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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

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

Preferential Trade, (“Australian: Mining Standard.”)

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 26 June 1903 · page 4

The question of preferential trade continues to occupy the principal place in the minds of public men in the old country and many foreign, nations are greatly…

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Long Hollow Gold Rush

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 27 June 1903 · page 2

MR. T. A. SMITH, goldfields warden at Tuena, has telegraphed to the department in connection with the alluvial rush at Long Hollow, that several parties of men have…

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Deep Gold Mining

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1903 · page 4

More than ordinary importance is attached to the recent discovery of gold at the New [?] Railway Mine, Bendigo Vic, because of the fact that it is the lowest…

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Miners Mysterious Disease

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1903 · page 4

The mysterious epidemic from which an enormous number of miners in Westphalia are suffering is now engaging the attention of the German medical…

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Saving Gold From Sand

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 July 1903 · page 3

TRACTS of land in the south-western part of the United States containing valuable deposits of gold are to be opened (says the San Francisco Chronicle) as the result of an…

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Coal Tar

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 1

Marvellous have been the. advances of science within recent years, and perhaps nothing illustrates this better than the discoveries in…

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The Employers’ Federation.. (Australian Mining Standard”)

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 July 1903 · page 4

The N.B.W Employers Federation h is fairly started. At a meeting of members presided over by Mr Henry Hudson, the draft constitution was formally adopted…

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Mining at Gundaroo

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 July 1903 · page 2

THE local correspondent of the Penny Post writes:--"After many days of weary waiting, the repairs to the Dairy Creek crushing plant have at length been effected…

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Lake George Mines

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 2

IN Chambers on Thursday, before the Acting Chief Justice, in the matter of Lake George M[?]es, Limited, v. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and others, Mr. Garland…

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Gold Yield for June

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 2

A return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that the gold produced in this State during month of June was 53,449oz. crude equal to [?],278oz. fine, valued at…

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Lake George Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 July 1903 · page 2

IN Chambers last week, before the Acting Chief Justice, in the matter of lake George Mines, Limited, v. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and others, Mr Garland, instructed by…

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Gold Dredging Returns

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 July 1903 · page 2

Araluen Central, No. 1 Dredge.—64oz 7dwt for 137 hours. Araluen Central, No. 2 dredge.—Ran short time. Wash up on Friday…

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Mining Affairs at Bell's Creek

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 July 1903 · page 2

Mr. Summers, who was engaged for some time assaying the stone from the Dargne mine at Major s Creek, afterwards took up a claim at Bell's Creek on what is known as Stalker's line of reef, which…

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Gold in North Queensland

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 21 July 1903 · page 4

Sensational reports come from the new gold find in the far north of Queensland but a rush is strongly [?] for rations are scarce and information [?]…

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Moruya a Mining

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 21 July 1903 · page 2

A wore from Morya on Friday states that the tributers of the Bimbimbie mine have crushed 44 tons of stone for 56 oz. This result is highly satisfactory, and the tributors…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 July 1903 · page 2

Mr. Summers, the manager of the newly formed company to work what has been known as the Stalkera's reef at Bell's Creek, is going to work in earnest getting Forayth's crushing battery, ready…

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The Cobar Copper Mine

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1903 · page 2

Last week the big finance at the Great Cobar Copper Mine was given put into work and is smelting about 340 tons of one every 24 hours. These is consequently…

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Gold Saving

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 31 July 1903 · page 2

Mr. A. E. Warne, of Tomerong, who has recently patented a process of saving gold in raining operations, has received communications from West Australia regarding the…

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Victorian Mining

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 31 July 1903 · page 2

A telegram from Bendigo on Monday states that in one of the mines being worked in that mining centre, gold has been discovered in quartz at a depth of 3814 feet…

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Kiandra Mining

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 31 July 1903 · page 2

The Kiandra Gold Dredging Co.’s dredge is now dredging up to Charcoal Flat, and will before long be close to the Charcoal Reef, The Kiandra-Elevator Gold Mining…

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