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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

214 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 11

Mining Notes

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 2

The Perservance [?] Alexandra N.Z., maintains her reputation as a most consistent gold winner. Her return for the week ending March 2 was [?]…

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Notes and Comments. the Coal Lumpers

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 2

One of the most important branches of the trade of Sydney is the supply of coal to the numerous steamships which frequent the port. The Trades Union idea has been…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 March 1901 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

The Latbert dredge, known as the Braidwood Proprietary, but to be shortly named the Commonwealth, was floated on Wednesday last after considerable delay, owing to floods and other unlooked…

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More Colliery Trouble a Miner Compelled to Leave

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 March 1901 · page 4

" This is the true story of how I came to leave the old Bulli colliery," said Mr Robert Spinks, timber contractos and orchardist, Bulli, to a reporter who wished for some…

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Mining Notes

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 March 1901 · page 2

The Federal Co: has cleaned out an acre and a quarter during the last three weeks Everything is progressing .satisfactory. Mr. Jas. M’Georrge late master of the…

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Lake George Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 30 March 1901 · page 2

The shareholders of the Lake George Mines, Limited, have appointed the liquidators a committee of inspection. The deficiency as regards the shareholders is…

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A Tress of Irish Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 March 1901 · page 2

SCENT of cedar pervaded the air in the ward spring sunshine,…

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The Cobar Gold Mines. [From the “Mining Standard.”]

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 6

The Cobar Gold Mines, Ltd., is one of the most important of many promising concerns on a very promising field. As a good deal of British capital has been invested in its…

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Mining Notes

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

The Federal cleaned up the boxes on Saturday for 202oz 3dwt gold for three weeks work. Neither the race nor the pump hole were cleaned, so that it is certain…

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Mining Notes

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 3

Considerable interest is taken throughout Queensland in the dredging operation which are to be undertaken at the Burdekin Falls as soon as the floods allow of work being…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

Quite a fresh start in mining matters is being made at Major's Creek. The London syndicate who have arranged to purchase from Messrs. Hassall, Roberts and Royds what is known as the…

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A Cold Miners Dramatic Suicide

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

At Ballarat a ruined gold miner once committed suicide in a dramatic manner. During the time of the gold rush a certain deserted claim was for years held sacred,…

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Hidden Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

Gold for various reasans disappears rapidly in all countries, but nowhere else does it pass out of sight so rapidly as in India and China. So rapidly does the…

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Mining Information

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

The Araluen Central dredge worked 121 hours last week, winning 25oz 10dwt of gold. A little difficulty has been experienced with the machinery during the week,…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

The secretary of the Shoalhaven River Gold Dredging Company, No Liability, reports that the dredger worked 128 hours for the week ending April 6, winning 19oz 2dwt of gold. The…

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A Ta[?] Mining Yarn

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 6

The London “Daily Express” wants sensation from its correspondents:—truth is quite a secondary consideration. The following, which appears in its columns as coming…

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Mining Notes

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 2

The mishap to the Half Moon Flat pontoon has been rectified, and it is expected that work will commence on Tuesday next. Inquiries made regarding the locality of the…

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Modern Ocean Coal Gluttons

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 1

During the last ten years the race for the transatlantic record has been far more, interesting than in any other period, for it has been in this decade that the great…

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Mining Rumours

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 2

Whilst in Sydney at Easter the writer was given to understand that the mineral wealth of the Queanbeyan district is just now beginning to attract the notice…

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