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

Mining & the mines, 1939

131 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 7

Oil From Coal Refinery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 1

A new oil-from-coal refinery—described as the only unit in Britain where the coal is taken direct from the mine and converted into motor…

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Germ Eats Germ And Saves Rates! Science Can Turn Dustbins Into "Gold Mines" Nowadays

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 5

Science can turn dustbins into "gold mines" worth millions of pounds a year to the nation. Yet Britain at present is recklessly destroying huge quantities of its richest fertiliser by out-of-date methods of treatment…

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Mining Award Dispute At Wonthaggi

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 2 August 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: According to a statement made to-day, unless the Wonthaggi Victorian mining dispute over working conditions under…

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Plucky Mine Rescue Cage Crashes Into Water at Bottom of Shaft

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1939 · page 1

Sensational happenings occurred at the Christmas Gift mine, Cullinga, on Monday morning. The first to go down in the cage at 8 o'clock were…

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Germ Eats Germ and Saves Rates Science Can Turn Dustbins Into “Gold Mines” Nowadays

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 1

Science can turn dustbins into “gold mines” worth millions of pounds a year to the nation. Yet Britain at present is recklessly destroying huge quantities of its richest fertiliser by out-of-date methods of treatment…

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Gold at New High Level

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 August 1939 · page 6

LONDON, Monday: The price of gold went to £8/1/ a fine ounce to-day. This was a rise of 6/ on Saturday's which was 4/6 above Friday's…

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Aussie History — "The Discovery of Gold"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 August 1939 · page 3

YAIRS, WE STRUCK GOLD, ALRIGHT NOW, LOOK HERE, FIT LIL OUT WITH WHATEVER HER HEART DESIRES DIAMOND TARARS, SUNBURSTS…

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Motoring on Coal Gas

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 September 1939 · page 3

British Members of Parliament are shortly to be shown new types of motor car engines driven by high compression coal gas, which, it is…

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No Sheriff’s Officer Considerable Falling Off in Mining Application for Half-time Officer

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 September 1939 · page 5

The Minister for Justice has declined to appoint a full-time sheriff's officer at Yass because it is considered there is…

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Cyaniding for Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 11 September 1939 · page 3

Gold, pure to-day is worth £9 per ounce. Miners of only a few years ago must sigh regretfully when they remember the many…

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Extracting Oil From Coal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 15 September 1939 · page 7

LONDON: The Government will be urged to afford further encouragement to proposals for the extraction of oil from coal. Up till now the…

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Explosion in Mine in Germany

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 September 1939 · page 4

BERLIN, Sunday: Eight were killed and 40 seriously injured as a result of an explosion in a coal mine at Rochhumhordel, between Essen…

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Eleven Men Killed In Mine In New Zealand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 September 1939 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Monday: The bodies of three of 11 men who lost their lives in the Glen Afton mine near Huntly…

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Mining Case Deferred

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 September 1939 · page 1

Following lengthy argument, an application by John A. Mc Gregor, agent for John Marron, for authority to enter two…

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Dutch Vessel Hits a Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 7

THE HAGUE, Sunday: The Dutch minesweeper, Jan Vasn Gleder, struck a mine near Terschelling and five persons were killed…

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Gold Salute Sold to Mr. A. E. COOPER Deal Finalised Few Hours Before Derby

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 8

Mr. Alan E. Cooper purchased the New Zealand colt Gold Salute at Randwick on Saturday, and the colran in his colours in the A.J.C. Derby…

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"Government" Gold Buyer Is "Wanted"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 October 1939 · page 1

Apparently taking advantage of the war, a man has been successfully working a novel type of fraud in the metropolitan area, and there is reason to believe that his operations may be extended to country centres…

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Accident in Mine Ambulance's Rescue Task

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 6 October 1939 · page 4

Difficulty was experienced in rescuing William Stlen, 52, a miner employed by the Lake George Mining Co., after he had…

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Mining Of Land Wiser Methods Are Essential

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 6 October 1939 · page 3

There has been a tendency to mine the land rather than utilise it as a means of permanent production, points out a…

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Gold Mining Local Company Mooted

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 12 October 1939 · page 2

It is understood that some local business men, including newcomers to the district, are keen on forming a gold mining…

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