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

Mining & the mines, 1898

121 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 7

My Mine

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 25 June 1898 · page 4

MANY readers will be familiar, some of them painfully so; with such prospectuses as the following, issued by Mr. William Nye. I have decided to sacrifice another valuable…

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Intercolonial Mining

Western Champion · Friday 1 July 1898 · page 5

Captaon Cook, of the Annadale mine, Blayney, is having two water jackets erected. Lindsay and Otto, from the…

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Our Mines. (By "Nugget" in the "Town and Country Journal.") Koh-i-nor Mine

Western Champion · Friday 8 July 1898 · page 5

The Koh-i-nor Gold Mine is situated 1½ miles south from the town Parkes. The area of the lease is about 12 acres, and it is the property…

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Intercolonial Mining

Western Champion · Friday 8 July 1898 · page 16

Gold in apparently payable quantities has been struck is the 1,350ft level in the Southern Extended mine at Maldon…

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Forbes Mining

Western Champion · Friday 8 July 1898 · page 14

The Lachlan Goldfields Company, Limited, last year purchased Sinclair's claim and some adjoining leases, situated about two miles and a half…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 8 July 1898 · page 10

Since last report the old battery has put through 56 loads of wash dirt for Steen and party, Happy Valley, which yielded 5d we to the load. This battery…

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ORIGINAL [?] The Romance of Gold-Mining

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 9 July 1898 · page 3

WHEN the ordinary newspaper reader per uses the bald details of each year’s Departmental Report, he does not think, or care one [?] under, what conditions much of the…

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The Goldfields of Alaska

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 9 July 1898 · page 12

Mr. Harry de Windt, author of “Through the Goldfield of Alaska to Behring Straits,” addressed the members of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society recently in…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 15 July 1898 · page 11

Work is proceeding as usual at the Bushman's. The winding-gear for the Koih-inor is expected to come to hand in a…

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Intercolonial Mining

Western Champion · Friday 15 July 1898 · page 16

The Great Boulder Company (W.A) has crushed 1890 tons for 3205oz. of gold. A cable from London on Wednesday…

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Our Mines. (By "Nugget," in the "Town and Country Journal.") Strickland's Hill

Western Champion · Friday 15 July 1898 · page 5

Burgess and Smith's lease on Strickland's Hill is on the extensive quartz belt already spoken of, and is perhaps a couple of miles north-west of the…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 22 July 1898 · page 8

At the lower battery since oar last issue the Koh-i-nor crashing was cleaned up. The 220 tons from the 420ft level yielded 223oz 18dwt and the 119 tons…

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Intercolonial Mining

Western Champion · Friday 22 July 1898 · page 5

Mining matters at Gulgong are very dull. The returns of crushings received by the West Australian Mines…

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Flow of Gold to the Bank of England

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 23 July 1898 · page 12

The “Financial Times” wonders how many people realise the extraordinary significance of the recent influx of gold to the Bank of England. Mr. Chamberlain’s…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 5 August 1898 · page 9

The following parcels of stone have been treated at the Koh-i-nor battery since our last report:—17 tons for Nash, Droubalgie, ll½dwts per ton,…

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Intercolonial Mining

Western Champion · Friday 5 August 1898 · page 13

The latest news from Gooda Creek, sixteen miles from Yass, is that the prospectors there had a crushing at the Illawarra Works, the result being…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 12 August 1898 · page 9

We are pleased to hoar that platinum has assumed an upward tendency and is now quoted at 31s 6d per ounce…

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Our Mines

Western Champion · Friday 19 August 1898 · page 16

From the annual report of the Mines Department, just issued, we take the following reports:- PARKES DIVISION…

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Intercolonial Mining

Western Champion · Friday 19 August 1898 · page 14

Rich parcels of atone continue to bs brought to Wyalong from Yalgogrin. Homeward Bound mine, Grenfell will probably be sold at an early date…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 19 August 1898 · page 9

Manager's report Avoca Reefs, Parkes (late Birthday).—Contractors main shaft sunk 3ft 6in for week; total, 260ft. No reef in shaft at…

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