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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1929

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Gold Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 2

Messrs W. and E. Harris, who are working Messrs Webeck's lease at Copeland, put 12 tons of stone through the battery for a return of…

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Gold Extraction—a New Process

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

A great deal of interest has been created by the announcement made in London by Dr. K. B. Edwards that experiments with a modified…

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Gold Mining

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 5

Messrs. W. and E. Harris, who are working Messrs. Webeck's lease at Copeland, put 12 tons of stone through the battery for a return of 61 ounces…

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Promising New Gold Find

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

The report is current in town that Messrs Burley and Ninness have finalised the sale of their gold mining leases near Tucker's Creek, beyond…

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Fountain Pen Tips Osmiridium Mining

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 3

In the early days Tasmanian prospectors operating in the north-west of the island found a rich belt of country which yielded a variety of mineral…

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Fine Gold of Business

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 7

There is an honor in business that is the fine gold in it; that reckons with every man justly; that loves light; that regards kindness and fairness…

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Coastal Steamer Has Rough Time. Ran Out of Coal in Teeth of Gale

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

The North Coast S.N. Co's steamer Arakoon, which left Coff's Harbor for Sydney on Saturday, had a rough trip down the coast, owing to the strong…

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Gold Discovery

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

We understand that gold has been struck at a spot some little distance North of Mount George. No less than '250' acres have been…

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Current Topics Reported Gold Discovery

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

It is reported that gold has been discovered at a spot some little distance north of Mount George. A total of 250 acres have been pegged…

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Gold Discovery Near Mt. George

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

The Wingham "Chronicle" states that it is reported gold has been discovered at a place a little north of Mount George, and that no less than…

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Price of Coal

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 2

According to Mr. Hoare (President of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation) certain mine owners on the Newcastle field are prepared to…

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Ablaze for 2500 Years Wingen's Mountain of Coal

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 8 February 1929 · page 2

Discussing the famous burning mountain at Wingen, near Scone, Mr. J. H. M. Abbott, in the course of an interesting article, says:--…

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Lost Coal Trade

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 4

A MESSAGE from Newcastle to the "Evening News" says: A large shipping company, which always bunkered its vessels with Newcastle…

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C[?] Places of Worship. a Chapel in a Coal Pit

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 8

The mines chapel in Mynnd Mcniggd Colliery at Swansea, where for a period extending over half a century the toilers of the mine have…

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The Coal Conference

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 27 February 1929 · page 2

The Miners' delegate attending the conference at Canberra agreed to submit certain proposals to the unions without recommendations and allow…

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A Half-Quid Beat Him First Time He'd Seen a Gold Coin

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 7

The novel plea that his client had never seen a sovereign before, and did not know its value, was made by Mr. H. L. Haynes (once of Wingham)…

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Pedigree Gold Fish

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 6

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

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Big Shrinkage. 1928 Coal Output

The Northern Champion · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 6

In his annual report on mineral production in New South Wales, during 1928, the Under-Secretary for Mines, Mr. F. S. Mance, shows that the…

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Do Possibility of Coal Mines Re-opening. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 3

It is understood that the northern colliery proprietors do not intend to make any further move for the present. They contend it is useless to offer…

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Gambler's Gold. Winnings in Death

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 13 March 1929 · page 5

An extraordinary tragedy of the gaming tables of the Riviera will shortly come up in the Paris law courts…

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