Grafton Mining News. GRAFTON
Mr. Thomas Hawkins Smith, the Crown lessee of the Gordon Brook station, has applied for a mineral lease of 40 acres on the Dogtrap to search for chromate of iron. The land in question…
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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Grafton
Mr. P. Maccolmi returned yesrterday from a visit to the Solferino Reef, bringing several very rich specimens of gold-bearing quartz, now being raised from the old Garibaldi and Lion reef…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hints for Gold Miners. Hydraulic Mining
IN order to treat most successfully the extensive beds of detritus forming the deep placers previously described, the following conditions are involved:— 1st. Whatever may be the depth of the auriferous…
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WE have been requested by Mr. James Curley, on behalf of the delegates representing the Miners' Association, to publish the following letter:— " To F. W. Binney, Esq…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mines and Mining. a Tour through the Albert Goldfields
WHEN I returned from Mount Browne to Milparinka, for the purpose of catohing the convoyance which runs from there to the Granite rush, a diatance of 35 miles, I found to my sorrow that it had left…
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OLD "Fubbesites" will remember the Judge and Jury Club that was started in the palmy days of Forbes, by Chief Baron Impartial whom, by the bye— I see regularly two or three times a week,…
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The manager of the Star of Peace Gold Mine reports that the crushing for the month, from 85 tons of stone has yielded 116 oz. gold. We have been shown by Mr. W. Monteith a number…
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Temora at the present time is in a dull state. Business people conutantly grumbling and complaining of their hard lot. In the most prosperous districts of this country fluctuations in all…
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DEAR PUNCH,--Upon receipt of your message by telephone I started at once for the new diggings, and here I am ready to give you the latest intelligence. Wilcannia is a lovely spot--hill, dale, and woodland combined, with a number of men throwing the dirt about in…
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THE diamond-drill has made a conspicuous'success. The " Australasian" recently reportod that in the Crown.Cross United mine at Stawell the diamonddrill was set to work at a depth of 1322ft, and on…
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Brown and Taylor, the prospectors at Lower Tarcutta, struck gold one mile from the reefs now working. They have applied for a prospecting area. Minaham, the lucky digger at Tarcutta,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Home-made Coal-sifter
IF coal ashes are not sifted there is much waste. Sifting is not pleasant work, but with a proper apparatus it may be done with comparative ease. To make a sifter: bore holes near one end of any old barrel, put…
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CORRESPONDENTS will oblige by sending Mining News on separate pages of their communications, in order to have same dossed in our Mining pages. Correspondents will farther oblige by affixing their signatures to…
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"An important addition to the literature of our coalbearing rocks," (Bays the Geological Magazine,) "has just appeared in the fourth edition of Professor Hull's work on The Coal-fields of Great Britain.' Few books have had…
Continued on Trove, page 266 →Queensland. the Gold Returns for 1880
From the report of the Department of Minos, for the year 1880 wo take the following as showing the total gold yield. Northern Division—That is for the following fields…
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TEMORA.—Mr. Monteith brought to our office on Friday some exceedinsly rich specimens of quartz, taken from Messrs. Head and Aldrioh's claim at Temora, the Weat Agnes reef. The gold could be seen…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Newcastle Coal Co. and the Railway Department
A comprehensive paper has been laid on the table of the Assembly, at the instance of Mr. Fletcher, with regard to the rates charged the Newcastle Coal Company for hauling and shipping coal. From the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MINING Milling Telegrams. Adelong. July 29
There is great excitement about the new rush at Adelong. Alluvial, with 20 feet sinking, giving £6 per man per week, has been found on private property belonging to Kyran Began. Mining speculators are here. Prospecting is…
Continued on Trove, page 265 →Annual Report of the Department Oe Mines for 1830. (Concluded.)
IN resuming our remarks in connection with the above report we are forcibly struck with the highly interesting matter supplied by Mr. War. den De Boos, of the Copuland Division. Aa the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Country and Mining News. (Feom Our Own Corespondents.)
CORRESPONDENTS will oblige by sending Mining News on separate pages of their communications, in order to have same classed in our Mining pages. Corrospondenta will further oblige by affixing their signatures to…
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