Gem Mining in Ceylon
With the exception of the diamond, emerald, turquoise, and opal, almost every precious and semi-precious stone is found in Ceylon, and frequently a great variety…
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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines
214 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 11
With the exception of the diamond, emerald, turquoise, and opal, almost every precious and semi-precious stone is found in Ceylon, and frequently a great variety…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jadrick and party have completed the shaft on their copper lease, near Powell's, parish Carweola, about 3 miles out of town. This is the one for which Government aid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →According to the Victoria (B.C.) correspondent of the London Daily Mail, some extraordinary scenes occurred in the Klondike district on February 26th, when the "crown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ruckland River. 125oz. for 486 hours's work. Jembaicumbene, 79oz. for 240 hours' work. Colombo, lloz. 5dwt 5grs. for 128½ hours. Aralued Valley Consolidated, P5oz. for 132…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first general meeting of shareholders the Imperial Slicing Gold Mining Company, whose property is situated upon, the Plains River, near Bombala, was held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dredgemaster of the Ar[?]luen Proprietary Gold Draining Company, N.L. resorts that the dredge has been working stealiy, and except for a considerable quantity of silt which came into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Washington on July 31 stated:—"The United States Treasury now holds the greatest hoard of gold to be found anywhere in the world. This morning, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We learn that Mr. Holmes, has all but completed his contract for sinking the Day. Dawn shaft. The only thing that remains to be done is timbering the shaft, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After the name of the man who slept his eternal slumber at the foot of the monolith was thus rudely engraven, the trio turned sadly away…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At an extraordinary meeting of the Little River Gold Dredging Company's shareholders, held at Vickery's Chambers, on Tuesday, 3rd September, Mr. James Lawson presiding, it was decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News has been received that a state of great excitement prevails at Samarai in consequence of the heavy find of gold recently made at Cloudy Bay (says the Endeavor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What is believed to be the first authentic discovery of vanadium in South Australia has been made near Robertson, about 16 miles south-west of Korringa, where a huge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adelaide, Monday.—What is. believed to be the first authentic discovery of rauadium in South Australia has been made near Robertson, about 16 miles south-west of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Evidently the promoters of the big majority of the dredging companies of this colony had another name for it besides the above. With them it meant dredging the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the District Court before Judge Back" house, William James" Thompson, of Moss Vale, Margaret Neil Murray, of Nelligen, and Albert Dixon, of Mosman, brought an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The coal shaft being sunk by the Sydney Harbor Collieries Company, at White Horse Point, Badmain, is down 2726ft, and the officials anticipate striking the coal deposits…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the District Court before Judge Back House, William .Tames Thompson, of Moss Vale, Margaret Neil Murray, of Nelligen, and Albert Dixon, of Mosman, brought an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The annual meeting of the Jerricknorra was held on Monday, Mr. A. J. Haynes presiding. The chairman, in moving the adoption of the reports and balance-sheet, referred to the favorable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jembaicumbene Co. for the last fortnight cleaned up on Saturday for 54oz. The smallness of the yield is accounted for by stoppages connected with repairs to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sensational robbery is reported from Bulamwaal, Victoria, where two armed and masked men stole into the battery house of the Beehive G M. Co. on Sunday morning…
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