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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1908

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 2

Sir, before I commence on my next chapter I wish to say a few words re a letter in you issue of the 21st of December, signed by E. F. Carlile re the Araluen escort attack. In the first place I…

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Another Coal Crisis

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 2

Serious developments in connection with the coal-mining trouble at Newcastle took place on Friday. There is a grave probability that all the good…

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The Coal Crisis

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 3

JUDGE HEYDON gave judgement on Wednesday in regard to the cessation of work at the Teralba collieries. His Honor said the miners had no right…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Araluen Redband gold dredging company was held at the Mutual life buildings, Sydney, on Monday 10th Mr. James Lawson presiding. The report…

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The Coal Crisis

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday morning.—Matters are quiet at the mines this morning. All the Borehole collieries are continuing work, but the men at the four Teralba mines—Pacific, Rhondda…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 2

Later on the great struggle (between Edward Greville of Sydney, and Michael William Kelly, storekeeper of Braidwood and Araluen) took place, and the excitement over this election in Araluen…

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Proposed Gold Congress. Do Stop the Struggle. an International Bourse

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 3

The "Frele Presse" of 14th November publishes an article by Signor Lu[?] former Italian Minister of Finau[?] proposing an international peace [?]…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 2

The Directors of the Aralgen Central Gold Dredging Company have just returned from a visit to the properly, and state that both dredges are in good trim and all machinery in order. Owing to…

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Further Trouble at the Coal Mines

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 February 1908 · page 2

After a single day of quietness on the coalfield with all the collieries working, the industrial situation has again become complicated by another strike at the Dadley mine on Wednesday morning…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 60's

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 2

SIR,—As after my many reminiscences of the Braidwood goldfields during the fifties and sixties, which weekly contributions to the Dispatch extended for about six months…

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Scotland's Shame. Houses of Miners. "A Disgrace to Civilisation."

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 March 1908 · page 5

The three days' annual Conference (writes the "Daily News" of 27th December) of the Scottish Miners' Federation opened in Glasgow under the…

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The World's Richest Gold Field

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 4

Twenty-five years ago the gold fields of the Transvaal, which now produce more than one-fourth of the world's gold supplies, did not exist…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 60's

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 5

Now by this the whole of the Crook from the Falls close up to what was known in those days as Galven's Flat and thence round by the main creek past where Jack Heazlett's…

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Mining Applications

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 2

The following applications have been lodged at the Mining Registrar's Office in addition to those published in our last issue. The deposits and survey fees paid on the whole of…

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The Profits of Some Mining Companies

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 2

Each ton of copper produced at Mount Morgan, as the figures for February show, contain about £52 worth of gold. The Mount Morgan coppergold ores would show a very considerable profit…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 69's. XXI

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 2

The diggers were now pretty well all settled down to steady work, and all the creek from end to end was paying handsomely, and some large yields of the precious metal would…

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A Mammoth Copper Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 6

Imagine a plant capable of [?] 6000 to [?] ore—presumably short tons of 2000[?]—a day. Yet such is the new care [?] of the Utah Copper Company, situated on…

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Sympathy for the Miners

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 March 1908 · page 2

The Bishop of Newcastle (Dr. Stretch), who reached Adelaide on Tuesday, on his way to England, has a great admiration for the workmen of Newcastle, and his sympathies…

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Diamonds and Gold. Past Impostures. Stories Re-told

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1908 · page 5

The story of Lemoine and Weraher recalls that of some extraordinary, almost incredible, and for a while brilliantly successful Impostures in the…

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A Mining Incident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 March 1908 · page 4

On 4th December a fall of rock in a gold mine at Ely, Nevada, entombed several men. Three men named Bailey, Brown, and Macdonald were covered a…

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