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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1884

2,053 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 103

Mining News. Nymagee Copper. Nymagee

Evening News · Wednesday 6 August 1884 · page 3

The output for the week ended August 2 was 302 tons of ore smelted, producing equal to 50 tons fine copper. Refined 30 tons, dispatched 27 tons…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 August 1884 · page 12

The output for the week ending 2nd August is 302 tons ore smelted, producing equal to 50 tons fine copper. Refined 30 tons, despatched 27 tons…

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Mining Intelligence. Rich Find of Gold. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 August 1884 · page 6

YOUNG, Wedneeday. -- A man named Murray, whilst excavating stone for the railway, found a very rich specimen of gold in a reef, and a considerable amount of loose gold in the rubble at Sherlock's…

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Braidwood Gold. Braidwood

Evening News · Thursday 7 August 1884 · page 3

A reef exists near Bell's Creek, the top stone from which, having been tested at the Sydney Mint, gave [?] of lead and 146oz of silver. The sinking is now at 14[?], and the reef is 5ft thick. The reef adjoins a…

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Melbourne Mining Market

Evening News · Thursday 7 August 1884 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The following sales were effected to-day:—Energetic, buyer 4s 9d, seller 5a 6d, sales 5[?]; Federal, buyer [?] seller 9s 9d, sales 9s 6d…

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Fine Gold Struck Near Young. Young

Evening News · Thursday 7 August 1884 · page 3

The discovery of a splendid [?] has been reported to the warden as having been made on the road, and about five miles from Wombat. James Murray, a road labourer, was quarrying on Monday in a lane in…

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News by Telegraph. The Miners and the Victorian Land Bill

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 August 1884 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--At a special meeting of the executive council of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria, held at Creswick, a resolution was passed condemning in toto the…

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Mining News. the Victorian Land Bill. Melbourne

Evening News · Thursday 7 August 1884 · page 3

At a special meeting of the executive council of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria, held in Cre[?]wick, a resolution was passed condemning [?]n toto the Land Bill at present before the…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 August 1884 · page 8

Some specimons of quartz from the new reef that has been discovered at Black Range have given an extraordinarily rich return, but it is not known yet whether the reef is permanent…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 August 1884 · page 8

The mining manager of the Butler's Tin-mining Company, Limited, reporta on August 4 as follows:—" I am glad to say thr reef st No. 1.shaft has greatly improved, and is now producing better tin than I have before seen it…

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Rich Field of Gold. Parkes

Evening News · Friday 8 August 1884 · page 3

James Haselhurst finished crashing last week The result was 557oz gold from 127 tons of stone…

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Mining News. Corangula Antimony. Kempsey

Evening News · Friday 8 August 1884 · page 3

The results which have lately been obtained in the Corangula mines are very encouraging. Indeed, the prospects are improving every day. In the main shaft, the lode varies from 2ft 6in to 3ft in width. 11…

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The Silver Mines at Silverton. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 August 1884 · page 5

Sir,—Without assuming any of the proportions of an old time rush to a newly-discovered goldfield, indications are becoming tolerably plentiful that the attention of capitalista and investors is now assurod in the city, and in other…

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The Silverton Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 13

The following telegram from Wilcannia has been received in the Department of Mines from Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, geological surveyor:—"I have examined the principal part of the Thackaringa…

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Silverton and Its Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 7

At this time there is no other subject not even the Land Bill itself perhaps, which is of much larger importance to the citizens of Sydney, and to the people of this colony generally, than that…

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Mining Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 12

Return of copper received at Darling Harbour St[?], week ending 2nd August:--From Nyngan, 14230 ingots 136 tons bewt; Binalong, 353 ingote 2 tons 4owt 1qr: Carrathool, 178 ingots, I…

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Mining Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 261

The manager of the Butler's Tin-mining Company, Limited, reports having struck good lode in No. 1 shaft. Messrs. Melhado and Curtis report the yield from Band and Albion Consols Gold-mining Company last week to be…

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Mining Telegrams. Carcoar, Aug. 1

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 260

A new copper lode has been discovered by Williams and party about a mile from Burraga. The lode at present is 4 feet wide. The prospectors are down a depth of 100 feet. The dip seems to improve. It is the intention to send to…

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Gold Near Toowoomba. Brisbane

Evening News · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 4

The Minister of Mines has received information that some men are getting gold prospects at the Crow's Nest. The warden in Toowoomba has been ordered to inspect the claim and furnish a report on…

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Hints on Alluvial Mining

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 24

ON Tuesday a lecture was delivered in the hall of the School of Arts in connection with the Technical College, the subject being mining, and the lecturer Mr. S. H. Cox, F.G.S. and F.C.S. The lecturer…

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