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

Mining & the mines, 1925

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Silver Mine That Went Broke. How Perseverance Revealed Its Fabulous Wealth

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 August 1925 · page 6

The most valuable nugget of silver ore that has ever been dug from any mine in the British Empire, or perhaps in the world, is on view in the…

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Road Made of Gold

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 2 September 1925 · page 6

Parts of the road by which the Devonshire village of Widecombe is approached are metalled with a peculiar type of granite in which a geologist has…

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Cowra Gold Cup

Cowra Free Press · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 7

The above trophy to be given away by the C.J.C. on Thursday, together with £500 added, is now on view in Messrs. Ryall and Robinson’s…

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Hold Up by COMMUNISTSs At Mount Morgan MineMORE Police Being Sent (By Wire) Brisbane

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 1

Reports from Mount Morgan state that the Communists are in complete control of the mine. They refuse to allow anybody on…

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In the Armchair. How Submarine Mines Are Laid. the Way in Which Harbours Are Protected

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 October 1925 · page 3

There are many people who imagine that submarine mines are holes dug in the bed of the sea by divers, and filled in with explosives which can be " fired somehow or…

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Compulsory Arbitrate Turned Down by Miners (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 23 October 1925 · page 1

The miners convention sitting at the Trades Hall, sydney decided yesterday to turn down compulsory arbitration and to endorse voluntary…

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Those Gold Passes

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 30 October 1925 · page 11

A good many Labor nominees to the Upper House, it appears, are far from willing to vote themselves out of existence as Ms.L.C. But a hint…

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17 Miners Killed Fatality in Germany (BY-CABLE) London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 3 November 1925 · page 4

Seventeen miners were killed and several injured through an explosion of fire damp in the pit of the Phoenix Co. at Gelsen, Kirchen…

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Tallabung Tin Mines

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 November 1925 · page 2

These mines have been worked, more or less successfully, for many years; but since Mr. C. S. MacPhillamy, of Warroo, has taken a hand in…

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At the Kimberley Diamond Mines

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 18 November 1925 · page 3

When Barney Barnato first went to Kimberley there was a certain old gentleman in the diamond-buying line upon whom Barney and his partner Lours…

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Forbes Quarter Sessions Manslaughter Charge Fails Stolen Goods Found in Abandoned Mine. Parkes Men Arrested Under Revolver Fire. Grenfell Grazier Acquitted. Charge of Manslaughter Dismissed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 20 November 1925 · page 1

The first case was that of Charles John Trent, of Grenfell, who was charged with feloniously slaying Edwin Pownsberry, at Grenfell, on…

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Miners Restive Trouble Over Explosives

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 27 November 1925 · page 7

Mr. Teece, general secretary of the Miners' Federation, states that there is a great deal of unrest in several of the larger collieries on the…

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Explosion in Coal Mine Three Killed, Twelve Injured (By Cable) Vancouver

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 1

A Reuter's message from Bermingham, Alabama, states that an unofficial report received says three men were killed, and 12 injured, and an…

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The Last Dollar of Skeleton Gulch How the miners discovered that a very little money can be made to go a considerable distance

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 18 December 1925 · page 2

The complete cash asset of Skeleton. Gulch was exactly one lonesome little silver dollar and in that same dollar rested the salvation and future hopes of…

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A Clever Musician Another Triumph for Miss Mollie Jordan. Gold Medal for Best Singing Pass in State

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 22 December 1925 · page 2

Recently we had the pleasure of announcing that the extremely clever local musician, Miss Mollie Jordan, had succeeded in passing yet another…

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