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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

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Enemy Gold Offer. German Banks Open to All Who Burn and Destroy

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 July 1918 · page 1

THROUGH Berne and Wireless Press we have a story of a secret circular fathered by the German army chiefs in the early months of the war. It…

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Enemy Mines. SYDNEY

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 August 1918 · page 2

Two enemy mines were discovered some distance off Green Cape, probably having drifted from old Gabo field One secured was towed to…

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Roofed with Gold. Wealth of Some Russian Cathedrals

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1918 · page 7

The recent decision of the Holy Synod not to accept responsibility for the safeguarding of property belonging to the Russian Orthodox…

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Colliery Trouble. Surface Workers Threaten to Strike. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 22 August 1918 · page 5

The Coal Controller announces that the surface workers at certain Yorkshire collieries threatened to strike, primarily over disputed hours of underground…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 4 September 1918 · page 2

A gold mining lease of 2 acres 10 perches has been granted to James Chambers in the parish of Wawgan, county of Gloucester…

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Mining Lease

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1918 · page 2

It is notified in the Government Gazette that after the 13th September that the mining lease of 10 acres parish of Hewong, county of…

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Coal Black. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 12 September 1918 · page 5

The secretary of the Broken Hill Trades and Labor Council received a telegram from Port Piric stating that coal had been declared black. At the…

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The Mine-sweepers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 13 September 1918 · page 6

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

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Japan to control big Chinese Mine

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 September 1918 · page 8

The "North China Daily News" learns that an agreement has been practically concluded with the Japanese Government under which the…

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How Russia Was Sold for German Gold

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 September 1918 · page 7

Countess von Schaumberg's revelations or rather confessions, are just now Europe's sensation. M. Miliukoff, the former Foreign Minister…

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Mine Mystery Cleared Up

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1918 · page 4

CAPTAIN F. DUNN, of Messrs. J. and A. Brown's tug Champion, has cleared up the mystery surrounding the appearance of a supposed floating mine off the North Coast…

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Mining Revival

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1918 · page 4

THE war and the high price of metals teem to have given an impetus to mining operations all over the State, and old shows are being re-opened and tested, and new ones…

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Gold Mining Lease

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 2 October 1918 · page 2

A gold mining lease of 5 acres Parish of Bindera, county of Gloucester, has been granted to Messrs. John Tresider, Ernest Davey, and Peter…

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News of the World. German Mines Exploded. Sir Ernest Shackleton Commands. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 3 October 1918 · page 4

A British expedition seized German mines in the Spitzbergen, exploding them in the Allies' interests. Sir Ernest Shackleton commanded the…

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The First Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1918 · page 3

THE recent display of a pared of alluvial gold in Sydney, with the announcement at [?] at it was discovered at [?] to an interesting…

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To Clean Gold Chains

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 October 1918 · page 2

Put the chain into a small glass bottle with warm water or eau-de-Cologne, a little camphorated chalk, and a little scraped soap. Cork the bottle, and shake it for a…

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Miners' Rights. Aborigines Holding Miner's Rights and Miner's Leases

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 October 1918 · page 3

Mr. R. Atkinson Price, M.L.A., writes:— A very important point has been raised in connection with miner's…

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Fortunes in Rubbish. Gold Found in Road Metal

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1918 · page 7

A road was being malo in Tasmania with stone from around the New Golden Mara property near Warratina when it was discovered that this…

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Mining Revival. on Hastings River

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 29 October 1918 · page 2

Much interest is centered in the mining revival now taking place at Mt. Jasper Copper Mine, through the enterprise and energy of Reynolds, Marshall and…

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Epidemic in Transvaal. Panic Amongst Native Miners. Capetown

Macleay Argus · Thursday 7 November 1918 · page 5

The influenza epidemic has caused a panic among the native mine workers in the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal. Large numbers having fled from…

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