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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

111 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 6

Local News. The Tolwong Mine

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

At the last meeting of the Cly'e Shire a communication was received from the Mulwaree Shire Council asking cooperation in having the [?] altered so as the area taking in the…

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Terrific Colliery Explosion

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 December 1910 · page 2

A serious explosion of gas occurred at the Killingworth Colliery, West Maitland on Wednesday morning. No one was killed or hurt, but the damage is…

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An Ancient Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 December 1910 · page 3

The Kopparberg Mining Company of Sweden, was founded in 1225 A.D. According to the old account books and other interesting…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 December 1910 · page 2

WE hear that the intention of the Tewksbury Dredging Company to put a dredge on Currambene Creek, Snowball, has been abandoned, the ground prospected by Mr. Johnson, who is an employee of…

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Important Coal Find. Seam Six Feet Thick

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 December 1910 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A development of great importance to the Powlett coalfield was reported yesterday. Boring was recently started on freehold land about…

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Air to Replace Coal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 2

A Mr. F. Busby has worked out a coal-substitute scheme by which suburban batteries of huge windmills will compress air in a suitable system of…

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Scientific Notes. Intense Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 4

It is interesting to know that the lowest atmospheric temperature ever recorded by the thermometer was at a point almost directly over the…

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The Great Love of Patty Brown. the Heroine of Old Man's Flit. An Australian Gold Field's Episode

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 6

Poor Patty ! How we all pitied her ! To see the long-limbed, ungainly girl bullocking on the hillside, while old Joe, her…

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Miners' Wages Board Claims

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 2

The Mine Workers' unions have set out their claims for better wages, etc., to be presented to the Wages Board on the 11th January next. The rates of pay asked are…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 2

THE following are the yields from the dredges in the Braidwood district that are registered under the Limited and No Lisbility Acts :—Araluen Central No. 1, 158 hours, 77ozs…

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Gold Escort

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 2

THE gold escort, which left yesterday for Tango, en route to Sydney, took away 938oz 0dwt 13grs…

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