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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1899

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The Story of a Lost Mine

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 6

A BONANZA for which men have searched in vain has a romantic history, if history it may be called for which no man can vouch the truth, oven while he tells the…

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Cobar Mining News. (From the Cobar Herald)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 4 August 1899 · page 3

THE clean up of the Occidental mine last week, and which was briefly reported in our last issue, has be sufficiently satisfactory to warrant the advance in the value of shares which has…

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Grains of Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 2

FORTUNE will not bear chiding. We must not reproach her, or she shulls us. Time is a fiction and limits not fate. Thought alone is eternal, time thralls it…

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No More Coal Needed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 6

CONSIDERABLE interest will be taken in Mr. Ray Stannard Baker's article on ' Liquid Air,' which appears in the April 'Strand Magazine.' Liquid air is described…

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Cobar Mining News

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 3

ON Mummy the Watden granted suspensions to W. H. Mallet g.l. 333, parish of Cober, 3 months; Mt. Pleasant, 3 months. Mr. T. Longworth, manager of the Copper…

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The Klondyke Goldfield

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 4

A SPECIAL dispatch forwarded to the "San Francisco Call" from Victoria (British Columbia), on July 3, states:-- " The steamship Toes, which returned from…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 12 August 1899 · page 2

The Occidental mill cleaned up on Friday. The clean up resulted in 224 ounces of gold, valued at £920. The cyanide will clean up on Thursday…

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Cobar Mining News

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 18 August 1899 · page 3

THE Occidental mill cleaned up on Friday. The clean up resulted in 224 ounces of gold valued at £920. The cyanide will clean up on Thursday. When the cyanide returns are in it…

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Traveller. the Largest Gold Mine in the World

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 3

The mine in question is the Simmer and Jock. This property is situated on the main reef, eight miles frflm Johannesburg, and one mile from the little mining village of…

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Fountains of Liquid Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 7

TALK of the romance of gold-mining, why there is more excitement, and wealth too, in a single oil-well than in half a dozen ordinary gold-mines, said a man who had…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 2

Mr Slee, Chief Inspector of Mines, is now in Cobar. Mining matters should soon be in full swing; all tanks are full…

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Rich Find of Gold at Byng

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 2

GREAT excitement was created in Orange (says the WESTERN ADVOCATE) on Monday at the news that 6½lbs of gold had been washed from a bucket…

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Another Gold Find

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 29 August 1899 · page 3

Another gold field has been discovered in South Australia, near Wilgena…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 5

The Occidental mill cleaned up on Friday, for 206oz from 963 tons stone. The run was five days shorter than on last clean up…

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A Rich Mine

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 5 September 1899 · page 3

It is is estimated there are 10 tons of gold in every 200 feet of the Great Boulder lode (W.A.) There is 13 years work in sight…

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Immense Wealth. Land Worth £13,000,000 an Acre. London Streets Worth Their Weight in Gold

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 6 September 1899 · page 2

One of the surest and safest ways of becoming rich beyond the dreams of avarice would (says the London ‘Daily Mail’) be to possess a few acres of land…

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The Gold Diggings at Bathurst in 1851

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 September 1899 · page 4

MRS. HUXLEY, widow of the Professor, contributes a most interesting article to the "Nineteenth Century " for June on the subject of "The Gold Diggings at Bathurst in 1851."…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

There was a small flood out Cobar Gold Minos was on Saturday night, there being a deep stream crossing the road near the old Huntington mill…

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Overflow Silver Mining Company

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 9 September 1899 · page 2

The seventh half yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Overflow Silver-mining Company was held at the company's offices, 18…

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Sensational Mining Accident. Melbourne

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 12 September 1899 · page 2

A MINING fatality is reported from Waterholes, seven miles from Bairnside, an the Nicholson River. Two miners, named John Poach and Richard Tudgey, working in an alluvial claim,…

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