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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1932

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New Guinea Goldfield. Edie Creek an El Dorado. Maitland Man's Story

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 October 1932 · page 4

Gold! Gold! Gold! The all-absorbing urge to discover the yellow metal has driven men from the icy water of the Arctic to the torrid…

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Gold in Motor Tyre

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 November 1932 · page 6

While examining the tyre of his cat for cause of a puncture at Kalgoorlie Mr. J. Wilson dug out a flat piece of metal about half the size of…

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Desert Gold and Its Discovery

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 4 November 1932 · page 1

"Mining Engineer" writes truthfully to the "Herald":— Having had forty years' mining in all parts of the world, 15 years of…

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The Lure of Gold When Prospecting Was Discouraged

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 November 1932 · page 5

As reported in a recent issue, William Ford, actual discoverer of the immense gold wealth of Coolgardie, died at his Chatswood…

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New Guinea Goldfields Edie Creek an El Dorado. Maitland Man's Story

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 November 1932 · page 6

Gold! Gold! Gold! The all-absorbing urge to discover the yellow metal has driven men from the icy water of the Arctic to the…

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Gold on the Upper Manning Letters of an Aborigine

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 November 1932 · page 7

It is widely believed that the average Australian aborigine is lacking in intelligence and ineffective in reasoning powers. This is surely refuted by the…

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Glimpses of Country Life. Gold on the Upper Manning. Letters of an Aborigine

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 9 November 1932 · page 4

It is widely believed that the average Australian aborigine is lacking in intelligence and ineffective in reasoning powers. This is surely refuted by…

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From Coal Making Empire's Petrol. Big Scheme

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 11 November 1932 · page 4

Cabled reports that Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., the giant British organisation, will probably commence commercial production of…

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Gold on the Upper Manning. Letters of an Aborigine

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 11 November 1932 · page 3

It is widely believed that the average Australian aborigine is lacking in intelligence and ineffective in reasoning powers. This is surely refuted by…

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New Guinea Goldfields

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 18 November 1932 · page 2

In a public lecture at the University, Mr. Leslie V. Waterhouse said that gold production from New Guinea up to June 30, 1932 amounted…

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Man's Last Stronghold Falls? Women Invade the Retreat of Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1932 · page 7

Feminism may have conquered the greatest portion of the world, but there are still, places in Europe where equality of sexes is not yet recognised, and…

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Gold Prospector Travelling to Afghanistan

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 25 November 1932 · page 2

Mr. Gilbert Paterson Blue, a 71-year-old prospector; arrived in Sydney ;a few days ago by the Maramen route for Afghanistan, where, he…

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Granites Gold-field

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 29 November 1932 · page 2

The following statement has been made by Mr. Charles Stevens and Mr R. D. Baker, who were members of the Chapman expedition at the…

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Richest Gold Find for Years

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 29 November 1932 · page 2

Giving evidence in the Warden's Court, Sydney Spicer admitted that 60 ounces of gold had already been obtained from his claim on the…

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Cigarette in Coal Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 2 December 1932 · page 4

A grave statement appears in the inspectors report on the disaster at Llwynypia Colliery, Glomorgan, last January when 11 men lost their lives…

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Diving for Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 2 December 1932 · page 2

An unusual method of seeking gold has-been adopted by a party-exploiting the deep waters of the Macquarie River, about 30 miles…

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Mining at Bucca Creek

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 December 1932 · page 3

The manager (Mr. W. J. Mulligan) of the company that is working the Taylor's Reward and Sunday Times mines at Bucca Creek has reported…

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Gold Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 9 December 1932 · page 2

Messrs. A. B. Hays and party have just clean-up a crushing of 20 tons of stone at the Mount Ninness mine, at Tucker's Creek. The yield was…

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Coal Gas As Motor Fuel

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 16 December 1932 · page 2

The employment of coal gas as a fuel for commercial motor-vehicles is being extended steadily in France. In ordinary service a five-ton…

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Buried Palace Found. Further Exploration. Bathroom and Gold Trinkets

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 23 December 1932 · page 4

Sir Flinders Petrie, the celebrated archaeologist, was to leave England recently for South Palestine, where he will continue the excavation of a…

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