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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Mining Notes the Little Wahgunyah Extd. G.m. Syndicate

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 5

No. 8 bore of the Little Wahgunyah Extended G.M. Syndicate was down 138 feet on Tuesday afternoon…

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Expansion of Gold Mining Results of Commonwealth Assistance Increased Employment and Production

The Independent · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 2

The Metalliferous Mining Conference, consisting of State Ministers for Mines and State and Commonwealth officials under the…

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W.a. Gold Yield Large Increase Last Year

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 3

The Perth branch of the Royal Mint reports that the States yield of gold for the year was 1,007,557 ozs. gross, compared with 809,764 ozs…

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New Year Coursing at Corowa Great Cologne Wins First Division Hurdle Race to Brigand's Lass Gold Cup Meeting Postponed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 4

In spite of the bombshell thrown down by the New South Wales Trotting Club, causing the Corowa M.H. Coursing Club to re-arrange its…

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Skeleton in Mine Shaft

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 3

Buried one foot below the surface, the fully-clothed skeleton of a man was found by two prospectors in an old goldmine shaft, three miles from…

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New Guinea Gold Rich Deposits Reported

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 4

News of another gold rush in New Guinea, this time to a spot on the Screw River, fifty miles from the Rape coast, was brought to Brisbane…

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Gold Cause Canada May Take Action

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 30

Action involving three billion dollars in public and private Canadian securities and effecting a nominal saving of approximately one billion…

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Mining Notes the Little Wahgunyah Extd

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 5

Satisfaction at the prospects of Little Wahgunyah Extended Syndicate, Rutherglen, has been expressed by mining experts, according to a…

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Disputed Claim That Hargrave Was First to Discover Gold Young Resident Says Capt. Lister Found First Gold

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

How his grandfather, Capt. J. H. A. Lister, was the real discover of the first gold in Australia is related by a Young resident, Mr. Fredk. Lister, in…

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Mining Prospects

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 2

Shareholders in the Little Wahgunyah Extended Gold Mining Syndicate should be pleased that the series of 8 bores which have been put down on…

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Wagga Resident Killed Crushed in Chewton Mine. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 1

Arnold Pinner, 29, of Wagga, was crushed to death under a big rock which fell on him in the Wattle Gully Mine at Chewton, to-day…

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Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 3

A meeting of Directors of the Little Wahgunyah Extended G.M. Syndicate will be held on Saturday afternoon next for the purpose of…

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Gold Yield Increasing

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

Production of gold in Australia in November-amounted to 101,579oz. fine, valued at £891,916. Although slightly less than the production in October,…

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Temora Boys at Play Find Quartz Studded with Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 4

The two sons of Mr. H. E. Bell, a relief worker, of Temora, were playing at Mother Shipton Hill, near the town, a few days-ago, when they found, a…

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Gold Ingot Disappears From Liner Part of Large Shipment New York. January 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 37

The disappearance of a gold ingot worth 14,000 dollars (£2800) from the mailroom of the French liner Paris was followed by a search of the…

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Sixteen Killed in Mine Explosion

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 8

Chuquiscamata (Chile), January 25. A premature explosion of 1500 tons of dynamite in the largest copper mines in the world, killed 16 men, and…

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Wedding White and Gold for Bridal Retinue

The Independent · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 3

The marriage of Helen Mary, second daughter of Sir Harry and Lady Lawson, of Castlemaine, Victoria, and John Frederick, the elder son of…

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Life Gold Passes Held by 35 Australians

The Independent · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 3

Life gold passes for all Australian railways are at present held by 35 Australians, fifteen of whom including the High Commissioner in…

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Survey for Gold Hopes for West Wyalong Field

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 39

A rumor is current in West Wyalong that within 12 months about 1000 men will be employed in mining operations on the outskirts of West Wyalong…

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Help for Gold Diggers

The Independent · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 2

Motor roads are being still built this year to cut freight costs to the many nw gold mines operating miles north of the railway lines in the…

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