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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

144 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 8

Mining

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1900 · page 2

The dredge master of the Colombo Company reports, under date September 4, as Follows.— “The boiler did not reach the dredge as we expected last Friday. The…

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New Gold Mine at Bron Beach

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1900 · page 5

What may be described as a mild rush has taken place at Bron Beach, near Bodalla. There are about 100 men there at present, and more arriving every day. Pillar and…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 2

The application of D. P. Dickson for a lease of 4 acres. on private land, being part of portion 1, pariah of Seymour, has been refuted. The application of J. McDonagh for a special…

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Accident to the Lake George Mines Machinery

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

Last Saturday night a sorious accident happened to the maohinery in connection with the cyanide works at the Lake Goorge Mines. The plant, which has only…

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Latest Intelligence Sydney, Monday, Gold Discovery

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

One of the richest discoveries in the history of the Kalgoorlie goldfield has been made in the Great, Boulder main reef…

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The Miners of Other Pays

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 4

Engineering, in an article on mines and miners, reviews the legislation on the subject. Prior to the ascension of Queen Victoria,…

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An Enormous Yield of Gold

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 1

When the Boer War began, the Transvaal was yielding annually about six million pounds’ worth of gold, or more than one-fifth of the world’s…

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Largest Piece of Gold Ever Found

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 1

The largest piece of gold ever found was discovered by two poor miners at Hill End, New South Wale, on May 10th, 1872. It weighed 640 pounds,…

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Spring Range Goldfield

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 2

SOME splendid samples of alluvial gold have (we are informed) been discovered near Spring Range, one nugget weighing 30oz. The ground has been secured for a…

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Four Barrels of Gold

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 4

Once a man of the labouring class who, had often wished to be rich, was offered, all the money, he wished for if he would accept without a murmur the troubles and anxieties…

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Four Barrels of Gold

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 4

Once a man of the labouring class who had often wished to be rich, was offered all the money he wished for if he would accept without a murmur the troubles and anxieties…

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The Valley Mine

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 2 October 1900 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Queanbeyan appears in a Sydney paper stating that Mr. W. H. Trewenack, manager or the Gulf Creek copper mine, near Barraba, arrived in…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 October 1900 · page 2

Splendid progress is being made with the Araluen Central dredge, and a large quantity of the machinery is already on the ground, while the balance is on the way. Most, if not all, of this has been…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 2

The Federal Centrifugal Sluicing Company, Jembaicumbene, has had another washing up, which was finished on Wednesday last, giving a return of 124oz., some 10oz. additional being…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 2

The New Zealand Mines Trust have let the contract for the supply and erection of their dredging plant at Half Moon Flat, Mongarlowe River, to a Victorian firm, of which Mr. Kershaw is the…

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The Greed of Gold. [Complete Story.] [Copyright.]

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1900 · page 3

BRUCE GALLOWAY lay just as he had f[?]llen, and the bird life of that wild American…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 October 1900 · page 2

The legal manager of the Little River advises that the engineers report having made a further inspection of the company's dredge on October 10. All the machinery is now in position, and the…

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A Daughter of Judah [Complete Story.] [Copyright.] Part I. for Lack of Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 October 1900 · page 5

My heart will break! Oh mother my heart will break!…

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Government Dredges Saving Gold

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 October 1900 · page 6

The Government dredges are employed largely in works such as at Moruya, the Shen[?]haven, and elsewhere, shifting silt that is known to be more or less gold bearing, and…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 October 1900 · page 2

The Secretary of the Little River Gold Dredging Company No Liability advices that he has received the following report from the site of operations:—A trial was made on the 18th October of all portions…

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