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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1935

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Gold Shares Stock Exchange Action SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 May 1935 · page 7

Following heavy selling yesterday, the price of Euratha gold shares was suspended from the official quotation list at the Stock Exchange to-day at…

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Rush to Buy Gold Ingots Handed Over Counter Like Cheese

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 May 1935 · page 3

LONDON, Monday:-- The "Chronicle's" Paris correspondent says the public's nervousness resulted in a queue of people armed…

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Miners Trapped Tokio (Japan)

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 31 May 1935 · page 4

Ten are dead and forty miners hopelessly entombed in the Iriyana colliery at Fukushima…

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Gold Valued at £4,000 STOLEN Disappeared from Train South Australian Mystery

Tweed Daily · Friday 31 May 1935 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday:- When the train left Alice Springs on Tuesday morning a parcel of gold ingots…

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Gold Worth £3000 Disappears Missing From Safe in Train's Brakevan Adelaide

Northern Star · Friday 31 May 1935 · page 9

A sensation was caused at Quorn this morning when it was discovered that gold valued at £3000 was missing from the brakevan of the train which arrived from Alice Springs. The bullion came from…

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Mine Disaster Tokio

Northern Star · Saturday 1 June 1935 · page 10

Ten miners are dead and 40 others are entombed in the Iriyama colliery at Eukushima…

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Pay Roll Was Aboard Disappearance of Gold Melbourne

Northern Star · Saturday 1 June 1935 · page 9

It was revealed to-day by the Commonwealth Railway Commissioner (Mr. Gahan) that a railway pay roll of £2500 was also on the train from…

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Gold Rush to London 14 Tons Sent in One Day

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 June 1935 · page 5

LONDON, Friday:--France to-day sent to London 14 tons of gold, valued at £3,089,000, the largest consignment since the crisis…

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Could Be Opened with Wire Burgled Gold Safe Still a Mystery

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 June 1935 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday:--The small, old type of safe used on the train from which £4,000 worth of gold was stolen was not a…

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Hectic Race For Land Goldfield Town £100 Business Blocks

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 June 1935 · page 5

TENNANT'S GOLDFIELDS, Saturday:--Women aged men, and children sprinting along the main highway for the Warden's Office,…

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One Big Union for Miners Formation Proposed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 June 1935 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday:--Proposals for the formation of one big union in the mining industry will be discussed at the Interstate Council of Miners'…

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French Financial Position Swift Recovery Export of Gold Made Unprofitable

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 June 1935 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday:-- Although M. Caillaux (Financial and Economic Adviser) has made no disclosures regarding reforms, the…

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Some to Be Repegged Business Blocks at Tennant's Gold field

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 June 1935 · page 6

TENNANT'S GOLDFIELD, Tuesday:--Several, of the business blocks thrown, open on Saturday were so badly pegged in the scramble and…

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Ray of Hope Future of Gold Company SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 7 June 1935 · page 10

It was decided at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of Euatha Gold Mine Ltd. to-day to request the Stock Exchange to continue the period of…

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Australia's Oldest Prospector Odyssey of Philip Watterson. Believes Good Gold at Head of the Richmond

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1935 · page 3

An old, eager, grey-bearded goldminer lay on his bed in the front room of his house, which, red-painted, is on a grassy sloping road…

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Bank of France Huge Losses of Gold

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 June 1935 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday:--The City correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says:-- The Bank of France return for the…

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Schoolmaster Married a Gold Mine

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 3

Alex. Poxol, schoolmaster, gold king, and the friend of kings and emperors, has died in poverty at the age of, 71 in Budapest…

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£250 Reward Offered Theft of Gold From Tram

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Sunday:--A reward of £250 has been offered by George Wills and Company, agents for Lloyd's, for the arrest and conviction of the…

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Gold Prospector Detained New Guinea Alleged Atrocities Among Natives

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 5

RABUAL, Saturday:-- The Administration is now instituting investigations as a result of allegations that two prospectors…

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Fantastic Sums Asked Goldfield Leases Invasion of Tennant's Creek

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 5

TENNANT'S GOLDFIELD, Saturday:--Leaseholders who visions this week of cashing in on a big scale are wiser and…

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