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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

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Mining in the Air. Untold Wealth From a New Industry

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1923 · page 7

If scientific discoveries go on at their present rate, we may soon find that the things we now hold most cheaply are those of the greatest…

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Rich Gold Find

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 20 March 1923 · page 1

Reports of the new gold find at Cudal state that the discovery was made in the hills to the south east at a place which residents assert is…

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Coal Miners. Baddeley Says No Stoppage. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 March 1923 · page 5

Northern coal owners think if the Goal Tribunal's decision on the wages question goes against the miners the latter will strike. The Northern coal…

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Miners' Wages

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 27 March 1923 · page 2

Mr. Hibble (Chairman of the Coal Tribunal) has refused the proprietors' application for reduction in miners' wages. After weighing all…

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Gold Circulation

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1923 · page 4

The reported prediction that gold would circulate in Australia within a year was referred to recently. Mr. Collins, Secretary of the Treasury,…

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Traffic in Gold. Huge French Organisation

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1923 · page 4

A HUGE organisation for trafficking in gold hoarded by French peasants has been discovered at Marseilles (says a message from Paris) following on the…

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Still Critical. Maitland Colliery Troubles. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 5

The position at the Maitland coalfields is still critical. Four more mines were idle yesterday, but five others have resumed. Eleven of the largest…

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Coolongolook News. Mining Possibilities

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 4

The district was visited last week by Mr. Dawson a well-known prospector and mining expert. After a careful inspection of the formation…

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Miners Versus Magistrate

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 2

There is unique trouble down at Cessnock. All the collieries were idle one day last week. This decision was arrived at as a protest against Major…

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Seventeen Collieries Idle. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 April 1923 · page 5

The dispute in the coal industry is without alteration still. Seventeen collieries are idle and more than 7000 men but the miners secretary asserts…

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Gold Circulation

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 April 1923 · page 6

The reported prediction that gold would circulate in Australia within a year was referred to recently. Mr. Collins, Secretary of the Treasury, said…

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Gold by the Pound

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1923 · page 7

A nugget of pure gold weighing no less than five pounds was found recently in California. Its discoverers were two elderly men who had…

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Telegrams. the Coal Strike. Fizzling Out. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 3

Only three out of 22 mines on the Maitland field were working yesterday, but the dispute has been settled at the Dudley colliery…

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The Ocean As a Gold Mine. Facts About Sea-water

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 7

Of what does the sea consist? The obvious answer, of course, is water, but the ocean contains many other things…

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Too Much Gold. America's Problem, Control of Industry

The Northern Champion · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 8

Some twenty years ago an American millionaire named Letter, gained notoriety by an attempt to corner the world's…

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Colliery Proprietors Confer. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 24 April 1923 · page 2

The colliery proprietors meet to-day to discuss the miners' request, for a conference, which will probably be granted…

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Why the French Need Coal?

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 25 April 1923 · page 2

"If you will follow me, I will tell you what I saw in a day's inspection of the Lens mining district in 1920," said R M. Bryan, of New York, before…

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Like Gold Rush

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1923 · page 4

Recently there was 300 tons of seed cotton stored in the Rockhampton ginnery. So far there are 270 tons, valued at £14,000, stored there. The…

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Another Gold Discovery. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 3

An important gold discovery is reported from Yeoval, near Cumnock. Some specimens assayed up to 30 ounces per ton…

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Telegrams. the Coal Dispute. Settlement Improbable. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 3

The coalowners are, it is stated, prepared to meet the situation if the miners declare a general strike. Aggregate meetings of the miners…

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