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

Mining & the mines, 1933

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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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15 KILLED Mine Explosion Acts of Heroism London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 November 1933 · page 3

Many acts of heroism marked the rescue operations at Chesterfield to-day when 15 miners were killed in a fire damp explosion at…

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Miners' Plebiscite Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 November 1933 · page 3

The progress made in counting the plebiscite to decide whether ,the Miners Federation should hold an Australian-wide convention of unions…

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From Flames to Gold Red Pages of Fire Insurance Large Scale Swindling

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 November 1933 · page 2

Romance and crime walk side by side through the red pages of fire insurance history. Last year fire raged In Great Britain at the rate of 1000 per hour. It caused an average of four deaths every day. Those 1500 or…

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Lone Woman Miner Seeks Gold Reef

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 November 1933 · page 8

In the belief that she will find a rich gold reef in the Tallowa Gully, near Tallong. 24 miles from goulburn, a lone…

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Mine Workers Big Benefit Scheme CAPETOWN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 November 1933 · page 3

Described as the greatest benefit scheme, undertaken in any world industry, the Chamber of Mines, in a letter to the workers'…

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U.S.A. Raises Gold Price Washington

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 November 1933 · page 3

The Government increased the price of gold by nine cents to-day to 33 dollars 35 cents an ounce. Some quarters believe that the advance is…

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King Solomon’s Mines Reported Discovery

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 3

The site of “King Solomon’s Mines,” states the London “Daily Herald,” familiar to British schoolboys through Rider Haggard’s book, is…

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Dollar and Gold Washington

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 4

The Government to-day increased the price of gold by eight cents to 33 dollars 93 cents per ounce…

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BUNGENDORE Captain's Flat Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 4 December 1933 · page 1

Bungendore.—It is leaned from a reliable source that the Captain's Flat mine will probably be re-opened in the near future…

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Gold Search "Westward-ho" Big Expedition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 December 1933 · page 4

The romance of the West Australian gold-fields is likely to be continued in a second volume early in 1934, in which airplanes,…

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Gold War Washington Figure in London First Washington

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 13 December 1933 · page 5

The gold price, although unchanged again to-day, was one dollar 76 cents above the London price…

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Gold From Rock Extracting Methods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 December 1933 · page 4

Better methods of gold extraction from inferior deposits are being developed as scientists seek to offset reduced production of…

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Young Explorer Gold Hunt In Britain Venture by Bicycle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 3

John Carv[?]ath Wells, a young ex-ployer and Lecturer, who has crowded many adventures into his twenty-one years, is now…

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Goulburn Trots Gold Cup Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 5

The committee of the Goulburn Trotting and Racing Club met last night to finalise arrangements for the Gold Cup…

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Cross of Gold Mankind's Plight. Standard of Values

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 December 1933 · page 1

"Mankind is being crucified upon a cross of gold." In 1896 William J. Bryan, a candidate for the Presidency of the United…

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