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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

142 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 8

Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated, Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Tuesday, May 8, 1906. Brindabella Mines

The Age · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 2

THE public are likely soon to hear more concerning the Brin- dabella mine which, during the last eighteen years has been…

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Big Mining Schemes

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 2

A short time back we mentioned that Mr. J. Maguire, representing Victorian mining capitalists, was-likely to invest largely in mining ventures in this…

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Gold From a Mud Lake

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 4

THE MAN ON THE SPOT. Some comic letters, written on the banks of a lake of mud in the Republic of Colombia, South America, by the…

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Gold Escort

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 2

The monthly escort, which left this morning, conveyed 734oz 5dwt 17grs gold, out of which the City Bank’s portion was 617oz 7dwt 10grs…

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Poetry. [?]Glint of Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 1

UNMINDFUL of the wintry cold, The snowdrops peep above the mould, And show an inner glint of gold To eyes that care to see…

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Bell’s Greek Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 2

Our correspondent at Bell’s Creek reports that Mr. A. E. Warne has cleaned up after crushing 30 tons of stone from the Banner reef, and on Wednesday he…

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Miners’ Lives

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 2

A very representative Royal Commission, with Lord Monkwell as chairman, has been appointed to inquire and report upon a number of question’s…

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Oravida Mine, Gundaroo

The Age · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 2

REPORTS from the above mine are very satisfactory. Prospecting, operations are being vigorousy pushed forward, but will take a few weeks more before…

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Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 2

A Victorian mining expert, Mr. Moore, accompanied by Mr. Maguire, of Braidwood, visited here last week, with the consequence that Peggy‘s Hill, an…

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The Courrieres Mine. Causes of the Disaster

The Age · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 3

Writing from Paris on the night of 14th March the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports:— Pending the results of the judicial and…

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Labor in Sold Mines. Australian Prospector’s Story

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 5

On 21st March the London “Dally Telegraph” wrote:— If you keep on asserting an error-often enough and strongly enough, it stands a…

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Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 2

Moruya “Examiner” writes:—Mr. Heazlett, of Major’s Greek, who is a partner of Mr. Summers, of the silver mines, arrived in town on Friday, and on…

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Amended Mining Regulations

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 2

Amended mining regulations have-just been gazetted, which contain a new and liberal provision in respect of special leases for gold mining. Under conditions…

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Deep Sinking for Gold

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1906 · page 2

Two shafts on the Bendigo field are now more than 4200ft, deep. The companies which hare set this example to others in prospecting deep ground are…

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Mining at Gundaroo

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 June 1906 · page 2

AN inspector from the Mines Department visited the Oravida Mine at Gundaroo, last Tuesday, and expressed a very favorable opinion of it…

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Grey and Gold. CHAPTER I. Friends Indeed

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 June 1906 · page 4

JOHN SIMMONS entered the office in the City which he had entered every morning at that hour for over forty years…

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Mining at Nerriga

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 June 1906 · page 2

The Peggy's Hill Mining Company has been registered in Melbourne. The capital censists of 24,000 shares of 3s each. The ground to be worked is situated at Peggy's Hill, Corang, near Nerriga…

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Grey and Gold. CHAPTER II.—Continued

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 4

TWO pounds a week!" John repeated. " Oh, you don't know what it means. Just all the difference between…

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Far and Near. Carrying Gold at Sea

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 4

The specie looker of an ocean steamer is a carefully constructed vault, and is located in the stern immediately over the screw. It has the shape of a half oval, following the contour…

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Mongarlowe Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1906 · page 2

Mining matters at Mongarlowe are on the up-grade. Several of the old leases have been taken up, notably the, Home-ward Bound and the St. Vincent, and…

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