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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

303 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 16

Coorabin Coal. Tests Not to Expectations

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 5

Tests made by the Victorian Geological Survey Department from the samples of coal received from the Coorabin coal field, near Oaklands,…

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Miners' Demands

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 22

The Miners' Conference has decided by 623 votes to 166 to authorise the executive to continue the negotiations with the Government. A special Sunday evening…

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Welsh Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 45

Less than a century ago Welsh coal was scarcely known outside Wales. The natives had burned it for 550 years, but only in a small way, for they preferred…

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Oaklands Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 28

Tests made by the Victorian Geological Survey Department from the samples of coal received fro the Oaklands coalfield, about 30 miles from Yarrawonga, have…

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Oaklands Coal. Discouraging Tests

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 4

Tests made by the Geological Survey department from the samples of coal removed from the O[?]klands coal field, about 30 miles [?]…

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Lost Diamond Mine. South African Romance

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 4

Lively interest is being shown on the Rand in connection with disclosures of a rich diamond mine which has been lost temporarily, it is hoped, in the…

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Gold Digging in Bendigo in 1852

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 44

When my brother Thomas and myself reached Bendigo in 1852 we found that goldfield different to where we had been digging in New South Wales when gold…

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Exporting Gold. Tempting Profits. South African Arrested

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 3

A remarkable story concerning a sum of £14,000 in gold was told in the Adelaide Police Court on Monday during the bearing of a charge against…

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Coal From Oaklands

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 April 1920 · page 1

Tests made by the Geological Survey department from the samples of coal received from the Oaklands coal field, about 30 miles from . Yarrawonga, on the…

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Coorabin Coal. Surprise at the Victorian Report

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 8 April 1920 · page 4

The report by the Victorian Minister for Railways (Mr Barnes) that samples of coal from Coorabin had not come up to expectations…

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Demands of British Miners, a Strike Discouraged. London, April 7

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 April 1920 · page 2

The president of the Durham Miners, a prominent official of the Miners' Federation, addressing the former, declared that strikes and wars were always…

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Coorabin Coal Mine

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 4

A good deal of interesting information with reference to the development of the Coorsbin coalfield, near Oaklands, was imparted by Mr. F. P…

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Gold-mining in the Yukon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 22

The Development League at Dawson City, in the Yukon territory of Canada is petitioning the Canadian Government to abolish the royalty on gold, because the…

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Welsh Coal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 2

Less than a century ago welsh coal was scarcely known outside Wales. The natives had burned it for 550 years, but only in a small way, for they…

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Finding Entombed Miners

The Independent · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 4

An instrument invented during the war for finding the positions of underground operations by means of sound has now been put to the use…

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Trawler Sunk by Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 20

The steamer Sempton has landed at Hull the crow of the British trawler Ribble, which struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. The fishermen took to their…

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Gold Digging in Bendico in 1852

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 29

On the Bendigo goldfield in the early days the regulations issued by the resident Commissioner were most arbitrary. Licence to be Produced on Demand…

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Victorian Brown Coal. Thickest Beds in the World

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 4

Some idea of the inexhaustible character of the brown coal resources of Victoria may be gleaned from the fact that a drill now…

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Items of Special Interest. Victoria's Brown Coal Deposits

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 19

Some idea of the inexhaustible character of the brown coal resources of Victoria may be gleaned from the fact that a drill, now boring at Upper Flynn, in the…

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Later News. German Students and French Soldiers Collision in Frankfurt. One Effect of the Government Troops in Ruhr. Coal Supplies to France Stopped

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 2

"The Times" Paris correspondent states that a street procession at Frankfurt, headed by students, provoked a collision with French troops…

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