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Seventy tons of stone from Nymboida Prospectors' claim are now being crashed at Dargue and Co.'s battery, Nana Crock. This crushing is expected to yield at the rate of 3oz.. per ton. Two tons of pyrites will be sent to the Mint…
Continued on Trove, page 597 →There is considerable excitement over the discovery of a new reef near Seymour, on the northconstence of victoria. The City Council, Ballarat, proposes to stop…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Messrs. Clarke and Co., of Sydney and Melbourne, report to-day:—The market continues dull. Egerton firm, at 50s; Band and Albion Consols, sales 20s; Duchess of Edinburgh, buyers 14s: Unioorn Tribute,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOFALA— Our correspondent reports September 18: Alluvial digging on the old Turon seems to be worked out. Very few diggers are working, and little gold is being got. Tho Chinamen appear to be…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →CIRCIAL NOTICE— Commending with October,we purpose reviving the lists of correspondents. It will be necessary, therefore. daring October that every commumcation the usual signature, in full, of erery…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Monarch claim at Mount M'Donald, adjoining Pascoe's lease, finished this week 52 tons, yielding 70oz. 19dwt. 12gr. of gold, which was got from quartz obtained at the 30-feet level. The reef at present averages three feet…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Messrs Clarke and Co., of Melbourne and Sydney, report the gold returns for the week as follows :-- Frederick, 622oz; Sadowa, 464oz ; Lady Barkly, 219oz; Ellenborough, 219 oz; Hercules, 214oz; Jones,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The manager of the Homeward Bound Company'a claim, at Yalwal, lodged to-day, in the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, 179oz. gold, representing loz. to the ton. The stone was quarried in five weeks by four…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Cobar Copper Mine,--The mine captain wires for week ended 29th September as follows :-- "Copper despatched, 40 tons ; are smelted, 368 tons, producing equal to to 60 tons tine copper; 12 furnaces…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is not too much to say that the higher strategy of modern naval warfare must be based on coal supply, and that the sharp limitations under which fighting-ships now labour will not be fully realised till we have ourselves been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your issue of yesterday, headed " Management of Mines," you ably set forth the dangers attendant on mining sear abandoned mines, and a suitable remedy, which must necessarily invite the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The output for the week ending the 29th September was 222 tons of ore smelted, producing 40 tons of fine copper. Despatched, 33 tons of copper. The manager of the Silve Valley Silver-mining…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There is nothing new to report in mining since the departure of last mail, and the advices from the various goldfields show that while work is progressing steadily, the yields are not on the increase. The Tarcutta field, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ballarat, Castlemaine, Stawell, &c : Aroona, 8s, 9s 3d; Australasian Extended, buyers 19s ; Bethanga, sellers 6d; Berry No. 1, buyers 25s 6d; Bute Downs, buyers Captain Hepburn, buyers 2s 6d; Cornish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A general meeting of the Hawkavlew Gold-mining Company was held to-day. The directors' report showed that the tunnel was now in 212 feet, with every indication of being in the neighbourhood of the lode. The report was adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The mining warden of the Homeward Boand lease, dated Nowra, 29th ultimo, reports:--"I have the honour to inform you that the Homeward Bound lease No. 13 at Yalwal has just finished crushing,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An appalling mining accident, by which 12 lives were lost, occurred in Cornwall on Wednesday, August 15. The night men working in the Wheat Agar mine, near Redruth, were being brought to the surface at 7 a.m. in the gig, or,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Hidden Star Claim, Upper Temora, Bourke and party are getting up good stone, in which gold is showing freely. The gold-bearing stone is found to extend to a much greater depth than they anticipated, and seems to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Brickwood Tin-mining Company, Limited. The mining manager reports as follows: -- Old workings: In the north-west workings the top vein is still continuing on into the hill. There is six feet of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The total quantities of tin ore received at Newcastle and Morpeth by the Great Northern Railway for the five weeks ended 22nd September amounted to 237 tons 19cwt. 2qr. The mining manager of the Red Hill Amalgamated…
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