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News has just been received from the rush at Billy's Lookout. Work has been greatly delayed through the want of tools, and was only seriously begun yesterday, when some supplies arrived from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A crushing of 200 tons of stone at the Barmedman United Cold-mining Company, finished on Saturday, gave the handsome yield of 205oz. 10dwt. This may be taken as an average yield, being from equal quanties of stone taken…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parties just come in from the new rush state that there are over 1000 people on the ground, and more are arriving. Cobb and Co.'s coach brought 35 passengers from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The rush to Billy's Lookout, about 90 miles from Young, continues. On Sunday there were 200 people on the ground, and miners are pouring in from all parts, including a number of men from the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The manager of the Hidden Treasure Gold-mining Company reports under date 10th instant:—"During the past week the main shaft has been sunk a further depth of 4 feet; total from No. 4 level 4 feet, and from serface 393 feet;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The "Star" in an extraordinary just issued an announces that 12 further shafts have bottomed at the new rush at various depths, but all are "duffers." Two holes only are still on gold, but the yield is not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A number of men who have come back from the rush say that it is a good poor man's field It is six miles from Lake Cowal, where there is any amount of water for washing. The shortest and best road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A foreigner entering Barmedman at present would imagine there was something extremely monotonous in the idiom of the English language, for the words "Billy's Lookout" meet the ears at all corners, and groups of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The miners' delegates held a special meeting on the 7th, from which it is possible some important results may ensue. Amongst other matters discussed was the reply from Mr. F. W. Binney, secretary to the Associated Northern Collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 521 →RELIABLE news has been receive at Cootamundra that from 4gr. to 15gr. per dish have been obtained at Billy's Lookout, 25 miles from Barmedman,and 84 from Cootamundra. A road…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, March 9.—Large withdrawals of gold have taken place from the Bank of England to the United States amounting to £500,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The manager of the Wesley Tin-mining Company. Limited, reports the yield of are for week ended 10th instant to be 15 tone. The yield of the Band and Albion gold mine from the…
Continued on Trove, page 521 →The baling-out of the main shaft of the copper mine has now been completed. TEMORA, Tuesday. A crushing of 200 tons of stone at the Barmedman United…
Continued on Trove, page 520 →The following report has been received at the Department of Mines from the foreman of the water angers, dated Main Camp, Goonery, near Bourke, March 5, 1883:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NCERNING the lodes mentioned in our Wellington [?]ter in last issue, the same correspondent adds:— The lode crops out from the surface in Mr. Ashe's [?]addock at Black Rock, and is wider than the lode at…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned, will be received at this office till 11 a.m. FRIDAY, the 30th instant, for the supply of 80 to 100 tons of coal for the use of the Grafton steam ferry. Specifications may be seen at this office, and at the police offices…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following report has been received by the Department of Mines, from the Foreman of Water Augers, dated Main Camp, Goonery, near Bourke, March 5, 1883 : --…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SILVER MINE DIGGINGS.—An interesting account of this goldfield is given in the notes of "Raven" in this issue. Also sketches of the Moruya district. BLACK RANGE.—The tunnel in the claim of the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Accounts the new rush at Billy's Look-out, near another shaft has bottomed on gold. The sinking is 30 feet, and the probable yield estimated to be about loz. to the load. A few miners are leaving here…
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