Mining Topic
Messrs. Gresley Lukin and Co. report that the 3 and 4 North Glanmire Gold-mining Company, Limited, have crushed 1276 tons for 1214oz. gold, Dividend, 1s…
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Mining Education
The annual report of the Ballarat School of Mines, just to hand, gives much interesting data concerning the work of that useful institution. The curriculum of subjects for students includes chemistry,…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Collieries Commission. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The telegram of your Lithgow correspondent in to-day's issue states that the Commission now sitting here declined to allow me to appear except as legal adviser to the Commission, and that I withdrew. This statement is not…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Rich Gold Find
AN encouraging telegram from Grafton reports what appears to be a very rich find near Grafton. One ton of such stone, if equal to the description, would distance the reported Kimberley finds, but then Grafton has not the…
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A STRANGE RECOVERY.—An engine has been, unearthed by a party nf miners who were working the new Oriental claim in Araluen. Owing to the fresh in the creek a portion of the engine became exposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Gold in the Goulburn District
The following report upon the country about 12 miles cast from Goulburn, in the direction of Marulan and Bungonia, where some gold and silver bearing lodes have been discovered, has been made by the Government Geological…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Late Mining. Albury
Satisfactory progress is reported at the claim of the Soudan Mining Company, Splitter's Creek. The last crashing yielded 58oz. for the previous 16 days. The company have already paid off most of their liabilities incurred…
Continued on Trove, page 978 →Mining. the Kimberley Goldfields, W. A. Discovert of a Large Nugget
THE correspondent of tho Perth Inquirer at Roebourne, telegraphing on Friday night, reports that the latest item of news from Derby is to the effect that a nugget of gold weighing 2 1/2lb had been found by a man named Morgan, and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Gold in Unlikely Places.—The Fairfield Discoveries
I have just paid a flying visit to this new E1 Dorado, not with any intention, of taking up auriferous country or to speculate in anything therein, but from sheer onriosity. Having been mining on…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mining Near Tamworth. Tamworth, This Day
Rich stone continues to be raised at the Lord Carrington Reef, Bowling Alley Point. A trial crushing from a new reef on Swamp Oak Creek, was put through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Proposed Mining Exhibition. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Government received a communication from the Agent-General, intimating that the proposed industrial exhibition of mineral products, mining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News from the Colonial Goldfields. (The latest information concerning mining shares will be found in our Telegraphic and Commercial Reports.) New South Wales
MOUNT M'DONALD.—A correspondent at Mount M'Donald telegraphs;—For some time past there have been a good, many'prospectors in the'Wood's Flat locality. A shaft has been bottomed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Gundagai
The Victoria Mining Company, at South Gundagai, are now sinking a shaft at the end of the tunnel. The leaders in the country which is being passed through show good gold. The Morning Star reef, which was worked…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Anæmia in Sheep in the Urana District. Department of Mines, Stock Branch, Sydney, April 27, 1886
Several of the sheep-owners in the Urana district having reported that they were losing valuable stud rams from an unknown disease, the principal symptoms of which were swelling of the face, nose, and throat, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 948 →Stock Branch Offices, Department of Mines, April 16, 1886. To Alex. Bruce, Esq., Chief Inspector of Stock
Sir,—I have the honour of reporting, for your information, that I visited the stations of Coonong and Bundure en route to Yanko and Coree, prosecuting inquiries into the fatality among the sheep in Urana and the neighbouring…
Continued on Trove, page 948 →The Croydon Goldfields. Brisbane, This Day
A meeting at Croydon passed a resolution condemnatory of Warden Sam-well's depreciatory report on the field, and requesting the Minister for Works to hold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kimberley Goldfields. Adelaide, April 30
Mr. C. E. Deeley, of the firm of Adcock Brothers and Co., merchants, Palmerston and Derby, and stationed at the latter place, gives some interesting particulars relative to the Kimberley goldfields, and also to the town of Derby…
Continued on Trove, page 979 →The Kimberley Goldfields
The following additional information as to the Kimberley goldfield in Western Australia, and the means of access to it, are supplied by an official report and by private letters which (says the Argus) have been received in…
Continued on Trove, page 978 →Country and Mining News. (From Our Correspondents.) SPECIAL—Corrospondent are requested to write on once side of paper, ouly, and to[?]. A.DELONO. May 5
A REAL. GOOD. FRIDAY, was experienced by the folks, here. It started raining at daylight, and kept of all day without ceasiug; being the first real good fall we have had this year. Easter Monday the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →MINING Geology of New South Wales. (Extracts from a series of Notes by C. S. F.G.S., F.L.S. Published in 1832.) II
The geology and physical geography of Australia in general, and of New South Wales in particular, have already been ably described, especially by the late Rev. W. B. Clarke, M. A., F.R.S., &c.; and it is to the last work of…
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