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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1924

19 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

To Search for Gold. Birtles to Organise Expedition

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 4

It is the belief of Francis Birties, the well known overlander, that these is great mineral wealth hidden near [?] somewhere north of the…

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Berrima Coal Mine. Proposed Extensive Scale

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 4

Arrangements are. now being made to develop the new coal mine at Berrima on a much mote extensive scale than hitherto, and with that object in…

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Lach Catherine Colliery, Ltd

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 June 1924 · page 2

It is just a year since Mr. W. E. March purchased the old property known as the old Berrima mines. We announced in our paper that…

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Radio and Entombed Miners. Programme Heard in Tunnel Below River

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 3
Also in Robertson Mail

Huddled in a dripping tunnel, 90 feet below the surface of the Hudson River, and 1600 feet from an exit, a group of transit officials,…

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Berrima Coal Mines

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 July 1924 · page 2

Loch Catherine colliery, Limited, Berrims, have sent a consignment of small coal to Newcastle for coke testing purposes, and if it proves…

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Berrima Coal Mines

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 July 1924 · page 5
Also in Robertson Mail

Loch Catherine Colliery, Limited, Berrima, have sent a consignment of small coal to Newcastle for coke-testing purposes, and it it proves…

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Gold at Tumut

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 July 1924 · page 4

A actuation baa been created in mining circles at Tumut by the discovery of a rich gold reef 4ft, wide on the Denning Watson-Tobin-Wall's…

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Loch Catherine Coal

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 2
Also in Robertson Mail

Regarding an item that appeared in Friday's issue of The Mail, in Mittagong Council news, where is mentioned, "The Mayor stated the last…

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Berrima Coal. Old Colliery Re Opened. Firsttruck for Goulburn Wool Mills

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 4

"Goulburn Penny Post" says:— "Considerable interest centres in a track of coal which arrived at the Goulburn Woollen Mills,…

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Bellbird Colliery. New Methods Justified. Serious Dangers Avoided

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 September 1924 · page 4

At Cessnock on Wednesday a very important fact, has been revealed in relation to the responing operations at Bellbird colliery…

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Two Handfuls of Coal. This Small Amount Supplies Household's Daily Electrical Needs

Robertson Mail · Friday 19 September 1924 · page 6

Two handfuls of coal when consumed in one of the large central stations to-day, will produce enough electrical energy to meet the needs…

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Two Handfuls of Coal. This Small Amount Supplies House-hold's Daily Electrical Needs

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 September 1924 · page 6

Two handfuls of coal when consumed in one of the large central stations to-day, will produce enough electrical energy to meet the needs…

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Berrima Coal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 September 1924 · page 2

Five members of the Medway Colliery and Railroad Syndicate met in Goulburn (says the "Goulburn Penny Post") on Tuesday…

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Berrima Coal

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 September 1924 · page 5
Also in Robertson Mail

Five members of the Medway Colliery and Railroad Syndicate met in Goulburn (says Goulburn Penny Post) on Tuesday afternoon to make…

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Fresh Enterprise. More Coal on Southern Tablelands

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 October 1924 · page 2

For upwards of 40 years at various periods there has been talk of boring as a test for coal near the railway line at Austermere, near Moss Vale…

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