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

Mining & the mines, 1907

243 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 13

Local Mining. CARGO

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 19 April 1907 · page 2

Miners here are doing very well out of their claims. Tinnock and patty obtained a return of 4oz. 8dwts for a large parcel of ore sent to Cockle Creek…

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Mining

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 24 April 1907 · page 4

Mr Polkinghorne, Inspector of Mines in his annual report for 1906 states:- The Mount Hope Copper Mine has been reopened. The are treated…

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Wyalong Mining

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 24 April 1907 · page 2

The following is from the Annual Report issued by the Mines Department:—Wyalong and Wyalong West Divisions. The total yield from these Divisions…

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Mines Inspection Act 1901

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 9

AN examination of candidates for winding and ordinary certificates will be held at Peak Hill on Friday, 7th June, in accordance with the above…

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Mining Accident

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 2

A man named Woolard employed in Burley Jockey copper mine on Wednes-sustained a broken leg, a stone of considerable weight falling on him. He…

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Mining Notes

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 2

The little township of Woodstock is becoming very lively since the Burley Jackey and several other copper shows have been working in its vicinity…

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Local Mining Report. Peak Hill and Alectown Divisions

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 2

WE are in receipt of the Annual Report of the Department of Mines, N.S.W., for the year 1906 from which we take the following extracts:…

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Cobar District Mining

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 2

Mr Mine Inspector Polkinghorne reports that there are now 19 productive mines in the Cobar mining district as under:-- Copper—Great Cobar…

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True Story of a Coal Merchant's Dog

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 6

A coal dealer had a large Newfoundland dog of wonderful sagacity, named Rover. Rover spent all his time in the coalyard, and whenever a coal-cart was hauled…

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Cobar Mines

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 8

THERE are now nineteen productive mines in the Cobar district, employing the number of persons mentioned:—Great Cobar 710, Chosney 110, Queen…

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Mining at Yeoval

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 20

A CORAR syndicate, which has taken a copper lease of 60 acres on Mr. J. R. Job's Timbie property, are to commence work this week. A parcel of…

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Mining News. Myalls-peak Hill G.M., LTD

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 11

DURING the four weeks, ending March 23, the Myalls-Peak Hill Gold Mines, Ltd., made a profit of £141 at Peak Hill and a loss of £33 at Myalls…

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Local Mining

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 4

On Wednesday last Mr Hadfield, the far-famed manipulator electrical ore-finding machine, in company with Mr Conlon, geological surveyor, paid…

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Mining News. Bogan River Copper Mine

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 20

FOR the month ending April 26 the following parcels of ore were treated from the Bogan River copper mine:—24 tone 15cwt of seconds, sampled at…

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"Speed and Gold." the Motto of To-day

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 6

According to Mr A. V. Tempest, who writes i the "Nineteenth Century" on the decay of manners, we become less courtly, less polite, and less obliging…

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"Speed and Gold." the Motto of To-day

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 4

According to Mr A. V. Tempest, who writes in the "Nineteenth Century" on the decay of manners, we become less courtly, less polite, and less obliging…

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Mining News

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 11

THE bottom winze at Myalls continues to yield fairly good stone, and promises better. "The Black Snake" continues to…

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Gold Dust

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 7

A wrong is always worth forgetting. A white lie may be as hard to wipe out as a black one. People who scatter sunshine cannot live…

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Mining News. Platina Moves Again

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 22 May 1907 · page 4

The well-known Platina platinum, field which was discovered in 1893, and has since been worked by numbers of miners at depths ranging from 34ft to…

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Condobolin. a Much Neglected Mining District

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 22 May 1907 · page 4

As a mining district possessing good possibilities, there are few if any places which have been neglected like Condobolin. I paid a visit, to various parts,…

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