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The Blayney copper mine started work this morning. It is to be called the Errol Copper Mine. The old s[?]aft will be sunk a depth of 400ft, and a large number of men will soon be employed. This is good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--The doubt which has existed for some time past as to the importance of the discovery of the silver-bearing reefs in the Barrier Ranges has at last been dissipated, and owing to the enterprise of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two miners have sold a large quantity of gold to the Bank of New South Wales here. The gold was shotty and waterworn. It is proposed to form a party to prospect in the vicinity of the place where the gold was found, about…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Monday.--How can I get to Silverton? What will the trip cost? What shall I do and where shall I go when I get there? and a host of inquiries of a similar character have been put…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mining manager of the Brickwood Tin-mining company reports, under dare June 28, 1884:--"The wash in the deep lead is 2ft in depth, and a great deal firmer than what we have had before, there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mining manager reported on June 28:—The wash in the deep lead is 2ft in depth, and a great deal firmer than what we have had before, there being a cake of baked sand above it, which is a good sign. In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Yates, the representative of the Deniliquin Silver Mining and Prospecting Co., in Silverton, will leave Deniliquin on Thursday next for the Barrier Ranges, to begin prospecting in the interests of the company…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ellen Harking claim has got about half a ton of rich specimens of stone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Believing in the Italian aphorism, Soccorso non viene mai (Help never comes too late), I submit the following as supplementary to the article on "Mining under-Streets, &c.," which appeared in your…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SILVERTON, Saturday.--There have been some very rich discoveries in the vicinity of Mount Gipps Hotel. The result of the assay has been thousands of ounces to the ton of ore, and a blow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Lane's battery, Gaily Swamp, Digby and party have finished orushign a parcel of 87½tons of stone for a yield of 95oz. 19dwt. of gold. The quartz has been taken from between the 40-feet and 70-feet levels. A drive has been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →We have received from the Mining Department three maps showing the mineral leasts taken up in the parishes of Bowangaldy, Albe t Stephen, and Bray, county of Yangowinia in the Barrier…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GUNDAGAI, Wednesday.--A trial crashing, of 10 tones quariz from the Come at Last Reef, near Gundagai yielded 12oz 12dwt 12gr. Frearson and party me raising rich stone at their claim at Coolac,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The work in the claim of the Border Town Alluvial Gold-mining Company has been temporarily suspended, pending the arrival and erection of the pumping machinery wherewith to combat the large body of water which has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The sum of £1400 has been expended by the Border Town Gold-mining Company in the Black Range, in the purchase of machinery for its a[?]luvial claim…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The work of sinking the shaft more deeply in the Erroll copper mine is steadily proceeding. A large number of men will find employment shortly. Captain Moustaka is superintending the work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In reference to the workings for coal under the Great Northern-road, in the Wickbam and War[?]d municipalities, Mr M'Kenzie, examiner of coalfield has made a request for a licensed surveyor to be sea:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Charters Towers the Mosman Co. crushed 336 tons for 991oz of gold. The Alexandra Hill Co. crushed 54 tons for 86 oz. Morris and party brought in from their claim at Surface Hill, on the Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty-seven loads from the reef in Butler and Swan's spare ground have yielded 1[?]oz. 6dwt. of gold. Sixteen tons from the Hunted to Death reef, owned by Cunningham and party, have given 76oz. 18dwt. of retorted gold. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain Paull, of the New Mexican Gold Mine, has arrived in Adelaide, and explained to the shareholders in South Australia the position of the mine…
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