Fair Pickings. Gold Diggers in Westralia
PERTH, Friday --Over 300 ounces of gold have been obtained by Carlson and Son within a week from the new find on the Caledonia Flat. A lode was…
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Mining & the mines, 1924
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Above the Limit Coal for Newcastle. The Navy's Importing Craze
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Bowden (Minister for Defence), in answer to several…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.—There is a possibility, of a general strike in the mines on the South Maitland field. At a meeting of the deputies this morning…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Australian gold medal golf competition was contested to-day. Both professionals and amateurs competed. D. G. Soutar, a professional was the…
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Fresh gold prospcets are being developed between Hill End and Windever at Sempdell's Creek, near Mudgee. The area comprises 12 acres, and is about a mile and a…
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Rivers of gold are flowing into the United States, filling its financial reservoirs to bursting point and creating a situation unparalleled in the history of the world…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mineral Wealth Unfavourable View of North New State Commission Evidence Coal on the Richmond
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The New States Royal Commission commenced its fortyfifth sitting in Sydney to-day. Up to last Friday 22,270 questions had…
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Considerable interest was aroused at Nowra on Saturday, when gold weighing 70 ounces was brought there, being the result of the first clean-up of the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The annual report of the Department of Mines was presented to Parliament by the Minister for Mines, Mr. H. Farrar, to-night. It showed that the…
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BALLARAT, Thursday.—That the Ballarat streets are still gilded with royal metal in its native state is exemplified by the experience of Gas Company labourers who are…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--The strike of the coal trimmers at Newcastle is ended, and the men returned to work this morning. The strike of coke workers…
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A former schoolmaster, who claims University distinctions, is selling newspapers at a street corner at Streatham, says a London paper. "I gave up a job of £500 a year to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--Giving evidence before the New States Commission today, Mr. Leo Jones, Geological Surveyor, estimated that 25,000,000 tons…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.— In the House of Representatives to–day, the Treasurer (Dr. Earle Page), told Mr. Forde (Lab.) that the Commonwealth…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire, which broke out in a tunnel at Wonthaggi (Victoria) coal mine early yesterday morning, is still burning. Of a party of…
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TOKIO, Saturday. Fifty miners were trapped in the Priyama coal mine, Fukushima province, when a gas explosion occurred yesterday evening…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—All hope of rescuing the miners entombed in the Mount Wonthaggi mines as a result of a fire has now been abandoned…
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So far 56 bodies have been recovered from the Iriynma coal mine, when a gas explosion occurred on Saturday night. It is estimated that 72 miners are dead…
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Gundagai "Independent" records a discussion on the boom periods which that town has enjoyed in its time. The gold mining period, the wheat boom…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All Hope Gone Entombed Men at Wonthaggi Mine to be Flooded
MELBOURNE, Monday.—All hope of rescuing the entombed miners. Johnson and Parry, in Wonthaggi coal mine, which is on fire, has now been…
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