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Mining & the mines, 1881

1,360 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 68

Gold Discovery. TUENA

Evening News · Tuesday 8 November 1881 · page 4

Fresh discoveries have been made on the Compass Range, at Dogtrap, near Tuena. Another grand reef has been cut in the Lady Sarah, in which course gold shows freely. Mr. Brooker is…

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New Gold Rush. GRENFELL

Evening News · Tuesday 8 November 1881 · page 4

Fitch and party, in prospecting a branch gully running into Native Dog Creek, near Native Bear Rush, found payable gold on the surface. Eight dishes yielded 1 pennyweight 10 grains…

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Department of Mines, Sydney, 1st November, 1881. Notice to Applicants for Mineral Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 November 1881 · page 11

NOTICE is hereby given that unless the Lessees execute and take delivery of the undermentioned Mineral Leases within thirty Says from this date they will be declared void. No. 1079. George Morris; portion No, 389; locality, county…

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Rich Gold Discover. in South Australia. [By Electric Telegraph.] Adelaide

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 November 1881 · page 3

A discovery, which must cause some commotion in mining circles, has been made in the neighbourhood of Woodside, but it has been kept quiet by the lucky proprietor. A splendid auriferous reef…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 November 1881 · page 6

The Italians claim at Barmedman crushed 67 tons for 277oz. amalgam, and is expected to clean up for 1½oz. to the ton. The reef is 12 feet wide. Very rich stone continues to be raised in Quail's cancelled lease. Marshall and…

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Sale of a Gold Mine

Evening News · Wednesday 9 November 1881 · page 2

Messrs. Dalveen and Richards report the sale in London, through Mr. Thomas Cornish, of the Mitehell Creek mine and property, near Wellington, for 240,000…

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Mining

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 November 1881 · page 2

The manager of the Hidden Treasure Gold Mining Company, Coreland North, reports:-- "During the past week the lower tunnel has been driven a further distance of three feet; total, from boundary 324 feet…

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Accident to a Coal Train. NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Wednesday 9 November 1881 · page 2

Little after 7 yesterday evening an accident occurred on the Great Northern line, at the Wallsend junction. A train of empty coal trucks going towards Minmi, got off the line, cutting up…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 November 1881 · page 6

Roderick and party, lessees of the Hard-to-find Claim, Barmedman, brought into Young last night, from Barmedman, a cake of gold weighing 80½oz., from 60 tons quartz. The manager of the Hidden Treusure Gold-mining…

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Mining at Tuena

Evening News · Thursday 10 November 1881 · page 2

The Minister for Mines, Dr. Renwick, has placed the following copy of a telegram from the mining registrar at Tuena addressed to the Under-Secretary for Mines atour disposal:—"Mr. Brooker discovered…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 November 1881 · page 5

The gold escort to-day from Adelong took the following:—Bank of New South Wales, 574oz. 6dwt. 21gr.; Commercial Bunk, 281oz. 4dwt. Mr. Holterman, Sydney, writes to the mining registrar that he intends visiting…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 November 1881 · page 5

Very good gold has been struck in No. 4 Garibaldi Reef Lionsville. CARCOAR, THURSDAY. During October 34 gold-mining leases have been taken…

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Mining

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 November 1881 · page 8
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

27,060 tons of coal exported from Newcastle last week. The prospects of the Native Bear rush, near Grenfell, are improving daily. One…

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Mining News. Mining at Gympie

Evening News · Saturday 12 November 1881 · page 3

GYMPLE, Friday.—No.1 North Phoenix struck a rich patch of 300oz yesterday. The shareholders in the South New Zealand Company decided to appeal against the recent decision…

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Mining Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 November 1881 · page 833

Copper lodes have been discovered 16 miles from Tamworth and a large area of land taken up for the purpose of mining them. A yield of 377oz. of gold from 310 tons of atone has been…

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latest Mining Telegrams

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 November 1881 · page 13

The Daydawn Company at Charters Towers has declared a dividend of £2400 as the result of a fortnight's crushing. An assay of a sample of pyrites from the claim…

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Country and Mining News

Evening News · Saturday 12 November 1881 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

CORRESPONDENTS will oblige by sending Mining News on separate pages of their communications, in order to have some classed in our Mining pages. Correspondents will further oblige by affixing their signatures be…

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Discovery of Tin Mines in Northern Queensland

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 November 1881 · page 833

Tin lodes of remarkable richness, which seem to point to further mineral discoveries, have been found in granitic spurs in tropical Queensland, at a distance ofabout 50 miles from the coast, in the neighbourhood of Wild River, a…

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