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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Mining at Forbes

National Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 2

Our Forbes correspondent writes as follows : — The Lionel Gold Mining Company, with a nominal capital of £500, has been formed locally, with…

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Mining News. in Capertee District

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 3

The Crown Ridge shale mine is working well, and several new hands have been put on during the past few days. Teams are daily drawing from the mine to the…

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Grant From Prospecting Vote. Department of Mines and Agriculture. Sydney, 12th July, 1907

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 3

Sir,--I am directed to inform you that in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture has approved of the following…

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Hill End. Mining Budget

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 4

The Valentine mine is employing 20 men, and the returns are satisfactory. A Mudgee syndicate are about to work a good reef near by, carrying good gold…

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Sofala. A Good Worker...Mining

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 4

Our former townsman, Mr W. Lovett, is forging ahead, and takes keen interest in Shire Council affairs. A new Shire Clerk is about to bo advertised for at a…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 5

Rich stone is being found on the Lightning Ridge opal fields. Last week one miner, working for a syndicate, unearthed a pocket containing, about £800 worth of…

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American Miners. Charged with Perjury. London

Leader · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 2

Two witnesses for the defence of officials of the Western Miners’ Federation, United States, charged with the murder if the Governor of Idaho,…

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In Mine to be Closed FORBES

National Advocate · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 4

It will come as somewhat of a surprise to hear that the Lachlan Mine is to be closed down indefinitaly. Mr A J Dunatan, Manager, this week received a cable from…

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Mining at Wattle Flat

National Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 4

More leases have been taken up on the big Oakey line, including two under the new Mining Act, at 5s per acre. Bailey and Son have crushed 6…

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A School of Mines

National Advocate · Monday 22 July 1907 · page 2

A short time back some of our correspondents were advocating the location in Bathurst of a Government assayer, so that those who have…

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Coal Lumpers' Strike Settled

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 July 1907 · page 2

The coal- lumpers dispute was amicably settled on Saturday, when it was decided to resume work. Concessions were made on both sides. The union agreed to the…

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Coal Lumpers' Strike Settled SYDNEY

National Advocate · Monday 22 July 1907 · page 2

The coal lumpers strike was settled yesterday, mainly through the efforts of Mr W M Hughes, M.H.R, who recently returned from attending the…

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Federal Mine

Leader · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 2

At the Federal Mind, Rosedale the shaft is now down 120 feet, having passed through heavy bodies of mineral. At 116 feet a further change…

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Where Solomon Had His Mines

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 4

It seems a bold thing to say that King' Solomon's mines have been located but there is now little doubt of this fact. For years explorers in the region between the…

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Mining News. at Mt. David

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 3

Recent developments in the Mt. David mine have proved highly satisfactory. In the No. 2 level, south-cast from the winchwinze, a line body of stone has been met…

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Ballarat Mine

Leader · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 4

The Ballarat tributors are stoping a very, good face of washd[?]rt, and the battery is going. Many people, are anxious to hear the result of the…

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Blayney Copper Mine

Leader · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 4

We have recently been Informal that the water has been bailed out of the top level of the Biayney Copper Mine, and that miners are to be…

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School of Mines

National Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 2

A public meeting will be held in t[?] e Town Hall to-night for the purpose of providing for a deputation to the Minister for Mines asking for the establishment of a School of…

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The School of Mines To the Editor

National Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 2

Sir, — The proposed establishment of the above being a matter of vital importance to the future welfare of the city and district. I would earnestly ask those gentleman who…

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Serious Mining Accident Dynamite Explosion

National Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 4

Two men at Garbutt's Mountain Run Sugar Loaf copper mine were shooting the bottom out of the water jacket furnaces with dynamite yesterday when…

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