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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

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

In a Western Mining Gamp

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 8 August 1902 · page 2

“Some of you: know, probably, said the man in the mackintosh “that. I. spent a summer out West, some years ago, in a mining camp…

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Operations at the Day-Dawn Mine

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1902 · page 2

As mentioned in a late issue, the plant for crushing in connection with the above mine had been erected, and only awaited the arrival of some of the directors to make…

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The Valley Mine

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 13 August 1902 · page 3

FOR a considerable period mining operations in the Queanbeyan district have practically ceased, the mines that were of any, value being worked out and those that had…

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The Mining Industry. Official Opening of the Day Dawn

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 August 1902 · page 2

Perhaps the most important event that we have had to chronicle for some time in connection the development of the mining industry in this district is the official opening of the Day Dawn mine at…

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Mining Items

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 August 1902 · page 2

Share Spooner, and party during the week had six tons of quartz crushed at Gumm and Steven’s battery at Major’s Greek, giving the handsome return of…

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Coal Field's

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 August 1902 · page 2

It appears form the estimates of the most trustworthy authorities that the coal-fields of the world cover an area of about a million and a quarter square…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 August 1902 · page 2

The Araluen Central No. 1 dredge is running well, and satisfactory progress is being made with the re-erection of the No. 2 dredge, several courses of planking having been pit on the bottom of the…

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Mining

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 2

The Little River dredge has ceased -work in consequence of the unsatisfactory .returns obtained. The directors are endeavouring to make other arrangements for the working…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 2

The secretary of the Little River Gold Dredging Company, No Liability, reports that he has closed the dredger down in accordance with instructions received from the directors on account of the…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 September 1902 · page 2

When the Sho[?]lhaven Terraces dredge was bought by the Arables Valley Consolidated Company, it was arranged that out of the first profits of this dredge (since known as No 2 Aralden…

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Gold Discovery

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 2

There has been a gold discovery reported from the vicinity of Manilla. Football The New South Wales Football team has…

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Our Coal Industry

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 2

Newcastle in New South Wales unlike many Australian places on which English names have been bestowed is most appropriately…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 2

Mr. Albert E. Chapman, legal manager of the Day Dawn Gold Mining Company, N.L., reports that the first cleanup has taken place, which the directors consider is of a very satisfactory…

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Colliery Disasters

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1902 · page 2

The Union Coal Pit, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, was suddenly flooded yesterday. Seven miners were cut off by the inrush of water, and are believed to have…

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Moruya Mining

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1902 · page 2

Moruya Thursday.—Messrs. Moses, Davis and party have struck a rich alluvial lead in the Mogo Flat, immediately above the township. They are now sinking on the…

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Gold and Mineral Dredging

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 September 1902 · page 2

Two bills were introduced in the Legislative Assembly before the House r[?] on Friday morning, one to amend the Gold and Mineral Dredging Act of 1899, and the other to enable the Governor…

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Cough and Gold Wrinkles

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 September 1902 · page 2

Colds are more easily prevented than cured and there is no better preventive than fresh an from the great out-of-doors. A close stuffy…

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N. S. W. Gold Yield

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 September 1902 · page 4

A return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that the gold yield of this State for the month of August was 11,995 crude ounces, equal to 10,073 fine ounces,…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 September 1902 · page 2

The dredgemaster of the Araluen Central Gold Dredging Company reports that all the machinery on No. 1 dredger is running well; also, in connection with No. 2 dredger, that he has received…

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Gold from the Rocks

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 September 1902 · page 4

Colorado has produced another fakir who pretends, through the agency of a secret process, to produce gold in large quantities from rock which yields only a trace of the precious…

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