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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

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West Australian Gold-fields. Rich Discovery in the Australia

The Western Herald · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 4

A Kal[?] wire of Monday reports the following:—The Australia United, at Bummer's Creek, cleaned up for the first time, and the return was: Stone…

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Cobar Mining

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 17 December 1897 · page 3

A TYPOGRAPHICAL error in list issue made it appear as if the Mount Drysdale G.M. Co. had cleaned up for 209ozs 15dwts gold from 697 tons stone. The whole paragraph referred to the Occidental G. M…

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Gold and Blood

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1897 · page 4

MANY years ago I knew a man who expended a great pan [?] a large f[?] in buying gold, in coin and in bars. This he melted, and with human blood and other unique…

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Cobar Mining

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 24 December 1897 · page 3

PROGRESS for the mine owners must necessarily mean prosperity for business men and more bread and butter for miners. We refer to the Great Cobar Copper Syndicate's new water jacket, which…

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Klondyke Goldfields

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1897 · page 2

A SPECIAL correspondent writes from Victoria (British Columbia) as follows:— Dawson City, the great mining centre of the north-west territories of Canada, is…

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Cobar Mining

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 31 December 1897 · page 3

ON Saturday last the Great Western cleaned up, and another improvement has to be reported. The 200 tons of mixed stone put through yielded 230 ounces of gold, which is the best crushing since the…

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The Search for Gold. Dangers and Disasters Attending It

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 31 December 1897 · page 3

GOLD may be delved for and discovered, but it avails little if health, the vital principle of bliss, is lost. Numbers are now taking their departure for the Alaska gold mines in the hope of building…

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