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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1932

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World's Greatest Copper Mine Employs 10000 Miners

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 3

Astonishing things are being done at the Cananea copper mine in Mexico, where machinery has just been installed that will cut down the man power by exactly…

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Enormous Trade Buying Old Gold MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 6

Enormous trade in sovereigns and old gold was disclosed in a case at tho District Court to-day when Arthur Calder, a jeweller, was charged with a breach…

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Pigs Will Produce the Gold Britain Spends £41,000,000 a Year. on Imported Bacon and Pork

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 3

North Coast primary producers will be interested in the following provocative article on pigs, printed in "The New Zealand Dairy Produce Exporter."…

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60 Miners Idle Moonta Treatment Works

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Sunday:--Owing to the Federal Government's inability to provide £15,000 for the treatment plant at Moonta, 60 miners with…

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Crisis Develops Miners' Federation

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday:--A crisis has developed in the Miners' Federation owing to the refusal of the lodges concerned to obey a mandate from the…

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French Surtax British Coal Exempt

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday:--The president of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman) stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that the French…

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Big Coal Shipment

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 19 February 1932 · page 1

The biggest shipment of coal for many months was made from Newcastle last week by the steamer Narbada, which sailed for Macassar…

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World's Greatest Coppermine Employs 1000 Miners

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 19 February 1932 · page 6

Astonishing things are being done at the Cananea copper mine in Mexico, where machinery has just been installed that will cut down the man…

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Nuggets of Gold Found

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1932 · page 5

Two nuggets of gold, weighing 2oz 9dwt. and 2oz. 7dwt., were unearthed at the old Struck Oil diggings, Rockhampton district (Q.), by Messrs…

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Floating Mine? Sighted Off Queensland Coast

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 February 1932 · page 5

INNISFAIL, Friday:--A floating mine is believed to have been seen by a party of fishermen near Allison's Reef, to the north of…

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Mining Record Battery Locomotives Used

Northern Star · Saturday 20 February 1932 · page 6

In a report issued recently in England by the Secretary of Mines, attention was drawn to the large number of accidents which occurred…

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To Close Down Indefinitely South African Diamond Mines Heavy Dismissals

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 February 1932 · page 2

CAPETOWN, Thursday The directorate of Debee's diamond mines announced tonight their decision to close down their mines entirely for an…

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Veritable Mountain of Wealth Heavy Returns of Gold and Silver Mt. Wandoo Assays

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 February 1932 · page 5

CAIRNS, Friday:--Ore assays from the main shaft mine at Mt. Wandoo ate stated to have returned as much as 45 ozs. of gold and…

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Patriotic Action. Exchanging Gold for Notes

Tweed Daily · Monday 22 February 1932 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--"The Star" says Britain's sterling patriots in thousands are refusing to sell sovereigns at a profit, deliberately sacrificing at least…

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Promising Field Gold and Silver CAIRNS

Northern Star · Monday 22 February 1932 · page 9

Ore assays from the main shaft mine at Mt. Wando are stated to have returned as much as 45 ounces of gold and 112 ounces of silver to the to[?]…

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Bulolo Goldfields SYDNEY

Northern Star · Monday 22 February 1932 · page 8

Mr. C. Hawkes, who returned to Sydney on Thursday night from Rabaul said they must have protection if any more gold was to be won on the…

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More Gold Won

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 February 1932 · page 5

The production of gold in this State for 1931 was 19,673 ounces valued at £83,565. A nice tidy little bit, but only about equal to the yield of a single…

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Gold Strike Near Armidale

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 23 February 1932 · page 2

Cook Bros. working at Baker's Creek, have made another rich gold strike, from which big yields are anticipated. The reef assays…

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Floating Mine Sighted Off Queensland Coast

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 24 February 1932 · page 1

A floating mine is believed to have been seen by a party of fishermen nea Allison's Reef, off the Queensland coast last week. The object was sighted…

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Will Adhere to Gold South Africa Government Smuts Attacked

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 24 February 1932 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Tuesday.--The Premier (General Hertzog) replied this afternoon on the gold standard debate devoting his entire speech to a…

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