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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Gold Revival Animated Scenes At Canbelago Fossickers Hopeful

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 7 August 1930 · page 1

Prospecting is going on apace at Canbelego. There are 15 prospectors at work now, and many claims have been pegged out. Budd and party…

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Gold Chains From Tombs Hungarian Relics for London 2600 Years Old

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 7 August 1930 · page 8

Objects discovered in tombs in Hungary and insured for £60,000 have been taken to London by a high official of the Hungarian…

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Notes o' Nyngan the New Gold Find Memories of Other Days Ratepayers' Association Fo[?]ned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 7 August 1930 · page 3

Owing to the shipping in shearing operations at "Whitewood," a number of men are to be seen [?]lle in Nynga[?] streets. A good many sharers are…

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Rich Gold at Lucknow. Will the Old Town Thrive Again?

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 August 1930 · page 5

The most important development that has occurred on the Lucknow mining field since the English company ceased operations thereon is…

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Gold Chains From Tombs Hangarian Relics for London 2600 Years Old

Western Age · Wednesday 13 August 1930 · page 1

Objects discovered in tombs in Hungary and insured for £60,000 have been taken to London by a high official of the Hungarian…

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The Search for Gold. Why Wellington Should Ask for Help

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 August 1930 · page 12

IN many of the old mining districts, groups of men are being equipped, and so much a week allowed for food to search for gold. The idea is an…

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Entombed Miners Case Almost Hopeless Coalmon (B.C.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 August 1930 · page 1

After 24 hours unsuccessful efforts of rescuers to get through cavins, the plight of the 46 entombed miners, if not already dead, is regarded as grave. No…

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Canbelego Gold Rush

Western Age · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 2

Mitchell and Budd are down to 10 feet on the newly discovered Canbelego gold find, and have struck a rich patch estimated at 40 ounces of gold to the…

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Not As Bad As Painted Cleric's Praise For Miners

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 6

In a cursory reference to the miners in his inspiring address in Gilgandra on Tuesday night, the Rev. Knox Reed, Methodist…

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Mine Explosion Spectacular. [?]It of Demille's "Dynamite."

The Western Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 3

"Spectacle," always ejected in a Cecil B. DeMille production, has its place in "Dynamite," the producer director's talking picture for…

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The Occidental Mine Prospects Bright

Western Age · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 2

At the hearing in connection with the application for a suspension of labor conditions at the Occidental mine, at the Courthouse on Monday…

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Gilding St. Paul's Risky Job 3000 Leaves of Gold

Western Age · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 1

The highest job in London, regilding the great cross of St. Paul's Cathedral, with leaves of gold, will begin shortly…

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A Pioneer Gold Fossicker

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 1

Mr. Thomas Patterson, of Forest, Lodge, was born 82 years ago, on Summerbill Creek, Orange, before payable gold was struck at Ophir in…

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Gilding St. Paul's Risky Job 3000 Leaves of Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 6

The highest job in London, regilding the great cross of St. Raul's Cathedral, with leaves of gold, will begin shortly…

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Gold Valor Medal

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 29 August 1930 · page 4

A gold valor medal, commemorating the trass-Atlantic flight, was presented to Wing-commander Kingston Smith by Mr. Eben Griffiths on behalf…

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Coal Miners Meet

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 September 1930 · page 2

A miners' aggregate meeting of craft unions at Cossnock turned down the proposal in favour of one big union of coal employees. Instead…

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Application From C.s.a. Mines

Western Age · Wednesday 3 September 1930 · page 2

Robert E. Gardiner, of "Elouera," next Cobar, and mine accountant for the C.S.A. Mines Ltd., also applied for a [?]spension of labour conditions on…

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Suspension of Labour Conditions Applications by Cobar Mining Companies Warden Favours Assistance Might Mean Revival of Mining Industry

Western Age · Wednesday 3 September 1930 · page 2

"If labour conditions were suspended for six months, then it might mean that the efficient commencement of the work at this mine would probably lead to the opening up of other mines, and the reviving of the mining…

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Who Discovered the First Gold?

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 11

WHO were the first to discover gold in New South Wales and in Victoria? Officially, of course, Edward Hargraves, who found gold at Summer…

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The Lure of Gold. Prospectors at Work

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 September 1930 · page 1

BEFORE the introduction of the Old Age Pension Act, there were hundreds of old miners who were still pursuing that phantom fortune which…

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