Bendigo Miners' Strike. Trouble at Johnson's Reef
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—When the men employed on the afternoon shift at Johnson's Reef mine, Bendigo, went to work on Friday they intimated that they did not want to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1911
92 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 5
Coal on the Clyde
THE Moroya Times states:— We hear that the coal measures on the reaches of the Clyde River are to be exploited. Good coal is known to exist somewhere in behind Yadbro, and if the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Preservation of Gold Chains
Persons who carry a gold watch chain will notice that the chain will lengthen in time, and often after years of carrying the chain will gain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Antiquity of Gold-leaf
The origin of gold-leaf is lost in antiquity. On some of the most ancient mummies discovered, gold-leaf has been used on the skin,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Speed and Gold." the Motto of To-day
According to Mr A. V. Tempest, who writes in the "Nineteenth Century" on the decay of manners, we become less courtly, less polite, and less obliging…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Leaf : Oldest Industry
An industry or art that seems to have reached us unchanged from the ancient; Egyptians and Greeks is that of beating gold into this foil for…
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No. 1 Araluen Central dredge ran 118 hours for 10oz 13dwt gold, and Ne. 2 dredge 86 hours for 20oz 18dwt. Araluen Redbank did not clean up. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melting Point of Gold
It is so easy to obtain gold in a very pure state that its melting point is a fact of much practical importance, because it serves as a basis…
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TEWKSBURY proprietary worked 248 hours during the past fortnight, and turned over 24,202 cubic yards. The gold won was 71oz., value £274 ; average value of ground 2.717d per cubic yard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Help for Entombed Miners
A device which manufactures breathable air, when required, for miners caught in mine accidents has been invented by an American…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Provident Use of Coal
Professor H. E. Armstrong, referring in "Engineering" to the consumption of coal in domestic use and in the gas industry,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Coal and Coke Investment
Squatters, farmers, dairymen, and country residents generally, desiro[?]s of varying their investments, realising there is greater safety in disposing their…
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The following dredging returns were reported during the past week:—No. 1 Araluen Central 13oz; lldwt, for 811 hours; Amaluen Valley 33oz 17dwt for the week; Araluen Redbank, 28oz for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold and Superstition
There is a great deal of superstitious romance in connection with gold. The ancients perceived a similarity between the glitter and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local News. Mining
THE following gold yields were reported during the past week:—Jembaicumbene 24oz 6dwt for a fortnight [?], 54oz for 130 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. Tewksbury Shoalhaven Dredges
The managing director of the Tewkebary Proprietary dredges, Mr. P. W. Tewksbury, in the course of his half-report to Decembre 31, 1910, states that Warri No. 1 dredge has had a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Coal Miner's Lungs
In the museum connected with the Edinburgh University is an exhibit that is a striking object lesson of the value of fresh air. A professor has secured the lungs of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Tuesday, March 7, 1911. The Coal Trade and the Referenda
To those electors whose apathy with respect to the referenda proposals precludes them from realising their essentially undemocratic and entirely…
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MR. P. W. TEWKSBURY, Managing Director of the Tewksbury dredges, is on a visit to the district, and is making a tour of inspection of the two dredges on the Shoalhaven River at Warri and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Control of Mining
A letter signed W. J. Curry, in the Daily Telegraph, referring to the West Australia Minister for Mines, visit to the Eastern States with the view of Improving the commercial morality of the mining…
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