Gold from the Rocks
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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1902
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Mining
The Jembaicumbene Dredging Company has declared a dividend of 6d per share. payable on the 29th instant.—The New Araluen Junction dredge for the week ending…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold and Silver Silk
We wonder if it is a traveller’s tale. We learn that gold and silver silk are coming from South Africa . The fibres are [?] by two remark…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Science. a Substitute for Coal
PROFESSOR William Hallock, of Columbia university, is pursuing investigations along the lines recently suggested by the British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining News
Jembaicumbene Dredging Company has declared a dividend of 6d per share, payable on the 29th instant. The Dredge-master of the New Araluen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lake George Mines
THE following notice was posted up at Captain's Flat by the warden's clerk on Friday:--"Any miner, or party of miners, having a bona-fide desire to work any of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moruya Mining
Stubbs and party, of Donkey Hill, shipped on Monday another five ton parcel of ore to Cockle Creek. Their last shipment went 2oz 6dwt per ton; The owners of Bimbimbie…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Gold Yield
Moruya, Friday.— Utting, Thompson and party brought into town last evening 456oz of pure retorted gold, being the result of 83 tons of stone crushed from their Sawpit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Coins Washed Off a Miser
An old man named Dereline, a miser, lived in a hut in Castlemaine, (Vic.) He was an old age pensioner and he was filthy and tattered. Constable Malone, out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General News. Copper Mining
A new discovery of what appears to be payable copper ore has been made near Bate man’s Bay. The find is reported to be situated in a very favorable locality, as both…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining News
The Dredgemaster of the Araluen Central No 1. Gold Dredging Company N.L. reports that the machinery on No 1 dredger is running in tip top order. At No 2. dredger, he has received two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annual Mines Report
In the annual report of the department of mines for 1901 the following information is given :— Goulburn Division.—As far as can be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of a Pioneer Gold-Digger
There has just died in Dunedin (N.Z.) Franz D. Siedeberg, one of the pioneers of the gold-dredging industry. Born in Germany, where he received some training as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold in Clay
In Santa Cruz County, America, gold is found mingled in the substance of a compact, tenacious clay gouge at the side of the quartz vein. It cannot be recovered from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Troubles
The American coal owners declare that they will resist the actions of Mr. Mitchell, the president of the American Miners’ Union, to the bitter end…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Belgian Miners Strike
Local-strikes have occurred at the Belgian collieries in empathy with the French strikers. The strikers ask for an advance of 15 per cent in wages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The American Coal Strike
In Chicago the wooden sidewalks and the wooden blocks with which the streets are pared have in consequence of the scarcity of coal, been raised for fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spruce Mining Beetle
Government experts have reported on one of the most destructive forest insects yet known. "It is the spruce mining beetle, whose deadly borings in the bark…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Novel Mining at Captain’s Flat
It is stated that a Captain’s Flat syndicate has been formed for the purpose of pumping one of the Big Company’s shafts, the water of which is supposed to contain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Miners’ Strike
The Commission appointed by President Roosevelt has settled the strike dispute. It was unanimously endorsed by the Miners’ Convention Work was resumed yesterday…
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