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

Mining & the mines, 1906

233 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 12

Mining. Wamboyne Discovery

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1906 · page 2

Mr Keysor, discoverer of the quartz reef at Wamboyne, which recently gave the satisfactory yield of over an ounce of gold per ton, over the battery…

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The Madagascar Goldfields

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 15

A Reuter telegram from Paris, dated 24th November, states that the decree making further regulations with regard [?] the gold mines in…

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Payable Gold

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 9

A WIRE from Wellington states that a man named Honeyset and party are on payable gold in a paddock at Mallamuddy, having washed a couple…

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A New Gold Find

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 20

A new find of gold has been discovered about 4 1/2 miles from Euchareena, in an easterly direction. Two strangers came across a small slug of gold weighing…

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Mining. Bolte's Lucknow

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 2

Mallard and party tributors on the above mine are now sinking on a mineral chute at the 540ft level. They have a couple of tons of one at…

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Mining News. the Proprietary

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 11

THE old battery is being pulled down and removed to make room for a boiler which is to be removed from Myalls…

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Gold Rush near Wellington

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 7

Honeyset and party are on payable gold in a paddock at Mullamuddy, having washed a couple of ounces from a small quantity of dirt. A rush has been the result and the…

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Mine Disaster

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

THE greatest mining disaster on record is reported from Courrieres, in France, where an explosion of gas took place in the Courrieres coal…

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Australia's First Gold

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 19

A CORRESPONDENT writes:—"As news from this part seldom readies your journal, and as many people may be interested in the old historical place…

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Yalgogrin Mining

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

Mining matters at Yalgogrin are looking particularly well at the present time, and several panics are on really good stone. Some months ago…

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Mining News

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 10

T. FRAZEE and Party, at the Great Eastern, are still operating on their lode, which, however, is very hard, consequently progress is slow. There…

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Parkes Common. a Miners' Meeting

Western Champion · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 8

A public meeting of miners and commoners, for the purpose of protesting against the leasing of any portion of the commonage area, was…

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Mining. Nicolas' Battery

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

Mr W. Bowman, with had a lease of the above battery, has handed the property over to the owner, not being able to make the concern pay…

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Russia's Hoard of Gold

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 6

Mr. Henry Norman, Liberal .M.P. for South Wolverhampton, has an article in the May number of "The World's Work" (of which he is editor), and in the course…

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A Promising Outlook. Myall-Peak Hill Gold Mines

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 17

SPEAKING at the annual meeting of the Myall and Peak Hill Gold Mines in London, the chairman, in the course of his remarks, said: "The cost of…

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Wyalong Mines

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 19

THE Golden Fleece mine is now paying handsome dividends and risen to 10s per share. Rich sulphide ore is being raised from the south level…

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The Proprietary Mine

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 1

THE Chairman of the London Directors of the Proprietary Mine, Peak Hill, takes a very hopeful view of matters, and believes that in the near future…

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Mining. the Shamrock

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 2

Some years ago there was a mine in the vicinity of Stanleys Blow, known by the above name, worked by Hennessey and party with fair results…

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Mining News. the Proprietary

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 10

THE only important development to chronicle is that a crosscut east from the Carrington, about 25ft below the 250ft level, has struck an apparently…

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Songs That Are Gold Mines

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 6

Talk about gold mines, said a leading music publisher; why, I can assure you [?]here are scores of gold mines floated on a capital running into six figures…

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