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If we take the mines in the order of their extent and importance, as revealed by their more or less extensive development and actual returns, that of the Sunny Corner. Silver Mining Company comes first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If the value of an advertisement is its attractiveness, the Gladstone Colliery Company have already made a fair bid for public favour, for the excursion of saturday to their picturesque property in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following is the result of the Sandhurst examination of the board appointed to grant certificates to mining enginedrivers:—Forty-four applicants presented themselves; twenty-three passed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BLAYNEY, Monday.—Excellent gold has been found on land leased by Me. W. Glasson, J.P., to the council as a night soil depot, by men who were sinking a shaft which had been christened Jacob's Well. Five…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Silver Hill Silver-mining Company, Limited.-- Messrs Gresley Lukin and Co, report, as follows under date of 11th inst:-- "During the week ending 11th inst, I have driven the tunnel a further distance…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →EMMAVILLE, Monday.--Rich chlorides have been struck in Hamilton's block, Pye's Creek. Assays made at Tent Bill gave over 65 per cent of silver…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mssers. Gresley Lukin and Co. report on July 11:—During the week ended 11th instant I hate driven the tunnel a further distance of 16ft, makings a total distance of 384ft. I am of opinion that there is a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. R. M'Crindle, legal mining manager of seven companies, mysteriously disappeared from his office, in Bourke-street east, a few weeks ago, and told his clerk that he was going to a mine at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tarcutta Gold-minmg Company has taken up an additional five acres under a mining lease. In consequence of the prospective success of gold-mining in this locality, a fourth party has now gone on the field with all the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →About one mile and a half below the Sonny Corner mine is the Nevada Silver Mine, situated on a claim some forty acres in extent, and owned in Sydney by a number of Australian and American gentlemen. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Darwin mine on July 1 crashed 91 loads of quartz for 23loz of amalgam, or an average of 17dwt to the load. The grass amalgam retorted was exactly one-third…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thus a correspondent on June 5:—The strike in South Yorkshire against the 10 per cent reduction demanded by the coal owners continues, but signs are not wanting that the men will be unable to hold out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The export of coal for the week was 23,760 tons, made up as follow:—Sydney, 5205; Melbourne, 460 ; Adelaide, 2305,- Wallaroo, 430; Hobart, 371; Wellington, 630 ; other New Zealand ports, 1310;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →From Buninyong we learn that at the Desoza Freehold the stoping is being continued in the upper levels. The reef is small at present. They clean up this week. The Dolcoath No. 1 tribute, from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Peacook and M'Mahon, the discovered of the reef at Tallangatta, have had a trial crushing, which resulted in a yield of 10oz. 11dwt. from 2 tons of stone. The mining manager of the British Lion silver claim,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The visit of the chief of the Mining Department to the silver mines of the Barrier Range was one of immense importance to the district, as it gave the Government the opportunity of testifying to the world at large, by the mouth of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—On the Normanby Goldfield, Cooktown, a crushing from the Monte Christo claim has been begun, and is expected to yield 8oz to the ton. Forty (40) tons have already passed through…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Following are the returns for the quartet ended June 30:—1821 loads crashed, from which was obtained 2014oz 10dwt 19gr of gold, averaging 1oz 2dwt 3 04gr to the ton, showing that the Wars[?]ga…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By telegram news has been received that the mine has considerably improved. Driving along the coarse of the lode is discontinued. The contractors are now sinking on the underlay in easy country…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nymagee Copper' Mining Company, Limited. -- The manager reports the output for the week ended 11th instant to be 35 tons of refined copper from 282 tons of are smelted. Copper despatched, 59 tons…
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