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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1925

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Coal Supply for Sydney Council

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 22

The purchase of supplies of coal for the City Council's power-house totalling £322,000, is recommended by the general manager (Mr. Forbes Mackay)…

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Riverina Collieries Limited

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 6

The following gentlemen have been nominated and eligible for the office of director, and of whom three are to be elected at the ordinary…

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A Gold Find

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 2

About ten miles from Orange, Mr. Fred Parish, of "Bexley," has discovered a deposit of Dream tin in one of his paddocks. He is also…

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A New Klondyke. Gold Rush in New Mexico. "Greatest in America's History."

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 4

At Hatch, New Mexico, what old prospectors describe as the greatest gold rush in the history of America has begun with the opening of the…

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Coorabin Coal Mine

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 January 1925 · page 3

An order has been placed for a new pump to be installed at the above mine, with a "lifting" capacity calculated to lift the company out of all…

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Riverina Collieries

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1925 · page 21

Thorn was a large attendance of live shareholders at the general meeting of the company at Albury on Wednesday afternoon. The Hon. A. K. Trethowan…

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Rescued From Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1925 · page 21

Of the two men who were imprisoned in the Taratu, Coal mine, in Otago N.Z. by a fall of earth one Jordan has been rescued but McGowan was…

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Gold for Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1925 · page 21

Regarding gold shipments, from America to Australia, it is learned that die shipments in question are coming from the United States to the…

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British Miners. a Strike Threatened London, January 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1925 · page 20

Twenty thousand coal miners in Derbyshire are threatening to strike, while the miners throughout the country are very discontented with the…

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Color Bar in Africa. Bill to Legalise It in Mines. Capetown, January 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1925 · page 20

The Government intends to introduce sin amending bill to the Mines Act, legalising the color bar by refusing in specified…

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Victorian Gold Yield

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 6

During the last 12 months the yield of gold in Victoria was 67,167oz. fine valued at £285,816. Compared with the previous 12 months this represents…

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Gold Discovery in New South Wales

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 27

If reports are true, a really sensational find of gold has boon made at Kiwarrack Mountain, near Wingham. Great excitement has been caused, and…

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Riverina Collieries Annual Meeting

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 5

The annual Meeting of the shareholders of the Riverina Collieries Ltd. was held at the Show Society's Room, at Albury, on Wednesday afternoon,…

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Riverina Collieries Limited. Shareholders' Annual General Meeting

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 4

At the annual meeting of shareholders, held on January 28, the chairman of directors (Hon. A. K. Trethowan) presided, and there were 39…

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Riverina Collieries

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 3

The following paragraph is portion of the report of directors to the annual meeting of shareholders to the Riverina Collieries,…

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Early Australian Impressions No. 6. the Gold Boom

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 18

It might be inferred that in those days the graziers would all become wealthy. But that was not so. There were drawbacks, which in many cases…

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Gold Bush in Siberia. Horrors of the Trail. Berlin, February 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 20

Although the Soviet authorities have attempted to block all roads to Tommot on the Aldan River, in Siberia, to check the suicidal gold rush thither, a…

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Latest Telegrams. Coal Miners' Disputes. The Full Court Appealed To. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 2

The Coal Miners Federation to-day applied to the Full Court for a writ of prohibition to prevent the execution of the sentence upon the 42…

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Riverina Collieries

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 2

In the Wile [?] Golumn, "Bulletin, 14/3/25, appears the following paragraph Riverina collieries, Coorablo (N.S.W.)…

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Cock's Pioneer Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 38

Disappointing results are shown in the reports and accounts of the Cock's Pioneer Gold and Tin Mines N.L., at Eldorado, for the half-year ended 30th…

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