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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 8 of 12

Mining News. Myalls-peak Hill G.M.

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 10

FOR the 4 weeks ending May 19th, The Myalls-Peak Hill Gold Mines treated 3381 tons of ore for 496 standard cunces of gold, giving a profit of…

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The Luck of Mining. Story of a Deserted Shaft

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 9

AT Scabby Hill, near Appletree Flat (Mudgee district) Rochester, Sergeant, and party have obtained 50oz of coarse alluvial gold. Three buckets of dirt…

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The Lens Miners. a Minister's Knowledge

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 7

The correspondent of the London "Express" wrote on 19th March:—The revolutionary minors of Lens—for the Lens miner calls "Socialist"…

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Mining. Condobolin

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 20 June 1906 · page 4

There was a ferment of excitement in town last Saturday night when the news of Mr James McCarney's good and unexpected fortune was…

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New Gold Finds

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 June 1906 · page 2

A wire from Cobar says:—Another find is reported from Gundabooka, 50 miles from Cobar, where a shaft is down 70ft, gold having been struck at…

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Mining News

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 June 1906 · page 10

MYALL-PEAK HILL shares are quoted; in Sydney at—buyers 3s 4d, sellers 3s 10d. On June 30 the Mount Bischoff…

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Mining. a Trip Round the Mines

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 4

The recent sensational developments in the mines, copper and silver, on the local field, have attracted the attention of some of the leading mining investors…

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Potter's Mine

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 4

Knock-off time at Mr Thos. Potter's mine is rather an important moment for some fourteen men scend from the bowels of the earth, and reach for their…

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Mcmillan's Mine

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 4

About three parts of a mile, in a north westerly direction, at the point of a rough rock capped spur, Mr J. McMillan has h is shaft. The formation…

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Brady's Mine

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 4

Just across the lane from Potter's Mine, situated, slightly to the N.E. is the mine known locally as Brady's shaft. When Potter first hit the lode,…

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A Mining Identity. "Jack" O'neill

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 5

Every centre, every community, possesses a person who is regarded as an "identity" by all and sundry, but the mining fields of the State are…

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Two Great Gold Mines

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 17

THE greatest gold mines in Australia are the Mount Morgan and the Waihi. Mount Morgan has turned out over £12,000,000 in gold and paid in…

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Mining News. Myalls-peak Hill G.M.

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 10

THE yields for the four weeks ending 16th June were :—Peak. Hill 230ozs, tributers (Harris and Son) 12 1/2 ozs, Myalls (cyanide) 50ozs, Myalls…

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Five Tons of Gold. Armed Guards Protect It

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 4

The Cunard steamer Lucania, which left Liverpool for New York on Saturday, April 28th, had (writes the London Express) on board five tons of bullion…

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Mining

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 July 1906 · page 7

One of the most important discoveries in mining for some time past was recently made on the White Reef line of reef, and in the Homeward Bound…

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Mining Case

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 10

AT the Warden's Court yesterday Con. Cadegan, a shareholder in an alluvial claim at Paddy's Flat, applied to have the share of Joseph Collins (also a…

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N.S.W. Mining Exhibition. To the Editor of the Cowra Guardian

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 8

SIR,—In connection with the forthcoming Mining Exhibition to be held here in September next, my Directors have made arrangement with the “Australian…

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Mining. Myalls—peak Hill G.M.

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 8

DURING the four weeks ending June 16th, 2321 tons of ore were treated for 413 standard ounces of gold, resulting in a profit over the working…

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Mine Own

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 6

I need not token-flowers to all How deeply dear thou art, Still on mine ear thine accents dwell, Thy virtues in my heart;…

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‘ King Solomon’s Mines.’

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 3

These mines were not In Rhodesia—so, at last, apparently thinks Mr D. R Maolver, who opened a discussion on ‘ The Rains of Rhodesia and the Probable Dote of Outside…

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