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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

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Discoverer of First Gold in W.A. A Life of Adventure

Leader · Wednesday 24 June 1931 · page 1

The death at Kalgoorlie, last week, of Mr. Phil Saunders severs a link with Western Australia’s gold pioneering work, for official documents…

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Gold Prospecting

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 June 1931 · page 12

In the House of Representatives quite recently Mr. A. Blakeley (Minister for Home Attains) stated that the amount expended by the…

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Tyldesley Colliery Prospects of Re-opening

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1931 · page 2

A conference was held at Tyldesley yesterday between Messrs. Barrett, senr., Wright, Gawthrope, and Barrett, junr. (representing the…

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Mining Activities

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 June 1931 · page 12

Mr. H. Dawson has a party of miners at the Golden Valley Held. Guntawang, where shifts are being sunk to locate the continuation of…

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Vale of Clwydd No. 2 Suspension of Labor Conditions Granted for Three Months Despite Miners' Federation Objection

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1931 · page 2

Before Milling Warden A. N. Graham at Lithgow Mining Court yesterday the Vale of Clwydd Coal and Brick Co. applied for a…

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Wild Cat Gold Lodes

Leader · Friday 26 June 1931 · page 1

The world’s gold hunger has caused a levival in mining speculation, and the possibilities of company promotion. A man with a little capital [?]…

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France's Gold Reserves London

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 June 1931 · page 1

The weekly bank returns show an interesting comparison of the gold holdings of the various countries. The German Reichbank has £168,000,000,…

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Nationalist Conference Members’ Gold Passes. SYDNEY

Leader · Friday 26 June 1931 · page 5

The Nationalist Convention agreed to the motion that politicians should [?] retain their sold railway passes after they had left Parliament…

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Mudgee District Gold

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 1

As gold is being eagerly, hunted for all over Australia, there are come grounds for the claims made by Adam Spies, well known…

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Gold Se[?] of [?]

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 4

At the moment in every [?] and cranny where gold and other valuable minera's have been discovered says a Sydney writes, and…

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Soccer Lidsdale's Good Showing State Mine Win Again

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 3

Lidsdale beat Zigzag 3-0, and State Mine, defeated Portland in the first grade fixtures on Saturday, the games being played before large crowds. The…

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Miners in Protest Big Meeting Planend CESSNOCK

National Advocate · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 2

The action 300 Aberdare Central miners yesterday in declining to work as a protest against the new wages tax may be taken as indicating the…

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Two Big Contracts Yet Orders Are Lacking Why 'Wang Colliery Has Retrenched

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 2

Although Wallerawang colliery has, according to an official, sufficient nominal contracts to ensure practically full working time, it has been obliged…

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Interest of Gold Field the Stawell Proposition

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 1

Mention in recent Victorian news of an option being taken by a Broken Hill Co. over the Kingston Mine, near Stawell, Victoria, resurrects many old…

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Lang's Lash at Wages Indignation at Lithgow Miners Incensed LITHGOW

National Advocate · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 2

MR. LANG'S lash at wages has created the greatest indignation amongst all classes here. The miners generally are incensed and…

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Storm of Protest Greets New Wages Tax. Miners Protest Wages Reduced by Half SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 1

Representatives of the Northern Miners' Lodge interview at Mr. Baddeley yesterday and entered a vigorous protest [?] the Tax…

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Wang Miners Dismissed

Leader · Wednesday 1 July 1931 · page 4

Although Wallerawang colliery has. according to an official, sufficient [?] contracts to ensure practically full working time, it has bean obliged…

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Soccer Championship State Mine Receives a Challenge

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 1 July 1931 · page 2

Railway Coal Mine Soccer Club has received, a challenge for the "Daily Telegraph" Shield, won last year from Temora, from Chullora Workshops…

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The Diggings Eighty Years Ago Bathurst Gold

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 1 July 1931 · page 3

A series of extracts of interest, which have been reprinted from the Melbourne "Argus" of June, 1851--just eighty years ago:--…

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Hill End Mining Much Activity Little Success

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 1 July 1931 · page 3

Development work is proceeding in most of the shows at present, but nothing of a payable proposition is being worked…

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