Vic. Gold yield up
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Victorian mines yielded 6480 ounces of gold last November. valued at £88.050. This was 597 ounces more than…
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Our coal for Japan, Pakistan
NEWCASTLE, Thurs.: Small coal from the South Maitland field, suitable for steaming, will make up four shipments of a…
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OTTAWA, Sun.: Canada produced 1,278 million dollars’ (£570 million) worth of minerals in 1952 —a record…
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PERTH, Mon.: A Sydney manufacturing jeweller who pleaded guilty to having been unlawfully in possession of gold…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Gold worth almost £324 million has been mined in Victoria in its 101 years of production to the end of last year…
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PERTH, Tues.: Maurice Wessfield, 52, a Sydney manufacturing jeweller, of Rose Bay, was sentenced to six months’…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Little Hope Held for Two Trapped Miners
PERTH, Tues.: Chances of finding olive two miners who were trapped by a fall of earth in Baddero lead mine near Northampton, 400 miles north of Perth, yesterday afternoon dropped to zero…
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PERTH, Wed.: In a renewed effort to locate the bodies of two men who were buried in a 500-ton fall of earth at the Baddera mine…
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PERTH, Thurs.: Newly sawn pieces of timber fell afternoon from the stope in Baddera lead mine . Northampton, at a spot where Herbert Augustus Coles, 44, and George Baston, 36, were trapped in an earth…
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PERTH, Fri.: The stope in Baddera lead mine at Northampton, where Herbert Coles and George Baston were caught…
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PERTH, Sun.: The week-old search for the bodies of two mines, trapped by a fall of earth in Baddera Lead Mine at…
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CANBERRA, Tues.: Australian gold mine production showed a large increase in October compared with the previous month…
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NEWCASTLE, Fri.: The first post-war shipments of coal to Japan will be made next week, carried by a Japanese ship, the…
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DARWIN Wed.: The Northern Territory Legislative Council today passed an ordinance allowing mining to be carried out on…
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PERTH, Fri.: A coal seam 37ft. thick has been discovered in a new coal basin 7½ miles northeast of Collie. The seam, which…
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WASHINGTON, Sun.: Mr. John L. Lewis has been re-elected president of the United Mineworkers’ Union by the largest…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: More than 15 years of Communist control of the Miners’ Federation ended today when anti-Communists gained control of the federation’s central executive. The annual meeting of the federation’s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian gold production highest for 5 years
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Gold production in Victoria last year was the highest since 1947, the Minister for Mines (Mr. Fraser) said today. He said the total output was 68,628 fine ozs., valued at £A1,063,164—on…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Police seek “master mind” of sharescrip forgeries SYDNEY, Mon.: Defectives today arrested a man and charged him with uttering forged sharescrip in a gold mining company, Placer Development Ltd
Detectives also issued a warrant for the arrest of a 41-years-old man, well known in racing circles,…
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ADELAIDE, Wed.: For three months’ work at the Glen Diamond mine, near Alice Springs, four wolfram…
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