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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1872

7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Bubble Mining Company

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 March 1872 · page 4

THE following skit upon the methods adopted by unprincipled sharpers in getting up bubble Mining companies, to defraud the public, was published as an…

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[?]Pectus of Sreef Gold Mining Company. (Limited.) Capital, £10,000 in 10,000 Shares of £1 each

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 16 May 1872 · page 2

5,000 Shares are reserved for the Proprietors, and 5,000 shares offered to the public, viz. 5s on application, 5s on allotment, and the balance (if required) in calls not exceeding 1s per share…

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The New Copper-mine, Braidwood District

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 20 June 1872 · page 2

WE paid a visit this week to the locality where the new copper-lode has been discovered at the Carrawang Creek. The trip was a most delightful one, and the…

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The Nanima Gold-fields

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 September 1872 · page 2

As will be seen below, the above-named locality has been proclaimed a gold-field under the Gold-fields Act. In pursuance of the provisions of the…

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Mining in the Queanbeyan District

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 September 1872 · page 2

THE copper lode discovered some few weeks back at the Yass river, near this town, has been so far tested that a shaft of some twenty feet has been sunk, the indications being at…

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Malloon Copper Mines. (Correspondent to the Braidwood Dispatch

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 10 October 1872 · page 2

THERE has been sent from the Malloon mine someeightorten tons of copper produced under former managers, who seemingly did not know what to do with…

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Our District Copper Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 December 1872 · page 2

MR DODD, of the Swamp Copper Mine, left at our office on Monday several specimens of ore from that mine, showing rich proportions of blue and green carbonates and of…

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