First Coal From Coorabin. Sydney
An Albury message says the first truck of coal from the Coorabin mine was raised yesterday in the presence of one of the directors. The coal seam…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1924
81 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 5
Mining a Meteor
A buried mass of mineral, of incaluable value, is being, sought after down in the Canyon Diabolo, Coconino County, Arizona, by a group of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Trouble Brewing. Sydney
At the Pelaw Main, Richmond Main and Stanford Methyr colleries it was resolved that unless electric safety lamps were provided in the mines by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quest for Gold Perils of the Early Days
The perils of the gold prospecting days on the Murchison (W.A.) goldfields 20 years ago or more, when men went out on the waterless tracks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General. Miners' Big Wages
On Saturday the employees of four pits belonging to one firm in the Newcastle coalfields district received £35,000 in wages for their fortnight's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Looking for Gold Turf Trespasser Fined. Miner's Right As Excuse
A great, deal of amusement was caused in the Auckland Police Court recently by the remarks of on elderly man, Benjamin Barker, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Earnings. £35,000 a Fortnight
THE fortnightly pay distributed on the South Maitland coalfield on Saturday was heavy. Some pits scored a record. It is stated that [?]35,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Gold Brick" Dodge
The London Daily Mall disclosed a fraud by means of which swindlers got £10,000 from a baronet engaged in business in the North of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Science Discovers the Origin of Anthracite Coal
Nature went to quite a lot of trouble in making anthracite coal. Scientists tell us that anthracite once upon a time was bituminous. They say…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Local Bush a Field That Failed. Typical Incident of the Gold Days
The old making town was all excitement. News had been brought in that payable gold had been struck in a gully only a few miles away from the old,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Reserve
Commonwealth Bank and Treasury officials have been engaged for a fortnight in supervising the removal of fourteen million sovereigns from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →America's Hoard of Gold
The United States net gold imports in 1923 were worth 60 million pounds. "We already had, at the beginning of the year, vastly more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Industry. Remission of Taxation Requested
Proposals that the gold mining industry should the afforded remission of taxation until the mines are working on economically payable basis,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Lead Mine's Secret
A romance of half a century ago was disclosed at Matlock, England, the other day, when the King's Barmaster gave away for a nominal fee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rich Gold Find. Sydney
Rich alluvial gold has now been discovered at the Bribbaree mining field, 30 miles west of Young. In addition to reefs being worked at a depth of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rich Gold Returns. Sydney
A Perth message says over 300 ounces of gold has been obtained by Carlson and son within a week from the new find on Caledonia Flat. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deep Mines of the World
Old mines are not very deep, and deep mines are not very old, on the average (writes Dr. Thomas T. Read in the "Industrial Australian and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forest Are on North Coal
The Under Secretor Lands for wards Mr. R. S. Vio. M.L.A. the following information. Consequent upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opossum Skins. Source of Wealth. Practically Equals Gold Yield Brisbane
What he described as startling figures showing the return Queensland received from the sale of opossum skins was quoted in the Assembly by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oil Shale "Millions of Tons." Re-opening Murrurundi Mine
According to the Melbourne "Sun" Murrurundi is credited with possessing 9,000,000 tons of shale, which contain more than…
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