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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1909

62 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 4

Romance in Real Life the Foundling's Mother. and the Gold Digger

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 4

A young woman without money or home abandoned her child on the high road between Scarborough and Whitby in the hope that some…

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Romance of Mining. a Lucky Chance

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 3

The romance of mining is indisputable, but it often escapes attention, except when occasionally one hears of vast fortunes being made by a…

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The Brindabella Mine Again

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 2

AT the Wardens Court on Wednesday William Reid asked for the production of certain documents, mortgages and deeds of his mining tenements at…

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Coolgardie Goldfields. Story of the Discovery

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 4

Few mining districts have such a romantic history as Coolgardie (says the "Engineering Magazine"). The leading mining centre, Coolgardie, from which…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 2

The Tewksbury Company are completing all arrangements for opening their dredging leases at Charleyong and Warri, the two localities in which operations are to be first…

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France's Monopoly of Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 4

According to statistics just published, France is the happy possessor of one-third or all the gold coinage in circulation throughout the world…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 2

At an extraordinary meeting of the Araluen Steam Shovel Gold-mining Company, No Liabiley, held at the company's office od January 23 last, it was decided that all the…

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Suffocated With Gold Leaf

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 2

A late cablegram mentions a Paris paper stating that the late Dowager Empress of China, when on her deathbed, induced Yuan-Sh[?]-Kai (the Grand Secretary), Prince Chun…

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Lake George Mines. GOLD Leases Nos. 412 and 647 (T. and A.); Mineral Leases Nos. 3387 and 10027

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 March 1909 · page 2

Colonel Ryrie has received the following letter from the Department of Mines:— SIR,—Adverting to my letter of the…

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£300 Bag of Gold. a Woodcutter's Savings

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 March 1909 · page 3

An extraordinary action was brought on December 7 (says the London "Daily News") by Mr Thomas Browning, a wood-cutter, to recover from J…

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A Big Mining Venture

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 6

At the Shoalhaven Warden's Court before Col. Chisholm, P.M, last week John R. Chaffey, mining expert, applied for another suspension of the conditions on mining cases…

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Millions of Gold. New York Incident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 5

The operation of carrying L15,000,000 in coin and L100,000,000' in notes and bonds across Wall street from the old to the new home of the National City…

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£300 Bag of Gold. a Woodcutter's Savings

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 3

An extraordinary action was brought on December 7 (says the London "Daily News") by Mr Thomas Browning, a wood-cutter, to recover from J…

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Dentistry 6,000 Years Old. Fillings, Gold Caps, And, Even Bridge Work Known to Ancients

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 3

It will surprise many persons to learn that false teeth, gold caps and fillings, and dental bridges are by no means modern creations. Six…

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Lake George Mines

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 April 1909 · page 2

Colonial Ryrie is in receipt of the following communication from the Department of Mines, Sydney:—Sir, with reference to previous correspondence in regard to gold…

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Jewellery From Coal. Staffordshire Artist's Medium

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 April 1909 · page 4

Mr William Mansfield, of Newhall, near Burton, is becoming famous in Staffordshire for his skill in cutting and carving cannel coal, from which he…

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Gold Finders. Divers Devices for Tracking Treasure

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 4

On October 9th. 1799, H.M.S. Lutine, a 32-gun [?]rigate, went down in a great storm off the Dutch coast. She was on her way to…

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Eight Hours in a Coal Mine. Striking Pictures of a Collier's Day

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 1

From the bottom of the shaft, if you look straight up, you can see a very blue star. That is daylight. You seem to be looking up at it through…

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Gold From Silver. Possible Transmutation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 4

A contributor to the "Matin" reproduces in that journal the points of a remarkable conversation he recently had with Sir William Ramsay at…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 June 1909 · page 2

A syadica's, with a capital of £25,000, has been engaged in preliminary operations in opening up a large mining venture at Corang,Nerriga, during the pass few weeks. The prospecting has been…

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