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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

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Two More Nuggets Larkinville Field Rich Find Near Bathurst Search for Gold

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

PERTH, Sunday-- Two more nuggets, one weighing 66 ozs and the other 25 ozs, have been found on the Larkinville field, where the…

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Gold Miners Killed Under 20 Tons of Earth HOBART

Northern Star · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

H. Crabtree (37), a miner, J. Clare (40), a miner and Pat Burke (14) lost their lives through a fall of earth at Williamstown yesterday. They were…

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Search for Gold Association Formed SYDNEY

Northern Star · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 6

A gold search association has been formed by leading Sydney business men with the object of formulating a practical scheme of prospecting in New…

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Gympie Gold. [?] Recent Activities

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 3

Should present indications be realised, there will probably be a revival of mining activities on the Gympie field as the result of the…

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Mining and Aeroplanes

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

According to the reports that Mr. Walcott, Commonwealth Public Service Inspector, has brought back with him from New Guinea, the gold mining…

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France Leads Huge Gold Reserves LONDON

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 9

Mr. Snowden, in the House of Commons, in a written answer to a question, said the present monetary gold stocks of the…

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World's Gold Stocks France Has Lion's Share

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.-- Mr. Philip Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer), in the House of Commons, in a written answer to a question,…

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Gold Mining Papuan Company False Statement Alleged Sydney Arrests

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A sensation was caused late this afternoon by the arrest of two well-known business men who are identified with a number of…

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Mining Company Promoters Charged Alleged False Statement SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day Frederick Oertel (42) and Clive Ashley Cooper (43), company promoters, were chargd with having circulated…

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Unique Gold Rush Women Dominate "Field"

Tweed Daily · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

PERTH, Thursday:--Reports have just reached Kalgoorlie of a remarkable gold rush in the main street at Menzies…

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Bankers' Solution. Gold and Silver Values

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

In expounding his idea of a superbank for the Empire before the Royal Empire Society, Mr. J. F. Darling (a director of the Midland Bank) said…

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OVER 20 KILLED Explosion at Mine LINTON (Indiana)

Northern Star · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 6

More than a score of coalminers were killed by the explosion of 600 lbs. of black powder in a mine near here…

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Explosion in Mine. Twenty-nine Killed. Linton, Ind. (U.S.A.)

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

Twenty-nine miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine near here. Nine men were rescued. At the end of the World War the…

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Explosion in Coal Mine. 29 Lives Lost

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 2

LINTON (Indiana), U.S.A., Thursday.--Twenty-nine miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine near here. Nine miners were rescued…

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Unique Gold Rush

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 5

Reports have just reached Kal goodie of a remarkable gold rush in the main street at Menzies. Miss J. Allen specked small pieces of gold…

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Luck of Gold Prospecting

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 4

A report has been received from an inspector on the rabbit-proof fence of a new gold find near Nanninc (W.A.). A piece of gold was found by an…

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Explosion in Mine Over '20 Men Killed

Tweed Daily · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 6

LINTON (Indiana), Wednesday. --More than a score of coal minors Were killed by an explosion of 600lbs of black powder in a mine…

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Mine Explosion Twenty-nine Killed LINTON (Indiana)

Northern Star · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 7

Twenty-nine miners were killed yesterday by an explosion in a coal mine near here. Nine were rescued…

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Tumut Gold Survey of Area SYDNEY

Northern Star · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 7

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) said to-day that in the opinion of the Geological Surveyor (Mr. Harper) the areas where gold has been…

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Nine Killed Colliery Explosion 2 Miles Under Sea More Deaths Feared London

Northern Star · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 7

The trage undersea colhery at Whitehaven known as Haigpit was the scene of another serious explosion last night,…

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