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

Mining & the mines, 1913

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The Gold Fever

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 6

Few who have heard or road of the time when the gold fever raged in Vietoria, and infected the rost of the world, realise the amount of wealth it has been…

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Better Than Gold

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 6

Better than grandeur, better than gold, Than rank and title a thousand fold, Is a healthy body, a mind at ease,…

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The Gold Fever

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 15 October 1913 · page 4

Few who have heard or read of the time when the gold fever raged in Victoria, and infected the rest of the world, realise the amount of wealth it has been…

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Colliery Explosion. 418 Men Entombed. London

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 17 October 1913 · page 5

An explosion occurred at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd, near Cardiff, Wales, on Monday night. The whole of the machinery at the pit…

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Miners Entombed. Welsh Colliery Disaster

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 18 October 1913 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday Morning.—Every city and town and village in Great Britain is breathlessly waiting for the latest news from the…

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Coal Dust in Mines. Melbourne

Forbes Times · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 4

Mr. Edden has decided to appoint a committee to investigate the danger of coal dust in coal mines…

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A Mining Disaster. London

Forbes Times · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 4

A terrible explosion wrecked a mine at Dawson, New Mexico, entombing 280 men. Five were rescued, but the fate of the others is in doubt…

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A Mining Matter

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 4

Once when he was addressing a crowded audience' of miners at Wyalong, he touched largely on mining matters, and was proceeding along…

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Mining

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 1 November 1913 · page 6

Brown and Party of Restdowns bad a trial crushing of three and a half tons of wolfram ore, a[?] Neeld's battery, Wyalong, which…

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Sydney Coal Lumpers

Forbes Times · Tuesday 4 November 1913 · page 2

The sydney coal lumpers will do no work to-morrow morning owing to a stop-work meeting, when the men will discuss matters connected with their…

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Lacmalac Gold Mine, Tnmut

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 5 November 1913 · page 2

THE Mine Manager reports under dale of the 26th ult., as follows.—Commenced work on the Mine on 5th inst. I had some trouble in…

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Mining

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 5 November 1913 · page 12

The Iodide (Mineral Hill) mine manager's report for week ended October 18 states:-- No. 1 Level: No. 2 stope in gossan,…

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A Colliery Disaster

Forbes Times · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 4

Fort four more bodies of the victims of the Senghenhydd colliery disaster have been recovered…

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Interesting Mining. Through the Drift. a Forbes Experiment

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 5

Up near the Forbes rifle butts one of the most interesting mining experiments of recent years is now takplace. This is at the shaft now…

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Lacmalac Gold Mine, Turaut

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

THE Mine Manager reports under date, 8th inst., as follows:- "Work in shaft is progresing favorably although I have had a…

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"Oildag." Remarkable Inventor. "Lubricating the World." Saving of Oil, Coal, and Power

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 4

There is now residing in London one of those great natural scientific geniuses who are horn and not made--Dr. Edward G. Acheson. He is of the type of Edison, and…

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Interesting Mining a Forbes Experiment

Western Champion · Thursday 20 November 1913 · page 10

Up near the Forbes rifle butts (says the "Advocate") one of the most interesting mining experiments of recent years is now taking…

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Metals Dearer than Gold

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 22 November 1913 · page 2

Gold is generally looked upon as the last word of costliness, but, as a matter of fact, there are more metals dearer than gold than there are…

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Mining Appeal

Forbes Times · Tuesday 25 November 1913 · page 2

A curiously interesting position has arisen in the mining appeal to the Supreme Court brought by N. Darrach,(appellant) against…

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Facts and Fancies. Wood Mines of Upper Tonkin

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 29 November 1913 · page 2

A curious source of wealth is found in the wood mines of Upper Tonkin. The wood originally was a pine forest, which the earth swallowed in…

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