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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Unexpected Gold White Quartz in Garden Border Lithgow

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 June 1930 · page 4

Gold worth £70 has been found in a quantity of white quartz used as a border for a garden in a home at Lithgow. The prospector who examined, the stone…

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New Guinea Goldfields Federal Inquiry Wanted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 June 1930 · page 1

The A.L.P. Executive last night decided to ask the Federal Government to conduct an inquiry into the mining position in New Guinea, particularly in connection…

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Broken Hill Mines . Men Refuse to Accept "Wages Cut. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 July 1930 · page 4

There was no work at the Proprietary mine to-day, following the men's refusal to accept 17½ per cent. wage cut. Only g few were engaged to do clearing up work…

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Broken Hill Miners Lower Wages or Dismissal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 July 1930 · page 4

Mr. G. H. Blakemor[?], a well-known mining expert, says arbitration awards have contributed to the serious position at Broken Hill. The miners there have…

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Record Coal Export. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 July 1930 · page 6

The coal exported from Newcastle to places beyond the State amounted to 136,845 tons in June, the largest amount over the past 15 years…

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Coal Industry "Not So Dangerous." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 July 1930 · page 8

Addressing the Safety First Conference to-day, Mr. Collins, inspector of collieries, said mining was not so dangerous as one often imagines. The death rate in 1928…

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Wheelers on Strke Aberdare Central Mine [?]Dle. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 July 1930 · page 4

Wheelers at Aberdare centr[?] mine struck work to-day as the result of a complaint regarding wages. T[?]y declare they will not work until th[?] matter…

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Search for Gold 800 Men Now Out. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 July 1930 · page 4

The Minister for Mines, Mr. Weaver, stated to-day that 800 men were now searching for gold, with Government assistance. Although no big discovery has…

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Coal Trade Getting It Back. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 4

Mr. McDonald, chairman of the Northern Collieries Association, said last night there was ample evidence that New South Wales, would get back all her…

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Romance of Guinea Gold From Scratch to a Millionaire Aberdeen Lad's Luck

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 4

Sailor, soldier, airman, explorer, prospector aud a potential millionaire at 29—that is a brief survey 01 the roving and adventurous life of Captain…

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Lie Direct Solicitors At Variance 'Gold Diggers' and 'Flash Boy' Wife Charges Husband with Assault. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 5

Remarkable evidence was given at the Glebe Court, to-day when Mrs. M. Shepherd, a young women, charged her husband, aged 23, with assault…

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Another Broken Hill Mine Closed. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 July 1930 · page 4

Block 14 mine closed at midnight, throwing 153 men out of employment…

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Southern Goal Mines Compulsory Conference Fails. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 July 1930 · page 4

A compulsory conference, under the Arbitration Act, to attempt to settle the coal dispute in the southern and western districts of New South Wales and in…

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Dismissals at Wallabah Colliery. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 3

Owing to slackness of trade over 150 men Will shortly be dismissed at the Wal- larah colliery, Catherine Hill Bay…

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Mining Activities

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 4

On Thursday night at a meeting at Mullumbimby it was decided to form a company to mine for gold, silver, and copper at Mullumbimby Creek and also…

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Mutilated Body Colliery Line Tragedy. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 4

With his foot severed when his body was extensively injured, Henry Lewis, 60, laborer, was found dead beside the colliery line at Paxton yesterday morning…

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'Armed to the Teeth' Gold Seekers In. Central Australia. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 July 1930 · page 3

The chairman of directors of the Central Australian Gold. Exploration Company, Mr. J. Bailey, who is president of the central branch of the Australian…

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Nymboida Coal Deposits

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 4

In reply to a request presented by Mr. A. T. Pollack, M.L.A., on behalf of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce, asking that a geological survey be made of…

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Gold Stealing Detection Staff Abolished. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 1

The gold stealing detection staff, which has been working at Kalgoorlie for 23 years, hits been abolished on the ground that the Chamber of Alines cannot afford…

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German Calamity Terrible Mine Explosion Two Hundred Men Entombed Heartrending Scenes at the Pit Head. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 5

Two hundred miners were entombed following a coal gas explosion at Hausdorf. Fifty bodies are already reported to have been recovered. It…

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