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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1886

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Official Correspondence Department of Mines, Sydney 5th August, 1886

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1886 · page 2

SIR.—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd inst., forwarding a petition from certain resinents of Brindabella, &c., for the opening…

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The Kimberley Goldfields. Brisbane

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1886 · page 2

The steamer Hero, which has arrived at Townsville, brings the latest news, from the Kimberley goldfields. Mr.,Carr-Boyd arrived at Cambridge Gulf on the 25th of…

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Further Gold Discoveries at Captain's Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 August 1886 · page 2

YESTERDAY Mr. W. C. Newman brought tidings from Captain's Flat of the discovery there of another promising gold lead. The locality of the fresh discovery is about…

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Official Correspondence Department of Mines, Sydney 19th August 1886

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 August 1886 · page 2

Sir,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th instant requesting the survey and opening of a road from the Gininderra road to the…

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How Miners Can Die

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 August 1886 · page 4

SIXTEEN years ago there was a terrible, colliery disaster in Saxony, by which a large number of miners lost their lives. Of…

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Gundaroo Goldfield

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 August 1886 · page 2

IN the Assembly on Thursday night Mr. Copeland in reply to Mr. O'Sullivan, said that it was not a fact that a portion of the Gundaroo gold reserve extension was…

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Lonely Death of a Gold-digger

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 3

A gentleman who returned to Sydney this week from Western Australia gives us some particulars in connection with the recent discovery of a dead body on the…

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Extraordinary Colliery Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 2 October 1886 · page 2

An accident occurred on the 18th of August before 11 o'clock, at Coulodge Colliery near Newcastle-on,Tyne, resulting in the injury, more or less serious, of…

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Department of Mines. Sydney, 27th September, 1886

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 2 October 1886 · page 2

SIR,—With reference to the application made by tie inhabitants of Ginninderra, Gundaroo, &c., for a road drom the Yass and Queanbeyan Road through Mr…

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Coal in Queensland. Brisbane

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 14 October 1886 · page 2

A seam of coal nine feet thick has been struck has Swan Creek, five miles from Warwick, where sinking has been carried on for some months past. The Goal is said…

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Australian Coal for Spain

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 October 1886 · page 2

A Barceloua Gas Company has ordered several cargoes of Australian coal…

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Queensland Quicksilver Mining Company

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 October 1886 · page 2

The Company formed here for the purpose of working certain estates in Queensland for quicksilver is now making an alment of shares to subscribers…

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New Zealand Mining Companies

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 October 1886 · page 2

The company recently floated, with a capital of £80,000, for the purpose of working certain gold mines on the Coromandel and Thames goldfields, New…

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The Advance in Queensland Mining Shares

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 October 1886 · page 2

The Daily Telegraph says that the advance in the values of shares in Queensland mining companies is approaching as mining mania…

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Colonial Gold-mining Investments

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 October 1886 · page 2

Much excitement is being manifested over the investments in gold-mining companies which have recently been formed to work mines in Queensland, and in the…

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Weetangera-Uriarra Road. Department of Mines, Sydney, 19th Oct. 1886

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 October 1886 · page 2

SIR.—I have the honour, to acknowledge. the receipt of the petition from certain residents of Ginninderra &c., presented presented by you, for a road from…

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Queensland Gold Mining

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 November 1886 · page 2

The capital of the Mount Morgan West (Queensland) Gold-mining Company has been subscribed twofold. OCT. 29…

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Department of Mines Sydney, 15th, Nov. 1886

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 November 1886 · page 2

SIR,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 13th instant forwarding a letter urging the opening of the road from Tharwa to…

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Department of Mines, Public Parks branch, Sydney, 10th Nov. 1886

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 November 1886 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—I have the pleasure of informing you that the Secretary for Mines has set down the sum of enc hundred pounds for the improvement of the Park…

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Fatal Colliery Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 23 December 1886 · page 2

A fatal colliery accident occurred at the Albion Colliery, two miles from Ponty-pridd, on November 4. Forty feet of the brickwork fell, the fall extending all down…

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