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Mining & the mines, 1881

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Temora

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 September 1881 · page 6

The Hidden Treasure picked out 15oz., No. 2 Deutscher picked out 26oz.; Kraft got a 1oz. nugget. Some of the dams are becoming exhausted. Byrne and party washed 50 loads for an average of 10dwt. Murray and party's first…

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A New South Wales Gold-mining Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1881 · page 7

The Home News says:—"The Kiandra Gold Mining Company, county of Selwin, New South Wales, is announced with a capital of £150,000 in shares of £1,40,000 of which are taken by the vendors in part payment of the purchase…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1881 · page 6

A telegram from Sydney reports a crushing at the Sydney mint of 45cwt. of stone from the prospectors' claim, Lady Matilda Reef, Nana Creek, which gave 60oz. 7dwt. of gold…

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The Copeland Goldfield. Excellent Prospects. Copeland

Evening News · Friday 9 September 1881 · page 2

Messrs. Benjamin, Scott, Driscoll, and party of No. 1 Centennial South crashed yesterday for a yield of over 2oz per ton. The prospects of the field are daily improving. The Hidden Treasure…

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Nana Creek Goldfields

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 September 1881 · page 3

The mint return from a trial crushing of stone from Sharpe and Small's Prospecting Claim on the Lady Matilda line of reef, Nana Creck goldfields, gives the following, viz.:--Total amount of stone…

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Mines and Mining. Old Times on the Goldfields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 22

WHITING of the olden times at Rocky River, Mount Jones, the Walsh, Sydney Flat, and other centres of activity and excitement in the old days, and what they are now, a correspondent of the Armidale…

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Department of Mines, Sydney, 6th September, 1881. Notice to Applicants for Gold-mining Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 8

NOTICE is horeby given that unles the lessces excente and take deliver of the under mentional Gold-mining Leases within thirty days from this date they will be declared voit. LACHLAN MINING DISTRICT…

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Mining. Temora

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 9

Bourke and party, Lower Tomora, have picked out £2000 worth of gold, and are now washing 1000 loads, going 1oz. to 1½ oz. per load. the diamond drill is down 210 feet in gray dyke…

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Mining Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 473

Mr. Joseph Palmer reports the yield for the week from the Black Horse United, Egerton, to be 131oz. Mr. W. E. Ebblewhite reports that a dividend of £15s. per share has been declared in the Hidden…

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Mining Mems

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 9

32,507 lone of coal were exported from New-castle last week. THE escort left Wilcannia for Sydney, via Narandora, on Monday night with 1224 ozs of…

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Latest Mining Telegrams

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 13

The Band and Albion Consols Co., Ballarat, got lOOcz of gold from their reef on Saturday, including a 48-oz lump of solid gold. The Albury Gold Mining Company have…

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Temora Mining Registrar

Evening News · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 5

The "Temora Star" reports that Mr. Registrar Margules proceeded to Sydney on Monday evening to answer certain charges brought against him. The following petition, signed by 500 residents on…

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MINING Answer to Correspondent

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 473

Miner (Vegetable Creek).—The publication of your letter would have no influence with legislators: only one side of the case is advocated, and possibly a majority of your fellow-miners consider the present system of forwarding the…

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Country and Mining News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 38
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CORRESPONDENTS will oblige by sending Mining News on separate pages of their conmunications, in order to have same classed in our Mining pages. Correspondents will further oblige by affixing their signatures to…

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Tasmania. the General Outlook for Gold

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 23

In an article dealing with the goldfields interest of Tasmania generally, the "Tasmanian Mail" says:— At the present time, when the mining industry is the all-absorbing topic, no more interesting report could…

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Mining Items. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 22

MINING SHARES.—There is very little doing in mining shares, although persons who desire to sell established concerns, readily find purchasers. Details will be found in our telegraphic and commercial…

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Mining Telegrams. Carcoar, Sep. 2

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 473

Patterson and party's block claim, Milburn Creek, have struck a payable reef in the crosscut at a depth of 50 feet, Dear O'Brien and party's lease. It is rumoured that on Bordau's old mineral lease they have struck black copper…

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Rich Find of Gold. Hill, End

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 13

Bond, Coeriouties, and party, of the Old Eureka claim at Hargraves, bottomed their new shaft yesterday, and obtained lOOoz of gold from a small bucket of quartz. The reef is 9in thick,…

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Victorian Mining Share Market. Melbourne

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 13

Band and Albion Consols offered at £9 14s; Berry Consols are in the market at £5 5s; City of Ballarat had buyers at £5, and sellers at £5 7s 6d; Clover Hill had sellers at 26s; Cornish Daylesford…

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