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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

92 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 5

Wireless Communication Between Mines

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 3

Drs. Leinbach and Loewy, two German scientists, have established an underground wireless system of communication. They have…

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Opaque Darkness. Fire in a Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 3

I had known darkness before—the darkness of the mine, darkness that meant a complete absence of light—but here was an opaque darkness, a…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 August 1911 · page 2

On Friday last at a Mining Court held in Moruya by Mr. Fincham, Mining Warden, F. Mallon was granted authority to enter on 25 acres, portion 34, parish Merricumbene, for a period of 12 months…

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Local News. Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 September 1911 · page 2

MR. J. C. WATSON presided at the half-yearly meeting of the Tewksbury Proprietary Dredges, Braidwood, held in Melbourne on Tuesday. Mr. P. W. Tewksbury announced that a hitch had…

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The Boys in the Red, Black and Gold. Dedicated to the Queanbeyan Football Club. (Published by special request)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 September 1911 · page 2

I'VE a ditty to sing, if I once get the ring of right words attuned to my lyre; For the Spirit of Song has been eke brought along in bright flames of poetical fire…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 2

THE contract for the removal of the Tewkebury Company's dredge from Marlowe to Araluea has been obtained by Mr. Lynn Shepherd. The carriage of the wood and machinery of this dredge…

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An Arctic Coal Mine

The Queanbeyan Observer · Thursday 14 September 1911 · page 1

According to "La Nature" the most northerly coal mine is that of the Arctic Coal Company (an American concern) at Advent Bay, on the cast…

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Local News. Gold Saving

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 2

MR. SUMMERS, who was at Major's Creek for some time, putting the stone from the reefs under the cyaniding process without success, is putting it to good purpose at Mornya. He obtained a few dwts…

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Naturalist About Leaf-miners

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 5

While the glory of autumn colors gratifies our sense of the beautiful, another aspect of the leaves appeals to our interest and ouriosity. The great army of Leaf-miners which…

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Facts & Fancies. Romans and the Use of Coal

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 4

Excavations near Liege, Belgium, unearthed a Roman villa, in the basement of which was found a quantity of coal in large pieces…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 2

THORPR and party have just had a crushing of 20 tons of scone from their reef tit Mongarlowe completed at Kelly's battery for 62ozs.. This reef is situated at the head…

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The gold Escort

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 2

Tas Government monthly escort left Braid wood. For Tarago yesterday, en route to Sydney, with [?] 16dwt 9grs of gold…

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To Preserve Coal

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 October 1911 · page 4

Coal left out of doors, exposed to the weather for, say, a month, loses one-third of its heating quality. If a ton of coal is placed on the ground…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 October 1911 · page 2

THe Brass Knocker reef at Parabola continues to produce rich ore underfoot in the drive. The stone averages 4oz to the and a hours 20 torn are at grass. They are still driving east with the object…

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Electioneering Gold

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 October 1911 · page 4

In America everything can be done by means of money. In England nothing can be done without money. The two things are quite different…

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The Gold Escort

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 November 1911 · page 2

The Government E-cort took away from Braidwood yesterday 542oz 15dwt 2lgr of gold. The City Bid It of Sydney was the only consignee…

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The King's Weight in Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 5

if the King raises no objection it is proposed by the Indian community in Calcutta that he shall sit in a scale weighted by gold coins when he visits…

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The Preservation of Coal

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 4

Experiments have been made in Germany with a view to ascertain the best means of preserving coal from deterioration after it has been…

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A Goldfields Sketch. Ropeyarn's Dilemma

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 4

"Good-bye, John. Don't be long. Come back soon to your own chick a biddy, For the winds do blow, Yo-ho, Yo-ho, To take away my sailor…

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"Out in the Gold."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 November 1911 · page 6

The Stegosaurus was quite at home in England in prehistoric times, when the Oxford clay was deposited and millions of years before man…

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