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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1874

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Palmer River Gold Fields

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 January 1874 · page 4

THE following letter has been handed to the 'Brisbane Telegraph' for publication. Cookstown, Endeavoar River,…

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A Lucky Mining Hit

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 March 1874 · page 4

THE Ballarat Star gives the following anecdote:—"Instances are so numerous in this colony where men on the very verge of ruin…

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The Palmer River Goldfields

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 25 March 1874 · page 2

THE S. M. Herald's Brisbane correspondent says:—A telegraphic message from Mr Howard St. George, the Gold Commissioner at the…

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Dreadful Colliery Explosion. Fifty One Lives Lost

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 10 June 1874 · page 3

On April 14, an explosion of an appalling nature occurred at the Astley Deep Pit, Dukinfield, which is worked by Mr Benjamin Ashton…

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Regulations for Working Minerals Other Than Gold

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 18 July 1874 · page 4

FEW of our readers will probably have cared to enter upon the perusal of the regulations for the mineral leases, published in our issue of…

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