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

Mining & the mines, 1920

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Desert Gold

Western Champion · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 13

The famous Australian racer of this name is the foundation of a splendid sporting film story to be pictured on Saturday at the P.P.P. It is claimed…

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A Cake of Gold

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 10

William Griffiths, 47, a stranger, was before the P.M. at Cootamundra the other day, charged with having a cake of gold in his possession…

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Gold at Temora

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 5

A number of gold-mining claims have been taken up on the Common on the Junee road. On at leatst three gold has been struck. A 5-head…

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Broken Hill Mines. Proposal to Take Over

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 4

According to Mr. Willis, Secretary of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees Federation, they are consider ing the advisability of formulating…

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Latest Telegraphic. State Ministers Busy. Too Many Callers, State Control of Mines. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 3

The State Government intends applying for an interim order against the increased prices for clothing and blankets…

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Local & General Fall in Gold Production

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 3

The Under Secretary for Mines, Mr. Cambage, has furnished a return showing that the gold yield for April amounted to 3079 od. crude, equal to…

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Gold-mining at Hill End

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 8

Messrs Joseph Palmer & Sons write in their report, dated May 20:—"Hill End, at one time the most famous New South Wales mining…

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Of Interest to Miners

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 2

Mr H. Andrews, a returned soldier residing at Cootamundra, is the inventor of an apparatus known as the Coota Spiral Amalgamator, which is…

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Hill End Gold

Western Champion · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 13

It is not generally known where the gold that has caused all the interest in Hill End shows is being mined. The Amalgamated…

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New Gold Machine

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 6

A Digger at Cootamundra has invented a machine, called the amalgamator and controlling machine, which it is said, will revolutionise the present…

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Eurow Copper Mine 200 Tons of Ore at Grass

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 1

The Eurow copper mine, which was closed down for sime six or seven years, was given a start, again by a syndicate in August last. Since…

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Harry Lauder Used to Coal Mine and Could Do It Now

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 3

The brawny frame of Harry Lauder was developed, it seams, by digging coal. "Sir Harry Lauder" he is now, and the war has tried and changed him through the death of…

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Coal Declared "Black."

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 15 June 1920 · page 4

Coal has been declared black, lumpers being idled…

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Harry Lauder Used to Coal Mine and Could Do It Now

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 16 June 1920 · page 7

The brawny frame of Harry Lander was developed, it seems, by digging coal. "Sir Harry Lauder" he is now, and the war has tried and changed him through the death of…

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Eurow Copper Mine. 200 Tons of Ore at Grass

Western Champion · Thursday 17 June 1920 · page 16

The Eurow copper mine, which was closed for some six or seven years, was given a start again by a syndicate in August last. Since that date a…

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Eurow Copper Mine

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 18 June 1920 · page 1

The Eurow copper mine, which was closed down for some time six or seven years ago, was given a start again by a syndicate in August last…

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Great Cobar Mine

Western Champion · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 8

Operations at Great Cobar are to come to an end as far as the English proprietors are concerned. They purchased the property, in 1906 for a…

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Kaolln Mining

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 2

At the Warden's Court, Carcoar, recently Messrs J. P. and W. Dover of Barry were granted a lease of 10 acres on Mr Whitney's property for the…

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Power and Uses of Coal

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 5 July 1920 · page 4

The energy contained in coal is enormous. A pound of coal—that is to say, a piece about as big as a man's fist—in combining with oxygen,…

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Illawarra Coal Mine. City Council's Proposals

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 13 July 1920 · page 4

A mining expert considers £5000 an ample price to pay for the Central IIlawarra coalmine under offer to the City Council…

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