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Mining & the mines, 1883

1,506 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 76

Newcastle Coal Export. NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Thursday 17 May 1883 · page 2

Following is the export of coal hence during the past week, total 28,706 tons:—A,A. Company 5359,Wailsend 8988, Co-operative 4977, Lambton 5153. Brown's 1662. Hartiev 210. Glebe 2362…

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Melbourne Stock and Mining News. Welbourne

Evening News · Thursday 17 May 1883 · page 2

Mining business to a good extent was done to-day, and the transactions spread over many companies. Among Sandhurst companies, United Devon, South Devon, and Duchess of Edinburgh had sales at…

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Department of Public Works and Mines, Brisbane, 27th April, 1883. T0 Architects

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1883 · page 2

APPLICATIONS for the Office of COLONIAL ARCHITECT are invited from duly qualified Architects, and will be received at this Office up to SATURDAY, the 30th JUNE. 1883. Salary, £300 per annum, to gether with travelling expenses…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1883 · page 10

A new ran of gold has been discovered by Parker and party, prospectors, in their prospecting area, coming in from the south. The shaft is 85 feet deep, and bottomed on payable gold. It is in the ground lying between the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 May 1883 · page 3

The Centennial Prospecting and Baal Gammon Amalgamated Gold-mining Company (No liability). Copeland.--The mine manager reports :" The tunnel is in 202 feet; ground still hard."…

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Mining News. Victorian Mining Market. Melbourne. Thursday Night

Evening News · Friday 18 May 1883 · page 3

The share market opened this morning with a strong demand for Duchess Company. United Devonshire, and New St. Mungo Egerton went up 2s; Maxwell's had more inquiry: Band and Albion,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 May 1883 · page 6

The manager of the Homeward Bound Company, Talwal, lodged in the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank this evening a cake of gold weighing 259oz., the result of a crushing of 160 tons quarried from the surface…

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Mining Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 933

The mining manager of the Long Tunnel Gold-raining Company, Limited, reports under date 8th instant:— At No. 2 jump-up the eastern cross drive has been driven 45 feet. The western cross drive has been driven about 20 feet…

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Gold-saying Appliances

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 933

The following letter from Copeland and the reply treat of a subject which is of great interest to the miners of the colony:— "To W. H. D., per favour of the editor of the…

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Latest Mining Telegrams

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 13

The Gympie escort reached Maryborough on Sunday with 7636oz of gold. The crushings at Gympic for April were 3760 tons, yielding 3804oz of gold…

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Mining Intelligence. Temora

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 5

Ninty-five tons of quartz from the South Australian Company's Fanny Parnell claim, Cotton's yielded 76oz 6dwt of gold. The following telegram has been received from the…

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Late Mining. Temora

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 943

A new run of gold has been discovered by Parker and party, prospectors, in their prospecting area coming in from tie south. The shaft is 85 feet deep, and bottomed on payable gold. It is in the ground lying between the…

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Mining News. TERARA

Evening News · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 4

Yesterday a cake of retorted gold, weighing 251oz, was placed in the English, Scottish, and Australian Charted Back, Nowra, by Mr Mison, one of the proprietors of the Homeward Bound claim,…

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Gold Find at Albury. Albury

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 13

A new reer has been struck at portuguese Gully, four miles from Albury. The stone shows gold freely, and is considered very rich. A good reef has also been discovered at thd Dark…

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Coal Raised in the United Kingdom in 1882

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 933

It appears that the quantities of coal brought to bank in the United Kingdom last year reached no less a quantity than 166,600,000 tons, thus exceeding the extraordinary production of 1881 (154,184,000 tons) by upwards of…

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Melbourne Stock and Mining News. MELBOURNE

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 13

MINING business to a good extent was done to-day and the transactions spread over many companies Among Sandhurst companies, United Devon, South Devon, and Duchess of Edinburgh had sales at…

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News from the Colonial Goldfields. (The latest information concerning mining shares will be found in our Telegraphic and Commercial Reports.) New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 22

COOLONGOLOOK.—A correspondent writes, April 30:—I trust you will find space in your valuable journal for a few remarks about this goldfield, as we all seem quite in the dark. What few people are here…

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The African Goldfields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 23

IT would seem from reports in the "Colonies and India" that a revival is likely in Transvaal goldmining. Special information confirms the intelligence recently published concerning the extraordinary…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Own Correspondents.) to CORRESPONDENTS.—"We are glad to receive news items from all quarters. Brevity and truthfulness are essentials towards insertion in our columns Business communications relating to correspondence should be addressed—Business Manager, "Town and Country Journal," Sydney. ALBURY. May 15

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 39

RAIL CONNECTION.—The principal topic of discussion for the past week has been the question as to the mode of connecting the railways of the two colonies. If the arrangement decided upon in the first instance had been…

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Burrago and Bunnamagoo Copper Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 May 1883 · page 8

The following report of Mr. W. H. J. Slee upon the above mines has been received by us from the Mines Department for publication:—"Burrago, 12th May, 1883. The Under-Secretary, Department of Mines, Sydney. Sir,…

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