paying some tribute of respect to the memory of a dead friend, who stood much unmerited abuse during his life, and (to the lasting shame of his enemies, be it…

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Mining Items

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 9
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No. 1 North Ph[?]nix Co., Gympio, declined the offer of £100,000 for their property. SEVERAL parties are at work on the Ulooloo diggings, S.A…

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Mining. Mount Browne

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 9

THE coach from Mount. Browne diggings brought, into Wilcannia on Sunday morning 370 ozs of gold. There is sufficient flour at Mount. Browne till what, in on the raid from Wilcannia, Terowie,…

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Latest Mining Telegrams

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 10

Some very fine specimens from the Muttama and Eureka reefs were brought into Cootamundra on Tuesday A company is about to be formed to re-open them…

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The Dynamite Mine in St. Petersburg

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 June 1881 · page 41

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…

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