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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

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Wedding Ring Fashions Women Not Satisfied with Gold Band

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 4

ETERNITY can be symbolised quite as explicity with a small, frail circlet of platinum and diamonds as with the massive, knuckle-duster…

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How Paris Paints the Lily Gold Eyelids, Gilt Lashes and Mother-of-pearl

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 4

EYELIDS decorased with gold to match metallic coats, eyelashes fringed with gilt, and finger-nails tipped with mother-of-pearl lacquer are…

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Gold Mining Recovery in Australia Increased Production

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 3

At the annual meeting of the Australian Mines and Metals Association the president (Mr. Colin Fraser)said that the most striking feature in…

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"Back to Wyalong Goldfields Week March 7 to 14, 1934 Invitation to Ex-residents

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 3

"Back to Wyalong Goldfields" Week will be celebrated from Wednesday March 7. to Wednesday, March 14, (Inclusive). The date will synchronise…

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"Back to Wyalong Goldfields" Week March 7 to 14, 1934

The Independent · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 2

"Back to Wyalong Goldfields" Week, will be celebrated from Wednesday, March 7, to wednesday, March 14 (Inclusive). The date will…

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Huge Gold Shipment

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 March 1934 · page 2

The Cunard liner, Berengaris, with gold valued at £3,000,000. left South hampton (England) for New York in week. She will pick up a further…

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Gold Stolen Armed Guards Tricked 936oz. Bar Removed; Cement in Its Place. Capetown

The Independent · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 4

A bar of gold, weighing 936ozs., consigned from [?]y to London was found to have disappeared when the box which had contained it was…

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Centenarlan of the Gold Fields

The Independent · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 5

Early gold-digging days at Lambing Flat (now Young) and Forbes are recalled by Mr. Thomas Gilligan, of Clara-street, Newtown, who cele[?]…

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Gold Production in Australia

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 2

Australia's gold production last year was the highest for 14 years. The value, including that of New Guinea and Papua, was £7,018,568 for…

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Old Gold Stolen Valued at £40 Three Men Remanded Sydney

The Independent · Friday 23 March 1934 · page 3

At the Central Police Court to-day, three men, John Cooper, 25 (mechanic), Lawrence Albert Quick, 28 (boot-maker), and Frank White, 27…

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The Wonthaggi Strike Minister's Warning to Miners. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 2

The Victorian Minister of Railways, referring to the trouble at Wonthaggi, said that unless the miners' policy was to be a policy of suicide, they…

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Gold in Sea Water

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 5 April 1934 · page 4

There is enough gold in the sea to give every man, woman and child in the world 14,000 dol. worth, is the conclusion which might be…

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Colliery Explosion. Over 100 Men in Jeopardy. TEKIO

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 2

Between fifty and one hundred miners are entombed in the Fukushima colliery, near Fukashima city, following a gas explosion. They are trapped…

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Mining

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 April 1934 · page 1

At the present time a syndicate is being formed in Melbourne for the purpose of proving the lead in the Rutherglen district known as the…

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Two Miners Entombed. Rescued Exhausted. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 April 1934 · page 3

Two miners, Micheal Rosetti, 32, and George Davies, 45, were trapped in a long tunnel at the Daylesford Italian Hill mine, Victoria, following…

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Queensland Gold Production

The Independent · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 2

The Queensland gold yield for March was 11,807 fine ounces, worth £59,153 compared with 4258 ounces worth £20,211, in March 1933. For…

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Turf Jotings Albury Gold Cub

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 6

A GOOD entry has been received for the Albury Gold Cup, which is to be run on the first day of the Albury Racing club's meeting [?]…

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Mining

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 2

A nugget weighing 72 oz[?] was found a few days back near the Waanyarra cemtery, Parnagulla district, at ter it had been exposed by rain…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion. In Yugo-Slavia. BELGRADE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 2

Female relatives and children spent the night in suspense at the pithead of the Kekanj Colliery, near Serajevo, singing death songs, as 147 corpses…

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Surface: Death Songs Sung After Terrific Explosion in Mine Whole Gallery Wiped Out. Servian Government Assisting Families

The Independent · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 3

BELGRADE (Servia), Sunday. Women relatives and children spent a night of suspense at the pit bead of the Kekanj colliery, near Serajevo…

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