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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1928

75 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 4

Where Gold is Eaten

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 7

The amount of gold turned into coin each year by the minis of the world is a more nothing to the huge quantity used in gilding picture-frames, painting signs, binding books, designing on…

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Pedigree Gold Fish

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1928 · page 3

Mr. B. Murata, a Japanese, has the distinction of being the "Gold Fish King," of America, and operates his remarkable "ranch" at San…

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New Guinea Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 2

A new goldfield on the banks of an unknown river in New Guinea is claimed to have been discovered by Mr. H. Lilley, who reached Sydney…

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Discoveries at Ur. Many Gold Relics

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1928 · page 1

MANY gold relics are among the discoveries at Ur of the Chaldees according to a report by the joint, expedition of the British Museum and the…

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Hidden Gold

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 2

In to-day's issue appears a new and interesting competition connected with the popular Granny Smith's Pure Food Products. Competitors are set…

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Future of Coal. Scientific Advance. Oil and Residual Fuel

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

"We are really on the threshold of a new era. We are beyond the experimental stage in obtaining oil from coal, and next year will reveal…

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Greatest Fire on Earth Started by Coal Strikers 43 Years Ago

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 1

A veritable mouth of Hell is open in Ohio, says the New York "Times." It is the greatest fire on earth. From the hill tops one sees as far as the…

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Haw Guinea Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 4

THE £20,000 worth of gold brought to Sydney but week from New Guinea by the Montoro brings the total to £352,502 worth that has been received…

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Treatment of Coal

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 2

Dvorkovitz, the Russian scientist who escaped after the Red fool-fury had sentenced him to death on the ground that a man who knew things…

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Road Paved with Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 3

British Columbia can vie with stories of the Arabian Nights since it has been discovered that a least one of its roads has been paved with gold…

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Prosperity Tin Mines

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 February 1928 · page 4

Thus the "Hastings Shire Gazette" of 16th inst.: "The first shipment of tin will leave Wauchope to-day for Sydney, from the Prosperity Tin…

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Mining

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 21 February 1928 · page 5

"Port Stephens Pilot":—Mr. W. Marsh has been prospecting in the Port Stephens district for the past few weeks, and we understand has…

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Lithgow Collieries Reduce Hands

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 2

The Lithgow Collieries have issued notice of dismissal to 174 men, including shiftmen, miners and surfacemen…

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Given Gold Watch

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 4

On Monday, February 20tb, at a joint farewell to four departing citizens, presided over by Mr. Albert Whatson, Coopernook School of Arts was…

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A Goldfield Romance

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 2

When sitting on the doorstep of an old assay office, long disused, in the Mr. M'Doriald district, Mr. Williams, a practical assayer, noticed the ground…

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Coal By-products German Proposal to Establish Works. Widespread Interest

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 1

Throughout the northern district coalfields widespread interest has been aroused in the German proposal to establish works for the extraction…

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Coal Mining Wages

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 4

Mr. C. M. Donald, addressing the Industrial Commissioner, said definitely that there must be a readjustment of wages and conditions in the coal…

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Coal Trade Slack

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 4

The Aberdare Central Colliery. owners served notices of dismissal. on 650 employees owing to slackness ^in the trade…

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Mine for Heat

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 April 1928 · page 2

In Spain, recently, a ton of coal sold for £42 On the Witwatersrand of South Africa there is a gold mine whose lower galleries, 7000 feet under-…

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Make Your Own Gold!

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 7

A new formula has been discovered for making synthetic gold by chemical means. One simply brings to a temperature…

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