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Further discoveries of auriferous reefs are reported at the Black Range. In one claim the prospectors have struck a well—defined solid reef over 2ft thick, and estimated to yield over 3oz per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Competitive designs are invited from Architects for the new Public Offices proposed to be erected in Brisbane; to be sent in on or before the 30th NOVEMBER next, addressed to the Under-Secretary for Public Works, Brisbane. First prize, £300, second,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is hereby notified for public information that, in consequence of the scarcity of labour in the Rabbit-infested Districts (being the South-western portion of the colony), the Government are prepared to grant free passes by railway towards these distance to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queen of the Mount Gold-mining Company, Mount M'Donald.--The mining manager reports, under date 4th instant:--"I cleaned up the plates and obtained 7oz 19dwt amalgam. I have taken the contractors…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The manager of the Brickwood Tin-mining Company, Limited, reports the yield of tin ore for the week ending July 28th to have been 6 tons. Mr. J. Morcombe reports having received the following…
Continued on Trove, page 261 →SOME good specimens of coal have been found at Cape Otway, near Lorne. The seam is 2ft thick. Tinworth and party, of the Perseverance claim,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Some rich specimens were exhibited here to-day from the newly opened surface ground in Paterson and party's Black Claim, Mount M'Donald. The Queen of the Mount has just finished crushing 44 tons for 38oz. 10dwt. retorted…
Continued on Trove, page 260 →SILVER mining in the colonies is as yet in its infancy, and until quite recently can hardly be said to have had an existence. Argentiferous reefs have different times and places been found it is true, but…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →COPELAND.—Our correspondent reports, August 4:—The escort left on the 26th ultimo, taking only some 60oz, almost all alluvial, 30oz being from Soars, and party's prospecting area, Tucker Creek, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →To CORRESPONDENTS.—We areglad to receive news items from all quarters. Brevity and truthfulness are essentials towards insertion in our columns. As a rule, fort nightly communications are sufficiently frequent, as we…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A miner named George Barnett, whilst engaged in lowering some columns down the shaft of the Bistort West claim, Allendale, with a crab winch this morning, had his ankle drawn out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The monthly escort took 800oz. 9dwt gold. During the week, at Mount M'Donald, the Balmoral crushed 110 tons, yielding 46oz. 7dwt. At Grant's Amalgamated Company's battery, Daniels' No. 2 tribute obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Red Hill Amalgamated Gold-mining Company, Tambaroora:--The mining manager writes under date 11th instant as follows.:--Since my report of the 4th instant back stoping operations have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?] The little gal's none of oar kin; But, you bet, when the old men go under, She's the one who mil handle our tin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Queen of the Mount G.M. Co; Mount M'Donaid, reports:—Cleaned the plates for lloz lOdwts, amalgamlresult of four days' crushing. Mill stopped two days this which, stone is not as good as past…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lang and Carey have just finished crushing for their tribute at Oliver's Freehold and Leasehold Battery. They have run through 44 tons of first, and 12 tons of what they considered af their first crushing as valucless—in all 56…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Victory Gold-mining Company, Charters Towers, Queensland.-- The mining manager, under date 28th July, writes" Since my last report, a considerable change for the better has taken place in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, August 15.—A distressing accident has occurred in a mine in Cornwall. A which contained 12 men was ascending the [?] when the rope broke and the cage fell to the…
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