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

Mining & the mines, 1907

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The Mining Act. New Regulations Issued

Western Champion · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 6

The Mining Act, passed last session, and the regulations made under it, published in last week's "Gazette," will come into operation on July 15,…

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Mining News. Myalls-peak Hill G.m

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 5

THE stone in the bottom winze at Myalls still carries payable gold, but is rather small. The south drive on the stone oyt in the intermediate east…

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Miners Rights

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 July 1907 · page 2

New regulations under the Mining Act have been gazetted. Mineral licenses are abolished, miners rights applying to mining for…

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Gold in Asparagus

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 6

A sensation was created at Covent Garden market during the week by the sale of some giant asparagus from Paris, which realised no less than 30s a…

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Mountains of Gold

Western Champion · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 8

According to old legends, exist in the fabled land of El Dorado; but all the gold in this marvellous land would not compensate you for the loss of…

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The "Big Hole." Romantic Gold Theory

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 18

THE "Big Hole," over which Alexander Frazer was sentenced in Sydney for a mining swindle, is a remarkable phenomenon, being 360ft deep, with…

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The New Act. Mining On Private Lands

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 3

THE warden may grant an interim Authority to enter upon private land for the purpose of defining the area required, and a deposit of 5s is…

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Mining News. Myalls-peak Hill G.m

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 10

THE value of the are broken from the open cut has improved considerably since work hag been commenced on the western side since moving the tram…

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All for Gold a Story of Alaska

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 3

Business men closed their offices, clerks gave up their positions, parents, wives, sweethearts, were, in a measure, secondary considerations…

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The Mining Act New Regulations Issued

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 4

The Mining Act, passed last session, and the regulations made under it, published in a recent Gazette, will come into operation on July 15…

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All for Gold. cold sweet, emm. a Story of Alaska

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 5

Business men closed their offices, clerks gave up their positions, parents, wives, sweethearts, were, in a measure, secondary considerations. Klondike—…

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Paton's Mine

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 10

ON Wednesday last Mr. H. N. Gibson sold by auction Paton's mine at Tomingley. The purchasers were a local syndicate and the price £300…

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Mining Scraps

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 10

The "Blue Duck " proved a blue duck. The owners put a few shots in it and opened it out, but as they could find no gold, they left it. The Blue…

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Mining News

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 3

Two miners at Lightning Ridge, working for a Collarendabri syndicate have unearthed £800 worth of opal during the past 10 days 20ft from the…

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Mining News. Orange Plains Copper Field

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 5

THE Bogan River Copper Company had a visit from their directors on July 8. They appeared to be highly pleased at the way the mine has been…

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Coal [?]

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 3

It can scarcely be said that there [?] ever been a “favoured nation” in the matter of coal; for of all nature’s distributed materials coal is…

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Output of Gold

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 26 July 1907 · page 15

Gold production within the Commonwealth during the first half of the current year totalled 1,594,859 fine oz, a shrinkage of 141,957 fine oz compared…

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Mining News. Orange Plains Copper Field

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 26 July 1907 · page 5

THE Sydney-Wallaroo Copper Company has paid its second instalment of money to the Vendors. In the No. 1 shaft 18ft from the surface they have struck…

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To Correspondents. Re Mining on Private Lands

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 26 July 1907 · page 8

To " Interested" : The warden may grant an interim authority to enter upon private land for the purpose of defining the area required, and a…

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Fingers of Gold

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1907 · page 12

Paderewski, the famous pianist, whose fingers are, of course, precious to him, underwrites both his hands regularly from year to year. He pays about £1000…

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