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

Mining & the mines, 1936

137 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 7 of 7

"Desert Gold" is Splendid Film Fare

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 October 1936 · page 2

A drama tingling with excitement and suspense, Paramount's "Desert Gold", opens To-night at the Strand Theatre. The stirring tale of a white…

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General News Mining Operations. the Cyanide Plant at Willow Dam

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 29 October 1936 · page 2

Thirty-nine years ago forty drays were employed in Grenfell for the purpose of carting sand from the various old mining dumps to the…

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Lost a Gold Mine

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 November 1936 · page 2

The story of Lasseters lost reef has attracted so much attention of recent years that Mr. H. V. Foy, curious as to what the country looked like led…

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Gold Production Increased by 21 Millions Result of Govt. Assistance (By Wire)

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 13 November 1936 · page 1

The Matalliferous Mining Conference reports that the mining schemes assisted by the Commonwealth and State Government grants have…

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Modern Gold Digger Eniovs Radio and Morning Shower

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 20 November 1936 · page 4

If gold prospectors have shades, the mighty battalion of bygone days that hover around the diggings at Ballarat must have been intrigued on…

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Gold Digger Enjoys Radio and Morning Shower Modern House on Wheels

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 20 November 1936 · page 11

If gold prospectors have shades, the mighty battalon of bygone days that hover around the diggings at Ballarat must have been…

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Expansion, of Gold Mining Results of Commonwealth Assistance. Increased Employment and Production

Cowra Free Press · Monday 23 November 1936 · page 3

The Metalliferous Mining Conference, consisting of State Ministers for Mines and State and Commonwealth officials under the…

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Cease Filling in Mines

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 1 December 1936 · page 2

The Bland Shire Council has entered upon a scheme to fill in a number of abandoned gold mines at West Wyalong and Wyalong, on the…

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World Without Law Producing Oil From Coal

Cowra Free Press · Thursday 3 December 1936 · page 1

Had the American colonics not been lost to the British Empire, the might of the mother country, with their aid, could to-day…

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Filling in Mines

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 December 1936 · page 1

By to-day's mail we received a letter from the Shire President, Cr. A. T. Holland, regarding our leading article in last issue. Cr. Holland's…

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Tennant's Creek Miners' Complaints Threat to Control Batteries (By Wire)

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 December 1936 · page 1

The President of the Lessees' Mines and Prospectors' Association at Tennants Creek (Mr. F. Hollowood) said last night that a…

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Cr. Holland and the Mines

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1936 · page 2

In a leading article in our issue of the first instant, we referred to the fact that the Bland Shire Council had commenced to fill in a number…

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Filling in Mines (To the Editor "Advocate")

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1936 · page 2

Sir.—I read your leading article (which appeared in the last issue of the "Advocate") headed "Cease filling in Mines," and was very…

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A Mining Application

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 December 1936 · page 3

Daniel Andrew Bartley applied to Mr. M. J. Ryan, in the local Warden's Court on Tuesday, for an extension for 12 months of an authority to enter…

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Treatment of Sand On Wyalong Gold fields Big Industry Developing

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 11 December 1936 · page 2

An important development in connection with the abandoned heaps of cyanide sand—some of them of huge dimensions—has taken place on the…

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Euratha Gold Mines Suspension of Labor Conditions

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1936 · page 2

At the Weethalle Warden's Court on Thursday last, before the Warden Mr. F. Gruceon. P.M., five separate applications frere made on behalf of…

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Increased Gold Production

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1936 · page 5

Production of gold in Australia during October. 1936. amounted to 105,266 fine ounces valued in Australian currency at £922,026. The…

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Goolagong Man After Gold Defines Difference Between Land

Cowra Free Press · Thursday 24 December 1936 · page 3

A Goolagong resident, Daniel Andrew Bartley, sought in the Warden's Court, at Cowra yesterday to enter land! owned by…

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