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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

132 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 7

Gold Find in Central Africa by a Nowra Man

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 4

We (Nowra “Leader”), take the following extract from a letter handed to us by Mrs. Cowper, which she received from her husband, who is at Unbuya…

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Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 16 June 1905 · page 7

Our Mongarlowe correspondent writes The following are the latest crushing returns from Hogan and Kelly’s battery: H. Green, 10 tons seconds from his…

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Mining at Mongarlowe

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 2

Mining is beginning to take a turn for the better in this part. There are several good shows opened up lately, but owing to the scarcity of water there has not been much stone crushed. Since the last…

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Bell’s Creek Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 2

Everyone interested in the development and progress of the mining industry, in the district will be pleased to learn that another attempt—and this time a…

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Captain's Flat Mines

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 2

MANY tons of machinery have been taken recently from the Lake George Mines (as the mines at Captain's Flat were called after a place…

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Locals & General. Mining Lease

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 2

An application has been lodged at the Warden’s Office by H. F. Gordon for a mining tease of 7 acres at Mount Phoenix, Nerriga…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 2

The machinery, consisting of crushing plant, pumps, &c, passed through town the other day from Oallen, where It has been lying idle for some time, on its way to Messrs. Hogan and party's reel…

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Mining

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 July 1905 · page 2

WE bear that splendid copper ore is being raised for consignment to Waratah smelling works from Jadrick's mine at a depth of 150 feet, on his…

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The Warne Gold-saver

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1905 · page 2

The following description of a new concentrator and gold saying. machine patented by Mr. A. E. Warne of Tomerong [?] appeared in the…

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Mining at Mongarlowe

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 2

Berghouse and Palette have just cleaned up about 18 tons of quartz from from their reef, which was put through Hogan and Kelly's battery for a yield of 5lo[?]. They now intend sinking a straight shaft to…

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7,000,000,000,000 Tons of Coal

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 1

People in the year 3904 will have to invent something to take tho place of coal, for by that time, according to the scientists, the world's…

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Local News. Copper Mine

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 11 July 1905 · page 2

THE copper mine owned by Messrs Jedrick and Woodger looks as if it would eventually develope into something fairly large. At the…

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Local & General. Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1905 · page 2

Berghouse and Palotta report having crushed 19. tons stone from their reef at Hogan And Kelley’s battery, giving the satisfactory yield of 3 ounces per ton…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 July 1905 · page 2

The crushing battery for the big reef at Warram bnooa, which has been removed from O'llen, is now being erected on the ground [?] is expected to be ready for work in six weeks or so The reef,…

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Queanbeyan Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 2

Good reports continue to come from Jadrick’s copper show, three miles east of Queanbeyan. At present six men are excavating ore from a 2ft vein,…

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Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1905 · page 2

The tributors of the Day Dawn have put through the battery about 45 tons of mullock from the old tip which has turned out satisfactorily. They are…

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Struck a Mine

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 August 1905 · page 2

During mine. practice in Sanhamn Roads near Helsingfors Gulf of Finland, a boat struck a submarine mine and was blown to atoms. Seven of those aboard…

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Chemical Action on Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 August 1905 · page 2

The reputation which gold enjoys as the most unalterable of metals is being undermined by the researches of a number of chemists. A review of recent work, and a…

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Mining Made Easy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 4

There are many kinds of mines and numerous inventions for saving precious metals, but the strangest one in the United States, and perhaps in the world, is ia Butte, in the…

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Local News. Mining at Braidwood

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 11 August 1905 · page 2

MINING prospects at Bell's Creek and Major's Creek are improving considerably. Some time ago two local men discovered a likely reef…

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