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

Mining & the mines, 1912

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Gold Robbery

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

Mr J.S. Sanderson, who is cyaniding the tailings of the shut-down Lachlan quartz mine at Calare, was victimised, for his year's profits by…

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Mining Mems

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

There was a nebulous, elusive sort of rumour round town last week of a rush for platinum and gold to Platina, in the neighbourhood of…

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Newcastle Mining Trouble. Newcastle

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 2

John Brown, the Newcastle colliery proprietor, declares that the proposed arrangement between the proprietors and miners to avert…

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A Coal Owner on Strikes

Forbes Times · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

Mr. John Brown, the Newcastle coal owner, made a trenchant speech at the Newcastle regatta yesterday. Speaking upon the…

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Increased Gold Supply. Some of Its Evils

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 6

"Why are the markets in such a state?" asks Mr A. J. Wilson in the "Nation." "Two influences stand out with remarkable prominence as…

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Un-english Englishmah. Miners and Fishermen

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 10

Leaving out the First item, the Cornish tonst, "Copper, tin and fish," still expresses the hopes of a large number of the inhabitants, who in the course of…

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Standard of Primary Education. Qualifying Certificate Questions of Public Schools. Gold Watches for the Best Paper on Arithmetic

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 5

Recently over 12,000 boys and girls attending the Public Schools were examined in arithmetic, dictation, English, geography, and history, with the…

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Rich Gold. Melbourne

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1912 · page 2

Another patch of, rich gold specimens, weighing 130 ounces, has been struck in the North Woah Hawp mine, Ballarat East…

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The Dairy. Fattening Pigs. Value of Coal

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 January 1912 · page 3

It is claimed that experiments made at the South-eastern Agricultural College (England) have demonstrated that a mixture of coal in the diet of pigs has…

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Platinum Mining. Who's Been Making Profits? The Fifield Deposits

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 1

Australia abounds in rare minerals and precious gems, but the industry of mining for them is crushed by the weight of the greed of the…

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An Arctic Coal Mine

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 3

According to "La Nature," the most northerly coal mine in the world is that of the Arctic Coal Company (an American concern) at…

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Odd Things About Gold

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1912 · page 3

Few people know the real colour of gold, because it is seldom, seen except when heavily alloyed, which makes it much redder than when it is pure. The purest…

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Mine Disaster at Wyalong. Five Miners Killed

Forbes Times · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 2

A report dated from West Wyalong on Sunday is to the effect that a terrible disaster occurred in the Barrier mine there on the previous…

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Terrible Fatality. Six Miners Suffocated

Western Champion · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 15

A terrible disaster occurred in the Barrier Mine, West Wyalong, on Saturday last, when six miners were suffocated by an [?] of foul air…

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Wyalong Mine Disaster. Mine Manager's Story. Carbolic Acid Gas This Supposed Cause

Forbes Times · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 3

John Richardson, manager of the mine, who is still suffering severely from the effects of the foul gas, gives the following account of the…

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C.P.S. and Mining Warden's Office

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 2

THE following is a return of the business transacted by the Clerk of Petty Sessions and Mining Warden at West Wyalong for the year…

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A Goldfields Sketch. the Lady Speculator

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 5

I had just remarked to Sue, "It's too dull for anything. I wish somothing would happen—a cyclone or an earth-quake, anything to relieve the…

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Phenomenal Gold Yield

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

The Long Tunnel mine reached its biggest sensation on Saturday, when the shareholders, from a shot made during the morning in the reef, from…

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Mining Mems

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 4

Mr A. C. Morris, for a Forbes syndicate, last Wednesday pegged out and applied for a mining lease of 260 acres near Fifield, held for a…

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Alleged Gold Stealing

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

Two young men, residents of Forbes, named Wm. Thos. Bettleton, alias Bony, and Thos. Buckley, alias Thomas Henry Buckley, were…

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