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  2. MINING

    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. ...

    Article : 112 words
  3. Orange.

    Considerable interest was shown in a case heard in the Warden's Court this week. John Herrick, of Orange, claimed that the mineral lease of 20 acres taken up by Halliday and party at Caleala should be forfeited, as ...

    Article : 274 words
  4. The Barrier Ranges.

    Writing under date 1st September, from Euriowie, the newly-formed township at the newly-discovered tin mines on the Barrier, our travelling reporter states that nothing could exceed the richness of the herbage and the number ...

    Article : 198 words
  5. Inverell.

    A few days ago Mr. L. N. Kennedy showed me a large collection of diamonds, some 1500 in number, obtained at the Malacca mine, from 135 loads of wash-dirt. About 50 buckets of tin were also washed from the same. A new ...

    Article : 292 words
  6. Scientific and Useful.

    A new alloy has been discovered by Mr. Reith, of Bockenheim, which practically resists the attack of most acids and alkaline solutions. Its composition is as follows:—Copper, 15 parts; tin, 2.34 parts; lead, 1.82 parts; ...

    Article : 327 words
  7. Prospecting Vote for Victoria.

    The Minister of Mines for Victoria has allocated the prospecting vote among the seven mining districts into which Victoria is divided. These subsidies given are chiefly for prospecting, sinking, driving, and crosscutting, and ...

    Article : 349 words
  8. Items.

    A cablegram from our London correspondent states that the assay of ore from the Mount Lyell mine in Tasmania gave a return at the rate of 12½oz. of gold to the ton. ...

    Article : 1,449 words
  9. Mudgee.

    Splendid specimens are shown in town from the Eaglehawk, on Long Creek. They were taken from the reef at a depth of 12ft. and where it shows some five or six feet wide. Gold can be seen all through. It is a splendid ...

    Article : 186 words
  10. Advertising

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    Advertising : 160 words
  11. Extinct Animal Life.

    Persons who are not in the habit of collecting mineral or rock specimens are perhaps not aware that some of the Devonian slate found in the Australian colonies contain stratified layers of black carbonised material which tells a ...

    Article : 245 words
  12. Telegrams.

    A telegram was received at Rockhampton, from the manager of the Mount Morgan mine to-day, stating that the lode had been cut in the Freehold Tunnel over 600ft from the outlet, and 300ft from the summit of the ...

    Article : 1,079 words
  13. Tuena.

    This township is situated midway between the cities of the South and West—viz., Bathurst and Gonlburn—being about 60 miles from either. Its chief support is the mining, it being one of the oldest goldfields in New South ...

    Article : 406 words
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