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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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The Sketcher The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 3

Only within a very recent period has mention been made of Cripple Greek, Colorado, although His doubtless the greatest gold camp on…

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Mining Affairs at Major's Creek

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 September 1910 · page 2

A REVIVAL in mining activity has taken place at Major's Creek. At the old saying goes, when things are at the worst they often take a tarn, and here is ample room for the application of the…

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In the Gold Fever Days. Scuttling a Ship. Melbourne

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 September 1910 · page 6

Henry Barcham, of Hawthorn, Victoria, a colonist of nearly 60 years, died to-day. Mr. Barcham was first mate of the emigrant ship Nestor, which arrived in Portland Bay…

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Effect of Weather on Coal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 5

Engineering describes experiments with car loads of American coal under conditions comparable, with actual experience in the storage of coal…

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Jingling Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 6

The arrest of a man just as he was about to embark at Liverpool, England, on August 13, for New York, with £1000 stolen in London, was due to the sharp wit of two…

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Sulphur Mines. a Sicilian Official Speaks. Child Slaves

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 October 1910 · page 3

Mr Hall Caine's drama at Drury Lane has had no more interested spectator than Commendatore Leone Testa, inspector-general of the sulphur mines in…

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Coal Going Begging. Peculiar Situation at Powlett Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.—An acute situation has arisen at the State mine, owing to the output being more than the Railway Commissioners will accept. As a consequence…

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Mining Applications

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 2

THE following applications have been made:—J. Nichelson, lr 3½p, mining lease, parish Budawang; H. G. Willis, 100 acres, dredging lease, embracing the bed of the Carrambene Creek, parishes…

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Science Notes & News. a Coal Saver

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 2 November 1910 · page 4

There has been recently devised a coal saver which consists of two grates hinged together in the form of the letter "U". The grate…

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Gold Mining Leases

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 November 1910 · page 2

The following gold mining leases will be declared void on the 9th instant:—O H. Wisbey, 6 acres and 4 acres, parish Budawang; C. J. Hinch, 10 acres, parish Currock. On the same date the…

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The Gold Escort

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 November 1910 · page 2

The Gold Escort took away from Braidwood yesterday foe the Sydney Mint 722oz 15dwt. 15grs…

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Southern Collieries' Employees. Federation with the North

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 November 1910 · page 2

CLIFTON, Monday.—Blackley's Hall, Scarborough, was packed yesterday afternoon with miners, the occasion being to listen to the addresses from Messrs. [?]…

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Mines Found by a Boy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 November 1910 · page 4

The lead mines of Missouri, which have yielded tens of millions of dollars and are not yet half worked out, were originally discovered by a boy…

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The Mining Warden

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 2

Mr. G. K. Williams, who so capably fulfilled the office of C.P.S. in Braidwood for a number of years, and who received the appointment of Mining Warden, was present in town on Thursday…

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New Gold Find

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 November 1910 · page 2

IT is reported that Messrs. W. McIntosh and H. Wilson have dropped upon a rich gold reef near the junction of the Deua and Moruya rivers and close to Mr. Nevin's place. Some short time…

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The Strike in Wales. Miners and the King

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday Evening.—The strikers at Mid Rhondda have resolved to telegraph to the King that while be inquired as to the condition of the horses imprisoned in the…

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Gold Find in Canada. the Labrador Coast

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 November 1910 · page 3

Father Paradis, a well-known Roman Catholic priest, who has been engaged in missionary work in New Ontario, Canada, declares that gold fields…

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Mining Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 November 1910 · page 2

AN accident befel Mr. Fred. Wedd at Mongarlowe on Wednesday, in which he was very lucky to have escaped very serious, if not fatal injury. He was engaged with Mr. Oswald Wisbey in opening…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 December 1910 · page 2

MR. TEWKSBURY, the managing director of the Tewksbury Dranging Company, accompanied by Mr. Raenalt, the machinery manufacturer, of Wangaratts, is at present on a vait to the district…

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Gold Escort

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 December 1910 · page 2

THE regular monthly gold escort, which left for Tarago Friday last, took away 744oz. 1dwt. 22grs. of gold…

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