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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

196 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 10

Powdered Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 44

The Victorian Railway Commissioners are watching with a good deal of interest experiments which are being conducted by the New South Wales railways in the use…

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Gold Rush Memories

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 32

With the death of John Bliss, at the age of 87, the last link with the old Rocky River rush days has been severed. The early history of Armidale in bound up…

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The Search for Coal in Riverina

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 28

Considerable interest is being manifested in the work that has been in progress in Southern Riverina for a year or more, with the object of developing a coal field…

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The Real Seal Coal Another Market Gone [?]

The Independent · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 4

In these days of clever imitati[?] it is difficult to vouch for the [?] ulneness of anything, and [?] all sealskin. You may have [?]…

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The Search for Goal in Riverina. Wide Field Being Explored. Preparations for Coal Raising at Coorabin

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 4

Considerable interest is being manifested in the work that has been in progress in Southern Riverina for a year or more, with the object of…

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Countries Without Coal

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 4

Nearly every express train in Italy was out off on August 1919. The reason is that the country is almost, without coal…

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Export of Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 32

It was learnt on board the steamer Sonoma that 50 boxes of specie, equalling £250,000, consigned to San Francisco, had been shipped through the agency of the…

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How Much Coal Is [?]

The Independent · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 4

In view of Germany's [?] dertaking to deliver [?] of coal monthly. It is inter[?] consider just how the [?]…

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Cable Advices From London. Ireland. Irish Ambush. a Fierce Battle. Road Mines Explode

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 20

Seventy men of the Crown forces, who were travelling in lorries with the object of conducting a round-up, were ambushed by 400 Sinn Feiners entrenched in the hills…

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Countries Without Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1921 · page 47

Nearly every express train in Italy cut off on August 1st last. The reason is that the country is almost without coal…

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Morwell Coal Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 30

Negotiations for the re-employment of members of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employes' Federation who failed to sign the Victorian Government's…

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Iron Mine Tragedy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 32

Word has been received from Orange of a calamitous happening at Messrs. Hoskins' iron ore mines at Cardia, eleven miles from Orange, by which nine men lost their…

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Hidden Gold

The Independent · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 4

It is exactly four centuries since Cortez ans his handful of Spaniards destroyed the Aztec civilization in their mad last for gold. To-day a…

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Too Much Strike Miners Resentful

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 4

At Hebburn colliery last week there were several sectional stoppages of work and three officials and committeemen have resigned. They stated…

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 12

Dear Little Friends,—During the late holidays a number of contributors to the Page enjoyed a change in Melbourne or Sydney, and they have entered upon the…

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"Guinea Gold."

The Independent · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 4

All are agreed that the best cure for high prices and remedy for the general upset of trade would be to get back to the good old gold…

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A Jubilee of Romance. Fifty Years of Diamond and Gold Mining

The Independent · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 4

The recent discovery of a rich diamond field in the Orange Free State recalls the dramatic story of the first finding of diamonds in South…

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Serious Coal Shortage

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 13

The coal position in New South Wales is, it is stated, rapidly becoming acute. There now exists a grat shortage of coal, and everywhere supplies are obtainable…

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Lucky Gold Teeth

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 28

No one is more superstitious than gambler. The men and women who haunt the tables at Monte Carlo and other Continental casinos attach tremendous…

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Mining at Rutherglen

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 2

The stone raised by the syndicate between the period of the purchase from Cross and Curtain and the taking over by the company has been milled, 220…

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