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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1927

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Gold Mining, Close to Melbourne

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 5

From a crushing of 16 tons of stone a party of gold miners on a reef at Bolinds. Vale, three miles from Donnybrook, has obtained 93 ozs. of fine gold…

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Woods' Great Peppermint Cure For Influenza Colds. Gold at Glen Innes

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 5

A rich gold-bearing reef has been discovered on a sheep station creek on the Glen Innes road, 46 miles from Grafton. Assays disclosed 52 ozs. of…

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Gold Mining Industry. Gold Discovery. Find at Old "Remarkable" Reef

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 1

A promising discovery of gold is reported from Sheep Station Creek on tho Glen Innes road 46 miles from Grafton. While prospecting along…

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Making Goal Kicking Easier Player Moves Coal Post Three Feet An Incident in the Benalla-Wangaratta Match

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 3

A peculiar dispute regarding the powers of goal umpires arose In the match Wangaratta v. Benalla on Saturday, which was won by…

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Shanghaied! Indentured Labor for Mines Serious Charges Made Storm of Protest Townsville

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 9 July 1927 · page 3

Amazing allegations were made at a mass meeting at the jetty wharf in protest against the consignment, by a steamer in Townsville, of 480…

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In Gold Digging Days

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 31

A Bathurst pioneer, Mrs. Mary Anne Lowe, has died at the age of 90 years, after a life crowded with adventure. Mrs. Lowe spent many years of her…

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Gold Is Easy Correct Swing, Driving Hints by Deniliquin's Pro

The Independent · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 2

Golf is easy providing you to the 29 things essential in a perfect swing. My belief is that some of us are…

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Mt. Morgan Mine to Close Production Costs too High

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 3 August 1927 · page 4

Shareholders of the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Co. Ltd. have decided that the company should wind-up voluntarily…

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French Miners Strike Paris

The Independent · Tuesday 9 August 1927 · page 2

Messages state that sympathetic strikes have occurred at the Anezin mines…

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Erskine Six Wins Gold Medal Reliability Test, N.S.W.

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 August 1927 · page 4

Messrs Turner Bros have received the following telegram from the Studebaker Corporation in Sydney…

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British Miners London

The Independent · Tuesday 16 August 1927 · page 2

The Daily Express says important plans for the re-organisation of the Miners' Federation are being completed for submission to the Executive for…

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Desert Gold

The Independent · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 2

What is this man Zane Grey's secret. He never seems to run[?]out of ideas. Each picture bearing his fame is always a b[?] better than the one which…

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Coal Mine to Close

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 August 1927 · page 43

Burwood Extended Mine will close this week, and more than 350 nion will be affected. Trouble arose at the mine five weeks ago through an…

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Mining Congress. Brown Coal Deposits. Montreal, August 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 August 1927 · page 25

Representatives of the mining industry in all parts of the world met to-day at the opening of the Second Triennial Mining and Metallurgical…

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Lead Mines to Close Down

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 3

Unless the price of lead materially improves within three or four weeks the mines of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. and Broken Hill…

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Gold Near Canberra

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 31 August 1927 · page 2

It is reported that gold has been discovered in the small village of Hall, 11 miles from the Federal Capital. The authorities are maintaining…

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New Guinea Gold Sydney

The Independent · Friday 16 September 1927 · page 2

Fifteen thousand ounces of Guinea gold, valued at £38,000 was brought to Sydney, to-day, by the steamer Montoro…

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May Close Down Broken Hill Mines Will Throw 1350 Men Idle

The Independent · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 2

Well-informed mining opinion in Adelaide is that, owing to the low price of lead, practically all the mines at Broken Hill, except the North…

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Rain in Victoria Floods in Gippsland Yallourn Mine Idle

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 5 October 1927 · page 5

About 400 miners at the State Electricity Commissioner's coal mine at Yallourn are temporarily unemployed as a result of the flood at Yallourn…

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Broken Hill Mining Coy. To Pay £12,000 Yearly for Family Endowment SYDNEY

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 8 October 1927 · page 3

The annual report of the Broken Hill South Mining Company shows that the concern must pay £12,000 a year under the Family Endowment…

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