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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

105 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 6

Fatal Mining Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 April 1904 · page 2

Forty-three natives were killed in Robinson’s Mine J[?] by the Breaking of the wire rope. The cage in which the men were fell a distance of 2000 feet…

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The Lake George Mines

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 2

A cablegram from London dated Tuesday 26th instant, states that an action has been commenced on b-half of the Lake George Mines (Captain's Flat) against Messrs, Gibbs. Bright, and Co., Messrs…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 2

A party of prospectors, consisting of Messrs. Charles Palette and James Lawrence, who hail from Mansfield, Victoria, at which town they are being paid by a syndicate to go out on a…

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The Lake George Mines

The Age · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 3

THE jury engaged in the case of the Lake George Mines (Captain's Flat) recently opened in London, against Messrs Gibbs, Bright, and Co., Messrs Antony Gibbs, Sons…

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Latest Wires. Sydney, Monday. Gold Dredging Returns

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 2

[?] hours; No. 2, 28oz for 124 hours. Araluen Proprietary ,29 oz for 126 hours Araluen Consolidated 35 oz for 118 hours…

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Correspondence. Mining Reform. (To the Editor of “The-Express. ”)

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 2

SIR.—The members of the mining industry in this State have little for which to thank the rapidly expiring Parliament. There has been little legislation, outside…

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How Gold Nuggets Crow. Observation Shows, They Increase in Weight with Lapse of Years

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 2

Gold in its natural state like many products of the earth is an article of development. What its original elements are is still a matter of…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 2

The third half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Jembaicumbene Middle Ground Dredging Company was held on Monday, Dr. R. Read presiding. The report and balance sheet were adopted…

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Produce of Coal Tar

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 2

But few persons not trained, to chemical science know that coal tar is now used as the basis of scores of the most exquisite perfumes and…

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Gold Island in the Yukon

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 4

A gold strike of almost fabulous value is reported from Eagle, Alaska. Carl M. Johansen, the United States Commissioner, has wired the Dawson newspapers of an…

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Gold Dredging Returns

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1904 · page 2

Araluen Central, No. 1, 50oz for 136 hours; No. 2, 38¼ oz for 88hrs. Araluen Proprietary 34oz for 125hrs. Araluen Valley, No. 1, 42oz for 180hrs;…

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Mining News

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 2

There seems to be a steady though slow revival in the mining industry in and around Bell’s and Major’s Creeks of late Hitherto the cost of treatment and the…

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The Mines in Kerr Bay

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 3

There are many mines still undestroyed in Kerr Bay. The work of destruction by the Japanese is proceeding under the protection of bombardment. The Miyako…

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Mining News (Continued.)

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 2

Mr. Summers continued his statement, that it is well known among those interested in mining, that there is a large accumulations of low grade ore, as well as…

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A Gold Mine Waiting for Somebody

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 2

The most crying need of to-day is a substitute for Para rubber. It is certain to be discovered sooner or later. Celluloid and oxidised linseed oil are useful for some…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 2

The cage at the Great Boulder — Mine at Kalgoorlie, W. A. yesterday fell a distance of 400 feet by which five men more killed . State Vital statistics…

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Local and General News. Gold Escort

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 2

By the gold escort which leaves this morning, the City Bank sent away 77loz 6d wt [?] of the precious metal. COLD ESCORT…

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Shocking Mining Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 2

A fearful accident occurred at the Great Boulder Proprietary Mine, Kalgoorlie (W. A.). on Tuesday morning, by which four married men and a single man lost their lives. It is stated that one of the…

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With a Key of Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 June 1904 · page 4

Early in May a brief cable announced that by pressing a golden key in the White House at Washington President Roosevelt had officially opened the great World's Fair…

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Gold Dredging Returns

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

Araluen Proprietary 22ozz for 127 hours. Araluen Central, No. 1, 59oz for 125hrs. No. 2, 16oz for 114hrs. Jembaicumbene,[?] 254hrs,…

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