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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1954

51 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 3

Gold Coast-kenya for Empire Games

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 7: A record number of twenty-four countries have nominated competitors for the Empire…

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Miners Gave Up First Day's Pay

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Jan. 12. -- Miners at Cobar colliery yesterday gave their first day's pay since the annual holidays to the…

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Mine Production Of Gold Increased

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 6

Mine production of gold in Australia in the 10 months ended October last was 874,996 fine oz…

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Gold Mining Soon On The Hastings

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 4

Serviceable mining plant was to be bought for a gold mine at Cell's Fields, near Doyle's River and a new…

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Coal For Plastic, Other By-Products

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 5

CESSNOCK. -- The Municipal Council has appointed a committee to press for the development of the Holland coal…

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Fire Threat to State Coal Mine

Macleay Argus · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 1

LITHGOW, Jan. 17: The next twenty-four hours is likely to decide if the seals in the State coal mine will…

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Gold Mining in Hastings District

Macleay Argus · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 7

Serviceable mining plant was to be bought for a gold mine at Cell's Fields, near Doyle's River and a new…

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Further Order for N.s.w. Coal

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 10 February 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A further order for an additional 120,000 tons of New South Wales coal, has been…

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There Is Much Gold In Oceans

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 3

There is a tremendous amount of gold in all the oceans of the world, but it is so thinly distributed that…

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Coal Mine Fire Burning 14 Years

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 7

The biggest coal fire in the world has, for the past 14 years, been burning through an abandoned coalmine deep…

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Mining Uranium by Open Cut

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 7

DARWIN: Mining at Rum Jungle uranium field will be completely reorganised shortly…

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Black Sand Mining Concerns Shire

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 14 April 1954 · page 1

Macleay Shire Councillors have expressed some concern in regard to the damaging effect that black sand mining in this district may have on Shire roads. The Shire has decided to confer with the Mines…

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Gold Coast Scheme Would Cost £144M

Macleay Argus · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 7

ACCRA (Gold Coast).--Experts' reports due this year will decide the future of the £144,000,000 sterling, 10-year Gold Coast Volta River Scheme, which would create the…

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Mining Begins

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 4

Operations for the extraction of minerals from sands have commenced on the Lighthouse Beach Port…

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Mining On Beach Begins

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 1

Operations for the extraction of minerals from sands have commenced on the Lighthouse Beach, Port…

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Rich Coal Seams Found in Scotland

Macleay Argus · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 5

Bonnie Scotland is getting a "shot in the arm" as the result of the discovery that at Monktonhall, Midlothian,…

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Beach Mining Proposal Will Be Investigated

The Northern Champion · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 2

Manning Shire Council's Health Inspector, (Mr. J. Dowsett) will investigate all aspects of an application for a special lease to mine beach sands between Crowdy and Diamond Heads…

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Mining Rights Not Completed

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 4

The Shire Clerk (Mr. L. H. Donald) told Monday's meeting of the Shire Council that final arrangements…

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Gold Coming Again on Open Market

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 5

The news that six private firms in London have quietly resumed the buying and selling of gold on an open market after a lapse of 15 years, has moved New York's "Wall Street Journal" to comment that…

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International Court Hearing Dispute on Gold

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 1

LONDON, May 11: The International Court of Justice, at The Hague, has commenced hearing of a…

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