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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines
41 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3
SIR.—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd ultimo, forwarding a petition from certain residents of Yarralumla, &c., respecting the formal opening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SMALL ROW (says the Monaro Mercury) occurred between the local syndicate and the Sydney company at the silver mine at Mr. Crimmings' on Sunday last, when one of our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have the. honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, requesting that a deviation be made in the recently measured road from Queanbeyan to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN alarming colliery explosion took place at the Mardy Colliery of Lockets Steam Coal Company, situated near Ferndale, on December…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SALT LAKE, Utah, January 15th.—News of the Almy disaster is exceedingly slow coming in. The best account received is a letter written the day after the explosion by a son to his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TELEGRAM to Mr. McKenzie, examiner of coal-fields, was received this morning from the Lithgow Valley Colliery and Pottery Co., Limited, to the effect that the pit was on fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS was received in town that the Ferndale Colliery at Tighe's Hill was suddenly flooded out at 9 o'clock this morning. All the miners employed in the workings succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Lithgow Valley colliery, yesterday afternoon, an explosion occurred, whilst a party of ten men were inside. Five of the party were brought out dead, viz.:—Buzza,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. C. E. DEELEY, of the firm of Adcock Brothers and Co., merchants, Palmerston and Derby, and stationed at the latter place, gives some interesting particulars relative to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM a very valuable and interesting report, prepared by Mr. Harrie Wood, the UnderSecretary for Mines, on the silvermining industry of New South Wales, we extract the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. ROBERT PURVIS, who has just returned from the Kimberly gold field, Western Australia, sends to the Dubbo Dispatch…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE have just received (through Mr. J. W. R. Clarke, bookseller and stationer, of 5 and 6, Markot Buildings, Sydney) with the author's compliments, a copy of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a petition presented by you from the inhabitants of Ballalaba and Oranmie[?], [?], for a road through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MESSRS. HERBERT COX, F.C.S., F.G.S., and Felix Ratte have just published a most valuable contribution to the literature of mineralogy, the object of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANOTHER sample from the Carrington lode was recently forwarded to the department of mines for assay, and on Friday the following return was received…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We (Telegraph)stated on Thursday that the committee who have the management of the Lithgow Colliery Fund are anxious to receive all further sums by the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Gambier arrived at Cambridge Gulf on the 5th June, the Afghan on the 12 th, and the Victoria on th 14th. The three steamers landed about 620 men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great excitement prevails in the Wolumla district just at present through a report which reached town to the effect that aparty of men who have for some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The attempt to float a company to float certain mines at Charters Towers, Queensland, was proved unsuccessful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon a serious accident occurred in the Wallsend colliery, killing a man named Thomas Leech, aged 29 and injuring three boys name Stephenson…
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