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Having from the first rejected the idea that colliery explosions were affected by the rise or fall of the barometer—that the rise of the mercury indicated safety and its fall danger, "[?]dipus," of the LEADER,…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →ADELAIDE.—A nugget was found on Thursday by Watts and Boursier at Watts's Gully Goldfield weighing 22oz. It is pronounced to be the best specimen yet found in the colony.; In addition to that, nuggets have been unearthed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kelly's Freehold Gold-mining Company, No Libility.--Messrs Greeley Lukin and Co, advise having received the following report, under date June 28 : "The mine is looking a little better this week. I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EMMAVILLE, Thursday.—Messrs. Gaffard and Hange, assayers and metallurgists, are at present inspecting the silver mines in this district. They have seen Pye's Creek and Strathbogie, and express…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Yalwal is again in the ascendant on the local mind. The Homeward Bound crushing turned out better than I reported to you in my last. The final returns were net then available; but now the E., S., and A. C. Bank scales…
Continued on Trove, page 1341 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Secretary of Mines has received a telegram from the mining surveyor at Bairnsdale to the effect that it had been reported that gold had been struck about fifty miles…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Recent reports from Silverton do not contain many important particulars. A valuable discovery of chlorides has been made in the Broken Hill Co. property. The Pinnacle smelter is finished and will soon be folly occupied. The ore…
Continued on Trove, page 1360 →Mr. John Whitelaw, of Mountrath House, Carlton, Mclbourne, wrote on June 24:—Referring to a paragraph that "rich gold is said to have been discovered about fifty miles from Orbost, one washing having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BINGERA, Tuesday.—The returns from the output of wash from the Melbourne Diamond Co. during[?] past week are considerod to be very satisfactory On the result from the returns from the silver ore…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The market opened on Thursday with a strong demand for Golden Pyke shares, at advanced rates. The action of the directors in deciding to allot the shares held by the company to the present holders in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The following cable has been received from New Zealand by one of the leading merchants of this city, and has created a great sensation in the coal trade : " I cannot offer,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Further particulars of the new rush at Mount Ellery, near the Snowy River, show that although the reports at to the number of the people on the ground were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Deniliquin correspondent writes, on the 21st instant: The Deniliquin Silver-mining Company, which was formed about 12 months ago, with a view of operating at Silverton, is nearly defunct. The original capital was £500, and of…
Continued on Trove, page 1341 →At a meeting of shareholders of the Sunny Corner Silver-mining Company, Limited, held at the office of Messrs Greeley Lukin and Co, yesterday, a dividend of 5s was declared and paid,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Adelong correspondent wires:—Anderson and party, of Gap Reef, have stripped a fine gold-bearing reef for 15ft in their shaft, and expect a handsome crushing when they commence breaking down…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →An Irish exchange relates the following curious circumstance:—Some few days ago a man, while ploughing a field in the neighbourhood of Youghal, ran the plough through an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Rowe's Battery, Messrs Tucker and party finished a crushing of 66 tons of stone, from Galley Swamp, for 203oz. of gold. In the same neighbourhood, Messrs. Croucher and party have about 230 tons at grass ready for crushing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →According to the MOUNT ALEXANDER MAIL, the Taradale goldfield if now trending toward Elphin-stone, and there, is little doubt that the opinion of Messrs. Aplin and Ulrick, the geologists, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YALWAL.—Telegrams from Nowra report that the Yalwal goldfield ia looking up again. A parcel of 500 tons stone crushed by the Homeward Bound Co. has yielded 500oz gold. The mine is still looking well…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The warden at Nowra reported to the Under-secretary for Mines that the owners os the Homeward Bound claim at Yalwal deposited on the 19th instant in the E.S. and A.C. Bank, Nowra, 683oz of…
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