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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

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Petrified Bones in a Mine

The Picton Post · Wednesday 11 February 1914 · page 3

Miners at the Usworth Colliery, County Durham, have made a gruesome find. While hewing in the Maudlin seam they broke through into a…

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Plumbago Mines in Ceylon

The Picton Post · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 7

Plumbago, Ceylon's most important mineral product, is known all over the world for its lustre, lubricating, polishing, and binding qualities. In…

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The Romance of a Mine. the Queen of Molybdenite. Ore One Time Discarded As Valueless Now Worth £525 Pee Ton

The Picton Post · Wednesday 18 March 1914 · page 3

How many regrets lay among the past endeavors of the man who has been lured by the call of mining speculation ? How many abandoned shaits to-day,…

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How to Save Coal

The Picton Post · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 6

The coal bill in winter is a very serious item of household expenditure. There are many patent grates certified to reduce the consumption of coal to a…

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How to Save Coal

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 2

The coal bill in winter is a very serious item of household-expenditure. There are many patent grates certified to reduce the consumption of coal to a…

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Science Notes & News. Coal-tar and Metalwork

The Picton Post · Wednesday 29 April 1914 · page 7

Coal-tar is an effective preservative for metalwork; but experiments carried out by the Military Engineering Department of Brest have shown that…

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Diamond Mines in South Africa

The Picton Post · Wednesday 6 May 1914 · page 6

The history of the diamond mines is one long romance—catastrophe, skilful robberies, and the speedy, realisation of colossal fortunes, the annual…

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Diamond Mines in South Africa

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 2

The history of the diamond mines is one long romance—catastrophe, skilful robberies, and the speedy realisation of colossal fortunes, the annual…

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To Cure a Gold

The Picton Post · Wednesday 13 May 1914 · page 3

A new method of curing a cold is described in fee "Medical Press," as follows:—First stop eating. The system. is overloaded with impurities and they…

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Science Notes & News. a Chinese Iron Mine

The Picton Post · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 7

China's famous iron mine, the Tayeh, the best-known in the Far East, is notable for the ease with which It is worked.. It stands first…

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Buried Gold. Victims of a Legend

The Picton Post · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 4

An extraordinary story of buried treasure, which recalls some of the delightful works of George A. Birmingham, has just reached France from the…

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Buried Gold. Victims of a Legend

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 2

An extraordinary story of buried treasure, which recalls some of the delightful works of George A. Birmingham, has just reached France from the…

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Coal Deposits in Spitzbergen

The Picton Post · Wednesday 17 June 1914 · page 7

Only a lew years ago Spitsbergen was an unknown land, the resort at only whalers, fishermen and bandits. Valuable and interesting information…

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Robertson Coal Measures

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 20 June 1914 · page 1

A deputation consisting of Mr. P. A. Quick, Colonel Owen, Messrs. A. E. Poole, W. Browulee, and G. W. Fuller was introduced by Mr. F. A…

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Turning Lead Into Gold

The Picton Post · Wednesday 24 June 1914 · page 7

Professor F. Soddy, F.R.S., declares that it is only a matter of application to change lead into gold. He says that, while now we can only work…

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An Echo of the Coal Strike

The Picton Post · Wednesday 26 August 1914 · page 3

It was the first, week of the coal strike, and the miners were discussing their various ways of economising during this time of limited meats. After…

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Gold Feet

The Picton Post · Wednesday 2 September 1914 · page 2

A much-neglected health mak[?]m is never to go to bed with cold feet. It should be make even stronger. Cold feet should be guarded against whether…

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Modern Mica Mining in India

The Picton Post · Wednesday 16 September 1914 · page 7

Some of the most valuable deposits of mica in the world occur in India, where for centuries they have been worked in the crudest possible fashion…

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Coal Enough for 1000 Years

The Picton Post · Wednesday 30 September 1914 · page 3

According to a calculation made by the International Geological Congress of Canada, the available supply of coal still unmined in the world is…

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A Fight Gold

The Picton Post · Wednesday 7 October 1914 · page 7

Bill: He says tigers are his best friends." "Bill: "Well, he's true to them." "How so?"…

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