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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

158 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 8

Discovery of Gold

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 September 1903 · page 2

Brisbane, Thursday Nearly £400 worth of gold has been found by the prospectors at Peter’s Rush near the head of the Dee River, during the last few days. Not only…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 September 1903 · page 2

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Ar[?] Central Gold-dredging Company was held in Sydney on Monday last. Mr. James Lawson (chairman of directors) presided, and there was a…

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Spring Range Gold Field

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 September 1903 · page 2

GRADUALLY but surely Spring Range gold field, midway between Yass and Queanbeyan, and situated only about a quarter of a mile from the watershed of the Yass…

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A Record in Mining Economy

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 September 1903 · page 2

The Homeward Bound mine at [?] just established a record in the working [?] profit low grade [?] for the past five weeks on some 2273 tons of…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 September 1903 · page 2

The manager of the Araluen Valley Consolidated Gold Dredging Company, No Liability, reports as follows:—"Work has been recommended on No. 1 dredge, and the paddock is being cleared up…

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The Advance of the Mining Engineer

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 September 1903 · page 1

John Smeaton in 1752 was the first man who ever styled himself a civil engineer, and in the 150 years the business has ever been growing…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 October 1903 · page 2

The manager of the Araluen Valley Consolidated Gold-Dredging Company, No. Liability, reports that as a result of improvements recently effected better gold returns are being obtained from dredge…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 2

Steam was got up on Saturday at the All Nations' Hydraulic Sluicing Company's claim at Duncan's Hill, Warrambucca, and a large body of water was thrown up on to the hill, where operations are to be…

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Edison's Gold Saver

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 2

A few days ago the Daily Telegraph's Tenterfield correspondent reported that Mr. "Salmond, be American speculator, accompanied by one of Edison's engineers, has taken a large mining area…

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A Hydraulic Mining Cartridge

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 1

A new introduction has been made into the coal-mining industry in the form of a hydraulic mining cart-ridge. The present mode of bring…

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Mine Manager Killed

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 13 October 1903 · page 2

Word from Mornya on Friday stated that a fatal accident occurred at Wagonga that morning. Mr. Kearney, manager of the Mount Pleasant Mine, Nerrigunda, was…

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British Miners Confer

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 13 October 1903 · page 2

Mr. Chamberlain’s scheme of Preferential Tariffs for the Empire has been discussed at the conference of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain. The conference, by…

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N.s.w. Gold Yield

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 13 October 1903 · page 2

A return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that the gold produced in this State during the month of September was 72,835oz crude, equal to 61,806oz fine,…

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Good Gold Yield

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 16 October 1903 · page 2

Moruya, Tuesday—Murphy and Thomson brought to the Commercial Bank on Sunday night 51½oz of pure smelted gold from 14½ tons of ore taken from their claim at…

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Rich Gold Find at Hill End

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 16 October 1903 · page 4

Mr. H. Stewart mining warden’s clerk [?] Hill [?] has forwarded a report to the Minister for Miners regarding [?] of gold from the Kings Reef. He says the…

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Mining Swindle

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 20 October 1903 · page 2

Mr. Govett, chairman of the Lake View Consols G.M. Co., addressing the share holders in London, referred to an ingenious conspiracy organised by touts to forestall…

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Reported Gold Discovery

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 2

WORD has been received that a rich reef has been discovered about five miles front Bungendore and within 300 yards of the Captain's Flat road. For many years after…

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Gold Discovery at Bungendore

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 3

WORD was received at Bungendore on Monday evening that a rich field had been struck at Woodlands, about five miles from Bungendore, on the property of Mr R. Hyles on…

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Montana Mines Shut Down

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 2

The mines of the Amalgamated Copper Company in Montana, U.S.A., have shut down. ; As a result of the stoppage fifteen thousand men are out of work…

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Latest Wires. Sydney, Monday. Gold Dredging Returns

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 2

Araluen Central, No. 1,104oz for week; No. 2, 41oz for week. Araluen Proprietary, 23oz for 125 hours. Araluen Valley, No. 1. 21oz for 121hrs…

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