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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

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Mines on Swedish Coast. Rome

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1916 · page 4

Since 1914 600 mines have been washed upon the Swedish coast, while Swedish marines destroyed 500…

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No Sudden Reversion to Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1916 · page 4

Professor H. Foxwell, in a lecture in London, said he hoped that now the public had taken kindly to paper notes there would be no sudden replacing after the war by gold, otherwise…

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Conditions in Austro-Germany. a Traveller's Statement. Gold Teeth Plates Wanted. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1916 · page 4

The "Daily Chronicle" says that a neutral traveller describes the conditions throughout the beleagured empire. The Austro-Germans are mostly dining at restaurants, it being…

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Greece and Allies. the Export of Coal. London, Thursday Night

Young Witness · Friday 9 June 1916 · page 2

The Foreign Office announces that the Greek Government attitude arising [?] the surrender of Greek territory to Bulgaria has caused the Allied…

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Boro Tin Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1916 · page 4

The Reedy Creek correspondent of the Braidwood District News says—"The sluicing plant of the Boro Tin Co. has reached the mine at last. Preparations are now being made to place it in…

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Mining at Frogmore and Reid's Flat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1916 · page 2

Burrowa, Monday.—Encouraged by the high price ruling for copper a modest attempt is being made to open some of the old Frogmore shafts. Good ore is being obtained, and there…

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The mining Panel. [To the Editor]

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 June 1916 · page 2

SIC,--Please, for goodness sake, give me the half or the whole of a column of your space for once it never again, or if your space is crowded. than chop your…

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Guns and Mines. Vigorous on the West. London

Young Witness · Tuesday 27 June 1916 · page 2

General Sir Douglas Haig reports: Artillery fire continued to be active along the whole front, mutual at many points, and heaviest around Neuvl[?]le…

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Stream of Gold

Young Witness · Friday 7 July 1916 · page 6

Since the Melbourne mint was established in 1872 it has received over 36,000,000 oza. of gold, and has coined 140,000,000 sovereigns and over…

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Buried Gold. Story of Two Scotchmen. How They Became Wealthy

Young Witness · Tuesday 11 July 1916 · page 4

The discovery in a hollow log at Billlabong Creek, near Berrigan, few days ago, of a quantity of jewellery, the proceeds of a robbery some years…

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The Miners. Turning Out All They Can. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 July 1916 · page 4

Presiding at the annual conference of the Miners' Federation at Buxton, representing three-quarters of a million members, Mr. Smillie affirmed that the miners' leaders were…

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Miners Object. to Work with Germans. Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 14 July 1916 · page 1

The miners employed at the Coal Cliff Cottlery decided to refuse to work unless three Germans employed at the work were dismissed. The…

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Currawang Copper Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 July 1916 · page 2

There is likely to h, a revival of operations at the old Currawong copper mines. A truck-load of slag from the dump has been despatched for treatment, and if returns are satisfactory…

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Germany Wants Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 July 1916 · page 2

New York, July 17.—A despatch to the "World" from its Berlin correspondent, Karl von Wiegand, says that in order to strengthen the imperial bank a gold purchasing office has…

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Buying Gold. Germans Exchange Gold for Paper. London

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 July 1916 · page 2

The "New York World" reports that as a measure for strengthening the Imperial German Bank a gold purchasing office has been opened on…

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Boro Tin Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 July 1916 · page 2

Just as everything was ready to start sluicing operations at the Boro Tin Co.'s tin-mines the boiler was discovered to be on the weak side. With characteristic promptitude the co. secured…

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"Old Gold and Silver War Fund."

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 6

One of our recent editions contained appeal by the committee of this fund asking for gold and silver articles of any and over description, We now remind those people who…

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Tragedy at the Goulburn Railway Yards. Two Men Succumb to Coal Fumes. Two Others Affected

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 July 1916 · page 2

A sad accident in which two men, Mr. Joseph Miller, a boiler-maker, about fifty years of age, and Mr. Stanley Mahnborg, his assistant, aged about twenty-five years, lost their lives,…

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Tragedy at Goulburn. Two Men Succumb to Coal Fumes. Two Others Affected

Young Witness · Friday 28 July 1916 · page 3

A sad accident in which two men, Mr. Joseph Miller, a boiler maker, aocal fifty years of age, and Mr. Stanley Mahnborg, his assistant, aged…

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Welsh Miners. Will Have Holidays. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 August 1916 · page 2

Despite the personal appeal of the veteran Labour member of the House of Commons, Mr. Abraham, 20,000 Welsh miners have decided on a two days' holiday next week…

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