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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

214 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 11

Neglect of the Mining Industry

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 22 October 1901 · page 4

The “Australian Mining Standard” judges of the capacity of Australian statesmen by the value which they set on the mineral resources of their several States…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 October 1901 · page 2

Araluen Valley Consolidated, 71 oz for 131 hours work. Araluen Proprietary, 42oz. for 127 hours. Buckland River, 82oz for 480 hours…

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Traveller. the Gold Finds in Scotland

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 October 1901 · page 2

IT ought to be more generally known than it is, that Scotland occupies a respectable position in the list of gold-producing countries: we should…

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Captain's Flat The Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 2

I am pleased to be able to say that the mining outlook is ever so much brighter now than it has been for some considerable me past. There are at present nearly 30…

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The Construction of a Gold Dredging Machine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 2

In the Banco Court on Wednesday, before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Stephen and Mr. Justice Owen, The Shoalhaven River Gold Dredging Company moved fur a rule nisi calling upon the C[?]ten…

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Mining Aid the Tariff

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1901 · page 4

“Observe, my son,” remarked the great Swedish chancellor Oxenstierna. “with how little widow the world is governed;"and it would seen that this plentiful lack of…

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Waste in the Mining of Coal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 November 1901 · page 5

It has been estimated that during the last fifty years not more than 30 per cent of the coal in the measures mined has reached the place of consumption. Much…

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Mining Notes

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 November 1901 · page 2

During the past week the Araluen Proprietary dredge came across an old tail race, which interfered with the work. The obstruction has been disposed of…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 November 1901 · page 2

The second annual general meeting of the Araluen Valley Consolidated Gold Dredging Company, No Liability, was held on Monday. M. T. H. Martyn presided. The directors' report and…

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Hoardings Yield Gold

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 1

“ Not many people, I think, have much idea of the money an advertisement hoarding sometimes means to its proprietor, ” said the [?] of a large bill-posting farm. “To…

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Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 November 1901 · page 3

INFINITELY more important and scarcely less interesting to every true Australian than the Cup Carnival is tho Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition designed to…

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The Flat Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 November 1901 · page 2

A meeting of the men employed by the Lake George Mines Company was held on Friday, when the following were elected as committee to carry out the regulations of…

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In Days of Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 2

THERE is certainly no more romantic period in the history of Australia than that which witnessed the discovery of gold and the "rushes" which made nearly every…

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Fatal Colliery Disaster

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 November 1901 · page 2

An explosion of gas occurred in the Burwood Colliery, Newcastle, on Wednesday morning, and one man was killed outright several others being more or less injured…

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Gold Under the Basalt

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 November 1901 · page 2

The first number of a very interesting treatise upon the ancient riven of Australia and the alluvial gold deposits nuder the basalt appears in this week's Town and Country Journal. After tracing…

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Mining News

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1901 · page 2

Mr. Wm. Green, one of the propitiators the Eureka mine Major’s Creek during a chat the other day, stated that his company has about a couple of hundred tons,…

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Local and General News Gold Escort

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1901 · page 2

The monthly gold escort which left on Friday took away [?] 19wt 2gr gold…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 November 1901 · page 2

Araluen Central, 62oz 2dwts for 131 hours' work-Araluen Proprietary, 37oz for 130 hours. Araluen Valley Consolidated, 39oz for 127-hours. Buckland River, 197oz for 467 haurs…

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Mining News

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 26 November 1901 · page 2

We learn that Mr. Merron has started his battery at Major’s Creek and if it should prove adequate to requirements, there should be constant work for the…

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Mining News. the Day Dawn

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1901 · page 2

An extraordinary general meeting of the Day Dawn Gold Mining Company wm held at Vickery's Chambers, Pitt-street, Sydney, on Monday last. In the absence of Dr. Brownless, Chairman of the…

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