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

Mining & the mines, 1931

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A.W.U CONVENTION American Gold SYDNEY

Western Champion · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 7

At the A.W.U. Convention, to commence at McDonnell House, to-day, hundreds of motions are on the agenda paper. One of them is a plan…

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France's Hoard of Gold

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

In a city of vaults carved out of solid rock 80 ft. beneath the foundation of the bank of France lies the greater part of the gold which has been…

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Orange Mining Some Good Yields

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

It is learned from the Mining Registrar at Orange that there has been a revival of gold-mining in that district during the past year. In his annual…

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Gold Mining. the Tinpot Field

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 6

We visited the prospectors on the Tinpot field last Thursday. Despite very sensational stories there was nothing to report as far as the…

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Lucknow Pups Gold Mining Co. N.L.

Western Champion · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 8

The Mine Manager reports that owing to absorption of steam power unwatering the 200ft. level and subsequent installation of main water…

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Lucknow Pups Gold Mining Co. N.l

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

The mine manager reports that owing to absorption of steam power unwatering the 200ft. level and subsequent installation of main water…

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Gold Seekers

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

Mr. W. Fordham, with a syndicate of fourteen from Canowindra has formed a company to sluice for gold on the Turon River near Sofala, in the…

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U S. GLUTTED Where Gold Lies

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

London.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Snowden) stated in the House of Commons, that the presem monetary gold stocks were:—…

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29 KILLED In Indiana Mine LINTON, Indiana, Thurs

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

Twenty-nine miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine near here. Nine men were rescued…

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Tapp Gold Cup Temora Makes a Bid

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

What should prove an interesting match on Sunday on the local Recreation reserve is that between Temora and West Wyalong District…

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GOLD ! Some Great Nuggets Wealth to Finders

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 8

Gold! A magic word an evil word, a word which has sent men (and women) to the uttermost lands of the earth, to dishonor, to…

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General News Gold Fever at Young. Unprecedented Activity

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 2

Young is in the grip of a gold fever, and some hundreds of fossickers and prospectors are actively engaged in the search for the elusive metal…

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Mining News. Ophir Reviving

Western Champion · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 13

On some hands (says the "Advocate") there is a genuine endeavor to find gold, on others a willingness to subsist en the £1 a week grant till…

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Alleged Conspiracy to Defraus Gold Mines Case (By Wire) Sydney, Thursday Evening

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day Frederick Oertel, Clive Cooper. W. A J. Marshall, Alexander Marshall and Gertrude Cope were rembded on a…

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"Gold Diggers of Broadway"

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 6

At the Strand Theatre Warner Bros. present "Gold Diggers of Broadway," with an all-star cast aided by a dazzling beauty chorus of 100. A…

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Search for Gold Sunday Fossickers

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 3

With a view to "keeping the wolf from the door" and at the same time combining in an effort to bring Austral lia back to a, state of solvency, a…

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Tivoli Theatre "Gold Diggers of

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 4

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. "The Gold Diggers of Broadway" will be screened at the Tivoli Theatre with an all star, caste, aided by a…

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Victoria Mine

Western Champion · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 8

The Municipal Council, at its meeting on Tuseday night, "received" the following letter from the Mines Deparament:—"With regard to your…

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Mining Facilities

Western Champion · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 8

Referring to the request for the installation of a battery at Parkes, the Mines Department has informed the Municipal Council that the…

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Prospecting for Gold [From “Hansard”]

Cowra Free Press · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 7

Mr. Fitzgerald asked the following question in the House:— “Will the Minister for Mines say if it is a fact, that the Government has…

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