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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

6 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers

Damage at the Peaks Silver Mines

Camden News · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 1

Early on Tuesday morning hews reached Camden that the bush fire that had been burning for some time in the Vicinity of the Peaks silvermines, Yerranderie, had spread…

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Mining at The Peaks

Camden News · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 1

Miming operations are being carried on at The Peaks actively, and the supply of silver ore is practically unlimited. Were means of getting the ore away better than they are…

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The Peaks Silver Mines. No. 1. BY W.O.P. [Specially written for the Camden News.]

Camden News · Thursday 14 September 1905 · page 5

So little is known, even in the best informed mining circles, of this promising, and even now, flourshing siler field. I taken the liberty of asking for a little space…

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Burragorang REAKES V. the Yerranderie Silver Mining Company. (Before Mr. Justice Pring.)

Camden News · Thursday 14 September 1905 · page 1

Albert Reakes sned the Yerranderie Silver Mining Company (no liability) for £250 damages for the spread of a fire alleged to have been started by the company's servant…

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"Yerranderie Silver Mines

Camden News · Thursday 5 October 1905 · page 9

In the mining reports of the Australasian the Yerranderic silver fields, Burragorang, are reported on as follows:—"These marine beds lie. on felsites, in which, are contained…

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Preferred the Gold

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 4

A CONJURER was performing before a country audience, and to make his powers appear more remarkable, be asked for the loan of a sixpenny piece, which he would convert into…

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