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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

132 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 7

The Valla Mines

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 7

In March,1930, I paid a visit to the Valla Mines, and was pleased to see that the old show had been resuscitated under the capable…

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Coal Industry Proposed Legislation Board to Have Wide Powers

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 3

A bill which will make vital changes in the conduct and control of the coal-mining industry has been prepared by the State Cabinet, and will be…

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Gold!

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

Mr. James McLaughlin, of the Lansdowne, informed me that he has spent some considerable time in searching the mountains for a gold-bearing quartz…

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Reported Gold Discovery

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

It is stated on reliable authority, that a very promising quartz reef has been unearthed on the Cells Creek. Very good prospects are said…

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Revival in Gold Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 1

Whether it be due to the assistance given prospectors by the late and continued by the present Government, or whether because of so…

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Gold Mining at Copeland. Increased Activity

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 2

The Government's gold prospecting scheme has created new interest in gold mining in Copeland aud brought men in from outside to…

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Gold, the Arbiter of Destiny. Sir Josiah Stamp Explains an Intricate Subject

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 1

"It is rather extraordinary how widely spread the belief still is that the Gold Standard leaves the country adopting it in a position of…

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Gold Mining at Copeland Increased Activity

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 25 February 1931 · page 1

A correspondent writes as follows to the Gloucester "Advocate": The Government's gold prospecting scheme has created new interest in gold,…

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Gold Mining at Copeland. Increased Activity

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 7

The Government's gold prospecting scheme has created new interest in gold mining in Copeland and brought men in from outside to…

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The Gold Standard

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 7

Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Lang are both in favor of altering the gold standard, with this difference that Mr. Lloyd George is against…

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Gold. Discovery Near Nymboida River

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 3

Messrs. Joe Cork and Ted Moseley, two prospectors, brought to town, says Dorrigo "Gazette," several samples of quartz which were…

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Search for Gold. To the Editor "Wingham Chronicle."

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 3 March 1931 · page 1

Sir,—The formation of the Gold Search Association interests me exceedingly; with many others, I believe it to be a national undertaking,…

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Gold Safely Housed

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 8

Rex Miller, correspondent of Boston Monitor, writing from Paris says:—More than half of France's enormous gold reserves, amounting in all to more…

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Dorrigo Gold

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 18 March 1931 · page 4

Much excitement was caused at Dorrigo last week end when Messrs. Moseley, Thompson and Cork brought in a large number of stones studded…

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Wonderful Gold Romance

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 8

Imagine two poor men after a hard day's work with nothing to reward them for their toil, and little to sustain them but the hope that…

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"Dawn of a Better Day" Gold Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 1

Mr. Archibald Taylor, a prospector, has been searching for that elusive metal, gold, in the region of Whispering Gully. He has been busy with…

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Dr. Page Suggests Gold From France

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 2

Speaking in the House of Representatives last Friday on the Fiduciary Bill, Hon. Dr. Earle Page suggested a gold loan of £15,600,000 from France…

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A Lad and a Bag of Gold

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 April 1931 · page 9

There is an old story which tells of a king who offered a bag of gold to the one who should travel best over a wonderful new road which had just…

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Gold

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 4

Much activity is being displayed in the Coff's Harbour district in the search for gold, and from the latest information to hand it appears as if…

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Dorrigo Farmer's Secret. Rich Gold Reef

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 6

An inspector of the Mines Department of New South Wales, who visited Dorrigo this week, came across a farmer in Eastern Dorrigo who has a…

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