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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

522 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 20 of 27

Falling Coal Output. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1930 · page 1

The output of coal at Newcastle for August showed a falling off of almost 100,000 tons compared with July…

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Gold-bearing Reef. Kiama

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1930 · page 1

J. T. Newing, who is working under the Government's prospecting scheme, has located a gold-bearing reef on Federal Back Mountain, near Gerringong…

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Alluvial Gold in Payable Quantities. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1930 · page 5

Alluvial gold in good quantities has been discovered at Glen Creek, near Mansfield, and 70 miners' rights have already been issued…

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Russian Gold Mine Breach of Agreement Soviet Ordered to Pay £13,000,000. LONDON

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 5

The Arbitration Court has ordered the Soviet Government to pay Lena Goldfields Limited £13,000,000 for preventing the company carrying out its agreement…

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Lena Gold Mine Tribunal Soviet Ignores Award. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 September 1930 · page 5

The Soviet Embassy states that the Soviet Government does not recognise the validity of the Lena gold mines tribunal, accordingly any award cannot be…

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800 Miners to Go. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 September 1930 · page 3

It was officially stated to-day that notice of dismissal are to be issued to practically the whole of the 800 employees of Aberdare colliery…

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Mineral Deposits Survey of the Dorrigo Clarence Coal Seams

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 September 1930 · page 3

Although coal seams are known to occur in the Clarence series up to an altitude of 600ft., no exposures were observed in the railway cuttings…

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Hidden Gold Divers Enter Sunken Liner Recovery of Other Treasures Probable. Brest

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 September 1930 · page 5

Salvage work on the liner Egypt is being facilitated by a calm sea. Already the divers have removed deck plates and entered the captain's cabin from where…

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Dismissals at State Mine. Lithgow

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 September 1930 · page 2

Thirty-one notices of dismissal, embracing the whole of the employees of the State mine air shaft, were issued yesterday…

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Rothbury Miners Appeal to Privy Council. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 September 1930 · page 2

The International Class War Prisoners' Aid Association has decided to appeal to the Privy Council against sentences imposed on 22 miners on charges arising…

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Standardisation Collieries in Britain New Act in Force. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1930 · page 5

It is understood that the coal owners have readied agreement to establish marketing schemes in all 21 districts under the Coal Mines Act, and that…

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Gold Medal Kingsford Smith Honored. the Hague

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1930 · page 5

The gold medal of the Dutch Air Association has been persented to Kings ford Smith for his use of a Dutch aeroplane on his world flights…

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800 Men Lose Jobs Aberdare Mine to Close Down. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1930 · page 5

Notices were served to-day on 800 employees of the Aberdare colliery, which is to bb closed down. The notices expire on September 20…

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REPUDIATED Federal Govt's Promise £100,000, for Miners Stinging Statement Issued. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 5

It is reported that the miners are threatening to withdraw their affiliation with the A.L.P if the Federal Government does not take some action,…

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More Miners Idle. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 September 1930 · page 2

Sixty employees or the Mount pleasant colliery received fourteen days' notice and 20 men at Mount Keira were also dismissed…

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Gold Bonus Proposal Again Put Forward. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 September 1930 · page 4

The chairman of the Australian Gold Bonus Committee, Mr. De Bornales, has sent a telegram to the Acting Federal Treasurer, Mr. Lyons, in which he states…

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Ban on Australian Coal New Zealand Proposal

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 5

The New Zealand Government is considering the placing of a ban on Australian coal in view of tire bad state of the mining industry in the…

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Looking for Gold Practical Miners Active

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1930 · page 4

Prospecting for gold and other minerals is being carried out at Dalmorton, Bucca Creek, Cunglebung, Cangai, Solferino and other centres of the Clarence River…

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Too Much Gold Discovery of Klondyke

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 8

To have travelled a million miles and more in all quarters of the globe, to have struck the Yukon trail in the goid rush of 97, to have known Jack London in…

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General News Mining by Hose-pipe

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 2

One of the most extraordinary ways of extracting metals from the earth is that to be seen in the tin mines of the Malay States. With the exception of…

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