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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1936

298 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 15

£3,690,546 Five Months' Gold Production Good Comparative Increase. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 5

Figures made available to-day by the Commonwealth Statistician disclose that for the five months ended May, 1936, Australian gold production…

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Pheonix Gold Mine

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 2

Mr. Jack Lyons, who constructed the bridge over the Beilsdown at Shepherd's crossing and has been in the district for several months, took…

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Blue and Gold Ball

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 2

Here at last! Next Monday! He who hesitates is lost, so don't hesitate to join the merry crowd at the Blue and Gold Ball. Glamorous girls,…

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Gold Cup Match Kempsey Press Coff's 13-All Draw in Tense Finish. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 1

The Coff's Harbor Cup Team, depleted by the absence of some of its star players, had a narrow squeak from losing the Claude Bridge Gold Cup against…

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A Drawn Game Coffs Retains Gold Cup

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 3

Completely dominating the play in the first half and leading by eight points to nil at half time, the local Cup Team had to…

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Blue and Gold Ball First Annual Function

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 2

A simple but effective decorative scheme and novel supper table decorations were a feature of the C.W.A. Blue and Gold Ball,…

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Cup Football Coff's Hard Pressed to Retain Gold Cup Kempsey Play 13 All Draw. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 1

Coff's Harbor successfully defended the Claude Bridge Gold Cup against Kempsey, but only by the narrowest of margins, the final scores being 13 all…

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Stole Gold Pencils

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 7

Edmond Kelly, 33, an ironworker, was sentenced to two years, in Sydney, for stealing 600 pencils and 432 fountain pens from the Conklin Pen Co. In his…

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Greatest Gold Horde on Earth U.S.A. Has Horde Worth £2.500,000,000

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 3

The United States now has in its vaults an enormous treasure of more than £2.500,000,000 worth of monetary gold, the most valuable gold…

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W.A. Mine Strike. Kalgoorlie

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 July 1936 · page 7

Owing to a dispute with the management over the dismissal of several employees, the men employed on the plant of the Great Boulder Proprietary,…

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Gold Reefs Inspected on Old Mann River Field. Jackadgery

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 July 1936 · page 4

During the week just ended, a couple of mining magnates visited the locality and inspected some gold reefs on leases held by Messrs. McIntyre arid Eather on…

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To Be Closed Newcastle Coal Mine Men on Strike. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1936 · page 5

The Aberdare Central colliery, where the miners are striking against the introduction of the new electric coalcutting machine, on the ground that it…

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Grafton Gold Cup

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1936 · page 2

To be presented to the owner of the winner of the race to-day…

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The Mining Fields

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 July 1936 · page 2

A track is now in course of construction between Cascade and the mining fields on the Nymboida and Bobo Rivers under the supervision of Mr…

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Attack on Lang by Miners President. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 July 1936 · page 5

The general president of the Miners' Federation, Mr. C. Nelson, at a meeting of the Sydney Trades and Labor Council to-night, made serious charges…

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Gold Mining Bobo King Mine. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1936 · page 7

A good deal of work has been done at the Bobo King mine during the past eighteen months. In the first instance Mining Ventures. Ltd., secured an…

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Seeking Gold Surveys by 'Plane Cape York Peninsula Rich Field Hoped for Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1936 · page 4

It was announced to-day by the North Australian Mineral Survey Committee that an aerial survey of Portland roads, on the Cape York…

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Revival on W.a. Goldfields

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 July 1936 · page 11

The amazing revival of activity on the goldfields of West Australia was the subject of a special supplement in a recent issue of the Perth "Sunday Times."…

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Runaway Win Coffs Retains Gold Cup

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 July 1936 · page 1

After a disappointing game in which neither side showed anything like the standard of football expected of cup players Coffs Cup…

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