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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

161 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 9

The Coal Strike

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 3

On Tuesday last forced by the cormbrantic combines of capitalistic mine proprietors the northern miners ceased work. It is…

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Latest Wires. Sydney, Thursday. the Coal Sprike

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 2

The Premier stated this afternoon that the coal strike had been finally settled…

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The Coal Strike

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 2

Nr. Learmonth (chairman of the Associated Oweners) gave the Press representative an interview in Newcastle and said that as far as the propriebore were concerned the strike was not yet…

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The Braidwood Gold Fields in the 50's AND 60's. [By an Old Hand.]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 2

Now by this time the diggers began to be more enlightened in regard to mining, and they found an easier way of stripping than that of wheeling out the overburden, as it is termed, with whealbarrows…

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The Coal Trouble

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 November 1907 · page 2

WORK was resumed yesterday morning in nearly all the mines in Newcastle. Trouble has occurred in[?] Rhondda Colliery, where unionists…

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Big Mining Scheme

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

In his last letter our Sassafras correspondent mentioned that there was every likelihood of the district receiving an increase of population in .consequence of…

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The Tariff and Mining

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

Messrs. Joseph Palmer and Sons, in their monthly circular, state,“ it would be a fine thing, both for the miners and the country if the concentrates which…

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The Under-world in a British Columbian Gold Mine Nelson, B.c

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 5

When tha manager of the gold mine at Rossiand offered to take us down we accepted readily and it was only when we were invited to “step in.”…

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Imitation Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 2

Very often the painter is called upon to imitate gold ornaments when painting ornamental ironwork or shop fronts, iron palings, etc., partly, of…

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The Braidwood Gold Fields in the 50s AND 60s

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 2

After this big flood it took some considerable time before the operations on the field were in fall swing again, for it was something enormous the amount of loss that was sustained in the Valley…

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Gold Dredging Returns 172 Ounces Won in 124 HOURS

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 6

Mr. W. Graham, secretary of the Macquarie Enterprise Gold Dredging Syndicate, writes:—"The Macquarie Enterprise G.D. Syndicate's dredge, working on the…

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The Braidwood Gold Fields in the 50's AND 60's

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 2

Now the Valley was in full swing again, and the whole place was all bustle aud business, ind the people nowadays, unless the few old hands that are left, cannot imagine what Araluen was like…

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Appalling Explosion in a Coal Mine

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 2

A terrible explosion occurred in the Baltimore (U.S.) Consolidated Coal Company’s mine at Monongah, near Fairmount…

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Her Love and His. CHAPTER I. "A Beautiful Thing Oe Blue and Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 4

DONE at last! Thank goodness !" There was thanksgiving in the high, childish voice, relief in the…

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The Braidwood Gold Fields in the 50's AND 60s

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 December 1907 · page 2

Now that I have given yon the names of the proprietors of most of the hotels that were doing business on the fields in these days, I also may as well mention the names of the owners of other businesses…

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A Nice Gold Yield

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 2

Yesterday Messrs, Wishes and Steels brought into town a cake of retorted gold weighing 36oz, 16dwt, result of a crushing of 1s tons stone from the [?]…

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Mine Explosion

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 2

It is estimated that 70 miners have been killed by an explosion in the Yolanda mine, Alabama, U.S.A…

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The Braidwood Gold Fields in the 50s AND 60s

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 2

I notice in my last chapter an error crept in, viz., that the first store was built by the late Captain John H. Mullions. It should have read that the first store was built and the business carried on…

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A Christmas Windfall. a Story of the Lancashire Mines. Chapter I. the Coming of Sheldon

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 1

One bright afternoon in October there was a low [?]nock at the door of the cottage in [?]ch Mrs. Lathom lived. Putting aside her work, the…

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250 Miners Entombed

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 2

All hope of saving the lives of the entombed Joiners in the Narr mine at Jacob’s Creek, Pittsburg, U.S., has been practically abandoned…

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