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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1952

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Fox Gold to be set for the Doomben £10,000 (From “Glenloth.”)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 June 1952 · page 16

SYDNEY, Sun.: After Fox Gold had won the Flying Handicap at Canterbury yesterday his connections said that he would go to Brisbane for the Ten Thousand, to fee run next Saturday. Fox Gold scored a very easy win, but it was not that decisive as to make anyone…

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Miners' "Black" Ban on Storeman

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.; Australian Workers’ Union officials tomorrow will confer with the management of the Captain’s…

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“Stay put” miners to end strike

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.: A meeting of unions with members employed at Glen Davis shale oil works decided in Sydney today to…

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“Stay-put” miners end strike

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun.: “The Glen Davis miners’ strike is definitely not over,” secretary of the Glen Davis Miners’ Lodge (Mr. J…

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Four Miners Killed by Explosion

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 5

LANSFORD (Pennsylvania), Sun:. Four men were killed and six injured in an explosion 1200 feet underground in an anthracite…

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Striking Miners Resume Work

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon: Striking miners at Lake George mine, Captain’s Flat 50 miles south of Goulburn, resumed work today…

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Wangaratta News Wangaratta, Friday: Farming -Mining Important

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 July 1952 · page 13

Minister for Mines and Agriculture (Mr Moss ) said at Eldorado that it was important the dredge at Eldorado and the land…

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New Efforts to Raise Gold From Treasure Ship

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 July 1952 · page 3

Further attempts are to be made to salvage the wreck of the Spanish galleon Duque de- Florencia lying tobermory…

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Miners Seek Higher Wages

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 July 1952 · page 11

SYDNEY, Tues.: The Miners’ Federation today served a log of claims for substantial pay increases and a reduction of…

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Fox Gold to spell

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 July 1952 · page 16

SYDNEY, Wed. Fox Gold will not run in the SJC Winter Handicap on July 26. Trainer E. E. Byrnes said today…

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Bogus police rob jeweller of gold bars

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 July 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Two men posing as police robbed a manufacturing jeweller of two bars of gold valued at more…

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Mining Boom Nears in N.t

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 July 1952 · page 1

DARWIN, Thurs.: A big Australian mining company may shortly build a railway across Arnhem Land to exploit a rich…

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Gleaming bars of gold worth £6000 lay on table of Police Prosecutor

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 July 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Gold bars valued at about £6000 allegedly found by detectives and Customs officers in a cabin in the London-bound liner, Strathmore, at Port Melbourne on May 13,…

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Miners losing jobs: “Too much coal produced ”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.: Officials of the Miners ’ Federation told the coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) in Sydney today that coal miners were producing more cool than the…

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Mine was not “salted,” witness declares

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 15

MELBOURNE. Fri.: A Mines Department inspector told the City Court today that gold he had seen in the face of a mine…

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Victoria will still buy Indian coal

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 July 1952 · page 18

MELBOURNE Fri.: The State Government. wanted-t every ton of gas coal it could get from India and had no intention of…

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“Miners have no need to fear unemployment”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.: Mineworkers did not have the slightest need “to fear unemployment,” the Minister for National Development said tonight. Spooner was commenting on a…

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Britain's Gold and Dollar Reserves

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

While Britain's gold and dollar reserves fell by 334 million pounds sterling in the last three months of 1951 the loss…

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Coalfields peace has meant more coal

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 July 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Fri.: Improved industrial relationship on the coalfields had been one of the chief factors for the dramatic…

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Council Decision on Electricity Increase Deferred [?] Per Coal Surcharge Shock to Aldermen

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 July 1952 · page 1

[?] the Hay Municipal Council deferred a decision on increasing electricity changes at [?] held last night. A REPORT of a trading loss of 11 [?] months from January to June and a recommendation for a surcharge of 25 per cent., surprises aldermen who…

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