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

Mining & the mines, 1923

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Coal Conference To Resume To-day Mr Oake's Assurance (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 6 July 1923 · page 4

The Coal Conference resumes to-day to discuss the proposals by Mr Oakes, who has assured the miners that State porteetion. will…

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Insurance of Gold

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 13 July 1923 · page 1

Mr. Manning asked the Postmaster-Gereral, upon notice: Are gold miners who wish to forward their gold through the…

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SETTLED! The Coal Dispute Great Rejoicing at Newcastle and Cessnock (By Wire). Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 13 July 1923 · page 4

Immense saisfaction was expressed at Newcastle last night at settlement of the coal trouble. Business people are especially…

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Latest Telegraphic. Parliament at Canberra. Coal Dispute Settled. When the Law Gets Drunk. SYDNEY

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 July 1923 · page 4

The House of Representatives by 37 votes to 12 carried a motion that the next Parliament should meet at Canberra. In effect the resolution…

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Current Topics Wyangala Gold and Gem Field

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 2

On the above field four shafts have now been sunk, varying in depth from 28 to 37 feet. A sluice box has now been placed in position, and a…

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Costly Gold

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 5

Brisbane.— Operations at the Mt. Morgan Gold Mining Co. for. the past year have been unsatisfactory. The net loss for 12…

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Gold Near Mudgee Two Good Crushings

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 11

Two crushings from the Crown Gold mine at Bombandy, which were, put through the Deep Leads battery, at Hill End, yielded good…

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A Medicine Mine

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 August 1923 · page 7

The word "mining," says a writer in "The Engineering and Mining Journal-Press" (New York), usually causes to flash on the screen of one's…

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Gold Find Near Brisbane (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 4

An important gold find has been made at Brookfield, near Brisbane It is regarded as a rich lode…

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A Wyangla Ring Made From Gold and Set with a Sapphire From the Diamond Field. a Cowra District Product

Cowra Free Press · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 4

The discoverer of the Wyangla diamond field, Mr. W. C. Easdown, has just returned from Sydney, where he had a ring made from…

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Fire in Mine An Unusual Spectacle

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 24 August 1923 · page 12

Quite an unusual spectacle was witnessed at West Wyalong on Monday night last, when, through some unknown cause, the timber…

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To Resume Work 7000 Miners Go Back (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 28 August 1923 · page 6

Paris, August 26th.—A Dusseldorf message states that 7000 miners at a mass meeting in Nehmuhle, decided to cease passive…

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Trapped in Mine Rescuers Face Deadly Fumes in Vain Hope Abandoned and Efforts Given up Miners Lose Lives Cessnock

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 1

Thirty one men have been imprisoned in the workings of the Bellbird Colliery, on the South Maitland field, behind a fire which…

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The Colliery Disaster. Twenty One Victims (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 4

A Cessnock message states that there was no work on the Mainland field today. The whole district is in…

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Apalling Mining Disaster Worst Since Mt. Mulligan Many Lives Lost

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 3

The worst disaster ever recorded in the Bellbird colliery, South Mainland coal field, and the worst mining disaster in Australia since the loss…

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Fearful Mining Disaster

Western Champion · Thursday 6 September 1923 · page 11

The worst disaster ever recorded in the Bellbird colliery, South Maitland coal field, and the worst mining disaster in Australia since the loss of 75…

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Another Fire In Kurri Kurri Coal Mine (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 7 September 1923 · page 12

A report from Kurri Kur[?] states that a fire has started in Number Three Pelew Main Colli[?] ery, but it is expected that the pi[?]…

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£20,000 Gold Strike

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 2

We learned this morning from an authentic source that a gold strike has been made at Condobolin. A prospector tapped a promising vein…

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Latest Telegraphic. Wheat Pool Matters. Coal Industry Inquiry. Queensland Cattle Ticks, SYDNEY

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 2

The Voluntary Wheat Pool committee, in a statement, says, that with another useful fall of rain over, the wheat areas of N.S.W. to back…

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Why "Synthetic Gold" Is Unlikely

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 September 1923 · page 2

Sporadic reference in newspapers to the possibility of manufacturing "synthetic" gold occasions alarm among gold-miners. Such a careless…

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