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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

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

Bathing in Gold

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 5

A Parisian journalist who had speculated in railway shares, won 200,000 francs as the result of a lucky venture. Drawing it in gold, he…

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Gold Escort

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

THE usual monthly gold escort left Braidwood yesterday for Sydney, rift Tarago, with 742 ozs of gold. The Moruya Times says a number of local…

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Purchase of Mining Property

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 2

THE Nowra Leader, of Friday last, states:—Mr. S[?]berberg, who recently made an offer to the Nowra Council to purchase the [?]works ,has invested in mining properties in the Braidwood…

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The Storage of Coal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 5

Experiments have been made in Germany, says the "English Mechanic," with a view to ascertain the best means of preserving coal from deterioration…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 2

FOUR of the five Tewksbury Amalgamated plants worked 1021 hours during the past fortnight, and turned over 58,944 cu[?] yards. The gold won was 122[?]oz, value…

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The King's Gold Claim Can Now Be Jumped

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 December 1911 · page 4

Had King Edward but fulfilled the regulations in force in the Yukon territory, he might new be the owner of considerable quantity of virgin gold fro…

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Romance of Rand Mines

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 3

Up to 1884 there was scarcely a suspicion of gold in the Transvaal, and the country was regarded as a barren land, lacking in all the…

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The First Canadian Minister of Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 December 1911 · page 4

The Hon. William Templeman who is to be the first Canadian Minister of Mines; was born in Ontario of Scottish parents sixty years ago, and entered the…

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An Arctic Coal Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 December 1911 · page 4

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

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A Lucky Christmas for Three, a Story of Long Ago An Australian Gold Field's Episode

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 4

"It's too bad, ain't it, to see three hard-workin' chaps like us just about stony-broke at C'ris'mas time?" So said Tom Tumbrell, the…

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The Felixburg Goldfields

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 2

The British South Africa Company's mining commissioner at Victoria, Rhodesia, reports that he has just completed the inspection of the Felixburg…

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The Gold Escort

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 2

THE Government Gold Escort left Braidwood for Goulburn en route to Sydney yesterday with 406oz 6dwt 13gregold, the returns from mining operations in the district for the…

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