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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

213 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 11

The Shyer Spur Mine. £1,000,000 Lying Idle

The Inverell Times · Friday 7 April 1916 · page 5

Undoubtedly the Silverspur Mine, near Texas, is one of the best propositions in Australia to-day (says the Brisbane "Dally Mail"), but it is…

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See the Gold

Guyra Argus · Thursday 13 April 1916 · page 4

Lo and behold the Gold! yes, what a tremendous quantity of it there is. And how yellow and glittering and attractive. And what a delightful specific…

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Coal Economy in Cas-making

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1916 · page 3

At a large gas plant in Holland the, experiment has been tried in mixing peat with the coal with excellent results. The quality of the gas is…

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Warden's Court. Monday, April 17th. 1916. Before Mr. W. L Perry, Mining Warden

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 21 April 1916 · page 2

E. R. Griffith v. J. Roach, forfeiture of race, Forfeited for failure to use continuously for one month for bona fide mining…

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Use of Pulverised Coal

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1916 · page 3

The combustion of a "spray" of coal dust blown into the fire box by a blast i of air is very nearly perfect, eliminating smoke, cinders, and firing tools. A…

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Mining. Malay Tin Dredging. Australia's Pioneer Work

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 28 April 1916 · page 2

More than one half of the world's production of the comes by way of the Straits Settlements The area embraced includes the Malay…

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Mining News

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 2

Rents are due on the undermentioned leases:—Melbourne Cope's Creek Tin Sluicing Co., N.L., c Hardinge, p Swinton; W…

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Carrying Gold at Sea

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 8

The specie locker of an ocean steamer is a carfefully constructed vault, and is located in the stern immediately over the screw. It has the…

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The War. German Mine Sweepers. Sunk by British Submarines. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 8 May 1916 · page 3

A Danish paper states that in October last eight German mine sweepers, Under the [?]liary ernlser Kaiser, anchored in the Sound at Jutland…

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Broken Hill Miners

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 9 May 1916 · page 2

An A.M.A, meeting at Broken Hill decided in the event of thelnauguration of conscription to call upon ah workers to down tools for 24 hours…

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Grain of Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 7

Do not let us wait to be just, or pitiful, or demonstrative towards those we love until they or we are stricken down by illness or threatened with death…

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Gold for China

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 4

Sydney, Thursday. — Two Chinese were arrested on the. steamer Empire yesterday, and charged with having in their possession more than the…

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Tingha Temporary Common. Victory for Miners

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 5

For some time past there has been conflict between the trustees of the Tingha Temporary Common and the miners. The latter claim that under the…

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Thrilling Escape. Submarine Strikes a Mine. London

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 4

A thrilling story has been made public of the narrow escape of a British submarine from total destruction by the explosion of a mine…

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Science Notes Carrying Gold at Sea

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 20 May 1916 · page 3

The specie locker of an ocean steamer is a carefully constructed vault, and is located in the stern, immediately over the screw. It has the shape of a half…

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Strikes a Mine. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 25 May 1916 · page 4

The German submarine [?] with a [?] and who damaged It was towed to [?]…

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West Australian Goldfields Vote [?] O'clock

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1916 · page 8

A [?] the West Australian goldfields [?] [?] districts inst [?] for the [?] Post of [?] the [?]…

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Mines in Artois. Failure of Enemy Attacks on the French

Guyra Argus · Thursday 1 June 1916 · page 5

Mr. H. Warner Allen, special correspondent of the British Press with the French armies, says the principal objectives of the German offensive in Artois during the last week in…

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The Brown Lode. Modern Mining Rush. Humorous Search for Claim

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 8 June 1916 · page 8

When the news-editor told me to write up the rush to the new gold [?]eld my chest went from its normal 42 inches to 16. I had been [?]…

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Gold King Knighted

The Inverell Times · Friday 9 June 1916 · page 5

George P. Doolette has been knighted; and that isn't going to make Australia think any better of the English system of bestowing fitles. Doolette…

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