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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Another Mine Ceases Work. Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 July 1930 · page 4

Work at the Proprietary Mine, at Broken Hill caused yesterday when the remaining wages men were paid off…

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200 Miners Buried. Desperate Efforts. BERLIN

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 July 1930 · page 8

Desperate rescue efforts, are being made at Hansdoff where a coal gas explosion has entombed 200 miners. Fifty bodies have been recovered…

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Wealth Apart From Gold. To the Editor "M.R. Times."

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 July 1930 · page 2

Sir.--Australia is still a veritable El Dorado, although its flow of gold has been reduced to a mere trickle aud its picturesque mining camps have…

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Visit of Minister for Mines and Forests

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 18 July 1930 · page 2

The Hon. R. W. D. Weaver. Minister for Mines and forests, accompanied by the Hon. Walter Bennett. visited Gloucester to-day and also…

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To Relieve Distress. Visit of Minister for Mines and Forests. Hon. R W. D. WEAVER, M.L.A., at Taree

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 July 1930 · page 10

There are few people in New South Wales who have not heard of Hon. R. W. D. Weaver, Minister for Mines and Forests. He is the man who…

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Relief for Unemployed Hon. R. W. D. Weaver Visits District. Further Work for Sleeper Cutters Assistance to Gold Fossickers

The Northern Champion · Saturday 19 July 1930 · page 3

The Hon. R. W. D. Weaver, Minister for Mines and Forests, arrived in Taree on Wednesday morning for the purpose St making arrangements to absore some…

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Minister for Mines at Wingham Gold and Osmiridium Sleeper Cutting

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 23 July 1930 · page 1

The Minister for Mines and Fores[?]s in N.S.W.— the Hon. R. W. D. Weaver— paid a visit to Wingham on Wednesday afternoon last. Mr. L. O…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 2

On Friday last, Hon. R. Weaver (Minister for Mines) accompanied by Hon. W. Bennett, M.L.A., and Mr. Lloyd (geologist) visited Barrington…

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Where Is Gold?

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 2

Hon. W. Bennett, M.L.A., informs us that he has brought under the notice of the Minister for Mines the possibilities of prospecting at…

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Miners' Pay. About £550 a Year

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 30 July 1930 · page 3

The average pay at the Muswellbrook colliery for the past fortnight was £16 for each miner. The highest amount received by a…

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Oil From Coal. Eve of Revolution in Fuel Industry

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 30 July 1930 · page 1

The following article was printed in an English paper: Scien[?]le developments in America and Germany have just reached a stage…

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Gold Rush in Victoria

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1930 · page 2

The news that Arthur G. Golyz found a nugget of gold weighing 20 ozs., at Long Brush, nine miles from Tarangulla, Victoria, travelled…

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Victorian Gold Rush

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 2

More than 250 prospectors have been attracted to the area beyond Tarngulla, where Arthur Goltz, an opossum, trapper, discovered a 20oz…

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Prospecting for Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 2

The Minister for Mines has announced that unless money is made available from the Unemployment Relief Fund to continue assistance to…

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Spun Gold Hostess Gown

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 6

Hostess gowns are very popular this season, and one of the most charming is worn by Nataile Moorhead, who has a featured role in "Manslaughter," the…

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Gold Production—new Method

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 2

Mr. W. H. Trewartha James, of London, consulting engineer to he Lake View and Star Ltd., West Australia, before his departure for…

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Sensational Gold Find at Hillgrove

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 12

Sensational reports reached Armidale on Wednesday of a gold find at the once famous Baker's Creek mine Hillgrove. It is stated that Edward Cook,…

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Gold Rush. Large Nugget Found Near Bendigo

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 August 1930 · page 7

Cars, lorries and horse-drawn vehicles, all carrying men armed with picks and axes, made a frantic rush at dawn on Saturday week to peg out…

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Rich Gold Yield. Excitement at Lucknow

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 9 August 1930 · page 8

Great excitement prevails at Lucknow, where recent returns from dirt from the 27ft. level in the Stalnan mine, situated right in the heart of…

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Prospecting for Gold. [?]

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 13 August 1930 · page 3

Mr. A. C. Lloyd, Geologist from the [?] Survey Branch of the Department of Mines. Sydney visited Wingham on Wednesday last. Mr. Lloyd…

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