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South Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1926

23 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

“Gold Heels” and “Teeth”

The South Coast Register · Friday 19 February 1926 · page 12

Fate, it would seem, was against “Checkers” Campbell, popular jockey. He was just dismissed by his employer because he brought across…

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Yalwal. The Goldfield Developments. Parched Grazing Lands En Route. Fodder on the River Farms. " If Dreams Come True--A Mountain of Gold."

The Nowra Leader · Friday 19 February 1926 · page 1

The Leader representative accepted an invitation from Mr. [?] Kimpton to visit Yalwal last week end where that gentleman is interested in a mining…

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Gold At Yalwal

The Nowra Leader · Friday 19 March 1926 · page 1

Last weet excellent results given out from surface ore of the newly acquired leasehol Yalwal. If gold grows at the…

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Gold Dust

The South Coast Register · Friday 2 April 1926 · page 6

“That boy knows how to take care of his gold dust,” said Tom’s [?] often to himself and sometimes loudly. Tom went to college, and every…

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Mystery Gold

The South Coast Register · Friday 2 April 1926 · page 2

“Mystery Gold,” by Bartlett Adamson, is a book you don’t want to put down once you have commenced to read it. It grips your interest…

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To Discover Gold

The South Coast Register · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 5

Mr. A. H. Perrott calle dat our office and told us that he intends carrying out his magnetic mining scheme as soon as the drought definitely…

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Worth Reading. "Excerpts from interesting Speech by the Chairman (Mr. George Crowley) of the City Mutual Life Assurance Society. Roaring Gold Days

The Nowra Leader · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 2

The new business figures of the various life offices afford possibly a [?]rly true index of the prosperity of a [?]untry, and, judging by that standard…

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Where the Gold Goes

The Bega District News · Thursday 6 May 1926 · page 3

The world's output of gold is enormous. Thirty-five years ago it was little more than twenty millions a year[?] now it is over one hundred…

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What Our Contemporaries Say Thought it was Coal

The South Coast Register · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 2

A few [?] [?]…

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Honey and Gold at Yalwal. Has a Bonanza Been Lost ?

The Nowra Leader · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 3

Two Nowra business men, afflicted with a sweet tooth, journeyed to the wilds of Yalwal a fortnight ago in search of bees' nests. Of these they found…

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Mining Matters

The Nowra Leader · Friday 27 August 1926 · page 1

A little while ago Mr. Geo. Fletcher and others located an ironstone outcrop in the vitiaily of Yerriyong and secured specimens from same…

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Gold! Gold!

The South Coast Register · Friday 10 September 1926 · page 4

THE gold fever is an incurable disease. HERE and there we meet [?] of [?] Tombaroora,…

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Selling Farmers a Gold Brick

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 September 1926 · page 1

The "Primary Producers' News," in an article dealing with the unfair representation allowed the producing interests at the Bathurst conference…

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Gold Wristlet Watch

The South Coast Register · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 5

[?] and Co. have presented a handsome gold wristlet watch for the best six [?] at the Church of England flower show. Kangaroo…

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Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot The Lure of Shoalhaven Gold A True Story of Billy Blue’s Reef

The South Coast Register · Friday 15 October 1926 · page 4

THE STORY of Billy Blue’s Reef is an epic story of an El Dorado that never existed. The tale of a an outcrop of pure gold, alleged to exist somewhere in the gorges of the Shoalhaven, has been the world over. This writer has heard it [?]…

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All Gold Fair

The Bega District News · Monday 25 October 1926 · page 2

The All Gold Fair, in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds, for which many of the members of the Church had been working hard for weeks…

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New Guinea Gold. Talk with Discoverer

The Bega District News · Thursday 28 October 1926 · page 1

Mr- A. F. Chisholm, one of the discoverers of -the Edie Creek goldfield, who arrived in Sydney some time ago, suffering: froms an injury…

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The Coal Miners To Boycott Wollongong Show

The Nowra Leader · Friday 29 October 1926 · page 2

At a meeting of the Miners' Delegate Board at Wollongong on Monday night last week, the question of the increased admission charge at the…

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Important Mining Discovery. Rich Tin Deposits at Jerrawangla

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 November 1926 · page 3

Mr. John Hanson, of Nowra, has been prospecting lately with a mate (a Digger) at Jerrawangla, and has been fortunate enough to strike a…

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Discovery Of A Tin Mine. Rich Deposits In Sight. Tests 60 Per Cent. Owners Excited. Other Leases Pegged

The Nowra Leader · Friday 26 November 1926 · page 4

Mr. John Hanson, sen., of Nowra, and a Digger who has been resident at Wandandian for some time past, appear to have struck it rich at…

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