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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

132 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 7

Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 2

The returns from the dredges generally in this district do not come up to expectations, and particularly the too sanguine anticipations of the boom times when dredging for gold was first…

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Electricity From Coal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 1

A Chicago inventor, Huge Jone, is said to have hit upon a scheme of utilising the coal in producing a current, thereby dispensing with boilers, engines, dynamos,…

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Australian River Gold

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 2

The Elrington Dredging Company, N.L., carries on operations on water paddocks situated about six miles from Braidwood, with a bucket dredge of…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 2

Hogan and Kelly, battery proprietors. Mougarlowe, have crushed during the month of April the following:-H. Green, 10tons quartz for a return of 6oz 101dwt; Berghouse and party, 10 tons for 16oz…

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Local News. Mining on Bombala

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 2

AT Yambulla, Gough's battery is still engaged crushing on behalf of Mr. Chas. M'Kenzie. About 50 tons have been crushed, from which…

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A Mining Speculator's Downfall

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 May 1905 · page 2

Some sad revelations as to the evils of over speculation in mining and a blind faith in the turning up of trumps in the game even amidst the gloomiest prospects were made in the case of a…

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Mining at Captain's Flat

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 2

THE unwatering of the main shaft in the Commodore mine is still being actively carried out by the party under Mr. Orchard (says the…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 2

The boiler and engine and the other machinery of the Phoenix mine at Nerriga, which has closed down after working some years, have been sent away Nowra way either to be used in some of the…

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Reid's Mine at [?]

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 16 May 1905 · page 3

THE Brindabelia Mine, which has been in the hands of Mr. W. Reid—and which has been the subject of some considerable litigation during…

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A Captain's Flat Mine

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 16 May 1905 · page 3

THE [?]ring of the main [?] in the Co[?]dore mine. Captain's Flat, is still being carried out by the party under Mr. Orchard…

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Valley Silver Mine

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 2

MONDAY'S ENENING NEWS contained the following:—"Mr. A. E. Orchard, manager of the Lake George Mines, has made an…

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Day Dawn Mine

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 2

Messrs. Nicholson and Fulton have great difficulty in unwatering the Day Dawn mine. They have, with one or two short intervals for overhauling…

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Struggle Over a Coffin. a Fight for Gold

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 4

A dramatic story was listened to on March 1st at the Edgware Petty Sessions. It concerned a will, and the alleged struggles of a sister to…

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Dargue Mine Dispute

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 2

AT the Warden's Court the application of J. A. Gegg for authority to enter upon the land upon which the Dargue Mine is situated at…

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Coal for Russian Fleet

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 2

Forty-three Russian and German colliers are anchored off Nhabe and 20 others off Cape St. Jaques…

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Mining on Bombala

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 2

AT Yambulla, Bombala, Gough's mill is still engaged crushing for Charles M'Kenzie. Haugh's are also operating on a parcel for Phillips…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 2

We hear that there is some likelihood of the copper mine at Mount Maringinburra, Monga, being taken up again. It was prospected at considerable cost some short time since by Mr. Godkin,…

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The Secret of the Silver Mine. a Story of the Peruvian War

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 5

“You refuse to give the two men up?” I spoke sternly In a tone Indicating that Entreaties were at an end, and that other means would be adopted to…

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A City of Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 1

M. Arthur Heulberd, a distinguished [?] quarian and bislorian, is arranging a city of gold for the Paris Exposition of 1900. His daring idea is to represent the entire history of…

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London’s Coal-hole. What It Is Like

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 5

Before the advent of railways nearly all the coal of London came up the Thames. “Sea-coal” was the name of it and even now thirteen…

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