Mining Topics
Fancy a gold mine being sold in Tasmania for £5000! But such is the case. Mr. Dally has sold the Maud Catherine reef at the Denison for that sum. Of…
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Mining Intelligence
Silver Queen Silver-mining Company, Limited, Sunny Corner. The manager reports on the 14th instant:--"The engine was started on the 7th, and has pumped all the water out of the 100ft. shaft. The shaft is…
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MORUYA, Friday.—Gold in payable quantities is reported to have been found by different persons, near Batenian'a Bay, during the present week. A large number of men from the surrounding districts…
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With regard to the gold discovery in the Bega district, the Bega STANDARD of January 13 said:—All we can learn from the diggings at Meet's Flat, beyond Colombo, is that parties ae busy on a…
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GUNDAGAI, Monday,—A company has leased Dominic's Hill, near Coolac, and intends to erect machinery…
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Mount Morgan, the mountain of gold, which has been valued by exports at over twelve millions of pounds sterling, is about to be the bone of contention in one of the…
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The SILVER AGE of January 9 said: As announced on Wednesday, it is the intention to blow in the B.R.S.M. Association's new smelting furnace on Monday, the manager of the Broken Hill Company…
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New North Clunes Company, Clunes.—There has been no change worthy of mention in the underground workings. The lode in the north drive, bottom level, is gradually widening out, being now about 2ft, thick, and the stone has…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Mr. John. S. Swan, an experienced Northern miner, commissioned by the Croydon Crashing Company to report on the prospects of that goldfield, says that on the Iguana Hill there are…
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Clausen and Sons' Champagne Lager Beer was awarded highest award and gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876, beating Annheuser and Co., Bergner and Engel,…
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Victory Gold-mining Company, Limited, Charters Towers.--The mining manager reports for the fortnight ending January 9:--"Very little work was done in the principal faces,…
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Long Tunnel, Extended, Walhalla, Janunry14.—No. 2 crosscut is now in 265ft.; face is very hard dyke, which should form the hanging wall of the reef, for which the…
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BINGERA, Monday.—The Australian Diamond Mining Company has completed a washing of 52 loads, and found 215 diamonds, weighing 44 carats. These stones, although fewer in number than at the last…
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The Australian Diamond Mining Company at Eingera have just finished another washing, and although the jems are less in number than some of the previous…
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The miners who undertook to do some work on tribute at the Bird-in-Hand appear to be in fortune's way. A nice block of very good quartz has already been exposed. If one may judge by what is in sight…
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BINGERA, Monday.--The Australian Diamond-mining Company have completed a washing of 52 loads finding, 210 diamonds weighing 44 carats. These stones, although…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Mount Macdonald, MONDAYr
The monthly escort left here this morning with 130oz. 7dwt. 8gr. of gold. Owing to the holidays, very few crushings have taken place here this month. All the parties have now returned to work, and mining prospects are…
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One of the most important of the outlying mines is the Bulldog, which is situated on a steep range of that ilk, lying between Turpin's Creek and Daylight Creek. There are 90,000 shares in the company, which possesses 140 acres…
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Thus a London paper of December 6:—It is said that, owing to the wavering attitude of some of the Barnsley miners, the agitation for an advance of wages in the Lancashire district is likely to fall…
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A report recently made by the United States Consul in St. Petersburg, said that from 1820 to 1850 Russia ranked first among gold-producing countries, yielding at the time of the discovery of the gold…
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