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Mining & the mines, 1884

2,053 stories in Sydney's papers · page 74 of 103

Country and Mining Hews. ADELONG. September 10

Evening News · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 7

CHANGE IN THE WEATHER so anxiously looked for has come. Rain came down in torrents during Sunday, accompanied by hail, the stones in some places being as large as walnuts. The creeks were soon filed to…

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The Barrier Ranges Silver Mines. [By Telegraph From Terowth, S.a.]

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 5

SILVERTON, Thursday.--A new such for silver has broken out in the vicinity of the Acacia dam, seven miles south-east of Silverton, on the Must G[?]s road. A number of claims have been pegged…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 8

The output for week ending the 13th instant is 280 tons of ore smelted, producing equal to 45 tons of fine copper refined; 40 tons; despatched, 31 tons. MOREE, SATURDAY…

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Mining News. [Some of the following items appeared in our late editions of Saturday last.] Copeland Items

Evening News · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 9

COPELAND NORTH, Saturday.-No. 1 North Hidden Treasure G.M. Co., has pegged oat a machine site, and a water right in the gully about 200yds. below the Hidden Treasure mine. It is reported that…

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Milling News. the Gulgong Goldfield

Evening News · Monday 15 September 1884 · page 5

MUDGEE, Monday.-A revival is the mining industry around Gulgong is now looked upon as a certainty, as rich gold has been found at the greater depths. The artists of the TOWN AND COUNTRY…

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The Stockton and Burwood Coal Mines. (By Our Own Reporter.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 5

A number of gentlemen who are interested in mining visited Newcastle on Saturday for the purpose of seeing what progress had been made with the sinking of a shaft at Stockton, and of inspecting the Burwood coal mine…

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Victorian Gold

Evening News · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 2

LONDON, September 15.—The London TIMES of this morning asserts that the Crown has an undoubted right to all gold found in Victoria…

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Mining Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 6

The mining captain of the Great Cobar Copper-mining Company, Limited, reports by telegram for week ended the 13th instant, as follows :--" Ore smelted, 414 tons, producing equal to 55 tons fine…

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Diamond Mining in Bingera

Evening News · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 3

The following telegram has been received in the Department of Mines from the warden of Bingera:—The Australian Diamond Mining Company has washed 279 loads, and obtained 920 diamonds,…

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Copper, Coal, and Silver in Swan Bay

Evening News · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 3

LISMORE, Tuesday.—A prospector named Green has brought some samples of copper and silver bearing rooks to the township, and he has taken up a piece of land for mining purposes in a locality said to…

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CABLEGRAMS. Mining on Private Property

Evening News · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 2

LONDON, September 15.—The London TIMES of this morning refers to the question of mining on private property, which is now before the Victorian Legislature. It contends that the…

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Mining News. Nos. 3 and 4, North Glanmire, Gympie

Evening News · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 3

The mining manager of Nos. 3 and 4, Worth Glanmire Gold-mining Co., Gympie, reported as follows on September 4 :—For the past three weeks there have been crushed 476 tons 17cwt of quartz for…

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Mining Intelligence. the Silver-hearing-lodes in the Barrier Ranges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 11

A few days ago we published the concluding portion of the report by Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, F. G. S., F. L. S., Government Geological Surveyor, to the Under-Secretarv for Mines, on the silver-bearing lodes in the Barrier Ranges. The…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram: (From Our Own Correspondent.) the Mining on Private Property Question. London, Sept. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 September 1884 · page 9

The Times, this morning, refers to the question of mining on private propeity, which is now before the Victorian Legislature. It contends that the Crown, after parting with its…

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Mining Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 September 1884 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

North Woah Hawp, Ballarat East.--The various works on the Indicator continue to look well. Opened out on stone in rise; country appears favourable. Yields for fortnight are--No. 1 Tribute speedy…

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Gold Robbery in Creswick

Evening News · Wednesday 17 September 1884 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Last Thursday night a serious robbery took place at the Lone Hand No.1 shaft. Every fortnight the sand containing gold is collected, and it was estimated that the stuff on this occasion…

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Prosecutions for Selling Short-weight Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 September 1884 · page 4

At the St. Leonald's Police Court yesterday, before Mr Yates, S.M., there were no less than eight charges preferred against Thomas Jelly, wood and coal merchant, and his carters. 1. For…

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The Gold Deposits at Mount Morgan

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 September 1884 · page 5

Extraordinary rumours have bean circulated during the last few days concerning the extraordinary gold deposits at Mount Morgan, near Rickhimpton. A correspondent telegraphed…

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Mining News. the Second Mount Morgan

Evening News · Wednesday 17 September 1884 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Warden Cribb,of Rock-hampton, has sent another telegram to the Under-Secretary of Mines, in reference to the reported discovery of a second Mount Morgan. The locality is…

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