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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

196 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 10

Mine Owners Meet Mr. Dooley

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 33

At the request of Mr. Dooley, Premier of New South Wales, representatives of the mine owners at Broken Hill met him in Melbourne. The interview took, place…

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Hotel That Burns No Coal

The Independent · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 4

Few people in London know that the Savoy Hotel burns no coal. It is the first, hotel in the Kingdom to take advantage of fuel oil. The test…

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Gold Not Worth Taking

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 17 November 1921 · page 4

Leave the Southern Pacific Railway at Huma—a town in Arizona, in the United States—follow the wagon-road sixty miles north, and…

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Timber Mines. Where Wood in Found Deep Down in the Earth

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 24 November 1921 · page 4

Men employed in driving a new gallery in a gold-mine at Charlotte Plains, in Victoria, have made a most astonishing discovery. At a…

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Riverina Collieries

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 22

In view of the early starting of the coal raising operations at the Riverina collieries, Oaklands, there is a prospect that several- industries may be started in…

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Stirring Stories of the Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 4

The recent dramatic discovery in Calfornia of a nugget of gold "as heavy as a man" (its actual weight is 1421b.) recalls many a forgotten romance…

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The Sonoma's Gold

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 2 December 1921 · page 2

The Commonwealth Bank has received a cable from America sta[?]ng that three boxes of gold from the Sonoma were found…

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Stolen Gold Found. Monday, November 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 December 1921 · page 23

The correspondent of the United Press at San Francisco has telegraphed that £15,000 more of the gold stolen from the Sonoma's currency tanks has been…

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Dangerous Mining

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 3

Amongst the questions determined by the Mount Mulligan Mine Disaster Commission are the following:—Explosives were distributed, used and stored…

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Miners Forced Out of Town

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 32

A message from Rockhampton states that sensational doings are reported from Baralaba. It appears a meeting of employees of the State mine and the Mount…

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More Precious Than Gold. Romantic Discovery of a New Metal

The Independent · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 4

An interesting history attache to a small packet about two and a half inches square which recently arrived in London…

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Gold. Chemically Manufactured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 3

Professor Irving Fisher, of the Yale University, lecturing in London on school economics, startled his audience by announcing that he had been…

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The Mystery Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 12

Lake Goongarrie, or the Ninety-Mile Lake, stretches from Coolgardie (W.A.) north to Menzies. Only those who have visited it can realise its many beauties. It…

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Family Nearly As Big As Mine. Lake Cargelligo

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my second letter to the "Banner." I like reading the Children's Page very much. We are living ten miles from Lake Cargelligo. Dad…

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Northern Mining Trouble

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 2

it is understood that the delegates at the conference of the Northern miners expressed opposition to a strike at the present juncture…

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Extensive Coal Deposits in Riverina. What Coorabin Tests Reveal Estimates of 800,000,000 Tons of Black Coal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 3

All the necessary exploratory work has been carried out on the new coal field at Coombin-Oaklands, the terminus of The Rock railway, Southern…

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Extensive Coal Deposits in Riverina. What Coorabin Tests Reveal. Estimates of Eight Hundred Million Tons of Black Coal

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 4

All the necessary exploratory work has been carried out on the new coalfield at Coorabin, Oaklands, the terminus of The Rock railway,…

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