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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1860

9 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Our Mining Reports

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 20 June 1860 · page 2

MAJOR’S CREEK.—Hordes of Chinese are employed both up and down the creek, and from the amount of labour perceptible we are compelled to come to the conclusion that they must…

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Detection of Spurious Gold

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 25 July 1860 · page 4

The following valuable paper was read on the 19th inst., at the meeting of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales, by Mr. Miller a gentleman connected with the Sydney Mint…

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Important From The, Snowy. Mining Prospects

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Saturday 4 August 1860 · page 3

The various correspondents of the metropolitan journals agree in urging the unsafety and impr[?]dence of intending diggers leaving their homes for the Snowy Mountains-they state…

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Telegraphic Communication Between Sydney, Queanbeyan, and the Gold Fields of Kiandra

The Golden Age · Saturday 22 September 1860 · page 3

PURSUANT to advertisement, a public meeting was held at the court-house, on Thursday last, at three o'clock, in order to take the initiatory steps for obtainiug an extension of telegraphic…

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Latest from the Kiandra Gold Fields. A Twenty-pound Nugget found at New-chum Hole

The Golden Age · Saturday 29 September 1860 · page 3

A party on whose authority we have reason to rely, and who left Rlandra on Sunday last, reports the finding of a large nugget of pure gold at the above place. It…

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The Gold Duty

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1860 · page 1

The Council have postponed the Bill for a fortnight…

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Local Court Araluen. Monday, October 22Nd, 1860. (Before J.H. Griffin and Charles Harpur Esqrs Gold Commissioners, and the members of the Local Court.)

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Wednesday 24 October 1860 · page 2

COWAN V. WILSON —The defendant was complained of for having dammed back water on to complainant's wheel. Defendant said it was a deposit of mica that caused the obstruction…

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Lambing Flat Diggings. Arrival of Upwards of 1150 Ounces of Gold

The Golden Age · Saturday 10 November 1860 · page 3

We clip the following from last Wednesday's Yass Courier:—On Monday evening the Yass Branch of the Oriental Bank received 750 ozs gold-dust from these diggings, which…

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Local and Provincial News Little River Gold. 144 oz. Nugget

Braidwood Observer and Miner's Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1860 · page 2

Notwithstanding all we have said upon the probable richness of the Little River gold-field and the result of mining operations every week confirming the same, still we lave to complainx…

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