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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

143 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 8

The Miners' Accident Relict Act. PROVISION [?] Small Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 April 1902 · page 2

The previsions of the Miners' Accident Belief Act are applieable to all mines e[?] ploying fifteen or more persons, and in such cases conutribution by owners and by…

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The Miners' Accident Relief Act Provisions for Small Mines

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 April 1902 · page 2

The provisions of the Miners' Accident Relief Act are applicable to all mines employing fifteen or more persons, and in such cases contributions by owners and by employers are compulsory…

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The Day Dawn Mine

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1902 · page 3

The Chairman of Directors, Mr. James Lawson, has been oh a visit to the mine, and reports that the main shaft is now down 382 feel, where the county is hard…

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A Fishy Gold Mine

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 4

The Lapuran philosophers, who sought to extract sunshine from cucumbers, have been eclipsed by a “bunko man” in New York, who persuaded two Kansas farmers,…

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The Unemployed and Gold Fields

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 3

George Vere (Hill End) writes: Some of your correspondents must indeed be hard set for modes of relieving Sydney of its unemployed when they write such unmitigated…

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Local and General News. Mining Near Queanbeyan

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 2

The ground at By Bywong goldfield is being worked by several miners, who are doing fairly well on the quartz reef. From Lowe and Alchin’s claim good stone is being raised,…

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A Coal Ship on Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 May 1902 · page 2

Detailed accounts of the loss of the ship Frankistan, which left Newcastle in December last with a full cargo of coal, were received by the San Francisco mail Sunday. The officers and crew, 29 all…

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CORRESPONDENCE. Under this heading we invite discussion on all current topics of general interest to the District. At the same time it must be distinctly understood that we do not hold ourselves in any way responsible for opinions expressed. Mysterious Mining Case. to the Editor of the "Queanbeyan Age."

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 7 May 1902 · page 3

Dear Sir,—I have received your paper of the 19th April in addition to copies since the publication of your first issue. My reason of writing you is to mention a mining case…

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Monthly Gold, Yield

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 May 1902 · page 2

The usual return complied by the Department of Mines shows that the gold yield of this State for the month of April was 30,701 crude [?] equal to £5,456 fine ounces…

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Queen Victoria’s Treasure Gold and Rare Gems on the Ocean’s Bed

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 May 1902 · page 2

“Full many a gem of -purest ray serene The dark [?] caves of ocean [?] Within fifty miles around Sandy Hook…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 May 1902 · page 2

At a meeting of the direct is of the little River Gold Dredging Company. No Liab[?], held at the office of the company, 35 Post Office Chambers, 114a Pitt-street, Sydney, on Thursday, 8th May…

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Department of Mines and Agriculture

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 16 May 1902 · page 3

The Premier states that by the retirement of Mr. Duncan MacLauchlan, Under Secretary for Mines and Agriculture an opportunity will b offered of separating…

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Mine Disaster in America

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 May 1902 · page 4

On the afternoon of March 31 an explosion of gas in the Nelson mine of the Dayton Coal aDd Iron Company at Dayton, Tenn, ignited the dry coal dust in the mine and…

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Mining in River Beds

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1902 · page 4

Mr. G. E. Adams, [?] writes: It is stated that the Minister for works intends to send some of the [?] to the river to wash for gold, and that some are…

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The Southern Goldfields

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 May 1902 · page 2

We have received a specimen copy of a map of the Southern, Goldfields of New South Wales, compiled and published by Mr. W. S. Clarke. The publication is a…

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Mining Matters

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 June 1902 · page 3

MESSRS. JADRICK AND DANIEL, of Cooma, who took up a 40-acre mineral lease to mine for silver and associated minerals, close by the town, have been rewarded by…

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Queanbeyan Mining

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1902 · page 2

Queanbeyan Friday. —Jadrick and party who took up a 40-acre mineral lease to mine for silver and associated minerals, close the town, have been rewarded by [?]…

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The Australian Gold Rush of 18 [?]

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 June 1902 · page 4

Australia was gradually developing as an agricultural country when, in 18[?], an event occurred which caused a wild and impetuous rush to Port Philip, or Victoria, as it is now…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 2

The dregemaster of the Little River Gold Dredging, Company, No. Liability, reports that up to date the flow of water into the dam is not sufficient to float the dredger and commerce active…

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Two Hundred Perish In a Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 4

Coal Creek (Tenn.), May 19.—Between 175 and 225 men and boys met instant death at the Fraterville coal mine, located two miles west of this city, at 7.30 o'clock this…

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