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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 5 of 12

Electioneering Gold

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 6

In America everything can be done by means of money. In England nothing can be done without money. The two things are quite different. The first denotes a state of…

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Condobolin Mining

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 2

A syndicate has been formed in Condobolin with a view of testing some of the localities about Condobolin for alluvial deposits. It is the…

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Mining. Welcome Stranger

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 2

The once famous Wyalong property promises to yield some good returns once more, in the underlay shaft at 230ft a rich body of…

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Mining at Parkes

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 10

WE hare to chronicle some very satisfactory returns of gold. The tributors in Kable's Mine put through 25 loads of quartz for a return of 24 1/2…

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The Discoverer of Australian Gold

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 2

MOST people are under the impression that Mr E. H. Hargraves was the first discoverer of gold in Australia. Time after time, however, it has been…

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Our Mining Inudstry No. Ii. Buabalong and Elsewhere

Western Champion · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 7

Mining is reviving in this district, and the cry of "Westward ho!" has sent one of our townsmen, Mr C Richards, to explore the abandoned…

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Mining News. The New Find. 14 Ounces to the Ton

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 10

THE new reef recently discovered by Messrs. Smith and Wooden, and in which Messrs. Gibson Brothers and Mr. H. Schmidt are interested, still…

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Peak Hill Mines

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 7

THE following appears in the "Wild Cat" column of the BULLETIN :—Myalls and Peak Hill (N.S.W.) reports and accounts are out from London ; period…

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Mining at Forbes

Western Champion · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 22

The special reporter of the "Sydney Morning Herald" who visited throe districts includes the following remarks in an article descriptive of the…

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Potash Mine Bought by Prussian Government

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 15

The "Financial News" (London) says "that the Prussian Government has made an offer, subject to the sanction of the Prussian Diet, of L1,500,000 for the…

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Mining News. the Proprietary

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 10

DURING the month ending March 24th the Company made a profit of £81 at Myalls and a loss of £41 at Peak Hill. The cost of all work and treatment at…

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Miners' Rights, and Licenses

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 12

The following Miners' Rights and Business Licenses lapse during May: — MINERS' RIGHTS. J. H. Wardell, George Jephson, 1st,…

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Mining. Tomingley

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 10

Messrs. Cavanagh and McDonald have just put through a crushing of 28 tons at Messrs. Crowhurst and Sons Battery, Tomingley, for a return of…

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Parkes Mining

Western Champion · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 17

Interesting articles on the mining industry of our district have appeared in the "Sydney Morning Herald" from the pen of their special reporter,…

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Mining News. the Welcome

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 4

H. LAMBERT completed a crushing at the Crown Battery of 6 tons of quartz for 6ozs 7dwts gold. Mr. Lambert has been working at this mine for over…

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The Coal-getters. Ivor's Vigil

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 7

Mr Joseph Keating writes in the "Daily Mail" of 6th February:— The boy knelt at his father's head crying helplessly, "Father, father!"…

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Sebastopol Mining

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 2

Reports from Sebastopol, near Tensors, indicate that there in a prospect of mining going ahead again in that locality. There has recently…

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Mining. Golden Fleece

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 2

Ore is being rapidly raised in this well-known mine, which bids fair to become a very consistent dividend paying mine. Special parcels of ore…

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Mining. Warden's Court. Before Mr Warden McKensey. Friday, April 28Th, 1906

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 4

Mark Owen applied for suspension of the labor conditions in the Mascotte Mine, held jointly by three partners as a gold mining lease. Owing to an…

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Lachlan Gold Fields Mine

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 11

THE manager of the Lachlan Gold Mine at Forbes (Mr. A. J. Dunstan) reports clean-up for last four weeks as follows :-0-crushed 709 tone of ore for…

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