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The ordinary reader will not be acquainted with the term "Baiting," and therefore it is necessary to explain at the outset that it means parting gold or any valuable metal into drift deposits or lodes to make their value seem greater than,…
Continued on Trove, page 1029 →IN regard to the question of the application of section 4 of Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1861 to the reservation of large areas of land from sale for mining purposes, the Attorney-General (Hon. W. B…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →A good deal has been said recently about land lotteries, racing sweeps, and gambling generally, with a reference thrown in about "gambling" in mining shares. In reference to the last named there has lately been a little…
Continued on Trove, page 1029 →A deputation, representing tho whole of the com panics mining for coal at Kilcunda, accompanied, by a large number of members of Parliament, waited on the Premier yesterday, and asked for Government…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →As the mines at Silverton seem to be attracting considerable attention, it n deemed advisable to warn working men against going there just now, there being so employment for such, as there are only a few mines being worked, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1043 →A deputation consisting of Mr. Humphrey, M.L. A., Dr. Tarrant, M.L.A., Mr. Green, mayor of the municipality of Nowra, and Mr. Monaghan, mayor of Shoalhaven, waited upon the Minister for Mines on May 23 to ask for the use of…
Continued on Trove, page 1049 →THIS is the subject of a series of papers that have been published in the VICTORIAN REVIEW from September 1883, closing with the present month, from the pen of Mr. John Usher, C.E., of Sydney. The…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mining matters at present are quiet. The City of Melbourne Co., Upper Bingera, is getting s good "show," and hopes shortly to recoup itself for its labour. The large machinery, which is sow being…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →M'Mahon and party of Mount Adrah, are crushing 25 tons of quartz at the Perseverance battery, Adelong. The stone looks well, and the yield promises to be equal to previous orushings. A parcel of stone…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →HOPEFUL OUT WERT.—The grand nows of lots of rain having fallon in the far west, arouses hope that there will at length be opportunity for developing the undoubtedly rich mines of the far west. The…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →WINTER.—The season of warmth has passed away once more, said the winter is jost one week old; for on the 13th the mercury dropped 10aeg, and young Hercules was born, like most infants, in the night. He is a cold-blooded…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →The whole of the quartz tailings here have been taken np by Mr. Cromme[?]n, solicitor, as gold-mining leases. It is the intention of the company to treat the [?]ings by a new process, which has lately been patented for the extraction of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE following letter from the Lands Department to the Minister of Mines, has been handed to us for publication:— "Sir,—Referring to tho tracings of mineral leases and other holdings on goldfields,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Following are the gold returns for the week United Devons 780oz, Garden United 611oz. Chun United 570oz, Belmont 380oz, South St. Mungo 450oz, Railway 217oz, Carlisle 124oz, Garfield 150oz…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SANDHURST, Saturday.--Messrs Clarke and Co, of Sydney and Melbourne, report --Gold returns, United Devons, 780oz ; Garden United, 6110z ; Chum United, 570oz ; Belmont. 380oz ; South St…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRAIDWOOD, Saturday.--Messrs Blatchford and party have been working a gold claim at Captain's Flat, Molonglo but have been off the reef for a short time, and have been going through a non-auriferous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WINTER—The season of warmth has passed away once more, and the winter is just one week old, for on the 13th the mercury dropped 10deg, and young Hercules was born like most infants, in the night. He is a cold-blooded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Queen of the Mount Tribute Company cleaned up on Friday From 24 tons of ston 23oz 15dwt 15gr of gold were obtained. No 1 Balmoral Tribute Company crushed 53…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queen of the Mount Tribute Company, cleaned up yesterday from a total of 24 tons' of stone 23oz. 15dwt. 15gr. of gold were obtained. No. 1 Balmoral Tribute Company finished 53 tons to-day for 136oz. 15dwt., and they…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arthur Hope, of the Yarra Bank Engineering Works, has made for Messrs. Koch and Hunting, of London, a new amalgamating machine for recovering the gold, which, under the present method of…
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