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

Mining & the mines, 1912

161 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 6 of 9

Grenfell Mining

Western Champion · Thursday 4 July 1912 · page 28

A meeting was held at Howey's Criterion Hotel on Saturday week, having for its object the petitioning of the Government to assist in the…

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New Series of Stories. a Friend of Mine

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 July 1912 · page 4

George Lackaday always made a point of walking home from the city when the evening or rather the afternoon, was fine, So that if he left his…

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Goldfields v South Coast

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 17 July 1912 · page 2

Showery, slushy and in general astronomically disagreeable, Wyalong Goldfields lined out at the Agricultural Ground, Moore Park,…

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Ouk Gold Reserve. Melbourne

Forbes Times · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 2

Mr. Fisher has reduced the gold reserve under the Australian Notes Act by £400,000, leaving a safety margin of £103,119. The…

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Mining

Western Champion · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 33

The Deep Lead miners continue to wash their dirt. In some cases the result were highly satisfactory, although some of the washings showed…

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Gold and the Guinea's Stamp

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 4

It was a quiet Sunday morning, a springtime morning, with the dew gleaming in the sparse grass, and the raw edge of the dawn-wind just…

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Mining. 59 Ounces Per Cwt

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 4

Forbes is probably not done yet as a mining centre—at least there occur from time to time evidences which seem to indicate that it has not. One…

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Formation of Coal

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 3

If anyone could be suddenly transported back through the ages, and placed in a forest during the period when coal was being formed upon the…

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Coal Consumption Affecting Climate

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 3

The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about…

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Canaries in Mines

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

About fifteen years ago, Dr. John Scott Haldane, who had studied, conditions in Cornish colleries, suggested that canaries could be used with…

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Mining

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1912 · page 2

MR HOOKE (Government Inspector of Mines) arriving ahead of specified time, and an unexpected conference being called, is the cause of the…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. London

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 5

A terrible disaster at Lothringen Colliery, Westphalia, owing to fire damp causing an explosion, which set the colliery on fire…

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Mining at Burraga

Forbes Times · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 2

The great activity in mining at Burraga has had a marked effect in the prevailing gloom that hitherto characterised the little town. The…

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THE Western Champion and Parkes and Forbes Representative. Thursday, August 22, 1912. Milpose Mining

Western Champion · Thursday 22 August 1912 · page 20

The trial parcel of stone (seven tons) which was forwarded from the prospectors' claim on the; Back Trundle road to Cockle's Creek for…

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Bushranging Days. with the Gold Escort. Inspector Merrin's Exploits

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 23 August 1912 · page 8

The stirring days of the bushrangers are recalled by the death of Sub-Inspector John Merrin, who died a few days ago, at the age of 82. The…

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Abandoned Mining Leases

Forbes Times · Saturday 31 August 1912 · page 5

Mining tenements hold by the follow ing have been declared abandonedas required by regulation No. 77 under the Mining Act., 1906: James…

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Mitral Hill Mines

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 4

Throughout all the recent stir in Sydney inining circle regarding the great pilfer mine at Mineral Hill, the flotation of same and the wonderfully…

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The Mineral Hill Mine

Forbes Times · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 2

Mr. Kerry, who has been negotiating for some considerable time with Mr. C. S. Macphillamy for the purchase of his Mineral Hill…

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Peak Hill Mining Trouble

Western Champion · Thursday 12 September 1912 · page 10

In regard to the cessation of work at Myalls Company mine, we ("Express ") are pleased to state that as the outcome of a conference held…

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Looted Gold Mines. a Series of Robberies

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1912 · page 3

A series of amazing robberies are reported from Nevada, where a hundred miners in the goldfields have been looting several mines and stealing large…

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