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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

39 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 2

Explosion in a Mine All Hope Abandoned

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 8

Twenty-four miners have been killed by an explosion in the coal mine at Elk Garden. Elk Garden, Tuesday.—All hope of…

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Mount Copeland Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 4

Sunday Times is responsible for the following: The Mount Copeland Company, which owns a mine of that name in this State, and was floated by some…

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Mount Copeland Mine

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 5
Also in The Gloucester Advocate

Quite some surprise was evoked on Saturday last, when the manager of Mount Copeland mine received a telegram from the Company's directors…

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Scientific Notes. 270,000,000 Tons of Coal

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 9

Some 270,000,000 tons of coal were raised from the pits of Great Britain during 1910—sufficient in bulk to build a wall around the United…

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Copeland Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 5

Just at present the life of Copeland is in a very parlous state, in fact as far as mining is concerned, it is hanging in the balance. The Copeland…

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The Bowman Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 5

After two years' hard driving R. Saxby and party have tapped the water. The water is out and the secret is out of the richness of a drive…

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Electricity and Coal

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 3 June 1911 · page 9

Two engineers in Munich have completed plans of a huge airship of a capacity of 100,000 cubic metres. It will be driven by six motors, with a…

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To Fight the Gold Storers

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1911 · page 6

THE "Macleay Chronisle of the 21st inst says :—"The butter factory directors and managers of this river, and of the Hastings, have shown themselves alive to the true import of the claims of the Cold…

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All Is Mine

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 12 July 1911 · page 7

I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine; The orchards and the mowing-fields, The lawns and gardens fine…

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Common Among Miners

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 July 1911 · page 8

"Like many other-miners I contracted a severe cold, through coming out of the hot mine into the [?] air," says Mr. W. Grouch of T[?] st…

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Wireless Between Mines

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 July 1911 · page 9

Mrs. Leinbach and Loewy, two German scientists have established an underground system of wireless communication. They have succeeded in…

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Opaque Darkness. Fire in a Mine

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 October 1911 · page 2

I had known darkness before—the darkness of the mine, darkness that meant a complete absence of light—but here was an opaque darkness, a…

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Fire in a Sulpher Mine. Over 100 Men Hopelessly Entombed

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 28 October 1911 · page 6

Upwards of 100 lives are believed to have been lost through an outbreak of fire in the sulphur mines at Trabonella, in Sicily…

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Mount Copeland Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1911 · page 11

It is reported that at the Mount Copeland Mine a crushing of about 400 tons of stone has just been completed, and the tables are being clean…

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Mining

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 2

Mount Copeland Mine cleaned up an other crushing on Monday last, says the "Gloucester Pioneer." We have not beard, nor could we ascertain, the…

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Bathing in Gold

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 7

A Parisian journalist who had speculated in railway Shares, won 200,000 francs as the result of a lucky venture. Drawing it in gold he…

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The Storage of Coal

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 9

Experiments have been made in Germany, says the "English Mechanic," with a view to ascertain the best means of preserving coal from deterioration…

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A Funeral in a Mining Camp

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 5

The following story of a funeral in a Californian mining camp, is from the Sacramento "Transcript" of June 11, 1850.:…

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