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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1912

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

Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 2

THE returns are to hand of a parcel of 5 tons 3 cwt 3 qrs of stones sent by Messrs Camage and party from Major's Greek to Cockle Creek for treatment, the yield being 14oz…

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Free With His Gold. Wanted to Buy Bullocks. and Cash Cheques. Melbourne

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 25 September 1912 · page 6

A stranger arrived at Kilmore East by train on Wednesday afternoon from Seymour, and distributed tips to guards and porters in…

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Mining Matters

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 September 1912 · page 2

MESSES. Gegg and Lawson, directors of the Araluen Central Dredging Company, arrived in Braidwood by maior car on Thursday afternoon on their way 10 Araluen to report upon the Company's…

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Murderer's Letter. Let Her Be Mine in Death. If Not in Life

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 October 1912 · page 4

Remarkable details of the courtship of Beatrlce Fielding and John Fritchley. and of the tragedy which ended their lives on 14th December, were told to the…

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British Miners. Proposed Five-Day Week. Nationalisation of Mines Bill.. London, Thursday Evening

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 October 1912 · page 6

The Miners' Congress, which is sitting at Swansea, by a vote of 306,000 to 283,000 decided to support a five-days' working week…

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Scientific Notes. Coal Resources Sweden

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 October 1912 · page 3

From a summary, furnished by the British Consul at Stockholm, of the report on the coal resources of Sweden, which Dr. Edward Erdmann is…

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How Coal "Got There." a Bright Scientific Explanation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 November 1912 · page 4

As our thoughts have lately been turned so forcibly to the subject of coal a few words as to the origin and development of our coal…

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Science Notes and News. Saving Gold with Oil

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 November 1912 · page 4

The fact that oil can be used for the purpose of saving filings and other small particles of gold and other precious metals, in jewellers' shops,…

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Oil Fuel, Replacing Coal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 November 1912 · page 6

The rapid development of the oil engine was the subject of a lecture by Mr. C. Lakin Smith at the Oil Industrial Exhibition at Olympia recently…

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The Gold Escort

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 December 1912 · page 2

THE usual monthly Gold Escort took away from Braidwood for Tarago en route to the Mint, on Friday last, 650oz 10dwt 3grs. This almost wholly consists of the yield from the…

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Mining at Mongarlowe

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 December 1912 · page 2

AFTER an uneventful period in mining matters at Mongarlowe an improved outlook has been opened up in the leases held by Messrs Silverburg and party at Alma Hill…

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Mount Fisher Copper Mining Company

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 December 1912 · page 2

THE mine Manager reports under date 27/11/12:—"The lode in west drive still continues strong and solid and is now over 3 feet wide from top to bottom of drive and…

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The Captain's Flat Mines

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 December 1912 · page 2

THE Captain's Flat silver mines which under the management of Captain Trewenick employed a large number of men for many years and have since been shut down, are about to…

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The Captain's Flat Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 December 1912 · page 3

THE Captain's Flat silver mines which under the management of Captain Trewenick employed a large number of men for many years and have since…

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Mining Lease

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 December 1912 · page 2

An application has been made by W. H. Stalker for a gold mining lease of 1 acre, pariah of Brace, situated about four chains wasterly from the Jembaicumbene road…

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Uncle Sam's Gold

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 December 1912 · page 4

Some very interesting figures regarding the gig[?]tic board of gold in the strong-boxes of the United States Government have been given out by officials of the…

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Dorothy Delisle's Devotion. a Ray of Sunshine at Christmas. a Gold-field's Romance

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 December 1912 · page 8

She was the prettiest little woman that had been in the old township for many a long day, and she was as good as she was pretty…

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