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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

132 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 7

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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Mining at Braidwood

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 15 August 1905 · page 2

The big reef at Major's Creek, over-looking the head of Araluen, is being thoroughly prospected, and the stone which is being brought…

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Sad Drowning Fatality at the Day Dawn; Mine, Mongarlowe

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1905 · page 2

About 1 o’clock a.m. on Thursday last Messrs. Argent and Ashmore, two of the tributers at the above mine, were engaged in repairing the shaft at the 360,…

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The Fatal Accident at the Day Dawn mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 August 1905 · page 2

The Coroner held an inquiry at the Day Dawn Mine at Mongarlowe on Friday afternoon last touching the death of John Ashmore, who was found drowned in the bottom of the shaft, in about…

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The Late Fatal Accident at the Day Dawn Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 August 1905 · page 2

The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of John Ashmore in the Day Dawn mine, at Mongarlowe, on the 10th instant, which was adjourned from H inst., was confinued…

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Jedrick's Copper Mine

The Age · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 2

DURING the past week Mr. McNicholl, representing a Ballarat Mining Syndicate, visited the above mine and made a thorough inspection of it, being much taken up with the quantity and quality of…

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Mining

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 2

AT the instance of Mr. D. M. Wright, in conjunction with Mr. W. Wright, of Melbourne, a visit was made to this locality by Mr. H. B…

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Mount Pleasant Copper Mine

The Age · Tuesday 12 September 1905 · page 2

VERY encouraging details continue coming to hand as to the progress of the Mount Pleasant Copper Mine, situated about four miles eastward from Queanbeyan. Messrs Jedricks…

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Life in the Mine. Tales of Heroism and Sands

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 September 1905 · page 4

When the pit’s mouth blazes forth a great Vesuvius, and rock and soil machinery are sent hurting through air amid yellow smoke and [?]…

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Local News. Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 2

The unwatering of the Day Dawn mine at Mongarlowe has now been completed down to the bottom level at 400 feet. The party who have taken the mine on tribute have had a tough job in getting…

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The Balmain Colliery

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 2

At Balmain police court yesterday two men were fined £10 each for preventing a man from working in place of those on strike in the Balmain colliery…

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Mining at Braidwood

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 2

THE unwatering of the Day Dawn mine at Mongarlowe has now been completed down to the bottom level at 400 feet. Stone is being now…

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The Mining Bill

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 October 1905 · page 2

A Mining bill, winch deals comprehensively with all mining in the State, was read a first time in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday night on the…

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Gold Dredging Shares

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 31 October 1905 · page 2

Palmer & Son, in their monthly circular for October, state that gold dredging has caused some excitement owing to the heavy yields from Araluen…

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Latest Wires. Sydney Monday. Fatal Colliery Explosion

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 31 October 1905 · page 2

Two explosions occurred at the Stanford Merthyr colliery, Maitland. No damage was caused by the first; the second resulted in the death of Mr…

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Fatal Colliery Disaster near Maitland. Five Killed and Nine Injured

The Age · Tuesday 31 October 1905 · page 3

STANFROD-MERTHYR, near Maitland, one of the finest collieries in Australia, met with a sudden destruction on Sunday morning last, as the result of a terrific explosion. Four…

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Stanford Colliery Explosion

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 2

The manager of the, Stanford colliery being strongly of the opinion that the mine was deliberately fired is offering a reward of £300on the conviction of the…

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Brindabella Mine

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 2

IN Sydney yesterday, Mr. W. Reid (represented by Mr. Meyer, of Goulburn) was before the Mining Registrar in an endeavor to have…

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Mining Bill, 1905. Scope and Purpose of the Bill

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 7 November 1905 · page 2

This Bill repeals all previous mining Acts. . . . All proclamations, so far as they affect the repeated Acts, have been incorporated, so that the Bill and…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 November 1905 · page 2

Nothing has been heard yet of the sale of the two dredges belonging to the Proprietary Company in Araluen. It is reported that the Central Dredging Company are in treaty for the purchase of the…

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