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Mining & the mines, 1936

177 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 9

Mining Notes the Little Wahgunyah Extended First Meeting of Shareholders

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 July 1936 · page 5

About fifty shareholders attended the first extraordinary meeting of shareholders which was held in the Temperance Hall, Rutherglen [?]n…

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Items of Interest Vault for Gold

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1936 · page 3

Workmen have been putting the finishing touches during recent weeks to a steel and cement vault erected at Fort Knox, Kentucky, to…

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Mine Bandit Engine Driver Sandbagged

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 39

At night a man entered the Sheepshead battery at Bendigo (Vic.) and sandbagged the engine driver, Charles Stewart Ross Davies, of Bright-street…

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Mining Notes the Little Wahgunyah Extended Syndicate

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 1

The first meeting of the newly appointed Board of Directors of the above syndicate was held on Tuesday night last. July 28, at Mrs…

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Oil From Coal Australian Plant Ready to Begin Operations. London, July 37

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 7

Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. has advised the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Stevens) that its operations at Billingham (Durham) have…

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Awoke on a Bed of Gold Found a Vast Fortune—and Lost It Overnight

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 27

Already they called him King of the Arctic ... but here were riches enough to make him King of the World…

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Boom-time Gold

The Independent · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 3

"Boom-time Gold[?]full of thrills and goes with a swing from the start. It is quite as exciting and far more amusing than most gangster stories…

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New Books Boom Time Gold.—

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 2

An Australian mystery novel by G. W. Wicking, is quite an interesting and exciting story. James McPherson makes good in his early…

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Fearful Mine Fatality Fifty-Eight Miners Entombed. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 2

Fifty-eight miners are believed to have lost their lives in an explosion at Woodmoor Colliery, nears Barnsley. The men were entombed and…

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Mines Under Government Control

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 5

There is one way in which incalculable benefit could be rendered to the gold mining industry, and that is by the Government's entry into the…

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Government Help for Gold Mining £107,000 in Two Years Drilling Plants in Commission

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 5

Details of the assistance given by the Dunstan Government in Victoria to the gold mining industry during the financial year, 1935-36, have been…

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Gold From Baker's Oven

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 9

When assisting Messrs. Molan Bros., bakers, of Landsborough (Vic), to clean ashes and clinkers from, the ovens some time ago Mr. H. Knight…

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Mining Notes Little Wahgunyah Extended G.m. Syndicate

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 5

At a meeting of directors of the above, held at Mrs. McKay's Rutherglen Hotel on Tuesday evening, August 4, 1936, it was decided to call for…

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Gold on Roadway

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 August 1936 · page 2

A day or two ago while a workman in the employment of the Country Roads Board was engaged smoothing the surface of the Hume Highway…

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Mining Stories Re-told Sensational Rescue Recalled

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 August 1936 · page 3

Bonnievate, the scene of one of the most thrilling and sensational incidents in Western Australian mining history, is to-day…

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Oil from Coal Project in New South Wales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 4

Although some difficulties have still to be overcome the Acting Premier (Mr. Bruxner) stated last week that the prospects for the…

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Coal, Iron and Steel

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 August 1936 · page 35

[OUTPUT BEST FOR 10 YEARS The Acting Premier (Mr. Bruxner) said that the output of coal in New; South Wales was greater than at any…

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Mine Disaster Rescuers Risk Death From Gas London, August 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 August 1936 · page 15

An inquest was opened to-day at Barnsley into the deaths of 32 of the victims of the disaster at the Wharn-cliffe-Woodmoor colliery whose bodies…

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Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 August 1936 · page 2

On Sunday morning last, directors of the Little Wahgunyah Extended G.M. Syndicate, inspected the Company's lease for the purpose of…

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No Place in Russia Disillusioned Gold Miners London, August 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 39

According to the "Star," two disillusioned gold miners are leaving for Australia by the Ormonde. They are A. Vorovsky, a Russian, and his…

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