Roan Gold Out For Two Years Sequel to Assault Case. Adelaide
One of the most peculiar Cases in racing history here arose to-day, after an assault case between a trainer and a jockey had been withdrawn, and all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1938
311 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 16
Car's Plunge Into Old Mine Shaft Eight Lives Lost. New York
While going to a clinic for treatment seven crippled children and their car driver were drowned when a road caved in, plunging them down an old…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Price for Gold. Sydney
The Commonwealth Bank to-day quoted gold at £942 per ounce fine, the highest price on record. Sovereigns were quoted at £228 each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Baby's Death Body in Old Mine Young Mother Charged Evidence in Coroners Court Deepwater
Jean Corless, mother of the two days' old infant, John Corless. whose body was found in a mine shaft at Deepwater on November 16. appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl of 23 Committed for Trial Charge Of Murder Infant's Body in Mine Deepwater
Jean Corless. 23, was committed for trial on a charge of murdering her 14 days' old infant son. when the Coroner's inquiry into the child's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Price Record
A new record for the price of gold in Australia was reached during the past week. For gold lodged at the Australian Mints during the past week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Fire Damage at West Maitland. West Maitland
Heavy damage was caused by a fire which broke out on the pit top of Ayr field No. 1 colliery, at 1 a.m. The outbreak started in the south…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nimbin Goal Mine Output to Tons Weekly
Several shafts sunk in the Nimbin district have revealed the commercial possibilities of the coal procurable there. The latest location at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Fire Two Tunnels Sealed. West Maitland
There is still no sign of the fire at the Ayrfield No. 1 colliery abating. Although the flames at the pithead were extinguished yesterday the fire covers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Killed in Kalgoorlie Mine. Kalgoorlie
Hit by a small piece of stone in a 15 ton fall of earth at 7000ft. level at South Kalgurli mine to-day, Charles Watson, 63, timberman, was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"All Is Not Gold"
Probably having passed through many hands at 24 times its actual value before the fake was discovered, a humble penny, neatly "silvered" like a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Price Record Reached. London
Though the price of gold was officially fixed at £710 an ounce to-day a little business was done afterwards at £7101. This is the highest price ever…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Search by N.Z. Government. Auckland
At an altitude of 4000ft on the Paparoa Range, on the west coast of the South Island, Government prospectors are testing a gold -bearing reef at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Too Silly" Judge On Coal Strikes "Ought to Be a Cure." Sydney
Comment on the frequency of strikes in the -coal mining industry was made by Judge Drake Brockman during the hearing in the Federal Arbitration Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Customs Huts Blown Up by Land Mine. London
Several Customs huts on the Northern Ireland side of the Eire border were wrecked by a land mine last evening, including those at Newtown Butler,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Altercation Over Coal Mine
An altercation which took place over the sinking of a coal mine shaft, on Herbert King's farm at Tyalgum, between King and Henry Hepple, a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rich Patch of Gold. Alice Springs
Two prospectors, Albert Lane and Jack Noble, dug up a nugget of gold weighing 31½ozs., 40 miles west of Tennant Creek. This is the biggest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Train Bolted Down Hill 20 KILLED, 38 Injured. Sydney (Nova Scotia)
Twenty were killed and 38 injured when a mine train carrying 250 men broke a cable and plunged a mile down the steep tracks and was smashed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seven Miners Dead Left Thirty -Four Children Thetford Mines, (Quebec)
Seven miners were buried alive by a landslide following a dynamite blast, in the Bell asbestos mine. Two hours later rescue crews found the dead bodies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rio Tinto Mines Will Franco Seize Them? £4,000,000 of British Capital Involved. London, Nov. 26
British investors who own £4,000,000 shares in Rio Tinto Mines, Southern Spain, were alarmed this week at reports that General Franco intends to…
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