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Blue Mountains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1924

4 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Gold! Show at Breakfast Creek Lease Taken Up

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 21 March 1924 · page 4

A good lease has been pegged out of Breakfast Creole, and a party is now operating on it. Far back, stories of gold finds in…

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Rode on the Coal

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 April 1924 · page 3

On Wednesday, a 12-year-old boy was playing in a full coal truck at Eskbank when the train started before he could alight. He was taken…

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Gold! Another Find Reported Party Working at Megalong

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 July 1924 · page 5

Not so many weeks back, a syndicate was formed for the purpose of working a claim for gold at Breakfast Creek, near the Cox River…

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Mining Venture

The Katoomba Daily · Monday 10 November 1924 · page 2

Hon. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A Minister for Mines, has approved of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board to grant aid to Messrs…

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