Inferior Coal
The iridescent colors in what is called "peacock coal" are due to the presence of a film of iron oxide. It usually means the loss of a part of the volatile…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1907
92 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 5
Proposed Experimental Farm. Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney 20th May, 1907
SIR,--With reference to your letter of the 13th instant, enclosing a copy of a resolution passed at a conference of the Progress Committees at Taree on the subject of the establishment of an experimental…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Electric Safety Lamp. [?]gned to Prevent Fire In Mines and Powder Magasines
A type of Incandescent lamp designed to give as nearly absolute security against fires or explosions as possible has been devised by Dr. D. Tomasal of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How Gold is Won
THE methods that are being used at Poseidon, Vic., the newest Australian gold-field, and the gold-getting methods described in the book of Genesis are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Glint of Gold
Unmindful of the wintry cold, The snowdrops peep above the mould, And show an inner glint of gold To eyes that care to see…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Made Like Steel. Jurgical Instruments Made of Hardened Precious Metal
A source of future great demand for told in, the arts and sciences is divulged in Leslle's Weekly, in which Henry Sched[?] Beardsley relates how…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining for Butter Pays
It ii the only mine that yields sure returns every time. It never disappoints the prospector. All other mining ventures need heavy calls…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal in an Ice-cliff
It can scarcely be said that there has ever been a "favoured nation" in the matter of coal; for of all nature's distributed materials coal is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Official Correspondence. Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney, 6th July, 1907
Sib,—Referring to your letter of the 5th instant, enclosing a communication received by you from Mr. E. Rye, Honorary Secretary to the Gloucester…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Cold Mine Waiting for Somebody
The most crying need of to-day is a substitute for Para rubber. It is certain to be discovered sooner or later. Celluloid and oxidised linseed oil are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Cold Mine Waiting for Somebody
The most crying need of to-day is a substitute for Para rubber. It is certain to be discovered sooner or later, Celluloid and oxidised linseed oil are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Treacle Posset (for a Gold)
Ingredients: ½-pint milk, 2 tablespoonfuls [?]recle. Method Boil the milk, add the treacle, simmer for two minutes, then…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Official Correspondence. Prospecting Vote, New South Wales. Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney, 31st July, 1907
Sir,—I am directed to inform you that, in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Troubles
At the Kurri Kurri Police Court 91 persons employed in the Pelew Main colliery were fined for leaving their employment without a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Hulk on Fire
Last night a fire occurred on board the North Coast Co's. coal hulk lying in Darling Harbor. The whole of the after part of the vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining near Port Macquarie
A correspondent writes to the "Evening News";-- on August 21, Beecham and party brought into town a parcel of gold worth £30, got by dollying by hand, in a small dolly, from their reef, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Country That Pours Out Gold
NEW SOUTH WALES, the premier productive and trading State of Australia, is fast earning a reputation for itself as the country that pours out gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cangai Copper Mine
The record of the Grafton Copper mine at Cangal is unique in the history of Australasian copper mining. Within a period of six years, since the lode was discovered in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Gold Haul. London Firm Robbed of £7,200
By a skilfully-devised plan which took months to mature, a large firm of colonial merchants in Mincing-lane London, has been robbed of £7,200…
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