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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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Poetry. a Glint of Gold

Macleay Argus · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 3

UNMINDFUL of the wintry cold, The snowdrops peep above the mould, And show an inner glint of gold To eyes that care to see…

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The Courrieres Mine. Causes of the Disaster

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 2

Writing from Paris on the night of 14th March the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports:—Pending the results of the judicial and…

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Coal Tar Products

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 7

When coal gas was first introduced as an illuminant for large towns the tar which is condensed from the gas was looked upon as a nuisance. The…

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Struck a Mine

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 21 June 1906 · page 4

A Japanese transport struck a mine off the Korean coast, and sank. Fifty of the crew were drowned…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1906 · page 4

Messrs. Tressider and Anderson crushed four and a-half tons stone from the Perseverance mine, Copeland, for a yield of 30oz. gold…

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Antimony Mining on the Nambucca

Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 13

A FEW days ago a report was published in the Sydney Evening News regarding the alleged discovery of rich deposits of antimony ore some distance north-west…

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The Nowendoc Gold Field. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 3

SIR,--Kindly grant me space in your widely-circulated journal for the purpose of placing the following important subject before its many readers, by whom I feel…

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Imprisoned in a Welsh Mine

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 4

Six men were imprisoned by flood in a Welsh colliery and subsisted on candies…

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Mine Own

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 2
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I need not token-flowers to all How deeply dear thou art, Still on mine car thine accents dwell, Thy virtues in my heart;…

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'King Solomon's Mines.'

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 9

These mines were not in Rhodesia—so. at last, apparently thinks Mr D. R. Mac[?]ver, who opened a discussion on 'The Ruins of Rhodesia and the Probable Date of Outside…

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Early Days of the Klondyke Gold Rush

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 7

"The Windsor Magazine" tells a story of a coup made by a Klondyke desperado, nicknamed "Soapy." A clergyman came one day to Soapy…

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'King Solomon's Mines.'

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 14

These mines were not in Rhodesia--so, at last, apparently thinks Mr D. R MacIver, who opened a discussion on 'The [?]ins of Rhodesia and the Probable Date of Outside…

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The Commonwealth Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 4

On the invitation of Mr. Robert Bartlett, one of the proprietors of the above mine, a representative of this journal paid a visit to Craven Creek…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 4

Mr. Robert Bartlett arrived in town on Thursday afternoon with another nice cloan parcel of gold from the Commonwealth Mine, Craven Creek…

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Trained Gold Fish

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 9

A Philadelphia dealer in pet stook has an aquarium trained goldfish. These fish, when the man holds a small ward of red wood an inch above the surface of the…

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"Spotted Fever" Epidemic. Among German Miners

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 2

The Dusseldorf correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 1st May: — An epidemic of "spotted fever." or…

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Trained Gold Fish

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 August 1906 · page 14

A Philadelphia dealer in pet stock has an aquarium of trained goldfish. These fish, when the man holds a small wand of red wood an inch above the surface of the…

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Antimony Mining

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 9 August 1906 · page 6

OUTSIDERS have little idea of the splendid prospects that Taylor's Arm, offers to the enterprising antimony miner There is probably no better field than this on any part…

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Gold For the Winning

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 4

" Milling," a well-known English paper devoted to wheat and flour trade interests, has come out with a special enlarged [?] ustralasian number. " No old…

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