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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1953

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Miners Return After Holiday

Macleay Argus · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun. -- Tomorrow 26,000 miners throughout the State will return to work after their…

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£5573M. in Gold Audit Wanted

Macleay Argus · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 4

WASHINGTON. -- A Republican member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Carroll D. Kearns, of…

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New Discovery Of Gold. September 6, 1873

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 4

A correspondent writing from Nowendoc says: A new discovery lias just been made at a point about…

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Further News Of Nowendoc Gold Fields. August 9, 1873

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 4

Gold digging is very slack just at this time, nothing new found. Weather too cold and wet for prospecting. About…

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Higher Coal Production

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 21 January 1953 · page 7

Coal output in 1952 was just under 225 million tons, according to provisional figures issued by the U.K…

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U.s. Claim to New Guinea Gold

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 6

PORT MORESBY. --Four New York citizens and a naturalised Swede have claimed all mining rights…

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Gold Blast From U.s

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 8

The hopes of Australian gold producers will not be raised by this counterblast to the case for a higher gold…

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Oil From Coal

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 18 February 1953 · page 8

JOHANNESBURG. -- On former maize fields 15 miles from Vereeniging, on the banks of the Vaal River, huge steel and concrete structures and cranes today break the skyline of what only nine…

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Mines To Resume

Macleay Argus · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun. -- Four coal mines in the South Maitland and Newcastle areas will resume work tomorrow after…

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Coal Production Causes Concern

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- In New South Wales, during January, coal production reached the high peak of…

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Nymboida Coal Could Be Big Industry

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 3

Nymboida Colleries Pty. Ltd., could easily develop into a huge industry which would prove of immense value to the prosperity of the Clarence River District…

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Assist Miners to Other Areas

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues. -- The N.S.W. Colliery Proprietors' Association have opened a fund to assist miners, and…

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Sub Full Of Mines

Macleay Argus · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 1

OSTEND.-- Salvage work on a German submarine off the coast halted abruptly--diver's found five tons of…

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Gold Coast Volta River Project

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 5

The Volta River project in the Gold Coast is an ambitions scheme for the joint development of resources of water power and bauxite, and the production of aluminium by the United Kingdom and the Gold Coast Government…

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And Gold in Streets of Kempsey

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 1

Closest Bill Smith, the barber, had ever been to big money is through selling tickets in New South Wales…

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The Homes Disappear in Mine Subsidence

Macleay Argus · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sun. -- Ten homes practically disappeared in a subsidence which occurred at Pelaw Main, near Kurri Kurri, shortly after 2.30 this afternoon…

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Myall Fishing Club Alarmed at Pippy "Mining"

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 8 April 1953 · page 8

Officials of the Myall Fishing Club at the week-end expressed consternation at the prospect of extensive…

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Curly Haired Aborigine Wore Gold Ear Rings

The Northern Champion · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 1

A wine saloon proprietor was fined £2 at Taree Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a charge of supplying…

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Atomic Power Instead of Coal

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 5

MONTREAL, Tues.: The well known atomic power scientist, Dr. Robert Spence, said today that Britain is…

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Macleay Shire Objects to Beach Mining

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 1

The Macleay Shire has decided to object to proposed mining operations on Smoky Cape beach unless provision is made for protection of the Smoky Cape reserve and the road in that vicinity…

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