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

Mining & the mines, 1935

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Young Picnics Gold Cup Won by “Wonder Willie”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 May 1935 · page 2

Mr. E. J. Merriman’s Wonder Willie won the gold cup valued at 15 guineas in the principal event at the Young Picnic races yesterday. Wonder…

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Lake George Mine Metal Prices Too Low

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 May 1935 · page 2

The future equipment, with mining and milling plant, of the Lake George silver-lead-zinc mine at Captain's Flat New South Wales, remains dependent…

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Weissel Gold Cup. Young Defeat Temora

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1935 · page 1

In the match for the Weissel Gold Cup, played yesterday at Young against Temora, Young held the trophy 23 to 10…

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Miner’s Fortitude Legs And Feel Burnt Drives Twelve Miles for Attention

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 2

Louis Smith, a miner, suffered severe burns to his feet and legs when his camp was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning last…

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Fishermen Catch a Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 May 1935 · page 1

STOCKHOLM: While fishermen were trawling in the Catteguat, of Maesoe Island, their net caught in the detonator of a…

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Flooded Gold Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 1

To de-water the old Wentworth gold mine at Lucknow, which has been to dormant for 30 years, of what is estimated at 100,000,000 gallons,…

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Starting Again Barrallier Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 1

Barrallier: After having been closed for the past six years the silver mines at Yerranderie are re-opening…

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Mining with Wings in Frozen Alaska Days Instead of Weeks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 May 1935 · page 1

With gold record prices and everything humming at a large mine near Valdez, Alaska, the Diesel engine broke. A long…

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Gold Output Record in Canada

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 8

VICTORIA, B.C.—Gold production in British Columbia will break all records this year, according to government figures…

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South Africa Helped by Gold Output

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 24 May 1935 · page 8

Steadily rising value of its gold output has resulted in South Africa reaching a higher level of prosperity than perhaps any country in the…

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Bulolo Gold Dredging

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1935 · page 5

The Bulolo Gold Digging Company now has four dredges in commission, the transport of the fourth dredge from Lae to the company's leases…

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Jack Hore Gold Cup

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1935 · page 1

Although beaten by 21 points to 9 in the above, at Forbes on Sunday. Cootamundra put up a splendid fight It was only in the last ten minutes…

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Gold Bullion Worth £6000 Disappears From the Train in Central Australia

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 May 1935 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday: A consignment of gold bullion, worth £6000 disappeared from the train between A[?]ice Springs and…

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Entombed in Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 31 May 1935 · page 4

TOKIO, Thursday: Ten miners are dead and forty others practically hopelessly entombed in the Iriyama Colliery, Fukushima…

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Lucky Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 31 May 1935 · page 3

TENNANT'S CRREEK: Two men have gone out this week about 30 miles west to peg out a claim that carries some of the best specimens…

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"Flaming Gold" Liver Fluke Can A Woman Bury Her Past? (Continued from Page 4)

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 June 1935 · page 3

Claire Gordon believed a woman could hide her past. She thought early mistakes are gone and forgo -ten, especially if left far behind. syringe, simply squirted into the animal's mouth. A "Record" syringe, graduated up to 5 [?]., is probably the best in use…

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100 KILLED In Mine Explosion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 5

BERLIN, Thursday: One of the worst disasters in Central Germany occurred when a munition factory at Reinsdorf blew up while working at…

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Chile's Gold Record Output for 1934

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 3

Santiago: Chilean gold production during 1934 reached a new high level with a total output of 7420 kilograms, worth about 7,250,000 dollars…

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Shares In Gold Mine Presented to Hospital 44 Years Ago

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 17 June 1935 · page 2

The chairman of the Hospital Board said oh Friday night that a search of hospital documents in the Bank of N.S.W. had revealed that…

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Alleged 'Salting' Tullamore Mine Claim Made for £20,000

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 19 June 1935 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A claim for £20,000 damages from Waller Francis Medcalf and Kathleen Medcalf Street and a jury in the…

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