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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

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Mining and Metallurgy Conference

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 August 1934 · page 2

The 1934 meeting of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy will be held this year at Hobart, commencing on August 19,…

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South Mine Resumes Men Lost 11 Days' Pay Conference on

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 August 1934 · page 1

Productive operations were resumed at the South mine to-day after a stoppage since 8 a.m. on July 31 because of a dispute over the payment…

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South Mine Conference

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 1

The W.I.U. executive, four men concerned in the recent dispute, and members, of the job committee will to-morrow afternoon meet the…

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South Mine Activities Comparisons Of Tonnage Big Loss by Stoppage

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 1

Returns supplied by the South mine management for the six weeks ended August 11 reveal a falling off in production and dispatches compared with…

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Around the Mines Bulolo Gold Dredging

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 August 1934 · page 2

Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. reports that the deep drilling, which is continning satisfactorily, has so far been confined to the upper halt of the…

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Mine Managers Short Higher Salaries Suggested

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1934 · page 5

A suggestion by the Chamber of Mines of Victoria that to relieve the shortage of mine managers in Victoria the portion of the Act…

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Around the Mines West Australian Yields

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1934 · page 3

Lake View and Star Ltd., for July, treated 52,727 tons of ore for a total revenue of £118,455, gold values being estimated at £6/18/- a fine ounce, and…

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Coal Gas As Fuel for Motor Car

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1934 · page 6

BERLIN, August 15.—Motor traffic may be revolutionised as a result of experiments in the way of household gas replacing petrol in an…

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Mining Men to Confer Local Delegates For Tasmania

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1934 · page 4

To attend the 1934 meeting of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy to be held in Hobart beginning on August 19 Messrs. Arnold…

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What The Mines Are Doing Mount Isa Operations

Barrier Miner · Friday 17 August 1934 · page 2

The Mount Isa Mines Ltd report on operations for the week ended August 11 as follows (figures in parentheses being for the previous week):—Ore…

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Gold From Ocean Divers Work On Laurentic Memories of 1917 Wreck Dublin, August 17

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 August 1934 · page 9

Divers, after three months of hazardous work off the treacherous Donegal coast, for private salvors, have recovered portion of £1,000,000 in gold…

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Gold From Ocean Divers Work On Laurentic Memories of 1917 Wreck Dublin, August 17

Barrier Miner · Saturday 18 August 1934 · page 3

Divers, after three months of hazardous work off the treacherous Donegal coast, for private salvors, have recovered portion of £1,000,000 in gold…

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Miners' Federation Behind South Men

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 August 1934 · page 3

At a mass meeting of members of the W.I.U. held yesterday delegates presented a report concerning the resumption of activities at the South…

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Mining Tenement Forfeited

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 August 1934 · page 1

Before Mr. R. Donaldson, mining warden, in the Warden's Court, to-day, Robert Ferguson was granted the forfeiture of a mining tenement in…

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Vic. Gold Co. Earns £22,000 Hercules Results For Half-Year

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 August 1934 · page 2

Milling 6796 tons of ore for the six months ended June 30 Hercules Gold Mining Co. N.L., Bendigo, recovered 4399oz. of gold, including plates and…

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Gold Find at Wagga

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 4

WAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday. — A gold find is reported near Westby, where the brothers H. G. and T. W. Taylor have been working for several…

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South Mine Gives Truck to Unemployed

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 1

The unemployed at their weekly meeting yesterday, received advice from the South mine management donating an International motor lorry,…

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Around the Mines North Kalgurli Yield

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 2

During July North Kalgurli (1912), Ltd., treated 5147 tons, 4244 tons from stoping, and 903 tons from development, average head value being…

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An Amazing Story Gold In Sand Of Turkestan Lake CALCUTTA, August 19

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 4

That there ia a vast lake at the foot of the mighty Karakorum Ranges which separate Kashmir from Eastern Turkestan, the sandy shores of which…

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Fire in Queensland Coal Mine

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—An explosion, occurred in the State coal mine at Hartley and a fire is now raging underground. Fortunately…

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