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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

192 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 10

Increased Gold Production

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 9

The production of gold in New South Wales for November was estimated at 1955oz. fine, the nominal value at the standard rate being…

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Better Than Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 24

An American artist named Mott travelled to the Pribylov Islands in a sealing, vessel a year ago to paint some pictures of seals in their native home…

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Liquid Fuel From Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 14

The N.S.W. Government has decided to make funds available for a thorough investigation of the process of extraction liquid fuel from coal developed by…

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Gold From Ovens River Stone Worth £60

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 1

The golden stone discovered last week by Mr. Steve Butler in his claim on the Oyens River, and for which an offer of £50 was refused, was…

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District Mining

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 8

In the Albury Mining Warden's Court an extension of his permission to enter and prospect and mine on 22 acres of land at Stony Park, parish…

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£10,000 to Employees Well of Colliery Owner Who Left £800,000

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 17

Probate of the will and two codicils of Mr. Tilden Smith, the Kent colliery owner, who died in 1929, leaving estate of about £800,000, was granted by Mr…

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West Australian Gold

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 1

The production of gold in West Australia to the end of November last was 39,367,895 fine ounces, valued on the basis of gold at £4/5/ an…

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Old-time Mining

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 2

From the Melbourne "Argus" of January 11, 1853:--Gold from the Ovens.--The escort from Melbourne came into Spring Creek yesterday…

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Shockingly Burnt Two Men's Search for Gas in Colliery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 16

David Kerr, aged 38 years, a carpenter, of Corrimal, and Harry Williams (or M'Pherson), a miner, who have been living at Balmain Colliery…

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New Locomotive Grate Saves Coal Consumption

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 33

Claiming that a new type of locomotive grate recently tested effects a saving of 8 or 9 per cent in coal consumption, the Railway Department…

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Wagga News Gold Won at Tumbarumba

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 47

Gold won in Tumbarumba last year amounted to 514 oz., value at, £2163 18/3. This represents an increase in value of £500 over the production of…

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House Thieves at Work. Concentrating on Gold Jewellery. SYDNEY, Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 1

Evidence that expert gangs of house thieves are at work in many suburbs is supplied by reports of robberies. Detectives state that the high price…

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Riverina Collieries Cannot Overcome Water Trouble

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 31

Riverina residents who staked their money in the Riverina collieries at Coorabin, near Urana, on the strength of geological reports and the…

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Gold Chip Wins

The Independent · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 2

Ex-Deniliquin racehorse Gold Chip won Mannerin Welter at . Geelong races on Wednesday. Gold Chip was formerly owned by Mr. N. F…

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Gold Near Narandera

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 7

It is reported that Mr. A. E. Sheather, farmer, of Grong Grong, and another man named Haydin, who have been prospecting in the Cowabbie…

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New Gold Standard

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 2

The production of new gold in New South Wales last year was 27,941 ounces fine the highest for 11 years. It compares with 19,673 ounces fine…

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"Gold Rush"

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 3

There will be great excitement at the Austral Grounds. Corowa, on Thursday night next, 16th inst, at the Baby Health Centre Carnival and…

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Oil From Coal. the Navy Gives a Trial Order

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 1

The first order of the kind in naval history has been given by the Admiralty for a year's bulk supplies of oil made from British coal. This marks…

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Miners Suffocated. in Victorian Mine. Melbourne

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 1

Two miners, Albert Berger (68), a widower with a grown-up family of seven, and Arthur Dunstan (34), married, with three children, were…

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Two Miners Suffocated

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 4

Overcome by foul air, two miners were suffocated in a prospecting shaft at Buninyong, near Ballarat (Vic.), on Tuesday. They were:—Albert Berger,…

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