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

Mining & the mines, 1933

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Bottle of Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 1

A surprise was received by the A.M.P. Society recently when a small bottle of gold was delivered in the mail from a country member in…

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Bribbaree Gold

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 3

Ore from the new workings at the Bribbaree gold mine which has been opened up between the 150ft. and 200ft. levels…

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Tuena Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 3

Tuena.—The record price of gold has increased activities among prospectors in this district. The prospects at "Mottley's Find."…

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Gold Prospecting Revival at Nanima

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 2

Seven applications for authority to enter to prospect for gold have been made to the Wardens Court. The prospectors have made their…

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Price of Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 1

The price fixed by the Common-wealth Bank of gold, including Jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended October 6, is…

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Gold Passes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 October 1933 · page 2

The State Government has not come out of the gold pass business as well as supporters of the Government would hope…

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MINING . Further Developments

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 19 October 1933 · page 4

In addition to the Xmas Gift Mine, Cullinga doing well again, we hear of good prospects with regard to three shows at…

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No Rebate For Council Coal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 October 1933 · page 2

A request made by the Goulburn City Council and the Chamber of Commerce to the Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. T. J…

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Dearer Gold Roosevelt's Move WASHINGTON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 October 1933 · page 3

The United States Government to-day raised the price of gold to 31 dollars, 96 cents an ounce. This is 47 cents above the day's quotations on…

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Newcastle Coal London Move LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 November 1933 · page 3

The Australian High Commissioner, Mr. Bruce, has been in close touch with Imperial Chemical Industries in connection with a proposal to…

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Pony's Record Coal Mine Veteran

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 November 1933 · page 5

London: Sergeant, a thirty-four year-old Welsh pony which works in the pits at Nixon's Navigation Collieries, Mountain Ash, is…

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Dalton Mine

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 November 1933 · page 2

Considerable activity is expected on the Dalton field during the next few months. From information received “The Budget Mine” owned by…

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Mining

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 November 1933 · page 2

The tranquility of the old mining field at McMahon's Reef is again to be disturbed by the noise of machinery in an attempt to recover the…

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500 Notices of Dismissal Served on Aberdare Miners

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 November 1933 · page 9

About 500 employees of Aberdare Extended colliery, one of the largest mines in the north, received their notices unexpectedly on Monday…

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Gold Purchases Dollar and Sterling New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 November 1933 · page 3

The Treasury to-day paid 32 dollars 84 cents an ounce for gold, which is 17 cents above Saturday's price and 38 cents above the London…

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Buying Gold Effect On Dollar WASHINGTON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 November 1933 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. The United States Treasury to-day increased the price of gold by 24 tents. The quotation is now 33…

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U.S.A. and Gold Washington

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 November 1933 · page 3

Yesterday the Monetary Conference decided on the re-intensification of the gold buying policy as the price was again raised to-day to 33 dollars 45…

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Lady Ida Mine Alleged Jumping of Claim Case Fails In Warden’s Court

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 November 1933 · page 1

Hope beats eternally in the miner’s breast. The money lost in seeking glistening gold in this district would represent a small…

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Woman's Lone Search for Gold Reef 40ft Shaft Sunk at Tallong Task Has Taken Over 2 YEARS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 17 November 1933 · page 2

In the belief that she will some day locate the whereabouts of a rich gold reef thought to exist in the Tallowa Gully a few miles from Tallong township a lone woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, labours day by day…

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Pony’s Record Coal Mine Veteran

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 November 1933 · page 4

Sergeant, a thirty-four-year-old Welsh pony which works in the pits! at Nixon’s Navigation Collieries Mountain Ash, England, is believed…

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