The British Coal Dispute
Mr. Asquith introduced the Government's Coal-mines Bill for the settlement of the British, coal dispute in the House of Commons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1912
77 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 4
A Cake of Gold
The Launceston police re-arrested John Berresford on Sunday morning on a charge of being in possession of a cake of gold and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining at Mongarlowe
There are some hopes that the mines on Alma Hill, taken up by a Braidwood syndicate, although they are closed down at present, will be carried on again shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →21,424 Tons of Gold Dug
Since the beginning of the 16th cen turv 21,424 tons of gold have been dug from the mines of the earth. Their value is over 2,520,000,000. Of this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Department of Mines Annual Report
The annual report of the Department for 1911 has just been published. It is stated that the value of the mineral production for the year was L9,758, which has exceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundagai Gold. Another Good Find. Gundagai
Harry Groth, a well-known prospector, has made a good find in Perkins' Gully, Mount Parnassus, about 200 yards from the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining
THE report of the Mines Department for the year 1911 which has come to hand, shows that the total gold won in this State during 1911 was 181,121ozs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miser's Gold N Hoard £56,000 Discovered. Mummified Body
The Paris correspondent of the London "Dally Mail" writes on 21st March:— One of the strangest discoveries of hidden wealth in the history of Paris has just…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of a Mail Boat. Strikes a Mine. Crew's Fate Unknown. London, Tuesday Evening
The American steamer Texas struck a submarine mine in the Gulf of Smyrna, and sank almost immediately after the resulting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chapter Xxxvi. an Earthquake, a Colliery Explosion, and an Adventure
So the Captain, the Colonial Secretary, and the small midshipman left the station and went on board again, disappearing from this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mount Fisher Copper Mine, Bungendore
The manager of the Mount Fairy Copper mine, reporting on May 10, stated-- "The ore body at 40ft. changed to gossan, with ore scattered through it and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold Escort
THE Braidwood Escort left town yesterday morning for Tarago on routs to sydney with 587oz 6dwt 19grs of gold under its charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Used the Wrong Coal
Up Lochfyne some time age an old fisherman with a sense of humor in better working order than his conscience, came on a dead fish called a "stenlock," or coalfish…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Quest of Gold. the Murchison Field. a Story of Discovery
There lives at Mt. Lonarch some 10 miles out of Avoca an esteemed settler named Mr A. W. Johnson. He had business in Maryborough during last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining
MESSRS CAMAGE and party have received the resule of a crushing of 8 tons 17 dwt of stone sent from their reef at Major's Creek to Cookie Creek for treatment. The return was 13oz 17dwts gold,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Ton of Coal
From one ton of ordinary gas coal may be produced 1[?]00 pounds of coke, 20 gallons of ammonia water and 140 pounds of coal tar. By distillation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mount Fisher Copper Mining Company
THE mine manager reports under date 31st ultimo:—No change of any consequence has occurred in shaft since may last report, but there appears to be a little grey ore starting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gold Escort
The monthly Escort left Braidwood on Friday with 404oz 11dwt of gold for Tarago en route to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revival of Mining
The reefs at Bell's Creek, which have been lying idle after having been unsuccessfully worked in days gone by, hive beep taken op by Mr. Warne, who has obtained a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scientific Notes. the Romance of Coal Tar
There are few more remarkable things in the history of chemistry than the progress which has been made in the at [?]sation of waste products, and…
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