Year at the Mint. Record Gold Issue. 146,000,000 Coins
Although the total output of the Royal Mint in 1911 was less than in the previous year, the production of coin was on a prodigious scale, no fewer than…
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Mining & the mines, 1913
24 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Had to Day with Gold
"I [?] with [?] and had to layup, [?] Soo[?], 56 Fitzgarald-street, North Pr[?]th W.A. "I had tried all [?]orts of medicines but nothing did me…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Dust
Opportunity is the cream of time. The more you say, the less people remember. A mother's tears are the same in all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£10,000 Gold Theft. Boxes Which Were Filled with Lead Returned to London
After many adventures, due to Austrian war alarms and German police activities, the two plain wooden cases which were found at Alexandria to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blackbird with Gold Ring
William Best, a farmer living near Ballyconnell, co. Cavan, shot recently a blackbird, which had a gold ring on one of its legs. The ring is now worn by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As Good As a Cold-mine
Professor White estimates that no fewer than 400,000,000 gas-mantles are used every year, and as these gasmantles cannot be manufactured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Silent Doctor." Butcher and Soldier. Big Colliery Practice
More details of the extraordinary career of the man calling himself Richard Henry Barber, but whose real name is said to be Harry Virtue, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining for Emeralds
The finest emeralds are found in the Republic of Colombia, in the famous Muzo mines in the department of Yo-yaca, seventy miles north by west of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Submarine Mine Mystery
The Newcastle steamship E[?], which reached Swansea from the Black Sea, reported that the captain waa informed by the British consulate at Constantinople that two submarine mines had been lost in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cobar Copper and Gold Field Report
The report on the Cobar Copper and Gold Field, Part. I., by E. C. Andrew, B.A., F.G.S., Geological Surveyor, has just been issued under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cobar Copper and Gold Field Report
The report on the Cobar Copper and Gold Field, Part. I., by E. C. Andrews, B.A., F.G.S., Geological Surveyor, has just been issued under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Gentleman
"I want somebody to show me where to unload this coal," paid the grimy looking man at the kitchen door, "You needn't ask me about that,"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thirty Hours in Mine. a Wife's Suspense
An experience which does not, happily, fall to the lot of every miner was that of William Dimes, an. aged collier of Coednant, in Wales, whose strange disappearance in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A South African Mine
The daily average number of natives employed of the Premier Diamond during 1912 was 13,363, the total wages of which amounted to £551,321. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A South African Mine
The daily average number of natives employed on the Premier Diamond during 1912 was 33,363, the total wages of which amounted to £551,321. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goldfields to Dock. Grim Drama of Village. a Grief-stricken Party
Once more, and probably for the last time, the crowded incidents of that tragedy-beemirched afternoon in Bedlington, when, within the precincts of the prim-looking little hostelry, the Sun Inn, there was enacted a drama…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Pen-point Making
Metallic indium, used so extensively for the points of gold pens, is made from the powder, obtained in the wet way from platinum ores, by heating to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Gold Fever
Few who have heard or read of tho time when the gold lever raged in Victoria, and infected the rest of the world, realise the amount of wealth it has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Mining Accident
A very serious accident occured at the New Burragorang mine, Yerranderie, yesterday afternoon at 3.30, one man being killed instantly and two severely injured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Disaster at Ca-diff
An appalling colliery disaster has occurred at Senghenydd, Cardiff, and hundreds of lives have been lost. A terrific explosion at the Universal Colliery wrecked the mine, and…
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