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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1938

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Minister for Mines Opens Campaign. Hon. R. S. Vincent at Coff's Harbour

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 4

Mr. Roy Vincent, Minister for Mines and Forests, and member for Raleigh in the State Parliament, addressed an enthusiastic open-air…

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New Baker's Creek Gold Mine

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 March 1938 · page 5

Mr. Thomas Snow, manager, reports under date 2338: Since my last report, and for the week ending 28th February, operations in the mine have…

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Two Miners Overwhelmed. Brisbane

Macleay Argus · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 10

Two miners, Kevin Johnson (21) single, and Frederick Winters (22), single, were killed when they were engulfed by tons of ore which rushed…

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New Baker's Creek Gold Mine

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 4

Mr. Thomas Snow, Manager, reports: "Since my last report, and for the month ending 31st March, 1937, all work in the mine has been…

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Gold Production. Increase in Australia

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 14 April 1938 · page 3

Australia's gold production in the first two months of this year was substantially greater than in January and February last year…

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Increased Gold Production

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 16 April 1938 · page 1

Australia's gold production in the first two months of this year was substantially greater than in January and February last year. The yield…

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Red Gold Rush. Undeveloped Fields in Russia

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1938 · page 3

My friends in America are astonished when I tell them that an unadvertised gold rush has been taking place during the past five years in…

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Coal Control

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 May 1938 · page 8

London news says that on April 5 the House of Commons approved and sent to the House of Lords a bill calling for public control of Great Britain's…

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Brisbane or Coal

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 May 1938 · page 1

At recent meeting of the Clarence River County Council the urgent necessity for providing against possible shortage of power during drought…

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Shod With Gold. The Roaring Days

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 2

We hear much about horses being shod with gold in the old digging days, but there appears to be only two authentic instances of such on record…

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Coal Prices May Increase. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 5

It was stated yesterday that coal prices will almost inevitably advance if the Miners Federation succeed in its campaign during the next three…

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C.r.j.c. Gold Cup Meeting

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 12

The programme for the gold cup meeting of the Clarence River Jockey Club, to take place on July 20th, 21st and 23rd, appears elsewhere in…

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Rumination-Review-Reminiscence Sir Joseph Cook and our Iron Ore Deposits--Estimates Based on Insufficient Information--New Caledonia Deposits not Available to Australia--Geologists Whose Own Mining Ventures Have Failed--A Personal Experience Recalled in Proof that Basaltic Intrusions are not Always Superficial

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 2

I note that Sir Joseph Cook, in a press interview last week-end, commenting on the Federal Government's decision to prohibit the export of iron…

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Miners Refuse Work. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 June 1938 · page 12

After the funeral of James Harrower, who was killed in Aberdare Central Colliery on Tuesday by a fall of coal, the miners held an…

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Fall of Coal Traps Two Brothers. One Dead, One Rescued. Cessnock Mine Tragedy

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 28 June 1938 · page 1

Two brothers. James Harrower, 42, and Peter Harrower, 48. both in merried were trapped in Aberdare Contral Colliery a few miles from…

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Northern Gold

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 4

Walk along the beaches, after storm has lashed the waters of the Baltic Sea into foam and tossed the treasures of its bed along the white…

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The Turf. C.r.j.c. Gold Cup Meeting

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 5

Horse owners and trainers are reminded that entries for the minor events on the first and second days of the C.R.J.C. Gold Cup meeting close…

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Our Mail Bag. "Rube and Mining Matters. (To the Editor.)

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 2

Sir,--Many have expressed the view that the article in your issue of 10th June, written by "Rube" on mining matters, is an indirect attack upon…

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Blacker Than Coal

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 3

To the most of us coal seems to be the limit of blackness, but there is one substance that is much blacker; Silica Black. It is formed of coal…

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New Baker's Creek Gold Mine

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 4

Mr. Thos. Snow, manager, reports for month ending June 30th: Main shaft: We have timbered the north shaft 60ft. collared up the surface,…

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