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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1899

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Special. Prizes awarded by the Department of Mines and Agriculture

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 5

To the Exhibitor who obtains most prizes In the Farm Produce Section H. PRIZE.—A new Single Furrow plough; value £6…

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Lake George Mine. Success at Last

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 9 August 1899 · page 3

The 'Sydney Morning Herald," during last wook, gave two articles on the Lake George Mines, and the verdict of the mining expert is that, after a number of…

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Captain's Flat. MINING

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 2

The Lake George Mines Company have called for tenders for excavating a site for a large cyanide plant to treat the gold-bearing gossans which are in abundance on…

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Gold Dredging

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1899 · page 4

The objection to the non publication of their returns by private dredging companies is becoming rather pronounced in New Zealand. In the case of public companies the…

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Captain's Flat. the Mines

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 August 1899 · page 3

A start is at last being made with the erection of the much talked of cyanide plant. Tenders have been accepted for the supply of squared and round timber for…

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Mining at Spring Range

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 August 1899 · page 2

Last Thursday Messrs. W. Pike and E. Rolfe brought inte Queanbeyan a couple of specimens of au[?]ferous quartz, estimated to contain upwards of two ounces of gold…

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Lake George Mines Returns

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 August 1899 · page 2

The returns from the Lake George Mines Limited Captain’s Flat for the month ended July 31 were as follows:—Grude ore furnaced during July 5745.91 tons; production…

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Mining Mews

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 August 1899 · page 2

A Sydney mining broker reports having floated the [?] Centrifugal Sluicing Company. The company consists of 50000 of 10s each 20,000 paid up of which are retained by the promoters and…

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The Mines

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 August 1899 · page 3

One of the furnaces was run down on Wednesday last leaving only two running at present, and it is persistently rumoured that this is the beginning of the end so far…

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Mining

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 August 1899 · page 3

I hear favourable reports re that recent find of rich specimen quartz at Spring Range. This last find does not surprise me a little bit, for have not similar finds to…

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Lake George Mines Returns

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 August 1899 · page 2

The returns from the Lake George Minets Ltd., Captain's Flat, for the month ended July 31 were as follows.—Cuade ore furnaced during July, 5745 91 tons;…

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The Brindabella Mines Case

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 2

THE following sworn declaration, drawn by Mr. Colonna-Close of Sydney, the solicitor acting for Mr. William Reid of Brindabella, was placed in the hands of Mr. E…

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Gold from Bingley's

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 2

WE saw yesterday, in the possession of Mr. James Cartwright, of Woodbury, a cake of retorted gold weighing 15 ozs., obtained from a crushing at Bingley's, the stone…

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Rich Find of Gold

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 2

Orange, Tuesday:—further details of the rich find at Glasson’s Gate, between Byng and Guyong, state that the find was come upon in an old shaft 25ft deep. Six and a half pounds weight of gold…

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Mining

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 August 1899 · page 2

Quito a rush is setting in for land for dredging purposes. A Melbourne syndicate has taken up a large area at Brooks' Creek, and several other parties have applied for…

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The Rlondyke and Atlin Gold fields

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 August 1899 · page 4

The Alaska Commercial Company's steamship Portland (says the San Francisco Weekly Bulletin), which arrived on July 11, is the first treasure ship reaching san Francisco…

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Mining

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 2

In my last article I alluded to four prospecting parties of four men each, and mentioned that the simple [?]30 per annum to each individual was a merely nominal…

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District News. Captain's Flat. Mining News

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 2

A general stampede of the residents took place here on Sunday to visit the site of a reported discovery of a new lode, said to be rich in copper, gold, and silver. A…

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Water Eats Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 2

It is not generally known, even in California, that millions of dollars in glittering gold are annually taken from rude heaps of base-looking quartz by the…

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Mining

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 September 1899 · page 2

Those visionary and imaginary rich finds of gold at that forlorn and wretc[?] poor region, Brooks' Crook and vicinity, as reported to the Sydnoy Telegraph, are…

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