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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1935

134 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 6 of 7

Scrap Metal. Yields £150 Worth of Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 23 August 1935 · page 1

Gold worth more than £150 was recovered from scrap metal recently obtained by a Perth foundry from a Jewish dealer…

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If We Could Make Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 7

Our imaginations are frequently being stirred by yarns of "gold-makers" who claim to have discovered the secret of making gold. With the great…

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Mining Act Amendments Licenses to Prospect on Private Land

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 1

A proclamation has been issued to the effect that the Mining (Amendment) Act, 1935, came into operation on July 15th, 1935. Two of the…

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Hatch Expedition Sought Lost Gold Reef. on Way Home

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1935 · page 1

The Hatch expedition, which set out from Tamworth for Central Australia on June 24 to locate the lost gold reef, is on its way back…

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C.w.a. Blue and Gold Ball. Popular Fixture Marred Bt Rain

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 September 1935 · page 6

It was unfortunate that weather conditions should have militated against the attendance at the C.W.A. blue and gold ball, held at the…

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Search for Synthetic Gold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1935 · page 7

Crouching over retorts and crucibles in various parts of the world, men are trying to find the recipe for synthetic gold…

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Diving for Gold

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 25 September 1935 · page 4

A novel method of recovering sunk-in-ocean gold appears in the attempts of the British steamer Ophir to salvage the safe of the lost liner Lusitania…

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Coal Strike. 400,000 Out in U.S.A. WASHINGTON

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 10

Four hundred thousand bituminous coal miners in 27 States are Idle today. Months of negotiations between the unions and the operators finished…

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Coal Strike. 400,000 Out in U.S.A. WASHINGTON

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 10

Four hundred thousand bituminous coal miners in 27 States are idle to-day. Months of negotiations between the unions and the operators finished…

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New Gold Reef. Value Estimated at £280,000,000

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 3

Hans Piron, a Government mining engineer, announces the existence of a gold reef with a value estimated at £280,000,000, running the full extent…

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The Lure of Gold

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 October 1935 · page 10

A crushing of 118 tons of ore at Long Tunnel mine, at Gund[?]gai. yielded 327oz. gold, equal to about £2500. This is the third prolific yield in…

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The Lure of Gold

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 October 1935 · page 10

A crashing of 118 tons of ore at Long Tunnel mine, at Gundagai, yielded 327oz. gold equal to about £2500. This is the third prolific yield in…

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New Gold Reef. Value Estimated at £280,000,000

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 October 1935 · page 10

Hans Piron a Government mining engineer, announces the existence of a gold reef with a value estimated at £280,000,000 running the full extent…

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New Gold Reef. Value Estimated at £280,000,000

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 October 1935 · page 10

Hans Piron. a Government mining engineer, announces the existence of a gold reef with a value estimated at £280,000.000, runing the full extent…

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Italian Gold Reserve London, 101035

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 October 1935 · page 5

The Italian gold reserve is now 27 per cent., the lowest for five years, due to heavy gold payments for supplies…

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Gold Reserve Low

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 October 1935 · page 4

London: The Italian gold reserve is now 27 per cent., the lowest for five years, due to heavy gold payments for supplies…

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Lasseter's Reef. Search Party Returns. Gold Specimens. Large Area Pegged Out

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 15 October 1935 · page 4

An expedition sent out 10 months ago by the Border Gold Reef, Sydney, to search for Lasseter's lost reef, returned to Adelaide on Friday…

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Pioneer's Memories. Wild Times With Bushrangers When Gold Was Won In Lumps

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 15 October 1935 · page 1

Mr. G. Burgess writes most entertainingly in "Molong Express" of the "good old days." Thrilling days they were, too, out west, Hearken:—…

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A Pioneer's Memories. Wild Times with Bushrangers When Gold Was Won in Lumps

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 18 October 1935 · page 3

Mr. G. Burgess writes most entertaingly in "Molong Express" of the "good old days." Thrilling days they were, too, out west. Hearken:—…

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Current Topics. Mining at Copeland

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 25 October 1935 · page 2

Mr. J. Hawes and party, who have been prospecting in the Black Prince—one of the early mines worked at Copeland—recently came upon a very…

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