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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

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Coal Strike Feared. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 4

The Miners' Federation has adopted preliminary plans for the purpose of enabling the Federation to call a general strike in the industry if it is…

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Gold Mining Visit of Minister for Mines

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1934 · page 2

The Hon. R. S. Vincent, Minister for Mines and Forests, visited the new mining field at Craven Creek on Monday. He stated that the…

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North West Gold Mining Company. N.l

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1934 · page 2

The Secretary of the North West Gold Mining Co., N.L. announces that the Directors have sold 82,200 forfeited shares in the Company at…

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Copeland Mines, N.l

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1934 · page 2

The manager reported as follows on 11th June:—SOUTHERN CROSS MINE. South drive advance 4ft., total 14…

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Bridge Gold Cup Match. Comfortable Win for Coff's

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 19 June 1934 · page 5

A large crowd was treated to a feast of fast and exciting football at the Jetty Oval on Sunday, when Kempsey met the Coif's Harbor Cup…

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The Minister for Mines. Visits New Mining Field

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 June 1934 · page 2

At the invitation of the Gloucester Shire Council and Chamber of Commerce, the Hon. R. S. Vincent, Minister for Mines and Forests, paid…

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Queensland Gold Yield

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 June 1934 · page 3

For five months of the year the State gold yield was almost 10,000 fine ounces above the yield for the corresponding period last year. For…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 June 1934 · page 2

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended June 8,…

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Big Oil Measures. Under Britain's Mines. Engineer's New Process

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 June 1934 · page 4

Deep down in the galleries of the lowest workings of half a dozen mines in the Wigan area oil is oozing. It is coming from a vast…

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Soviet Gold. "Well Rival, the Rand."

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1934 · page 5

The 1933 output of the Soviet gold mines (Surpassed that of those in Canada and the United States combined, and soon will equal that of…

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Gold Mining Copeland Mines, N.l

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1934 · page 2

The manager reported as follows on 18th June: SOUTHERN CROSS. 100ft. Level: South drive…

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Radio South Gold Mines, N.l

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1934 · page 2

The manager reported as follows on 18th June: The first costeen was advanced to 26 feet. In all four lines of quartz…

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Getting Rid of Gold. Hindering Clause in Contracts

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1934 · page 3

In Sydney a block of flats, on which there was a mortgage of £10,000, was sold recently for £18,000…

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More Than Gold. Wonderful Sheep

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 27 June 1934 · page 4

Declaring that Australia rightly worshipped at the shrine of the shep. [?]e Premier (Mr. Stevens), at the Sheep Breeders' Association luncheon on…

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Mining Industry

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 1

Mr. Vincent, Minister for Mines and Forests, recently made a trip to the Lightning Ridge district where an inspection was made of the opal…

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"Gold Diggers" at Gladstone

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 4

Talkie fans will be given a rare treat at the Gladstone Talkies on Saturday night, when an all-star programme will he screened. The first…

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Sulphide Gold New Issue

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 4

Sulphide Gold (Junction Reefs), N.L., has decided to issue 75,000 shares of 2/- each at par to shareholders in the proportion of one new…

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The Gold Pass Grab

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 2

Last year, as a result of a referendum of the people, the number of members of the N.S.W. Legislative Council was reduced from…

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Dinosaur Tracks in Coal Seam

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 4

Australian scientific bodies are taking keen interest in the discovery on top of a seam of coal in the Lanefield colliery, in the Ipswich…

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Potato Patch Now a Goldfield

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 4

Negotiations are afoot to resell for £50,000 a gold mine at Gordons, near Ballarat, on the site which three years ago was a potato farm…

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