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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1876

10 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Terrible Colliery Explosion

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 January 1876 · page 4

From telegraphic intelligence in San Francisco papers we learn that an awful explosion occurred on the 6th December at the…

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Recovery of the Box of Gold at Port Darwin

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 January 1876 · page 4

Mr OTHEN, who was employed to go to the Northern Territory to dive for the box of gold lost at Port Darwin when being put on board the Claud…

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Northern Queensland Goldfields

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 January 1876 · page 2

Now that the wires are being freely used conveying news of a new rush with rich finds near the Palmer, to those unacquainted with North…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 12 February 1876 · page 4

A TERRIBLE colliery explosion, which it is feared will result in more than 200 lives being lost, has just occurred at Swaithe Main Colliery,…

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Terrible Explosion in a Coal Mine

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 5 April 1876 · page 3

Pittston, Pa., February 13.—This afternoon a terrible explosion occurred in the Exeter mine, belonging to the Leigh Valley Coal Company, located…

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Gold from a New Field

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 April 1876 · page 2

A beautiful sample of coarse gold, weighing 4 dwt. 7 grs., less two of the largest pieces, which the finder gave away, has been left at our office by Mr…

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The Late Gold Discovery

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 April 1876 · page 2

Attracted by the report we recently gave of the discovery of gold some 40 miles from Queanbeyan by a resident of this town, who left a sample at our…

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The Late Rumoured Gold Discovery

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 10 May 1876 · page 2

Mr John McDonald of Uriarra, has brought a message to our office from the four men who went out beyond Brindubulla to look for gold, where the…

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The Late Gold Discovery

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 May 1876 · page 2

The paragraph which appeared in our last issue respecting the failure of the party of diggers to find the place to which they were directed—where it…

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The Strikes in the Mining Districts

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 June 1876 · page 3

At Pinnixtan collieries, Derbyshire, a large number of men have resumed work at the reduction of fifteen per cent, the only instance of…

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