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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Lost Live Mines. Discovery of Leads to Tragedy

The Age · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

What is believed to have been one of the lost live mines now floating about the English Channel was seen on Wednesday, October 17th, off Selsey…

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Coal Strike in North Wales

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

Owing to notices having been given of an intended strike an North Wales, five thousand colliers have joined the Miners’ federation Two collieries are…

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Opal Mining. Amenities

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 4

Notice—It having come to my knowledge that miners are afraid of being brutally assaalted when offering their opal for sale I beg to assume them that…

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The New Mining Act

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 7

Three officers of the Mmes Department will forthwith get to work in the preparation. of draft regulations for the carrying out of the new Mining Act, which was passed last…

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Gold

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

Yesterday morning, Messrs. Oswald Wishes and Jas. Steele lodged in the City Bank a nice cake of retorted gold weighing 28ozs. 6dwts. from 7 tone stone…

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Shocking Mining Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 2

A YOUNG man, William M' Keeman, was fatality injured at the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill on Wednesday evening. It appears that M' keeman…

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Howers of Gold. a Street Distribution, Amazing Scenes

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 4

Of all the strangers who have ever come to London none can to found to rival the nice old gentleman from Sheffield who has been going about…

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The Mining Accident at Little River

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 2

The miner, Thomas Dampier, who met with the accident last week from a fall of earth upon him while working in a drive, did not long survive the juries he received. He was brought In to the…

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A Drifting Mine

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 1

Owing to the use of mines in modern naval warfare, there is great danger to neutral shipping, as the mines are apt to break loose from their moorings and drift…

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Mining Prospects

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 2

It, should prove of the greatest concern to all who are interested in the progress of the district, more especially those connected with the mining…

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Gold Escort

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1907 · page 2

We have been requested to state that the quantity of gold sent away by the City Bank by escort last week was 598oz. 4dwt. 5grs., not 56oz. as stated in…

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Braidwood Gold Yield

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 February 1907 · page 2

THE monthly police escort from Braidwood on Saturday took 700 oz of gold to Tarago. Last year 8393 oz of gold valued at £33,000…

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Gold Returns

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 8 February 1907 · page 2

We have to thank Spb-Inspector Brayne for a return of the gold sent by escort from Braidwood for the year ending December 31:—…

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Romantic Glue to Buried Gold. a Century Old Skeleton Found in a Cave

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 February 1907 · page 4

A romantic discovery of the skeleton of a hermit student who must have died in a cave more than a century ago has just been made at…

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Mongarlowe Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1907 · page 2

Mining matters for the New Year appear: very promising on the Mongarlowe lowe field. 1906 proved to be the best year for a considerable time and form…

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Mining Prospects

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 2

We have been informed by Mr. James McDonald that negotiations are being conducted by London mining capitalists for the purchase of the mining property…

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English Goldfield. "Reep 31 Miles Long."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 4

For some time past rumors have been afloat as to the discovery of a gold-field in England within 200 miles of London. It has been stated in whispers that the…

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For Breaking Up a Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 2

Anything that will set the blood into active circulation is good for a cold. Bath[?] the feet in hot water and drink hot water of hot lemonade, on going to bed; take a salt…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 March 1907 · page 2

The No. 1 Araluen Central dredge did not wash up last week through having to renew some of the machinery. The dredge resumed work last Thursday morning…

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New Gold Find

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 2

The Shoalhaven “News” states:— Two Nowra men, prospecting on the Shoalhaven River, some fifteen miles above Burrier, washed a dish which it is…

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