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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

68 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 4

Lured by Hun Gold. How Germany Secures Food From Neutrals

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 March 1918 · page 7

"In view of the fact that Germany wantonly provoked this war and carried it on atrociously, every nation ought to have boycotted her," says Mr. J. C. Van der Veer (London…

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The Eugowra Gold Escort Robbery

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 22 March 1918 · page 2

A paragraph recently appeared in this paper copied from Grenfell "Record," with reference to some strange and mysterious doings in the Wheago…

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Far Better Than Coal

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 29 March 1918 · page 6

An American mining engineer has come to England with an invention for using nitrogen as an energy-producer in place of coal, at a fraction of the…

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In the Gold Days. How Eaglehawk Was Named

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 8

Eaglehawk is a manning town in Vi[?] about four miles from [?]digo. It has a population of 8000. Shortly after its d[?]very many years ago,…

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Roumania's Gold Seized

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1918 · page 4

The Neue Freie Presse hears that the amount of gold belonging to Roumania seized by Russia was £20,000,000. The paper adds that Vienna and…

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Mine Explodes on Beach

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 1 May 1918 · page 4

Several men have been killed and others wounded by the explosion of a mine which was washed ashore on the coast between Deal and Ramsgate…

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Poetry the Mine-sweepers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 6

Out on the deep, The rolling deep, A mine-sweeper lurches and cleaves; Her bow abreast…

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A Floating Mine. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Saturday 4 May 1918 · page 4

A floating mine was sighted in the Pacific Ocean by a vessel which arrived in Sydney. The mine was toward for five hours but then, sank…

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Turkish Bath Torture. Hun Barbarity to Their Prisoners in Mines

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 2

Six prisone[?] of war who had escaped from German camps and landed in England during the week-end told of a new form of punishment devised for those…

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A Simple Coal Saver

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 May 1918 · page 4

From a large plant in Toronto, in Canada, a carl goes out every day to the restaurants round about collecting the used tea leaves. The tea thus…

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Serious Mine Accident. Two Men Killed

Macleay Argus · Thursday 23 May 1918 · page 5

A serious blasting accident occurred at the Sundown tin and copper mine, Ballandean, near Stanthorpe, about 3 p.m. on Thursday, 9th inst., where…

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Gold Finds

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 May 1918 · page 3

QUITE reminiscent of the days of the rich discoveries of the famous Long Tunnel mine was the finding on Saturday, at the 325ft. level, of very…

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Such Songs Have Been Mine

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 May 1918 · page 2

They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less. Of sound than of words. In lands where bright blossoms are scentless,…

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Lost Through Mines

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 2

The Premier has received a further letter from the Commonwealth Government respecting the disappearance of the steamers Port Kembla and…

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Old Days on the Goldfields. "Bulling the Spirit Casks

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 6

From reminiscences of Grenfell, now appearing in the colums of the local "Record":—"F. W. Barbar, bookseller and stationer, had been on the rush…

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Mining Leases

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1918 · page 2

It is notified in the Government Gazette of the 31st May that the gold mining lease of Ernest Mills and Arthur Holman Smith, of 9 acres in…

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Enemy Minefield. Off New Zealand. Two Mines Destroyed. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 13 June 1918 · page 5

An enemy minefield has been discovered ten miles off the shore between Cape Maria Van Dieman and North Cape, New Zealand. Two were…

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A Woman's Curiosity. Led to the Discovery of a Torquoise Mine

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1918 · page 7

Perhaps the first mine in all the world that has been discovered because of a woman's insatiable curiosity has been developed in the State…

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New Life for Mining. in West Australia

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1918 · page 3

ALL the best known milling men of West Australia have formed an association, called the Mining Association of West Australia, for the…

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Reduced British Coal Output. by Withdrawal of Miners. Economy Imperative. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 4 July 1918 · page 5

The Press Bureau states that the withdrawal of 75,000 miners from the British collieries involves a twenty-two and a half million tons reduced coal…

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