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Mining & the mines, 1936

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Claude Bridge Gold Cup Game. Kempsey Plays 13-All Draw with Coffs

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 5

During the week-end the Kempsey cup team journeyed to Coff's Harbor and engaged the much boosted cup thirteen of that centre in a challenge…

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Limit to Deep Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 3

Mr. John Martin, chairman of directors of Crown Mines, Ltd., at the annual meeting of the company gave some particulars of the extent of…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes Inca Chief's Graves in Peru, Etc

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 1

Steve Grey, as we shall call him, was Underground Manager of a West Australian mine where the writer was engaged as assayer and we shared the…

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Big Increase. State Mineral Values. Gold Yield Best for 14 Years

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 1

The values of metals and minerals obtained in New South Wales in 1935 is estimated at £10,912,539, compared with £9,127,523 in 1934, representing…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes Asuncion—paraguay

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1936 · page 3

"I would have been very dull witted," continued Steve Grey, "I had not began to sense that in this vast concourse of mixed Spanish and…

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"Boom-time Gold"

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 July 1936 · page 3

"Boom-time Gold" is full of thrills and goes with a swing from the start. It is quite as exciting and far more amusing than most gangster stories…

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£6000 in Gold in 13 Tins. Rich Find

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 July 1936 · page 4

Marble Bar, West Australia, whose, only claim to distinction has been that it is the hottest place in Australia, now has real fame. Rich gold has…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes Asuncion—paraguay. (Continued)

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 21 July 1936 · page 3

The Donna Marina Del[?]y Esparta, haying missed Grey with her knife by the matter of a few inches had lost her balance and fallen forward on the…

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Younger Set Step Out. at Blue and Gold Ball

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 21 July 1936 · page 2

Highlights of the second annual Ball of the C.W.A. Younger Set, which was held in the Majestic Hall on Thursday night last, were the…

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A Gold Fortress

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 July 1936 · page 7

Gold worth nine billion dollars, the greatest accumulation of the yellow metal ever gathered in one pile, is shortly to be moved by the U.S…

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Mr. Jack Hides. Resigns From Papuan Service. Gold-mining Expedition

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1936 · page 3

Mr. Jack Hides, leader of the now world-famed Papuan patrol which discovered a native race of a type previously unknown to…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes Homeward Bound

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1936 · page 1

Steve Grey's fair helper Mharie McAlpine, who had led him in the darkness to her small trading boat of about seven tons burden was the…

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Tennant's Creek. Huge Ore Bodies Found Valuable Gold Deposits

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1936 · page 4

An extension of drilling operations to ore deposits to the east of Tennant's Creek is being considered by the Federal Government…

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Books Worth Reading. "Boom-time Gold."

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 3

The above is the title of a book received from Messrs, Angus & Robertson, Ltd. Sydney. The selling price of "Boom- Time Gold" is 46…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes the Fly River—new Guinea

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 4

Like the Colonel's wife and Judy J O'Grady, there is not much difference between the real true-blue cannibal and others of the genus Homo, except…

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Colliery Explosion. Sydney, Friday

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 4

London: Fifty-eight miners are believed to have lost their lives in an explosion at Woodmoor Colliery, near Barnsley…

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Mr. Jack Hides Gold-search Prevented Papuan Ordinance

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 3

The Legislative Council of Papua has declared the valley in which Mr. Jack Hides intends to lead a goldseeking expedition to be an…

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Pioneers to Celebrate Production of £100,000 Worth of Gold

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 6

The approach of big numbers of Warramulla blacks for an inter-tribal corroboree at Tennant Creek on Saturday is indicated by a series…

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Miners Entombed in English Colliery. Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 August 1936 · page 4

London: Fifty-eight miners are believed to have lost their lives in an explosion at Woodmoor Colliery, near Barnsley. The men were entombed and…

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Oil From Coal

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1936 · page 7

A huge oil from coal plant is to be established at Seaham Harbor (England) soon. This will employ about 1,000 men, and absorb the entire…

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