A Very Honest Coal Dealer
Mr. Black, the eminent and wealthy coal dealer, called one of his oldest drivers into his office the other morning and tendered…
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Mining & the mines, 1897
131 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 7
Captain's Flat Mines
Mr Jacquet, the Government geologist and mining inspector, having returned from his investigation into the durability of the Captain's Flat mines, Mr E. w. O'Sullivan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Braidwood and Captain's Flat
STONE is being carted to Major's Creek battery from Bell's Creek Company's reefs. A shot on Saturday disclosed more rich stone studded with gold in Brown's line of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. Bell's Creek
At Bell's Creek the Company are Carting stone from the last shaft they sank to the mill at Major's Creek, Mr. Gumm, the manager, estimates that he has 20 tons at grass. Mr. Copeland, M.L.A., and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Canberra Man in West Australia: Some of his Travels in an attempt to reach Coolgardie Goldfields from Start's Salt Lake
WE are indebted to the Rev. P. G. Smith, M.A., of St. John Baptist's, Canberra, for the following extract from a letter recently received from his son, who with a solitary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mining Experience
In a remote corner of the West hidden away in the mountains, is a little village where the chief occupation of the people— men, women, and children—lies in the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining
Mr. Jeffcoat, of Harmer and Jeffcoat, who opened and worked the ground between Belle Vue and Jembaicambene village for some time so profitably and closed down for the purpose of introducing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Registration of a Mine
THE Government Gazette contains a memorandum for registration of Lake George Proprietary Company (No Liability). The value of the properly is £2400, and consists…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Captain's Flat Mine
The evidence as to the prospects of making Captain's Flat an imme[?]se mining centre, increases almost daily. The old company, the Lake George United, have spent, during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Nerriga Mining Division
The boundaries of the Nerriga Mining Division, notified 11th September, 1891, have been cancelled and the following are gazetted iu lieu thereof :— Including parts of the counties of Argyle and St…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bywong Mining
Whyte and party, at the Lone Hand, in driving to the south at the 50ft level, have met with nice golden stone, and are raising a crushing. Lowe and Alchin have struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Salt Mines Op Cracow
This vast depth in divided into four disti[?] stories of fields, one below the other. In the recond storey is a grant lake, 650ft. long, and 40 deep, formed of the salt water which trickles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Big Gold Bobbery
Advices have been received from Hongkong announcing that £4410 in gold had been stolen from the strongroom of the China Navigation Company's steamer Taiyuan. The whole affair is shrouded in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mining Industry
The report of the Under Secretary for Mines (Mr. D. C. M'Lachlan) for 1896 contains a large amount of statistical and general information. It reported that although there is apparently an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large Yield of Gold
Four hundred weight of stone from Bayley's United Gold Mine at Coolgardie has yielded seven hundred ounces of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mining Director Charged with Larceny
William Bishop, the managing director of the Abbott Gold Mining Company, West Australia, has been remanded to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bywong Mining
At the newly erected dam at the Lowe and Alchin G.M. Company, which was partly washed away by the recent fall of rain, men are busy at work effecting repairs. Johnson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Taiyuan Gold Robbery
Captain Fawkes, who was the pilot in charge of the Taiyuan after the vessel left Sydney for Hongkong on its last voyage, during which the robbery of £5000 from a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining
IN the Captain's Flat Lake George Proprietary mine Mr. Copeland, M.L.A., the chairman of the company, and the contractor have discovered what mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Lucknow Gold Robberies
At the Orange police court on Wednesday Charles Summerville was charged with stealing auriferous ore from the Wentworth Proprietary Mines at Lucknow. Police Inspectors Ford detailed…
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