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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines
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RACING men in England declare that the filly Rockfel is the best racehorse in the world. They also declare that she will win, the Ascot Gold Cup next June, and prove that she is the equal of Sceptre and Pretty Polly, two great mares, whose deeds on the turf are almost legendary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A meeting of prospectors and men interested in small mining ventures in the Broken Hill district was held on Saturday. The president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday. — John Thomas Shakespeare, an elderly man, was killed instantly at Neath Colliery yesterday when a fall of coal occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Giving evidence at the Safety and Health Commission George Mason Hindmarsh, assistant colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is reported that the gold stocks of the Bank of England will be written up by nearly £100,000,000. The value of gold at present held by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the end of January there were 135 lees men employed along the line of lode than at the end of December, 1938…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There will be a gradual retrenchment at the Broken Hill Proprietary mine, according to the manager (Mr. W. N. Cranz), who expects the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ALTHOUGH not fully conversant with the labor problems in Australia, Professor S. J. Truscott,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELAIDE, Friday.—Don Bradman, referring to a report that he was contemplating visiting the W.A. goldfields in March, said:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE mass meeting of Barrier Industrial controlled unionists at the Jubilee Oval yesterday morning was not as largely attended as it should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE amended offer by the mining companies, which is the same as the last agreement with the exception that it included paid holidays for mine employees on Good Friday and Easter Monday, was yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →INSPECTIONS of the main mining fields of the United Stetes. Cenada, and South Africa, and engineering works in England,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following are the production figures of the South mine for the six weeks ended February 11. The figures for the corresponding period of last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The secretary of Silver Peak (Broken Hill) Limited reports as follows from the manager for the period ended February 9:— Development 156…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FIVE men, four of whose homes and personal property were destroyed in the Wood's Point bush fire, were sentenced by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WITH the object of enlisting the aid of the State Government in the erection in Broken Hill of a mill for the treatment of ore from small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PASSENGERS prebooking for March or after on the New South Wales Railways have been advised that in all probability…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE underground section of the Proprietary mine will cease producing on Saturday, March 4. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →79,281 NEW VEHICLES FEW motorised countries throughout the world maintained in 1938 their sales figures in new cars and commercial vehicles for 1937. Australia was one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CANBERRA, Saturday.—Australia's gold production during the past 12 months was valued at £14,012,414. compared with £11,993,007 in 1937…
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