A Goldfield the Colonial Office Did Not Wish Discovered
"Excuse this being written in pencil, as there is no ink in this city of Ophir." The Government geological…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1908
107 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 6
The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50'6 AND 60's. XXII
After the Chinamen had worked over the field, the alluival was not so rich and the precious metal was not so plentiful, and was becoming scarce and harder to find. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stolen Coal Given. Starving Man Set Free
There was an unusual and happy ending to a case at Croydon on Monday, 13th January, when Thomas Dodson, 29, of Salisbury road, , Woodside, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 60's. XXIII
I said in concluding my last chapter I would give some further reminiscences of Bell's Creek in its early days, which was found by the Irish Corner boys, who were at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Nevada Thrill Miners' Experiences. Entombed for Weeks
After the awful experience of forty six days' entombment 1,000 ft. beneath the surface, three miners named Bailey, Brown and MacDonald, have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 60's. XXIV
Up to this there were no public houses on the field, and the first pub was built in the old style (viz. of slabs and bark which were easily procured close handy) by the late Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain's Flat. Fatal Mining Accident
ON Saturday afternoon last, Mr. District Coroner Gale, received a telegram from Senior-Constable Canning, Captain's Flat, to the effect that at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 60's. XXV
Some time in the year '52 Deep Creek was found as I said before by the late Peter Mackey. This field is situated between Bell's Creek and Major's Creek, and like all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 60's. XXVI
I think now I have fairly well exhausted all my knowledge of the alluvial diggings on Bell's Creek, and before I write further re the reminiscences of other fields I will finish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Bond Tobacco
Lovers of good tobacco will find the famous "Gold Bond" and "Edgeworth" brands shown in all the attractive styles, by the Sydney representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Magic of Coal Tar. What an Inventor Did
There is coal tar in everything [?] eat more or less. More than half our drugs, are the product of coal tar. All our dress goods are dyed by coal [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Mining Plants and Batteries
Mr. Austin Chapman, who has always taken a very great interest in the mining industry, and was one of the chief advocates for the prospecting vote in the State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 60's. XXVII
I have now given your readers a fairly full account of Bell's Creek in its early days, besides what knowledge I retained of the workings of later years on this good old field…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining News. Major's Creek
Mining matters at the old Creek are going along steadily, and every day is proving the permanence of the reefs here and their highly payable character. This gradual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Burraga Mine
The closing of the Burraga copper mine has thrown a large number of men out of work. The teams drawing wood to the mine for the past 26 years would be, at a very fair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50's AND 60's XXVIII
After Dr. Moreing's English company failed he then threw open the field again to all hands, but rose the license fee to £2 a month, for each man. Most of the diggers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Round the World Race. "City of Widows." Night in a Mining Camp
Scarfoglio writes to the London Daily Mall from Nevada on 29th March:—We were delayed four whole days for repairs in Ogden (Utah). a city of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How Long Will Coal Last?
The world still has a considerable supply of coal. Germany is credited with 280,000,000,000 tons, sufficient to last 2,000 years at the present rate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Madame Midas." a Lady Legal Mine Manager
The arrest of a lady legal manager the other day recalls the sensation caused by the only other lady mine manager Victoria ever boasted of whose non de plume was Madame…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Day Reckoning or Better Than Gold. Part I. Chapter I. of Marketable Value
Lord Olverstone waited while the woman at the lodge opened the gates—heavy, old-fashioned ones, that hung between two ancient stone pillars…
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