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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1917

27 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Mining

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 4

The mineral production for 1915 of this State was valued at £10,064,569, and the output for 1916 promises that if it does not exceed…

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Rich Gold Find

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 2

It, was reported on Thursday that a rich find of gold had been made eight miles front Sunny Corner at the head waters of the Turon basin,…

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Rich Gold Find

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 3

The discovery of rich gold near Sunny Corner has been re-ported. The prospectors, Williams, Gray, and party, have…

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The Rich Gold Find

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 4

Dark Corner, about nine miles from Sunny Corner, where rich gold was said to have been discovered, was visited by the…

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The New Gold Find. Chief Inspectors Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 7

Reporting on the new goldfield at Sunny Corner, the Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. J. B. Jaquet, says :-The limits of the chute of…

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Sunny Corner Gold Find. New Discovery Reported

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1917 · page 3

A report from Sunny Corner states that another important find is reported from Dark Corner, where a big body of highly…

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Gas Coal for Motors

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 February 1917 · page 5

Attempts are being made to employ illuminating gas for internal combustion engines, the gas being compressed in tubes at a high pressure and…

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Old Gold and Silver War Fund

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 February 1917 · page 2

One of our recent editions contained an appeal by the committee of this fund asking for gold and silver articles of any…

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Local and General. MINING

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 2

Messrs. Carnage and party have just received the returns of two parcels of two tons each of stone from their reef at Major's Creek…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 April 1917 · page 2

A party of West Australian miners, who appear to know their business, are now engaged working a reef at Mongarlowe, in the…

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Save Your Silver and It Will Turn Into Gold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 April 1917 · page 4

Seventeen and sixpence saved now, whether in one sum or by means of the simple sixpence, will be worth £1 to you in three…

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A New and Deadly Mine. More Mine-Sweeping Risks

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 June 1917 · page 5

The mine as an instrument of destruction has been used by the Germans in a manner consistent with her disregard of laws and international…

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Mining Leases

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1917 · page 2

The following applications have been granted :-Edward Powell and Alfred Brown, 10 acres gold raining lease, parishes Fairy…

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Mining

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1917 · page 2

Operations at the Banner reef at Bell's Creek are proceeding apace. Exploration work has been carried out at the 100ft…

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Published by Special Arrangement. the Grip of Terror [Copyright.] Chapter X.—the Power of Gold

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 July 1917 · page 3

Someone else besides Spriggs was anxous to interview Wilkins. Now he knew that Spriggs was having a finger in the pie Parker evinced a fresh…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 July 1917 · page 9

A crushing of 4½ Ions of stone from Carnage and party's reef at Major's Creek, which has just been treated at Cockle Creek,…

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Special Strike Issue. The Queanbeyan Age. Friday, August 10, 1917. Latest Strike News. SYDNEY, Friday. Coal Mines Idle

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 August 1917 · page 7

All the coal mines are idle, and indications are that the strike will spread. Action by Union Carters…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 August 1917 · page 2

Messrs. Brown and Powell, of Sydney, have taken up a reefing proposition at Mulloon. This was worked by a Sydney company, of…

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Our Mining Industry

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1917 · page 1

When one reads of the large escort returns from the Braidwood district in times gone by and the numbers of men and crushing…

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Mining

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1917 · page 7

We understand that Mr. H. Colley, who enlisted here some time ago, and is now training in England, has succeeded in…

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