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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

1,622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 82 of 82

The Coming Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 December 1919 · page 7

A new fuel was invented during the war, and is finding great favour with scientists. It consists of a "colloidal" fuel, composed of powdered waste coal and oil,…

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"Hanbury 'No. 2" Waratah Has a Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 December 1919 · page 3

Waratah aldermen received a letter from the Department of Labor and Industry, asking for a record of all working time lost at the council's colliery…

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