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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

103 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 6

Mining Lease

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 2

A mining lease of 5 acres parish of Bindera, county of Gloucester, has been granted to Messrs. Edgar Taylor and Walter Bennett…

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The World's Gold

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 3

Taking the present position of the world at large, there is no doubt whatever as to the fact of paper money inflation…

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Gold Mining Lease

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 13 September 1916 · page 2

It is notified in the Government Gazette that the application of Allert G. Chapman for a gold mining lease in the Parish of…

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Mining at Macksville

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 4

Mr. A. McKay, of Macksville, has recently taken up a lease of 80 acres at Gumma for mining purposes. He has since sent a…

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Gold Find

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1916 · page 2

It is reported that Mr. Ratley has discovered good alluvial gold on the banks of the Mumel River, Cooplacurripa, west of the old…

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An Ice Mine

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 3

Unbelieveable as it may seem, there exists at Coudersport. Pennsylvania, an ice mine. It was discovered some 18 years ago by a farmer who, noting a…

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General News Locked Up Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 October 1916 · page 1

A servant girl was sent to gael for fix months at Blackpool for Mealing £134 from a lady who elated in court that "she locked…

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Gold Mining Lease

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 18 October 1916 · page 2

It is notified in the Government Gazette that the undermentioned lease has been cancelled: Craven's Geld Ltd. 4 acres, parish Craven,…

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"Widow Green." the Record Lady-gold-winner

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 October 1916 · page 6

By far the most arresting figure in the American galaxy of lady-gold-winners is that most remarkable of women, '"Widow Green," as she is…

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The Miners Corps at the Front

The Northern Champion · Saturday 28 October 1916 · page 4

The Miners' Corps, fighting on the Somme Cables:—"We want more men; vote "Yes" and send us reinforcements without delay."…

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Collieries Idle

Macleay Argus · Friday 3 November 1916 · page 7

Thirteen collieries in Newcastle and Maitland districts are idle owing to the eight hour question…

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The Coal Crisis. Mines Idle. Sydney

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 3 November 1916 · page 4

As a result of directions given by the delegate board of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation practically all the collieries in the…

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Lithgow Collieries Idle. Men in Sympathy with the Northern Miners. Later

Macleay Argus · Friday 3 November 1916 · page 7

All Lithgow collieries are idle to-day, as the men, being affiliated with the northern miners, came out to help them obtain their demands…

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The Coal Crisis

Macleay Argus · Friday 3 November 1916 · page 7

There is no stoppage of the coal mines at Lithgow where, it is understood, only eight hours from bank to bank are being worked. The position…

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Mr. Hoyle As Minister for Mines, Labor and Industry

Macleay Argus · Friday 3 November 1916 · page 7

Mr. H. C. Hoyle (Surry Hills) has been sworn in as Minister of Mines, Labor and Industry…

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The Coal Crisis. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Saturday 4 November 1916 · page 5

A Conferences between the coal owners and employees yesterday was abortive. The obstacle is the eight hours from bank to bank question…

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General News Kruger's Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 8 November 1916 · page 1

Another attempt, the seventh, is to be made to salve the sailing vessel Do[?] then Organison, which was sunk in 1897 near Delagoa…

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The Coal Crisis

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 November 1916 · page 4

The coal strike has extended. The General Laborers and Railway Workers' Union instructed its members on Saturday night to refuse to load coal…

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Better than Gold

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 November 1916 · page 11

Britain's insistence on paying for American purchases in gold is causing uneasiness in financial circles, which were beginning to favor the…

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The Coal Crisis. Still Unsettled. Sydney

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 November 1916 · page 4

Mr. Hoyle, Minister for Labour, conferred with Mr. Hughes and Mr. Jensen when in Melbourne with regard to the coal strike. Certain…

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