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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

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Miners Will Not Work with Unnaturalized Foreigners Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 6

Perth: Latest messages from Kalgoorlie and Boulder show that there has been no further riots. The mining companies have declined to dismiss any…

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Copeland Gold Mines Ltd

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 2

The directors of the above South. Australian Company, which has taken over several leases on the Commonwealth Creek, have appointed…

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Gold From Copeland

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 2

Messrs. J. Webeck and A. Harris brought into town on Saturday 28 ounces of gold from their newly discovered reef at Copeland. The…

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Fortunes From Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 3

The Berengaria and Bremen, which left Southampton for New York yesterday, took £5,500,000 worth of gold. The former shipped another…

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Gold Still Soaring. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 5

The price for gold in Australia has reached a new record high level, being now £8108 per ounce fine…

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Gold Prices in London London, 5234

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 5

Gold reached a new record price to-day, selling at £7 per ounce…

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Gold Value Unprecedented Price. Heavy Flow of Bullion from Europe. LONDON, February 3

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1934 · page 3

The devaluation of the American dollar to 59.06 per cent, of the old gold value; and the fixing of the new Price for gold at 35 dollars per…

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£7 an Ounce New Record for Gold Sydney

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 3

London, Monday: Gold reached a new record price to-day when it sold at £7 an ounce…

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Copeland Gold Mines Ltd

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 9 February 1934 · page 5

The Directors of the above South Australian Company, which lias taken over several leases on the Commonwealth Creek, Gloucester…

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Gold from Copeland

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 9 February 1934 · page 5

Messrs. J Webeck and A Harris brought into Gloucester on Saturday last, 28 ounces of gold from their newly discovered reef at Copeland…

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Gold Located on Byron Bay Beach

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 9 February 1934 · page 2

Two gold leads were located on the Byron Bay beach on Saturday by Mr. W.. J. Arthur, inventor of a gold prospecting device. The party…

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Local and General. Reported Rich Gold Find

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 February 1934 · page 4

Sensational reports have reached Scone concerning the richness of a recent geld find on Martin's Creek, near Moonan Brook. The reef has…

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Stipend Unpaid So Parson Goes Mining

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 February 1934 · page 6

One of Wiluna's parsons has vacated the pulpit to take up the pick. He is the Rev. George Little, incumbent, of the Wiluna Anglican…

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Mining. Gold From Copeland

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 1

Messrs. J. Webeck and A. Harris brought into Gloucester on Saturday 28 ounces of gold from their [?] discovered reef at Copeland. The…

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Price of Gold—premium Lowered

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 2

For gold lodged at the Melbourne Mint during last week, the price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank was announced! as £7 15s 3d standard, or…

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Rich Gold Reefs Tenterfield District Finds

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 2

A rich reef of gold is reported to have been discovered near Mount Speribo, in the Tenterfield district, by Mr. L. L. Devon. He has been…

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Kitchener's Fate Loss of the Hampshire New Version of Cause Intercepted Message Laying of the Mines

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 3

Yet another version—and one which, it is suggested, may be well founded—of the circumstances of the loss of H.M.S. Hampshire, has been…

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"Back to Wyalong Goldfields" Week Invitation to Ex-residents

The Northern Champion · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 1

"Back to Wyalong Goldfields" Week will be celebrated from wednesday, March 7, to Wednesday, March 14(inclusive). The date will synchronise…

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Australian Gold

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 8

Australia's gold yield for 1933, estimated at nearly 822,000 ounces, is the highest for eight years. The value was about £5,000,000 in London, or…

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Life of Adventure Gold-hunting in New Guinea

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 4

It is doubtful whether any men have played a greater part in opening the unexplored country in New Guinea than the Leahy brothers, of…

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