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Blue Mountains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

6 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

N.S.W. Gold Yield

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 March 1911 · page 5

The usual return furnished by the Under-Secretary for Mines shows that the gold yield recorded for this State for the month of February is 20,2l5oz crude,…

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The Romance of the Rand Mines

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 August 1911 · page 3

Up to 1884 there was scarcely a suspicion of gold in the Transvaal, and the country was regarded as a barren land, lacking in all the…

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"Those Are Mine."

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 4

Mr Jas. Power, the burly Burlington boniface, has extended his field of action, and projected his right wing over the Katoomba Falls Hotel, from…

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Wireless Communication Between Mines

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 3

Drs. Leinbach and Loewy, two German scientists, have established an underground wireless system of communication. They have…

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Mountain Coal

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 4

Kanimbla Valley coal is again exciting a bit of interest. It is understood that a trial is to be made of the coal at Pulpit Rock, to find if it issuitable for coke. Four tons are to be sent to Cobar, and if the ovens turn it I out as good coke, ovens are to be…

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Facts & Fancies. Romans and tho Use of Coal

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 3

Excavations near Liege, Belgium, unearthed a Roman villa, in the basement of which was found a quantity of coal in large pieces…

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