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

Mining & the mines, 1917

121 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 7

A Ton of Gold

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 1 June 1917 · page 2

" Anglo- Austral," writing in the Blue Mountain "Echo," has some-thing to say concerning the big nuggets which were unearthed at Hill…

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Miners Earn £20 a Week. Workers in Cardiff Invested £30,000,000 in War Loan

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 2 June 1917 · page 4

Cardiff has become known as the Pittsburg of the British Isles (says the Now York "Sun"). Like the American city, the coal mines are largely…

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Miners Earn £20 a Week. Workers in Cardiff Invested £30,000,000 in War Loan

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 6 June 1917 · page 11

Cardiff has become known as the Pittsburg of the British Isles (says the New York "Sun"). Like the American city, the coal mines are largely…

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A New and Deadly Mine. More Mine-Sweeping Risks

Forbes Times · Friday 8 June 1917 · page 7

The mine as an instrument of destruction has boon used by the Germans in a manner consistent with her disregard of laws and international…

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The War Artillery Duels. a Huge Mine Exploded. on West Front. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1917 · page 2

A French communique says: "Considerable reciprocal artillerying proceeds north of the Somme and in the region of Cerny."…

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Gold!

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 22 June 1917 · page 4

Nugget of gold recently found by rabbitters near the old Tinpot Mine, Goolagong. This specimen weighed 5 oz., and was purchased by Mr. T. J…

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The War Russian Activities. the Breslau Again. the Wiles of Greece. Protection Against Mines. Sydney, Thursday 8.56 a.m

Western Champion · Thursday 28 June 1917 · page 13

A Russian communique states:—The enemy forced their way into our trenches southward of Breczany in Galicia, but our counter attacks…

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Protection From Mines. Sydney

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 29 June 1917 · page 4

New York reports that a vessel has arrived at an Atlantic port equipped with projecting nets, which pick up mines and render the vessel safe…

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The War. the Mongolia. Struck a Mine

Forbes Times · Friday 29 June 1917 · page 3

The P. and O. mail steamer Mongolla, which we announced by extraordinary on Wednesday morning had been sunk in the Indian Ocean on her way to…

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Help for Entombed Miners

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 7

A device which manufactures breathable air, when required, for miners caught in mine accidents has been invented by an American…

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The Provident Use of Coal

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 7

Professor H. E. Armstrong, referring in "Engineering" to the consumption of coal in domestic use and in the gas industry,…

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How Submarines Lay Mines. the Terror of the Sea

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 July 1917 · page 9

No other matter holds public attention at the present time like the submarines. Both as attackers of harmless merchantmen and layers…

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Published by Special Arrangement. the Grip of Terror [Copyright.] Chapter X.—the Power of Gold

Forbes Times · Friday 6 July 1917 · page 2

Someone else besides Spriggs wns auxous to interview Wihins. Now he knew that Springs was having a figer in the pie Parkar evinc fresh…

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Ganmain Gold Rush

Western Champion · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 21

A pretty state of affairs exists in the Southern districts, where valuable wheat is being ruined by the ravages of the mice, and where men are…

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To Show Cause. Action Against Miners. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 4

The Northern Colliery Employees Federation Union has been called upon to show cause why the Federal Coal Board should not be dissolved…

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New British Mine Zone Keeping Back Enemy Submarines. (Reuter's Special Message.) Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 4

Reuter authoritively learns that the new British mine zone in the North Sea was specially made to prevent enemy ships and submarines…

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Melting Point of Gold

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 21 July 1917 · page 7

It is so easy to obtain gold in a very pure state that its melting point, is a fact of much practical importance, because it serves as a basis…

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Late Telegrams. Brookfield Fined. Mines Idle As a Result. Sydney

Forbes Times · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 4

At a conference of the dairying industry in Melbourne yesterday a cable was rend stating that a number of refrigereted steamers would leave for…

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Attila's Funeral. Coffins of Gold, Silver, and Iron

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 1 August 1917 · page 9

The Kaiser, looking forward to the time when he had overcome our "contemptible little Army" and had become the ruler of Europe, imagined perhaps that when the great…

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Trams Cease Running To-night. All Coal Declared "Black." Nearly 20,000 Men Out. Sydney

Forbes Times · Tuesday 7 August 1917 · page 2

All trams will cease running at midnight to-night, and all railway men were called out at midnight last night. All coal in the railway and tramway…

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