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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

171 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 6 of 9

Next Saturday's Game. For Bridge Gold Cup

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 August 1933 · page 4

Coff's Harbour Cup Team are coming by special train, Saturday next, to try and lift the Bridge Gold Cup from Kempsey. The Coff's team members…

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Gold Standard

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1933 · page 2

Referring to the currency confusion, the "Daily Telegraph" says that the pound and dollar last week were each left to find their own levels, the…

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Craven Creek. Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1933 · page 2

Mr. Claude Bartlett and pasty have the contract for the shaft at the Kin San Mine and have started sinking operations with six men. The reef…

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Football. Bridge Gold Cup Content. Coff's Defeat Kempsey in Clean, Fast Game

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 29 August 1933 · page 5

Coff's Harbor played the Kempsey Cup team on the Forth-street sports ground on Saturday last for the Bridge Gold Cup, donated by Mr. C…

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A Mining Farmer

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1933 · page 7

A peculiar point arose in the Mining Warden's Court at Inverell last week in a case in which the Warden, Mr. Carr-Boyd. heard a complaint by…

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Football Coff's Harbour Defeats Kempsey. For Bridge Gold Cup

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1933 · page 8

Kempsey Cup Team quickly lost the Gold Cup recently presented by Mr. Claude Bridge, for Coff's Harbour took it on Saturday with an 11 to 7…

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Gold Mining an Interesting Letter From New Guinea

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 1 September 1933 · page 6

Mr. Don McRae, of Barrington, recently received the following interesting letter from Mr. Joe Bryan, of Surprise Creek, via Wau, New…

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Gold Can Be Made. At Last Scientists Are Discovering the Secret

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1933 · page 2

Can gold be manufactured? This is a question which has fascinated the best scientific minds for hundreds of years…

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Nugget Worth £280. Found in Victorian Mine

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1933 · page 2

A nugget of gold weighing about 35 ounces was found at a small mine at Main Lead by Messrs. Hamilton and T. McNish. The gold is worth…

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Gold New Record Price. Further Rise Forecasted. London, September 3

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1933 · page 2

Gold reached a new high level yesterday, when an advance of /6½ brought the price to £6/11/3 per fine ounce…

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Highest Gold Price 37/- for Sovereigns. Sydney

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 6 September 1933 · page 2

The Commonwealth Bank has fixed the price of gold at £7 7s 9d per standard ounce of 22 carats, equal to £8 1s 2d fine. This is the highest price for gold…

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Price of Gold. Highest Ever Recorded. Shares in Demand. Sydney

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 2

The present price of gold is the highest ever recorded in Australia, and it is having a remarkable effect on production, and consequently on…

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Price of Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1933 · page 4

The present price of gold, [?]7/7/9 a standard ounce (22 carats), equal to [?]8/1/2 an ounce fine, is the highest ever recorded in Australia, and…

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Can Gold Be Made

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 6

Can gold be manufactured? This is a question which has fascinated the best scientific minds for hundreds of years…

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Football. Bridge Gold Cup Game. Coff's Harbor Defeat Kempsey

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 5

On Sunday last the executive of the Macleay League chartered a special train to Convey the Kempsey Cup team and its supporters to Coff's…

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Bars of Gold Worth £12,000 Brought in by Two Prospectors Kalgoorlie

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 2

Great excitement was caused in Kalgoorlie to-day, when two prospectors, Ivan Kozul and T. Mullin, who have been working a prospecting…

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Drake Gold

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 2

Recent news from Drak'e says it has been stated on reliable authority that an official assay of ore from the reef at Gough's Gully mine, owned by Mr…

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Mines to Reopen. Jelleindore Preparations. Lithgow

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 2

About 25 men who have been engaged by the Blue Talisman Gold Mining Co. at erecting machinery on its leases near Jelleindore…

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Gold Ore Mixed with Concrete in Bridge Foundations

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 6

There are not many bridges throughout the world that can boast of the fact that they have gold ore mixed in their concrete foundations,…

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Rich Gold Prizes in Old Mines

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1933 · page 1

There's no need to-day to blaze new trails and prospect in virgin country for the world's most alluring commodity…

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