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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

117 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 6

Coal from Lithgow

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 10 January 1923 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners have arranged with the Lithgow collieries supply a large quantity of coal at reduced prices…

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France Imposes Duty on Coal. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 5

A Paris message says the French Rhine flotilla is participating in the Ruhr movement, policing the Rhine, tributaries and canals. France is…

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Scottish Coal. Shipments to Germany. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

A Glasgow message says all available export coal for January is booked for immediate shipment to Germany. Prices have riven 26 a ton for certain…

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Payment for Coal. Germany Takes Action. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

A Berlin message says the Government has instructed the mine owners not to give the French coal without payment. Disobedience will be…

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French Coal Tax. Penalty for Non-payment. Paris

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

The French are imposing a coal tax to-day. The mine owners' personal fortunes will be confiscated if the tax is not regularly collected…

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Coal Mines. Control Proposal

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 8

The suggestion has been made by Mr. Willis, secretary of the Coalminers' Union, that the Government should take over the control of…

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Synthetic Coal

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 7

Alehemy has yet to succeed in transmuting base metals into gold, but it appears that German science, having failed to achieve synthetic gold,…

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Gold Yield. Last Year's Decline. Output Lowest to Date

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 8

Last year the gold yield of New South Wales was the lowest recorded since the first discovery of payable gold in Australia in 1851…

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Germans Won't Work Mines. London

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 3

A Dusseldorf message says the miners have unanimously adopted a folded arms policy They will descend the mines, but won't work…

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Germany Buys Coal. London

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 30 January 1923 · page 3

Germany has purchased over 200,000 tons of Yorkshire, Derbyshire dan Notts coal for shipment during the next three months, at a cost of £330,000,…

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Gold in Victoria. Rich Find Near Beechworth. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 30 January 1923 · page 3

A rich gold yield is reported near Beechworth, Victoria, on the once famous Ovensfield. Five and a half tons were treated and returned 107 ounces…

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Ruhr Isolated. Coal Supplies Stopped. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 February 1923 · page 5

A Paris report says the Ruhr was effectively isolated from unoccupied Germany at midnight. All coal supplies were stopped…

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Dublin's Goldfield

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1923 · page 7

Dublin has been through some exciting times [?]lately. Is she doomed to go through more exciting times still ? This seems likely, if the theory of a…

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Coal Yield. Ten Million Tons Last Year. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 6 February 1923 · page 3

The Sydney Mines Department statistics for the year 1922 show the coal yield for the year amounted to 10,183,000 tons, which was only exceeded on…

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Gold Coinage

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 5

Gold coinage may be put in circulation in Great Britain during the present year…

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Miners' Wages. Suggestion of Fight. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 5

The Coal Miners' Federation is moving actively against the claims for a reduction in wages. It is suggested the miners should take the offensive…

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Will Gold Circulate ? £22,000,000 Held by Banks

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 20 February 1923 · page 4

The reported prediction that gold would circulate in Australia within a year was referred to on Saturday. Mr. Collins, secretary of the…

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Class Taxation. "Why Not Tax Coal-owners, Too?"

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1923 · page 2

The Progressive Party's antagonism to the threatened land tax may be gauged from a statement by Mr. Bruxner, leader of the party…

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Rich Gold Find. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 3

A rich gold find has been made at Bowan Park, pear Cudal, giving 116 ounces to the top…

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Rich Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 9 March 1923 · page 2

A phenonicnally rich gold find has been made in Carmen brothers' properly at Bowan Park, near Cudal. James Fairhall, a blacksmith, who…

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