Mine Shaft Murder Body Unidentified 300 Men Traced. Melbourne
Last Saturday and again during the week detectives returned to the Wedderburn district to make formal inquiries about letters that had been sent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1939
314 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 16
Record Prices for Gold. Sydney
The Commonwealth Bank announced that for the week ended December 30 the price of gold was £8113½ per once standard, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Is It Gold? Discovery In Christmas Ducks Came From Catherine Hill Bay
Mr. Jack Aitchenson, of Hannell street, Wickham, who killed some Christmas ducks recently, found particles of metal, which he believes is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Gold Price. London
Gold reached a new record, the price being £7105…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Miners' Conditions. Sydney
"I am annoyed to think that you will not tell members of the Miners' Federation the truth. If you told the truth you would tell the men that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sale of Gold Blow To Speculators Welcomed by Press. London
A laconic announcement posted on the Bank of England's notice board that the bank had sold £200,001,571 worth of gold in bar. informed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bold Stroke British Transfer Of Gold Other Moves May Follow. London
The "Daily Mail's" city editor says It is predicted that the Treasury's dramatic stroke, transferring £350,000,000 sterling worth of gold from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners in Difficulties
James Bath, 60. of Kentucky street, Eaast Armidale, and George Johnson, 33, of Kingstown, were working in a tunnel at the Whybatong gold mine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Mines Idle in North and South "Silly Goats," Says Judge Arbitration Application Sydney
Stoppages to-day at all but one colliery on the South Coast and hold-ups at several mines in the north caused counsel for the colliery proprietors,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hillgrove Mining
In the final clean-up for 1938 at his cyanide plant near the Eleanor mine, Hillgrove, Mr. T. Faint recovered 210 ozs. of gold bullion, valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Petrol from Coal German Report on Content of Queensland Coal
The State Government (Qld.). has received a report relating to petrolcontent tests of Queensland coal carried out in Germany. The report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aberdare Miners Go Out In Sympathy Protest Against Judge. Sydney
Aberdare miners did not work today, in sympathy with a protest by Wallaraa miners, yesterday, against Judge Drake Brockman's remarks in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl Pat Skipper's New Plans Search for Pirate Gold. (From a Special Correspondent. By Air Mail.) LONDON, December 31
Captain Dod Orsborne, famous skipper of the Girl Pat, will shortly leave England on another cruise of adventure, this time in a luxury liner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Skeleton Creek Mining
Making application for suspension of labor conditions on dredging leases 784, 762, 710 and 781 in parishes Boyd, Mitchell and Rusden, Mr. D. G. Hughes,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rich Gold Find Near Laverton, W.A. KALGOORLIE
A rich fold find is reported at Mal- locks Well, 30 miles south-east of Laverton. Forty tons were crushed for a return of 15.77dwt. of fine gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Way of Finding Gold. Melbourne
The township of Mernda is experiencing a gold rush. A few days ago a schoolboy, Peter Darke, was swimming in the plenty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Family Dig for Gold
After the bush fires at Annangrove, New South Wales, Mr. C. Birch and his family, whose home was destroyed, "dug for gold" in a well. When then…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →61 Believed Dead Explosion in Coal Mine. Tokio
A gas explosion, five miles below the surface in a coal mine at Miyadacho, buried seventy-five miners. Five bodies were recovered and six were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railways Deficit of £750,000 Reply To Miners' Claims Arbitration Court Evidence Sydney
A deficit of over £750,000 instead of a surplus of £30,000 may be experienced on the railways for the current financial year ending June…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Find Outside His Gate
As he stepped out of his front gate last week, after heavy rain overnight, the Mayor of Kalgoorlie. Ald. R. G. Moore, saw a glint in the mud[?]…
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