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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

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Mining in the District

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 2

We gather the following reliable information from the annual report of the Mines Department for the year ending December 31st, 1895…

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Guide to Mining Laws

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 2

The Minister for Mines has caused to be issued a very useful pamphlet entitled "A guide to the mining laws of New South Wales." The booklet sets forth, in plain…

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Mining at Bywong

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 June 1896 · page 3

SINCE the recent rains mining has been generally assuming a more encouraging aspect. At Young's battery a large parcel of stone from the Little Wonder mine is…

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Shipping Gold

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 June 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—The Sank South Wales shipped 50,000 sovere[?] Oratava…

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The Coal Trade

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 June 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—The demand from the Southern mines, owing to castle Strike, still continues. Yeste[?] large sailing vessels were chartered…

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Mining at Gulgong

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 June 1896 · page 3

WE have frequently expressed the opinion (says the Mudgee Western Post of Friday) that if ever Gulgong experienced a permanent revival of frame for its gold production…

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The Coal Strike

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Friday — The Newcastle miners are indignant at the published resolution of the coal proprietors to reduce wages, and are determined to resist them to the utmost…

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Mining Boom

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Friday—Over a hundred mining leases were granted in Victoria during the past week…

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Guide no the Mining Laws of N. S. Wales

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 2

Under the authority of the Secretary for Mines there has just been issued from the Government Printing Office a pamphlet bearing the above title. Besides containing…

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Reserve for Mining Purposes

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 June 1896 · page 2

The Government Gazette notifies that the land hereunder described is reserved from sale for mining purposes: Land District of Queanbeyan—No 24 239. County of Murray,…

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Big Mining Disaster

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 2

London, Monday—Through the roof of the Wilksham Mine, Pennsylvannia, falling in, a hundred miners were entombed, and their position is hopeless…

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The Progress of the Mines at Mac's Reef

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 July 1896 · page 2

THE WONDERS OF THE LITTLE WONDER.—During the last three weeks 20 tons of stone, showing good specimen gold throughout, has been brought to grass at this claim by a…

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The Coal Strike

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 July 1896 · page 2

The conference between the Premier and the representative colliery proprietors at the Treasury on Monday morning lasted for over an hour. During that time the whole matter…

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The Coal Strike

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 July 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—At a mass meeting Broken hill on Sunday a motion was ca[?] pledging moral and financial support to Newcastle miners…

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Mining Shares

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 July 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—Business at the S[?] Exchange is slight. Westralian shares tending downwards, but Broken hill Cobar are firmer…

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The Sunken Gold

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 8 July 1896 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—The divers have h[?] open the strong room of the' sunken Cat[?] thun, and expect to recover most of specie to day…

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The Uriarra Goldfields

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 July 1896 · page 2

Mr E. W. O'Sullivan is in receipt of the following reply to a communication from Mr John McLaughlin, of Uriarra, forwarded by him to the Minister for Mines,…

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The Bulli Coal Claim

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 July 1896 · page 2

Judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice Cohen in the Equity Court on Monday morning in the case of Patrick Hill Osborne and Benjamin Marshall Osborne, surviving trus…

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Mining at Captain's Flat

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 August 1896 · page 2

WE hear that the Lake George United Mining, Property at Captain's Flat (says the Penny Post) has been purchased by an English company, and that they intend…

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The Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Wednesday, August 5, 1896. Current Topics. Mining at Captain's Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 5 August 1896 · page 2

We bear that the Lake George United Mining Property at Captain's Flat has been purchased by an English company, add that they intend spending 60,000 in sinking…

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