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Mining & the mines, 1935

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Batlow Gold Leases

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 8

A Batlow correspondent states that gold won by operations by the holders of Archibald's lease has been held, and the gold forwarded to Adelaide is…

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Price of Gold London, Jan. 23

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 2

Gold was quoted in London to-day at £7 2/1 per fine oz…

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Gold Rush at Batlow 20 Miles Pegged Out

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 33

The gold-mining rush at Batlow is continuing and land has been taken up under various tenures over an area of 20 miles by 12 miles. Applications…

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Australianities a Famous Old Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 30

It was a delightful morning. There had been a few cleansing showers of rain the night before and the City of Bathurst had wakened to the new,…

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Imprisoned in Mine Man Rescued After Two Hours Parkes

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 2

While working, with his father and brother in the old Pioneer Mine near here. Walter Kable, a young miner, was imprisoned by a fall of earth 150…

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Gold at Batlow Considerable Activity Mins Inspector’s Report SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 1

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent) to-day received a report from the Chief Inspector of Mines (Mr. V. F. Farrier) on his visit of…

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Price of Gold London, January 26

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 2

Gold is Quoted to-day at it 3 /8 per fine oz…

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Goldfields Strike No Settlement Yet Negotiations Fail Perth

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 1

Negotiations between the Government and the mine-owners over the weekly working hours in the mines have failed and the…

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Explosives Used Attempt to Wreck Colliery Bridge a Midnight Outrage Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 2

An attempt was made shortly before midnight to blow up the bridge leading to Aberfield colliery, two miles from Swansea…

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Lost From Air Liner. Gold Found. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 3

The gold lost from the Hillman air liner has been found at New Romney in Kent. [An earlier message said that when…

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No Sign of Gold Lost from Airliner Police Search Fruitless LONDON, Jan. 28

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 1

Police who have been searching in Essex, Kent and Sussex for the gold bars which were lost from the Hillman Airways’…

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Farmer’s Windfall Hoard of Gold Coins Minted in Reign of James 1 LONDON, Jan. 27

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 2

Noticing a number of gold coins which had been unearthed by cattle grazing near a ditch at Muckleford, near Dorchester, a farmer commenced…

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Gold Near Albury Hopes of Finding Melbourne Man’s Venture

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1935 · page 2

In the Albury Mining Warden’s Court yesterday Robert Percy Symmous. St. Kilda Melbourne applied for authority to Enter on…

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Gold From Sky Landowner Victim of Hoax No Sign of Treasure London, January 28

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1935 · page 3

To-day a landowner in Kent informed Hillman’s Airways that the £5000 worth of gold which tell through the [?] of an aeroplane…

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Wonthaggi Miners’ Claims

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 2

Albury Council, at a meeting last evening, received circulars, from the Australasian Coal and Shale Employes’ Federation asking for…

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State Mine Dispute Wonthaggi

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 1

Mora than 1000 miners at the State coal mine met to-day to discuss the refusal of the mine management to allow them an open magazine for the…

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Struck by Hammer Accident at Mine Man Shockingly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 3

With Harvey Lachlan, a prospector, suffering from a fracture the skull in one stretcher, and Sam Hodges, a timber cutter, who…

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A Considerate Thief Gold Watch Returned Belonged to a Policeman Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 1

Last Friday the home of Inspector Allen, of the Clarence street city police, was broken into and a quantity of jewellery was stolen…

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Gold Lost From Plane Found Buried Two Feet in Ground a Woman’s Discovery Paris, January 29

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 2

While crossing a field at Oisement today a woman, saw wooden de[?]ris on the ground, and while making an inspection of it she located the £6000…

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Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 5

At a meeting of the directors of the Wahgunyah and Rutherglen Gold Mining Syndicate, held in Melbourne on Tuesday last, it was decided to…

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