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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

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Cobar Mining

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 3

ON Friday the Occidental cleaned up from mill and cyanide; 1,350 tons were put through the mill in three weeks for 221ozs gold. From the cyanide 637½ozs. gold were…

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Miners Association

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 2

A general mooting of the Cobar Branch of the Amalgamated Minors Association was hold at Lew's Hall on Monday evening, whon there was a…

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Sundown Copper Mine

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 1

The annual meeting of the above company was held, at Stanthope in the early part the month. As some Cobar gentlemen are interested in the…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 2

Mr J M Scott, Mining Broker, Cobar, reports:—Business in the share market during the week has bean brisk. Occidentals are in great…

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Belara Copper Mine

The Wellington Times · Monday 21 May 1900 · page 4

The Bolara copper mine is worked by private enterprise. It is at present leased by Captain Cock, manager of the Blayney copper mine. Bolara is situated 25 miles…

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Mount Boppy Mine

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 3

Things are looking up here, the surveyor being here last week. Ho laid out a few blocks and loft, and is expected to come back and finish the survey of the township…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 3

The Mount Drysdale mine seems to bo destined to have a prosperous year. The latest reports from the field are to the effect that the mill has…

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Applications for Mining Leases

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 June 1900 · page 2

Mr. W. A. Gardiner's application for a gold-mining lease on private property, in the county of Gordon, parish of Gundy, area 38 acres 1 rood 30 perches, has been approved…

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Gold Find at Ben Buckley

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 June 1900 · page 2

Tom McEwen and party, prospectors, have struck good gold just opposite Messrs. J. and W. Parkinson's homestead at Ben Buckley. The sinking is about 15 or 16 feet…

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The Gold Brick Game

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 6

AN English correspondent writes to a contemporary as follows :--The English mining speculator is not, as a rule, altogether an artless individual and I confess…

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He Wanted the Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 5

Although President Kruger look away a million sovereigns the Government issued a million Treasury Notes and tried to commandeor all the remaining coin and bar gold,…

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Secret Shipment of Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 5

Reuter's Agency states that the object of Mr. F. Eloff and Dr. Heymann's mission to Delagon Bay is to arrange for the safety of a largo shipment of gold…

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Mining. the Mount Boppy Field

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 3

MINING developments on a large scale are just now in the initial stage on the Mount Boppy field, situated about thirty miles from Cobar, on the railway line to Nyngan. If…

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Mines, Mining & Mining Accidents

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 3

The Rev. J. McDowell addressed a very large congregation on this subject in the Masonic Hall on Sunday night, commencing his discourse by saying that, as a good deal…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 3

Mr Godfrey, District Inspector of Mines, returned a few weeks ago from a tour of inspection in the Nymagee and Mount Hope districts…

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The Queen's Gold Plate

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 3

The Queen is the owner of a great quantity of almost priceless gold plate, the accumulated treasure of successive sovereignties. This plate is stored at…

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Bodangora. Accident at the M.C. Mine

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 June 1900 · page 2

While a son of Mr. D. Fullham, aged 12 years, was wheeling a barrow of hot ashes from the boiler at No. 1 shaft to the tip where it is usual to tip same, the…

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Amalgamated Miners' Association

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 2

The medium of the above Association, which was to have been held on last Tuesday week, was held in Lew's Hall, Wrightville, last Tuesday…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 2

The Drysdale is looking remarkably rich at 242ft level; vein very strong. A winze from the 180ft level to the 212ft assays about 4oz…

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Ascot Gold Cup

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 5

The Australian horse Mormon won the Ascot Gold Cup, the Grafter running third…

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