The stage where actual steady production of the valuable ores tungsten (wolfram and scheelite) is almost reached and mechanical equipment for their treatment is nearing its final stages of installation. Frogmore tungsten mine, an active mining centre in days gone by, ...
Article : 161 wordsOld tailings looking south from poppet head. Tailings .are to be re-treated. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 12 wordsThis was the site a few months ago of engines. A new building now covers ali machinery east of poppet head. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsThe underground workings are ready for production on No. 3 level, and work is expected to start on No. 5 level in the near future when pumping of water is completed. Last week a few tons of ore were lifted from No. 3 level. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 759 wordsThe mineral, tungsten, which is once more being produced at Frogmore, has a wide range of industrial uses, ranging from its hardening qualities as an alloy in steel to the manufacture of filaments in electric light globes and in the making ...
Article : 388 wordsTungsten Consolidated expects to make almost a 2 per cent, recovery of concentrates from the ore. ...
Article : 241 wordsIn 1950 the Common-wealth Government guaranteed for five years a price of 450 shillings a unit sterling ...
Article : 170 wordsThe big water storage dam, situated at the south-eastern foot of the mine hill, burst in March of this year after heavy falls of rain sent a terrific body of water down the creeks. An earth wall about fifteen or so feet high was built during ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 248 wordsThe probable ore reserves at the mine could be as high as 15,000 tons, it is believed. There has been a proven ...
Article : 166 wordsThe environs of the mine area are delightfully attractive in a wealth of bushland beauty which stirs the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 185 wordsThe mine is situated on Mining Leases 1 to 9, Parish of Alton, County King, 21 miles north-north-east of Boorowa. ...
Article : 261 wordsThe mine's canteen committee has done a particularly fine job since its inauguration on January 3 this year. On that day, the first day of work, following the Christmas-New Year break, the mess house, declared one of the best in Australia, ...
Article : 467 wordsA new reef has been disclosed on No. 3 level at the tungsten mine. The reef was discovered ...
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Boorowa News (NSW : 1951 - 1954), Fri 20 Jun 1952, Page 4
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