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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

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Miners' Narrow Escape in Flooded Creek

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Three miners had a narrow escape from death at Tirannaville, five miles from Goulburn, yesterday. Noticing a…

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Central Mine to Reopen Underground Work Starts

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 2

Productive operations at the Central mine which have been suspenden since December 24 owing to cert air repair work will be resumed next…

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Mining Shows Inspected Party Back From Interior EXPERIENCES

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 1

Having travelled several thousand miles inspecting mining shows in the centre of Australia, a party of men under Mr. Murray P. Fuller,…

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Gold On Cricket Pitch

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 6

GULGONG, Tuesday.—The finding of an ounce nugget of gold on a cricket pitch of Home Rule by E. James, of the Home Rule Club, has…

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Operations Resumed At Central Mine

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 2

Underground operations at the Central mine which have been suspended since December 24 owing to repairs and overhaul work being…

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The Barrier Miner Monday, January 30, 1933. Mine Work Resumed

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 2

The Central mine resumed work today. That completes the general resumption of mine work, allowing for the fact that some of the mines are…

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Papuan Gold Find

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Mr. C. W. Marr, the Minister in charge of Territories, said yesterday that he had been advised that nothing was known…

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Mining For Kaolin

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 2

GULGONG, Saturday.—Authority to enter 10 acres of land at Puggoon (Gulgong district) to mine for kaolin has been granted to the Newbold…

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Unknown Man's Body Found In Mine Shaft MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 4

The body of a half-caste aboriginal, whose identity is not yet known, war fo[?]d at the abundone Suffolk mine at Sailor's Gully. The man was seen…

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Full Mine Pays To-morrow £27,000 Will Be Circulated

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 1

Pay day for men on the line of lode to-morrow will be the first full pay for the men since the mines closed before Christmas. Men who…

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Trapped Lyell Miners Bodies Not Yet Recovered a Big Task Hobart

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 3

When the work of driving through to the No. 51 stope on the 925ft. level of the North Lyell mine, where two Italian workmen, Luiggi Cirillo and…

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Rich Mines of the Past Efforts Made To Work Them Men Sanguine

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 3

The belief expressed to the Historical Society of Victoria by Mr. G. D. Meudell that the Hercules mine, which is 75 years old, is good…

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Bushranger's Cave Barrel Found But No Gold Eerie Chamber Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 2

Treasure seekers who searched a cave in the hills near Ilford for a hoard of buried gold found an empty barrel and an iron bedstead…

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Timber Thefts From Mine Four Men Fined To-day In Court Caught in Act

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 2

Four men were each fined £4—in default, eight days' hard labor—by Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M., in the Police Court this morning for…

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Gold Find At Cape York

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday.—Another promissing gold discovery is reported from Cape York Peninsula. The first And was made by an aboriginal. A…

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Proprietary Mine Robbery Removal Of Material Valued At £220 Men for Trial

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 1

Before Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, Reginald Ronald Gilbert (37) and Newton Ferguson (22), both on…

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Unemployed Coal Miners Govt. To Try To Find Other Work SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 1

Mr. J. M. Missingham, Minister for Labor and Industry, who returned yesterday, from a visit to the Northern coalfields said that he was…

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Unemployed Coal Miners Govt. To Try To Find Other Work SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 5

Mr. J. M. Missingham, Minister for Labor and Industry, who returned yesterday from a visit to the Northern coalfields said that he was…

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Mine Workers Injured

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 3

While filling dirt at the South mine at about 7.15 last night Mr. G. Giles, who resides at the corner of Bromide and Lane streets, was struck on the…

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Mine Workers Injured

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 3

While filling dirt at the South mine at about 7.15 last night Mr. G. Giles, who resides at the corner of Bromide and Lane streets, was struck on the…

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