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Mining & the mines, 1884

2,053 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 103

Late Mining. Bingera

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 559

Mr. C. S. Patterson, one of the directors of the Australian Diamond Mining Company and the Melbourne and Bingera Mining Syndicate, is now in Bingera. His object in visiting the diamond mines is to be present at the washings of…

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The Miner. At the Barrier Silver Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 22

THE drought, whioh is doing such serious injury all over the colony, is nowhere more distressing than in the far west. Of the outlook at the Barrier Silver mines a correspondent of the WESTERN GRAZIER,…

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Department of Mines. Sydney, 18th March 1884

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 2

Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 19th ultimo complaining of obstructions on the Road from the north west corner of Thomas Bolands (near Thomas Frawley's) 10 acres portion No. 1 to…

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The First Gold Escort to Melbourne

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 26

WE reproduce this week, from the pencil of Mr. Austin, a fac-simile of his picfcure of the first gold escort to Molbourne. The picture has been purchased by the trustees of the Free Library of that city. Mr…

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Mining Near Blayney. Blayney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 11

The mine at Dorney a. Farm, near Blayney, is showing splendid indications. A crushing plant has been oreoted on the ground, and a fresh contingent of men was put to work to-day…

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Mining News. Wollongong Items. Wollongong

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 5

The Mount Kembla Goal Company has two locomotives nearly constantly at work between its colliery and the jetty, which are seven miles apart. Two steamers a day are usually loaded by this…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 22

THE HARGRAVES FINDS.—Telegrams on Monday reported that Bond and patty had obtained another hundredweight of rich specimens from their claim, which is estimated to contain between 300oz and 400oz…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 13

The monthly escort yesterday took 838oz. 10dwt 6gr. of gold. Hill and party from their claim at Scrubby rush, crushed 13 tons, yielding 32oz. of amalgam at the Phaeton…

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Latest Mining Telegrams. Rich Find Near Temworth. Tamworth

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 11

The mining manager of the Marquis of Lorne G.M. Co., Bowling Alley Point, has brought in a very rich speoimen of quartz, whioh he obtained from the last shot in the winze on the east and west reef in that…

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Country and Mining News. [From Our Correspondents.] Allora (Q.) Marcg 11

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 14

DEATH.—The accident which occurred to Shaw, the wellsinker, unhappily terminated fatally. The poor fellow died in the Warwick Hospital on Wednesday last, COUNCIL LOAN.—The council hare decided to borrow…

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The First Gold Escort to Melbourne.—A Water Colour Painting in the Molbourne Free Library

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 25

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Milparinka Goldfield

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 548

The following report has been received by the Under-Secretary for Mines, from the warden at Milparinka, Mount Browne:— "Milparinka, March 3,1884…

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Rockley Goldfield

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1884 · page 11

The sergeant of police at Rockley reports to the Minister of Mines with reference to the recent discovery of gold in that locality as follows:—The now alluvial gold discovery is three miles east from…

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A Remarkably Rich Gold Mine [Bt Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 March 1884 · page 5

BRISBANE, (Sunday.--The Wilmot Extended, Gympie, has yielded 18.142ozs. of gold since last August, being £58,500, which has been paid in dividends in seven months…

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Mining News. Nymagee Output. Nymagee

Evening News · Monday 24 March 1884 · page 5

The output for the week ended the 22nd instant is 307 tons of ore, which, when smelted, will produce equal to 40 tons of fine copper. Refined, 41 tons; dispatched 39 tons…

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Country and Mining News. Allora (Q.) March 11

Evening News · Monday 24 March 1884 · page 6

DEATH.—The accident which occurred to Shaw, the well-sinker, unhappily terminated fatally. The poor fellow died in the Warwick Hospital on Wednesday last. COUNCIL LOAN.—The council have decided to borrow…

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Mining Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 March 1884 · page 6

The lead at the Bald Hills, near Forbes, now proved for nearly a mile to be payable, we presume. From Gulgong we learn by telegram that Rouse's…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1884 · page 8

Rouse's Paddock Company have bottomed their shaft at a depth of 158 feet, and obtained between two and three feet of washdirt. Mr. W. Slee, inspector of mines, went below this morning and knocked out four dishes, which he…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1884 · page 10

The manager of the Wesley Tin-mining Company Limited reports the yied of ore for the were ended 22nd instant to be 7 tons. There is no change in the mine. The mining manager of the Alexandra Hill Gold-mining…

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Melbourne Mining Market

Evening News · Wednesday 26 March 1884 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Band and Albion, buyers 40s, sellers 45s; Black Horse United, buyers 13s, sellers 17s; Buninyong Estate, buyers 50s, sellers 56s; Cornish Daylesford, sellers 81s; Cornish…

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