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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

105 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 6

Gold Dredging Returns

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1904 · page 2

Araluen Central, No. 1, 44oz 1dwt for 122 hours ; No. 2, 45oz 3dwt for 116hrs. Proprietary, 26oz for 114hrs. Consolidated No. 1, 36oz for 222hrs; No…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 June 1904 · page 2

ANOTHER DREDGE AT JEMBAICUMBENE.—The new dredge which a local company has been formed to put down at Bell's Paddock, near Parker and Co's dredge, will soon be commenced, the engine…

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A Gold Rush

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 June 1904 · page 2

The Acting Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr Jacquet, on Saturday submitted to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture a report that he has received from Inspector J. C. James with reference to a gold rush…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 2

The ground worked by the Jembaicumbene Middle Ground Company's dredge last week was similar to that put through the previous week, with the exception that there was not quite so much…

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Large Nugget of Gold

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 8 July 1904 · page 2

Brisbane, Tuesday.—Great excitoment was caused at Mount Morgan yesterday when O’Farrell and O’Shea brought into town a large nugget of pure gold, found at…

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Gold dredging Return

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1904 · page 2

Araluen Central, No. 1, recovered 49oz 17dwt for 107 hours. LONDON, Sunday. Lord Dundonald’s Dismissal…

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Bromide-cyanide Gold-saying Process

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1904 · page 2

There is a very large accumulation of tailings at Major’s Creek, which, under the old system were of no value. In a conversation with Mr. J. W. Summers be strongly…

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Gold Dredging Items

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1904 · page 2

Jembaicumbene dredge during the year ended June 30, worked 48 weeks recovering 144½oz gold, worth £5702. The expenditure for the past year’s operations…

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Gold Dredging Returns

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1904 · page 2

Araluen Central, No. 1, 25oz, 12dwts for 120hrs;No. 2, 20oz 2dwt for 96hrs. LONDON, Sunday. Another Russian Seizure…

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A [?] got in a Coal Mine

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 August 1904 · page 2

“I once [?] a night in a coal mine,” said Charles F. Tomley [?] Indi napolis. “It was [?] the result of meanness, but more largely of forgetfulness, I was…

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Gold Find at Gungahleen

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 August 1904 · page 2

THE Warden's bailiff, who has visited the reported copper discovery on the Gungahleen Estate, states that it is an alluvial gold find, and presumably…

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Local and General News. Big Gold Yield

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 2

Moruya Monday.—Tomlin and party have lodged an the bank here 120½oz of pure smelted gold, the result of 49 [?] stone taken from the Lonsdale Mine, Nerrigundah,…

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Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 August 1904 · page 2

Mr. C. Blanchard has had a small parcel of stone from his claim at Settler’s Flat crushed at Mongarlowe battery for a return of 10oz. 12dwts. At Charley’s Forest two…

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A Mining Case

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 August 1904 · page 2

Thos. Mooney applied for an unijunction under section 87 of the Principal Mining Act to restrain George Loxton from de[?] or interfering with in any way certain…

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Mining at Queanbeyan

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 September 1904 · page 2

Mr. Shepherd, owner of Lore and Alchin’s abandoned claim has lodged with the Commercials Sank Queanbeyan, 7oz 13dwt gold, the returns from a parcel of a little more…

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Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1904 · page 2

A report from the rapidly- advancing gold-field of Nerrigundah states that Mr. S. Lake and Sons finished ernshing eight tons of stone Thursday, which yielded…

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A Giant Coal-seam. the Lost Island of the Pacific

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 September 1904 · page 1

A bore put down at Cessnook, near Maitland, in the State of New South Wales, recently penetrated, at a depth of 260ft., a seam of coal 27ft. in thickness. The U.S. Navy Department has at last begun a systematic search for 'the lost island of the Pacific. Somewhere between Honolulu and San Francisco, considerably…

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Captain's Flat Mine

The Age · Tuesday 13 September 1904 · page 2

INFORMATION has been received here to the effect that negotiations are almost complete for the disposal of the Lake George Mines by the present company, Expectations are…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1904 · page 2

Two men were killed and three [?] by an accident at the Duke United Mine, Timor, Victoria, on Saturday…

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Latest Wires. Sydney, Monday. Gold Dredging Returns

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1904 · page 2

Araluen Central, No. 1, [?]7oz [?] for 130 hours; No. 2, 98oz 3dwts [?] 97 hours. Araluen-Proprietary, 44oz for 12[?]…

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