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Mining & the mines, 1887

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Another Mining Boom

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 3

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. Sir,--The gold fever of 1870-2 developed mines of silver, copper, tin, all of which are the outcome of the fever. No exports of these…

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The Cornelian Gold Co., Limited. To the Editor

Evening News · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 7

Sir,—In your issue of Friday, August 26,1887, in the first column of the 3rd page, there is an article headed, "For the People, by one of them," and in the division of the article with the…

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Probable Shipment of Gold From Australia to America. London, Sept. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 7

The Daily News states that it is expected that Australia will remit £2,000,000 to America in the autumn…

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Australian Gold Mines

Evening News · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 6

LONDON, September 8.—£100,000 has been subscribed to purchase the Garfield and Manchester gold leases at Castlemaine, in Victoria, and £120,000 has been subscribed to purchase the…

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MINING The Mount Morgan Extended Gold-mining Company

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 542

There appears in our advertising columns this week the prospectus of a company which is in course of formation, with the object of working 72 acres of land south-west of the world-famed Mount Morgan mine. A report from Mr…

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Gold-mining in Victoria. London, Sept. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 12

The Castlemaine Gold-mining Company, with a capital of £100,000, has been formed for the purchase of the Duke of Manchester and Garfield mines. The Gippsland…

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The Burwood Colliery Difficulty

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--There is nothing fresh to note respecting the Burwood strike. Some few shillings which were due to the men for skips filled prior to the strike were paid them…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 7
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The secretary of the Lewis Ponds Gold and Silver Mining Company, Limited, informs us that the company have forwarded to Europe for treatment 68 bags, containing 257 tons of ore,…

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Shipment of Gold

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 552

An unusual heavy shipment of gold was made on Wednesday by the R.M.S. Mariposa for San Francisco, the total quantities and values being—Bank of Australasia, 34 boxes sovereigns (£170,000); Union Bank, 4…

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Tin-mining

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 24

A work under the title of " Geology in the Vegetable Creek Tin-mining Field " bas been issued from the Government Printing Office. It is the production of Mr. T. W. Edgeworth David, F.G.S., Geological…

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Mining in New South Wales

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 19

THE Report of the Mining Department for, 1886 reached us last week. For the lateness of issue, as to which there have been a few murmurs in the press, some allowance is to be made. Mr. Harrie…

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The Deep Mines of Bendigo. a Reef Below 2000 FEET

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 24

A Sandhurst correspondent wrote as follows last week:—The success of the deep reefs of Bendigo, concerning which so many peraons were dubious,, seems now to be assured; for several minea on the…

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Late Mining. Broken Hill North S. M. Company

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 550

Our Melbourne correspondent telegraphed on Wednesday: At a meeting of shareholders in the Broken Hill North Silver-mining Company, an offer by a syndicate to purchase the mine for £80,000 was accepted. A deposit of £1000 is…

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EXPORTS.—SEPTEMBER 8. Angerona, for San Francisco, via Newcastle: 170 tons coal. SEPTEMBER 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 10

Corinna (s.), for Launceston: 850 tons coal, 1291 bags sugar, 632 cases fruit, 20 cases treacle, 14 cases boots, 25 cases wine, 661 flooring boards, 50 drums 2 cases oil, 100 cases castor oil, 4 cases drugs, 126 packages bitumen, 50 bars iron, 56 rails, 1 case…

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Beechworth Gold Mines

Evening News · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 5

LONDON, September 9.—A syndicate has been formed for the purpose of purchasing Mr. Wallace's mines at Beechworth, Victoria. The colonial directors are Messrs. Wallace, Phipps…

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Mining

Evening News · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 3

GRAFTON, Saturday.—Bennett and party, at Garibaldi, Leonsville, are getting good gold. A cwt of fairly rich stone has been taken out of the claim. The mine is reported aa being placed on the London…

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Australian Mining Companies

Evening News · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 5

LONDON, September 11.—The Mount Morgan Extended Mining Company has been placed on the market with a capital of £150,000. The New South Wales Colliery Company, with a capital of…

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The Mount Lyell Mine. a Good Assay

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--Mr. John Adye Douglas, the Tasmanian Agent-General, has procured an assay of ore from the Mount Lyell mine in Tasmania. The result showed…

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Wallace's Beech Worth Mines. London, Sept. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 7

A syndicate has been formed for the purchase of Mr. Wallace's mines at Beechworth, Victoria. The colonial directors are Messrs. Wallace, Phipps-Turnbull, and W. K…

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