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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

6 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers

Our Sydney Letter the Catterth[?]n Gold

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 22 August 1896 · page 2

NOTWEITH[?] the jeremiads of the [?], and the sneers of the cynical, the recovery of the Catterthun's gold shows that pluck and perseverance are not yet extinct [?]…

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Gold and Finance

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1896 · page 1

The demand for gold in America consequent upon the discussion of the currency question there, caused a big shipment of 425,000 sovereigns to be sent from Sydney to san Francisco by the…

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Our Sydney Letter the Export of Gold

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 October 1896 · page 2

THE shipment of 450,000 [?]igns to [?] Francisco has naturally excited [?] comment. The Star declares that the gold is being shipped to pay for the impartation of [?] from…

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On Mining

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 2

THERE is, perhaps, no industry which has been cultivated with less ardour, and success in scientific research, than that of quartz mining. The imperfect nature of inquiry by the working…

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On Mining. [Contributed]—CONTINUED

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 2

[THE disconnected way of writing this may have occasioned many faults. If our critics find anything wanting, we shall be glad if the account we are writing gives them desire to say anything on…

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Mining Fatality

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1896 · page 2

A fatal accident occurred in tho Star Gully, on Saturday morning last, through a fall of earth in a claim worked by Mr. R. Mathews and party. The first [?] had a narrow escape…

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