The Croydon Goldfield
TOWNSVILLE, Monday.--The special reporter of the Daily Northern Argus reports that there is about 400 miners at the Croydon rash. The reefs are exceedingly rich,…
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TOWNSVILLE, Monday.--The special reporter of the Daily Northern Argus reports that there is about 400 miners at the Croydon rash. The reefs are exceedingly rich,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ravenswood Silver-mining Company, Limited.—The mining-manager reports for week ending January 23 as follows:—"160ft. level: The winze is broken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Queensland Silver-mining Company.--The manager reports on January 21 :-- As wired you, the whole of he bullion had arrived at the ports, and the coke is now arriving here…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The COLOGNE GAZETTE has received a letter from Herr Einwald, who declares that he has discovered an extensive goldfield in a very favorable part of Zululand. and that he is coming home to Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MAITLAND, Tuesday.—The half-yearly meeting of the Vegetable Creek Tin-mining Company was held on Monday in Maitland, when the report and balance-sheet for the half-year ending December 31, 1885, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The geologists of a generation ago (said the Newcastle, Eng., CHRONICLE) were of opinion that the Rowley Regis Hills were an upheaval of igneous rock, and that in course of the eruption all the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GUNDAGAI, Tuesday.—W. Mitchell reports having discovered a reef 2ft wide, at Kimo, near Gundagai. This is on new ground. The stone brought into town shows gold freely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News has just been received from Mount Brown to the effect that a rich find of gold nuggets, weighing from 13oz. upwards (in all about 60oz.), has been secured. In none of the nuggets is there any sign of quartz. A rush is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At a meeting of the Lambton miners held yesterday, Mr. N. Melville, M.L.A., was present and delivered a long address to the men antagonistic to the Lambton collieries management. Amongst other things he proposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →TOWNSVILLE, Monday.--The special reporter of the Daily Northern Standard reports from Normanton :--" The Croydon rush, which is now attracting so much…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The 11th half-yearly meeting of the Wesley Tinmining Co. was held yesterday in the office of the company, 131, Pitt-street. Mr. A. Harcourt presided. The report and balance-sheet, which were adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sunny Corner Silver-mining Company, Limited.--The secretary reports that during the week ended January 30 four furnaces were in full blast, reducing 681 tons of ore. Total…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Silver King Mining Company, Limited, Sunny Corner, February 3, 1886.—The legal manager of the Silver King Mining Company reports…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mining manager (Sunny Corner) reports for the week ended January 30 that the main level has been extended a farther distance of 4ft making a total driven south from the main tunnel 110ft; the rock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILCANNIA, Wednesday.—News has been received from Mount Brown to the effect that a rich find of gold nuggets, weighing from 13oz upward (in all about 60oz), has been secured. In none of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A new company named the Vernon Coal and Railway Company, Limited, has just, been registered, with an authorised capital of a quarter of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There has been gross misapprehension or misrepresentation somewhere in regard to the Lambton strike now proceeding. On careful inquiry I find that those who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Day Dawn Block and Wyndham, Charters Towers, have crushed 687 tons for a yield of 985oz. of gold. A dividend of 1s, has been declared. The total yield of the recent crushing of the Victory Company was 1585oz…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Homeward Bound claim is still to the fore. After a crushing of about 100 tons of stone, Mr. R. Johnston, the manager, accompanied by Mr. H. R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mines Department has received a telegram from the warden at Milparinka to the effect that about 4lb weight of gold had been deposited in the Commercial Bank, Wilcannia. There were several…
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