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

Mining & the mines, 1899

262 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 14

Mining

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1899 · page 2

Owing to Christmas and New Year holidays many of the claims have only been worked sufficiently to keep the water down. There is therefore…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 11

Owing to the holidays intervening matters in local mining circles are slack. The Bushman's is still closed down. Extensive repairs are being…

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Mining. Gough's Battery

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 2

During the past year there has been treated at this plant 4,084 tons of stone for a yield of 2,808[?]z sine[?]ed feld gold. In addition to this 675 loads…

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Adelong Miners

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1899 · page 2

A meeting of miners was held in the Galatea Hall on Sunday afternoon. The following resolution was carried unanimously: " That the £25s per…

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Mining. The NAPOLENN

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1899 · page 2

This claim has been idle for a long while, but active operations are being started, and as it is on the same line and adjoining the wellknown…

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New Gold Field

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 3

The Cootamundra Herald publishes the following:—"A very important find, which is expected to open up an entirely new gold field, is reported…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 10

There is little fresh to report in local mining matters. The Bushman's is still closed down.—The Koh-i-nor battery is being thoroughly overhauled…

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Mining Accidents

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 2

A MINER named Jas. Carnell met with a very serious accident at Neeld's Claim on Wednesday night. In addition to a broken thigh a number of…

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Mining. Levings' Tribute

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 3

This party has for a considerable time been tributing on Neeld's Prospecting claim, with about wages results. A clean up of 14 loads at…

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Presentation to Mr. W. Clarks, P.M. and Mining Warden

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 2

AFTER the business of the Small Debts Court had been finished on Wednesday last, the local magistrates, of whom there were nine present, took…

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Condobolin Mining. the Anaconda and Big Ben Copper Mines

Western Champion · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 5

The mines above mentioned are situated about 29 miles north of Condobolin, on the Melrose range of mountains. The locality is becoming…

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Gold Stealing

Western Champion · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 10

Abraham Phillips, charged with stealing gold amalgam from the battery tables of the Lachlan Goldfields Company Ltd., Forbes, has been committed…

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Intercolonial Mining

Western Champion · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 18

At the Orange Warden's Court on Thursday, the Homeward Bound Company, carrying on operations at Carroll's paddock, Lucknow, Were…

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Mining Matters

Western Champion · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 10

The Bushman's is still idle, and like to be, as the Company has applied for three months' suspension. This will be considered at the Warden's…

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Stumbled Upon Gold Mines

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 6

Gold was discovered in California in 1848, and in Colorado in 1858. The discovery was accidental in both cases, and the fact created the impression that mines were…

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Gold

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 6

The thirst for the yellow metal continues unabated throughout the world, and may be expected so to continue down to the end of the present dispensation. That desire is not by any…

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The Lucknow Mines

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 4

THE manager of the Wentworth Goldfields Proprietary Company, Limited Lucknow, has furnished the following comparative statistics for the past three years of the Wentworth and…

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Mining. CURRAJONG

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 2

Flannery's party have cleaned up a crushing of 188 loads at Gongh's, for a vield of 112½od., or slightly under 12dwts per load. This was not quits…

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The Wyalong Goldfield

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 2

MR. ROBERTS, morning reporter for the Daily Telegraph, who recently, visited the field, and made a careful examination of a number of claims,…

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Condobolin Mines. the Anaconda and Big Ben Copper Mines

Western Champion · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 16

In my first article I dealt only with the Anaconda mine. On the same strike of country, about three-quarters of a mile further north, a Sydney…

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