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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1935

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Fiji Gold Shares Phenomenal Rise in Melbourne

Tweed Daily · Thursday 11 April 1935 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday:--On the Exchange, to-day, syndicate shares in Aloha Fiji Gold, paid to £10, rose from £350 to £430,…

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£600 Offered For Gold Shares MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 9

Aloha gold shares experienced another rise on the Stock Exchange today. The buying quotation was £600, but no seller appeared…

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£70,000 Pensions Fund Jubilee Gesture Welsh Coal Owners and Miners

Tweed Daily · Saturday 13 April 1935 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday:--The South Wales Coa[?] Owners' Association intend to mark the King's Jubilee by raising among themselves…

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Pensions For Welsh Miners LONDON

Northern Star · Saturday 13 April 1935 · page 9

The South Wales Coal Owners' Association intends to mark the King's Jubilee by raising among its members a sum of not less than £50,000,…

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Substantial Increase Queensland's Gold Yield

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday:--Queensland's total gold yield hist month was less than in March, 1934, but comparing the first three months of this year with…

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Petrol From Coal Triumph for Britain Economic Problem Billing Ham, (England), March 26

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 7

One of the most amazing of modern industrial triumphs-- the production of petrol from coal on a commercial scale--has…

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Imprisoned for 13 Hours Miner's Ordeal Fall of Earth in Mt. Morgan Mine

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 17 April 1935 · page 4

ROCKHAMPTON, Tuesday:--"I will be able to hold out for a few more hours.'' At 1 o'clock this afternoon Edward Morgan, a…

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The Quest for Gold Early Mining in Victoria 'Lasseter's Lost Reef'

Northern Star · Thursday 18 April 1935 · page 13

Throughout the length and breadth of Australia the quest for gold is being pushed steadily forward with vigor and determination. Consequent upon record gold values, a twentieth century golden age has dawned, and a new…

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Gold Stolen Lucknow Sensation ORANGE

The Kyogle Examiner · Thursday 18 April 1935 · page 4

The police are investigating the theft of £4000 worth of cyanide gold from the iron cyanide vats at Bischmarch mine works, at Lucknow, and…

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Rescued Only to Die Mt. Morgan Mine Tragedy

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 April 1935 · page 4

ROCKHAMPTON, Wednesday:-- Dramatically rescued by his workmates after being entombed in Mt Morgan mine yesterday for 13 hours, a…

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Aerial Reconnaissance Search for Gold in Central New Guinea

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 April 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday:--Large scale aerial reconnaissance of Central New Guinea has been plained by the Oroville Dredging Co., Ltd., and…

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Z–rays for Gold Extraction Big Increase Claimed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 8

What would happen if Professor Dun kowsky, the Polish scientist, should prove his claim that, by his secret X-ray process he can extract…

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The Quest for Gold Diamond Drilling Treatment of Low Grade Ores

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 13

In response to numerous requests the following short article dealing with the more important aspects of diamond drilling as applied to mining development has been prepared. The increased gold values, together with the modern…

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Byron Bay's New Industry Beach Mining Zircon–Rutile Ltd. Praised For Enterprise

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 4

BYRON BAY, Sunday:—Signalising the inauguration of the activities of Zirson–Rutile Ltd. in the separation of black sand minerals at the company's…

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The Future of Gold

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 4

Great significance attaches to the careful computations of the world's gold which have been made independently at Geneva, in London, and in…

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German Mannequins Wear Gold Lacquered Nails

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 6

Mannequins attached to the Berlin Fashion Union paraded at the Mayfair Hotel in London wearing gold lacquered finger-nails, rouge, lipstick,…

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Former Miners' Chief Murdered By Nazis ? LONDON

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 7

The "Daily Herald's" Brussels correspondent declares that news has been received that Fritz Husemann, formerly president of the Miners'…

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45 Men Are Trapped Flooded Mine Little Hope of Rescue

Tweed Daily · Friday 26 April 1935 · page 8

CAPETOWN, Wednesday. Frantic efforts are being made to rescue three Europeans and 42 natives, who, it is still…

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Rich New Guinea Gold Fields

Northern Star · Saturday 27 April 1935 · page 12

Big floating dredges have been transported piecemeal by air to the inaccessible New Guinea fields at Bulolo. On the left is one of the huge sieve drums used to separate the coarser rock from the fine sand containing gold. On the left is a general view of the Eddie Creek field producing thousands of pounds worth of gold each year…

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The Quest for Gold N. Coast Mineral Resources (Article 10.--By H.J.B.)

Northern Star · Saturday 27 April 1935 · page 12

A recent individual geological survey of a wide area of mineral-bearing country, very largely embracing, the electorate of Raleigh, and…

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