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Mining & the mines, 1935

401 stories in New England's papers · page 10 of 21

Statue of Pure Gold Revealed by Cleaning

The Inverell Times · Monday 3 June 1935 · page 2

The famous life-size black effigy of the Black Prince over his tomb, in Canterbury Cathedral, seen by almost every visitor from the…

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Thane's Creek Gold Prospects of Field : "Much Profitable Ore"

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 4 June 1935 · page 8

Mr. S. G. Priest, a prominent Toowoomba business man, after over two years spent in investigating the matter, claims that he has…

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Water Shortage Goldfields Threatened

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 5 June 1935 · page 8

A Tennant Creek message states:— An appreciable falling off in the soakage of water into the Government well at the telegraph station…

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Mining at Tungsten

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1935 · page 4

Activity is proceeding in tin mining circles (states a Tungsten message), Mr. C. Elliott is working a rich tin "bung." The Dutchman mine at…

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Gold Field on Cape York

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1935 · page 8

Little has been heard of the new gold field at Portland Roads, on Cape York Peninsula, but the field seems to be definitely established as a…

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Mining With Wings In Frozen Alaska

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1935 · page 7

With gold at record prices and everything humming at a large mine near Valdez, Alaska, the 1300 pound crank-shaft of a big Diesel engine…

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Great Airport Gold Theft Hatched in a Soho Restaurant

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1935 · page 9

The great gold theft at Croydon (Eng.) aerodrome in March, in connection with which a man was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude…

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Grave Position The Miners' Institute May Have to Be Closed Anneal for New Members

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1935 · page 3

There is grave danger that unless much more generous support is accorded the Emmaville Miners' Institnte--an institution which…

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Fabulous Price for Water Goldfields Threatened With Shortage

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1935 · page 7

An appreciable falling off in the soakage of water into the Government well at the telegraph station, nine miles away, threatens the 700 people…

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Coal Resources

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1935 · page 10

Mr.V.M. Bunyan.in his presldemtial address to members of the Sydney Technical College Chemical Society,said that most nations…

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Miners on Strike Trouble at Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1935 · page 1

Seventy members of the mining branch of the Australian Workers' Union, employed by the Broken Hill Preprietary Limited. on Hannan's…

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Tingha Mining Case Damages Claim for Trespass Interesting Point

The Inverell Times · Friday 7 June 1935 · page 2

In the Warden's Court on Tuesday, at Tingha, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Andrew John Dunsbia, of Tingha, claimed £40 damages from…

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On the Green Close Game in Pairs Semifinal Gold Leaves Match

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1935 · page 8

A semi-final in the Secretary's rails Handicap was played on Wednesday between Geoff Bowrig and Jim Page (4 behind). who defeated Ernie…

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Tennant Creek Water Shortage Acute: Miners' Concern Grows

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 6

The water problem here has become acute during the last few days with the result that the rush to be first atthe Government…

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"Gates" Gold Cup Glen Innes to Meet Inverell

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 4

There was a large attendance at last night's meeting of the Glen Innes Rugby League, when arrangements were completed for the…

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Local Mining Warden's Court Cases Authority to Enter

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 7

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. in the local Warden's Court yesterday morning Pauline C. Speckhardt made three applications for authority to…

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Fortune Made From £20 Romantic Story of Fiji Goldfields Initiative of a Cockney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 2

I came back from Fiji the other day with one of the luckiest young men who ever sought fortune and found it in that fascinating place…

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Reported Gold Discovery

The Uralla Times · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 3

It is reported that a gold discovery 43 miles north-west of Laverton and eight miles north of the King of Creation mine (West Australia) has…

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Seashore Mining Sands Of Yamba Beach

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 2

The sands of the North Coast of New South Wales are known to contain substances that are members of the titanium family--zircon, ilmenite…

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Great Airport Gold Theft Plot Hatched in Restaurant

The Uralla Times · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 2

The great gold theft at Croydon (Eng.) aerodrome in March, in connection with which a man was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude…

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