A discovery which, if present prospects are fully curtained upon farther development, will be of no little importance, has been made At Heathcote, some 28 miles distant from Sydney. In that locality an area of land ...
Article : 246 wordsMining matters hare been very quiet here of late. Nearly ail the auriferous ground adjacent to the town, very little of which is yet worked, has been quietly taken up as improvement purchases, and mining prevented. This is an ...
Article : 281 wordsThe action of the Mines Department in withdrawing the mining surveyor and leaving lands unsurveyed for which applications have been made from three to eight months back, is being adversely criticised. The Vegetable Creek ...
Article : 186 wordsWE ate indebted to the Hon. Minister for Mines for a copy of the following telegram just received from Mr. King, mining warden, at Milparinka:— "On Saturday. 15th instant, heavy rain generally through ...
Article : 98 wordsOur Albury correspondent writes on the 24th instant:—The two mines on the upper Murray appear to be turning out badly. Several claims on which a large sum of money has been expended have been wound up, and hardly any ...
Article : 172 wordsThe mining manager of the Union Gold-mining Company, Limited, Dalmorton, Grafton, reports under date 16th instant, as follows:—"The Sir Bennies reef continues to look well. The stone now being broken down is quite equal ...
Article : 1,194 wordsThe tailings at Junee reefs are about to be treated, and some of the hands lately employed at Sebastapol are about, to proceed there for that purpose. The portable engine will be sent back to the Marshall battery. It is rumoured ...
Article : 220 wordsThere are few occupations in which men evince more duplicity than in mining speculation. Not so the man with big puree and corresponding faith in a venture. He invests a few thousand pounds and with cheerful confidence awaits ...
Article : 1,295 wordsA crashing ef a parcel of 150 tons of stone from No. 1 South. Wilmot Company, Gympie, yielded 1030oz. of retorted gold. Specimens estimated to contain 100oz. of gold have been banked from Nicoll's lease. ...
Article : 1,547 wordsThe harvest time somewhat interferes with the mineral development of this neighbourhood, more particularly where the various shareholders are men of limited means. This is transparent when it is known that a reef easily worked has ...
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), Sat 29 Nov 1884, Page 1100
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