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Mining & the mines, 1885

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Mining in Silverton

Evening News · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 6

A telegram was received from the mining warden in Sliverton by the Under-Secretary of Miners Last night to the effect that mining operations in Silverton had been greatly facilated by the [?] of…

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Extraction of Gold from Ores

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 24

Rowland Jordan's new process for the extraction of gold from ores has been awarded high praise in Europe, both for its originality of conception and its successful results in Britain. The London TIMES…

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Mining News. Temora Items

Evening News · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 6

TEMORA, Sayurday.—Murray and party finished washing. The first machine went only [?] to the load. However, the other were up to the mark. The last machine yielding 21oz to 25 leads. The usual…

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MINING. Country Telegrams. Grafton, Jan. 23

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 221

Crashing operations, which had been suspended at Nana Creek owing to the scarcity of water, will be resumed at once, an adequate supply being now available. NYNGAN, MONDAY…

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News from the Colonial Goldfields. (The latest information concerning mining shares will be found in our Telegraphic and Commercial Reports.) New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 24

NANA CRREK.—Telegrams via Grafton report that work was recommencing. There had been stoppages arising from scarcity of water. TEMORA.—The rain has livened up things here…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 12

Near Rocky Bridge Creek, Mullens and party have struck a silver lode about 20 feet wide whilst prospecting in the neighbourhood. They have sunk about 12 feet on the lode. Malleable silver has been discovered in the same…

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Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.) Adelong. January 27

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 15

COMMON'S.—The annual meeting of commoners was held at Hodgson's Hall on Tuesday, the 13th instant, Mr. James Gifford, chairman of trustees, presiding, the other trustees present being Messrs…

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The Miner. Our Gold Supply. Our Gold Supply: Its effect on finance, trade, commerce, and industries, by Thomas Cornish, M.E. Eden Fisher and Co., London

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 24

Mr. Cornish has written several works on gold mining, management, results and requirements, all of which are popular. As a mining engineer and an intelligent observer of facts, he has had many…

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Mining Intelligence Victorian Gold Returns. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 6

SANDHURST, Saturday.--Messrs Crarke and Co., of Sydney and Melbourne, report: Gold returns [?] B[?]hn's 676 ozs; Fredrick, 170 ozs; He[?] 170 ozs; Barkly, 127 czs; Spec[?]men, 160 ozs; E[?]…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 7

Messrs. Gresley Lukin nod Co. have wire advices that 3 and 4 Glanmire washed up 1225 tons for 1308oz. A dividend of 16d. has been declared. The secretary of the Hodgkinson Union Gold-mining…

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Mining in Silverton

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 6

A telegram was received from the mining warden in Silverton hy the Under-Secretary of Minos last night to the effect that milling operations in Silverton had been greatly facilitated by the recent fall of…

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Mining News. Temora. Items

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 6

TEMORA, Saturday.—Murray and party finished washing. The first machine went only 1½dwt to the load. However, the others were tip to tho mark. The last machine Yielded 20oz to 25 loads. The usual…

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Country and Mining News. ADELONG. January 27

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 3

[?].—The annual meeting of commoners was held at Hodgson's Hall on Tuesday, the 13th instant, Mr. James Gifford, chairman of trustees, presiding, the other trustees present being Messrs…

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Mining Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1885 · page 6

Messrs Gresley Lukin and Co. report that the second dividend of 1s per share has been declared on the 10,000 shares in the Craven's Caldonia Gold-mining Company, No Liability. Since the…

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Mining Intelligence. Deposit of Cinnabar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1885 · page 8

The Department of Mines has just received a report from Mr. C.S. Wilkinson, geological surveyor, in reference to the deposit in which cinuabar has been found in the neighbourhood of the Cudgegong River, about five miles west from…

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Floods in Milparinka. the Miners' Dams Washed Away. Great Destruction of Property

Evening News · Tuesday 3 February 1885 · page 5

Mr. J. P. Abbott, the Minister of Mines, received the following telegram to-day from the mining warden in Milparinka:—"A heavy flood in Milparinka and district: 9in 55 points of rain fallen…

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Mining in Silverton

Evening News · Wednesday 4 February 1885 · page 6

SILVERTON, Monday.—A good deal of prospecting is still going on, more especially since the recent rains. A good ore-bearing vein has been struck in the Silver Crest claims, adjoining the Orphan, and…

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The Revised Mining Regulations

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 February 1885 · page 5

Within a week the revised mining regulations will come into force. The object of the revision which has been made by Mr Abbott is to prevent the practice of monopolising the land by bogus pegs…

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The Minister of Mines' Projected Tour. the Rabbit Fest. the Conservation of Water

Evening News · Wednesday 4 February 1885 · page 3

The Minister of Mines is contemplating a tour in the west, with the view of making himself presonally acqusiated with the rabbit country, and of seeing the working of the Act and the attempts made…

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Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Silverton, Via Menindie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1885 · page 10

A good deal of prospecting is still going on here, more especially since the recent rains. A good ore-bearing vei[?] has been struck in "The Silver Crest" claims, adjoining the Orphan, and close to Silverton. Chlorides show freely,…

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