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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Housekeeper. Economising Coal

Macleay Argus · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 14

HINTS on how to economise coal are generally more or less acceptable in the middle-class home, and I gladly pass on a hint given to me a few days ago by one…

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Gold From Sea Water

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 4

SOME little time ago the flotation of a company was announced from London, its object being the extraction of gold from sea, water. We now learn that a syndicate with the…

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Jaspers Peak Copper Mines

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

Ample proof of [?] confidence displayed in this field as a good copper locality is exampl[?]fied by the fast of a large number of new [?] out, not merely for…

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Mining Notes

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

Mr. Editor, being in this district, and knowing one or two of he ruiners on Cower and M not Jasper, I made it my business to [?] look places, and I most say…

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Beach Mining

Macleay Argus · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 8

Ballina Beacon states that a dredging lease of about 50 acres, from Ballina Light-house hill to Black Head, has been applied for by Mr. Kirk, Sydney…

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Gold from Sea Water

Macleay Argus · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 11

SOME little time ago the flotation of a company was announced from London, its object being the extraction of gold from sea water. We now learn that a syndicate…

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Electricity From Coal

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 7

A Chicago inventor, Hugo Jone, is said to have hit upon a scheme of utilising the coal in producing a current, thereby dispensing with boilers, engines, dynamos,…

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Local News. Conveyance of Coal

Macleay Argus · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 8

The following tenders have been received by the Department for conveyance of coal for a period of twelve months from 1st of July next:…

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The British Mission to the City of Mystery. Secrets Revealed. Visions of Gold

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 7

On the day prior to the arrival of the expedition there was an aborlive interview between Colonel Younghusband and the Thibetan delegates,…

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Kruger's Gold. Buried Treasure Uneasure One Arthes in the Transvaal

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 2

A cousin of General Kemp, has discovered beyond Spelonken buried [?]casyre. removed from [?] before Lord Robert's entry. The value…

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Colliery Explosion in Russia

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 22 June 1905 · page 4

Owing to an Explosion in a Russian colliery 500 people have been killed…

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Where Gold Is to Be Found by the Ton

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 7

An enormous amount of gold is locked up in India, says "Spare Moments" The people seem miserably poor, but they have quantities of…

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Reported Gold Find. Near Hanging Rock

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 5 July 1905 · page 2

We learn, from what we regard as a reliable source, that on Sunday week a young man, whilst riding in the bush near Hanging Rock, picked up a piece of stone, lying…

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Australian Horse Trade. Department of Mines and Agriculture. Sydney, 23rd June, 1905

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 6

SIR,-- I am directed of spend for your information copy of a report by Colonel Howard Goad, Director-General, Army Remount Department, India, drawing attention to the risk of this State…

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Antimony Mining

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 20 July 1905 · page 4

An advertisement appears in this issue calling tenders for the cartage of ore from the "Kiora" mine to the Taylors Arm wharf. Some few months ago a party…

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Antimony Mining

Macleay Argus · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 6

In our business columns will be found an advertisement calling for tenders for carting antimony are from the " K[?]ora" mines, Upper Taylor's…

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District News. Stroud. Fatal Accident at Loch Lomond Prospecting Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 1

On the 10th instant, at 3 p.m. Richard Fitzpatrick met his death at the above mine. Deceased, who had worked in various mines in the…

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Bowman River Gold Mines

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 9 August 1905 · page 3

THERE is now a prospect of this field coming into prominence in the mining circle. It has every condition that would lead one to predict a great future for it, which will be the means reviving the whole…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 12 August 1905 · page 6

"Copeland seems to have taken on a new lease of life since the settlement of mining matters on the Bowman, for the new…

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Chemical Action on Gold

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 12 August 1905 · page 7

The reputation which gold enjoys as the most unalterable of metals is being undermined by the researches of a number of chemists. A review of recent work, and a…

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