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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

201 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 11

Gold at £6/3/6½ Per Ounce

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1931 · page 34

It was announced at Canberra on Friday that because of the suspension of the gold standard in Great Britain the Melbourne branch of the Royal…

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After Pirates' Gold Search Toe £12,000,000 on Pacific Island

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1931 · page 26

Treasure buried centuries ago by pirates, said to be worth £12,000,000, is the objective of a party of Vancouver men who have sailed for Cocos…

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Gold Movement Need for Control Paris, November 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1931 · page 38

An outspoken interview with Sir Josiah Stamp, a director of th Bank of England, is published in "L'Ordre." Sir Josiah Stamp said:—"London…

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Gold Seekers

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1931 · page 1

Of the Shepparton contingent of gold seekers who, several months ago, went to Whroo, under the scheme by which assistance was…

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Rich Gold in Victoria

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1931 · page 34

The Bairnsdale (Vic.) School of Mines lias crushed two tons of ore mined by Messrs. Noel Stagg and Conrad Olsen on a property four miles…

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Large Nugget of Gold Discovered

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1931 · page 47

One mile from Tarnagulla (Vic), in an unworked branch of Hayes Gully, at a depth of 5ft., Stanley McNamee obtained a nugget of gold weighing…

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Colliery Explosion. Thirty-Four Killed; Five Missing and Number Injured. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 November 1931 · page 2

An explosion occurred at a 600 feet level in a colliery, at Bentley, near Doncaster, England. Thirty-four men have been killed. There are five…

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Colliery Disaster. Death Roll 42 London, November 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 November 1931 · page 16

Hope has been abandoned of ressuing the five miners still, entombed in I the Bentley Colliery, near Doneaster, where a terific explosion occurred on…

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Explosion in Colliery 39 Men Killed London, November 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 November 1931 · page 15

Eighty men were entombed when a disastrous explosion occurred 600 feet underground and one and a half miles from the pit bottom at the Bentley…

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Short Story Rolling in Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 November 1931 · page 17

MISS BUNTING dropped her needlework in her lap and sat staring before her. As she sat in the dreary stateliness…

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Gold Standard Retained by South Africa Cape Town, November 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 November 1931 · page 15

"We can and we will remain, on the gold standard," was the uncompromising and confident note struck by the Minister for Finance (Mr…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 December 1931 · page 1

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold including jewellery but not sovereigns, ledged at the Mint from November 16 to November…

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Riverina Collieries Limited

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 December 1931 · page 4

The mining warden has granted an application on behalf of Riverina Collieries Limited (Oaklands) for a further suspension of the labour…

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ALBURY & DISTRICT Riverina COllieries Ltd

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 December 1931 · page 9

Before Mr. C. W. Swiney in the Albury Mining Warden's Court, on Monday, an application was filed on behalf of Riverina Collieries Ltd. for a…

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A "Cave of Gold"

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 December 1931 · page 13

A London message states that Mr. Herbert Basedow, the South Australian explorer, geologist and anthropologist, who is now in England, intends to…

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Western Australian Gold Production

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 9

The production of gold in Western Australia for November was 53,809 fine oz., valued at £228,823, which is 20,161 oz. in excess of the output for…

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Silver Threads Among the Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 21

DARLING, I am growing old, silver threads among the gold Shine upon my brow to-day, life is fading fast away,…

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Search for Gold in Central Australia. No Signs Found. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 3

Two geologists, T. Blatchford, chief, and H. W. Talbot, assistant geologist, to the West Australian Government, who accompanied the Central…

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Coal Trains Robbed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1931 · page 33

After several weeks spent in vain attempts to catch thieves who have robbed coal trains systematically, detectives, stated a Sydney message,…

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Gold Swallowed by Ducks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1931 · page 10

Some ducks purchased in the Bendigo (Vic.) markets were being prepared for cooking, when small quantities of gold were found in the…

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