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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1932

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Wiluna Gold Mine Shareholders' Meeting

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday:--Mr. F. H. Hamilton, presiding at a meeting of the Wiluna Gold Corporation, referred to the inestimable value of the…

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Hammering Gold

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 4

There is a trade that perhaps may be described as hammering par excellence. To be able to reduce a piece of metal to one 280,000th of the thickness from…

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Secret Caves of Gold

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 4

Visions of an underground world inhabited by a race which could see in the dark are conjured up by recent discoveries made in the course of…

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Fast Fulfilling Expectations Mt. Isa Mines December Output May be Record

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thursday:--After a week's inspection of the Mt. Isa mines, Mr. J. Webster, a director of Mt. Isa Mines Ltd., said to-day he anticipated…

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Green and Gold Ladies' Swimming Bath

Northern Star · Saturday 2 January 1932 · page 2

Warm weather makes many of us think of swimming, but few are able to swim in such luxury as the members of the Ladies' Carlton Club. That club…

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Smuggling Gold From Egypt Across Sinai Desert Camel Corps Makes Several Big Hauls

Tweed Daily · Saturday 2 January 1932 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday:--The "Mail's" Cairo correspondent says that the high price of gold in Europe is tempting…

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The Flow of Gold From America to France

Northern Star · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 7

The recent flow of gold from America to France lent additional force to the great interest aroused by the visit of the French Premier, M. Laval, to the United States, and his conversations with President Hoover. In a recent report from Paris it was suggested that they would probably…

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Gold Strike in Philippines Sensational Find New York

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 5

The "Times" Manila correspondent states that the Big Wedge Mining Company operating at Atnimok properties, near Daguio, reported that…

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Gold Melting in England

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 2

A big gold rush is occurring in the furnace rooms at Hatton Garden, London, where thousands of pounds worth of old brooches, bangles, rings, and…

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Rich Gold Find Reported in Philippines

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 2

The New York "Times" Manilla correspondent states that the Big Wedge Mining Company operating at Atnimok properties, near Daguio,…

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New Guinea Gold Fields Well Under Control Administrative Officer's Souvenirs

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday:--Diverse souvenirs of an astoundingly diverse country are carried by Mr. H. Downing, Assistant District Officer of the…

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South Africa's Gold

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 9

After the next fifteen years, the present gold mines of South Africa, which now supply over half the entire world output, are expected to be near the…

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Feared Dead 14 Miners Entombed BERLIN

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

Believed to have been due to an earth tremor, the underground galleries in Karsten coalmine, near Beuthen, collapsed, entombing 15 men in a mass…

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Big Developments Expected Batavia Goldfield Heavy Rain Interrupts Operations

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 6

CAIRNS, Wednesday:--Unable to work their claims owing to flood rains, nine gold diggers from the Bataiva, fields are aboard the Kallatina…

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Oil From Coal

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

Considerable interest has been aroused in manufacturing and transport circles by a report that Professor R. W. Wheeler, of the Sheffield…

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The Coal Industry Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

The State Government has decided to continue the special subsidy to assist the rehabilitation of the coal industry until March 31. The…

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Sale of Gold

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 5

The extent of the sale of gold, principally because of the present inducement of a high premium on it, is indicated by the quantify of jewellery,…

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Boy Killed. Fell Down Mine Shaft

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--A six-year-old boy was killed through falling down a shaft, in which his father was fossicking for gold, near Trundle…

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Oil From Coal Illingworth Process LONDON

Northern Star · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 7

The N.S.W. Agent-General (Mr. Willis) sent Mr. Lang a copy of the experts' report on the Illing worth process for low temperature carbonisation…

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