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

Mining & the mines, 1930

303 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 15 of 16

Tin Mining Near Ungariie

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 2

Two prospectors (Messrs Chaplin and Jackson) who have been prospecting under Government aid near Ungarie, report having struck a good…

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Search for Gold Ore from Temora

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 12

A number of prospectors are at work, in the Temora district, and several areas, have been pegged out in the vicinity of the Old Mother…

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Gold Find Reported at Jerrawa

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 28 November 1930 · page 12

An area of 180 acres has been pegged out at Jerrawa, in the Yass district, on the main southern line. It is claimed that a rich and promisting…

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£1 BONUS Production of Gold

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1930 · page 3

The Federal Government has decided to pay a bonus of £1 a nounce on all gold produced in Australia in excess of last year's production…

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Silver-gold Reef. Reported in Jenolan Forest

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 2

It is reported that a silver and gold-bearing reef has been discovered in the Jenolan State Forest, on the east spur of the Dividing Range…

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The Olden Days Gold Mining in West Bushranging Episodes First Weir on Lachlan

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 2

An old resident of Forbes, and various other western centres, Mr. Edwin Rymer, now living at Dulwich Hill, Sydney, has agreed…

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Money and Depression Effect of Gold Standard Crippling Trade

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 13

''THE Board of Directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce is convinced that the present depressed state of British industry is attributable in a very large degree to handicaps and difficulties resulting from monetary policy…

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UNFOUNDED Report on Bunnerong Coal (By Wire) Sydney, Thursday Evening

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 1

The three experts appointed to inquire into Alderman Garden's charges respecting the quality of the Bunnerong coal declare them unfounded…

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Miner's Miraculous Escape After Fall of Coal (By Wire) Sydney, Thursday Evening

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 1

A cable from Cologne (Germany) states that miners clearing [?] deep galleries following a fall of coal on Monday heard sounds of tapping…

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Lure of Gold New Guinea Miner Tells Remarkable Story Life at Edie Creek

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 11

Though the world, in all probability, will never again see a repetition of the great Klondyke gold rush of the last century, the Edie Creek field in New Guinea, in our own generation, has seen many men in the space of a night…

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Obituary Another Pioneer Gone the Man Who Discovered Binni Creek Goldfield. Rich Boulders Unearthed While Ploughing

Cowra Free Press · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 7

The death in Geelong (Vic.) this week of Mr. William McInnes at the age of 99 years, brings back memories of the…

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The Latest Gold Find

Western Champion · Monday 8 December 1930 · page 12

Sydney is agog at the report of the discovery of gold as close to the metropolis as Newport, one of the seaside suburbs on the North Coast…

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Money and Depression. Gold Standard Crippling Industry

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 8 December 1930 · page 4

The Board of Direcors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce have sent to the Prime Minister of England a memorandum on the gold…

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Alluvial Gold at Goonigal

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 6

The Under Secretary for Mines has received a report from Mr. J. Polkinghorne, inspector of mines, respecting the recent discovery of…

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Hill End Gold Strike

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 2

Carver and party, working a show at Hill End, report a rich strike of gold at 150 feet in one of the old shafts sunk many years ago. A small…

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Gold Bonus. Australia's Salvation. Statement by Mr. Forde. CANBERRA

Western Champion · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 11

The Acting Minister for Customs (Mr. Forde) moved the second reading of the Gold Bounty Bill in the House or Representatives yesterday…

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"Minnie" Golf Rankin Street Links Gold Cup Event

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 1

The first round of the Forbes Miniature Golf Links gold cup championship event is being played off with enthusiasm. Crowds…

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10,000 MINERS Unemployed in Aus. (By Wire) Sydney. Thursday Evening

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 1

According to Mr. McNeill, Secretary of the Northfern Miners' Association, there are 10,000 unemployed miners in Australia…

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Australianities Jumping a Mine

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1930 · page 4

Mine-jumping was a great enterprise in the days when gold mining constituted one of our Important industries. How many a row started…

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Miscellaneous Cleopatra's Jewels. Expedition to Search for Mines. "Risky Travel in Desert Wastes

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1930 · page 1

Cleopatra's emeralds, or at least the mines where her black Numidian slaves dug them from the desert soil, will be laid bare to the twentieth…

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