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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Mining. Lucknow Pups G.M. CO

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 December 1930 · page 6

The Manager reports:—First test parcel of 15 tons ore has returned about 4 tons of concentrates, which will be sent away for treatment…

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No Word of Mrs. Keith Miller Plucky Aviatrix Mining Strange Premonition

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 1 December 1930 · page 1

HAVANA (Cuba), Sunday. Premonition of trouble, but a sacrifice from fear of being thought a coward, determined Mrs…

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Heart of Gold Leaving for the City

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1930 · page 1

On Friday evening, Mrs. W. Wilkins, a grand old lady whose home, at the corner of Bultge and Gipps Streets, has been a Dubbo landmark for many years,…

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Occidental Gold Mine

Western Age · Wednesday 3 December 1930 · page 2

Mr. W. Goodall, proprietor of the Occidental goal mine, has got in touch with the Fairplay and Progress Association…

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Fort Bourke and Great Cobar Mines

Western Age · Wednesday 3 December 1930 · page 2

Objections to suspensions on the above mines in regard to working conditions have been lodged. In regard to the taller Mr. S. R. Soath, the…

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The Mining Industry and Wages

Western Age · Wednesday 3 December 1930 · page 2

A contrast in labor conditions becomes [?] obvious when one notes the "wages" paid to native labourers at Edie Creek gold diggings…

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UNFOUNDED! Garden's Charges About Bunnerong Coal Experts' Opinion Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 1

The three experts appointed to investigate Ald. Garden's charges respecting the quality of Bunnerong coal declare them to be unfounded…

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Cleopatra's Jewels. Expedition to Search for Mines. Risky Travel in Desert Wastes

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 11

Cleopatra's emeralds, or at least the mines where her black Numidian slaves dug them from the desert soil, will be laid bare to the twentieth…

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A Million of Gold What Is It?

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 11

With gold at £4 an ounce, a ton of gold (36,000 ounces) has a value of £144,000. Therefore, a million sovereigns must weigh seven tons—a large…

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Mining Fatality Two Lives Lost Hobart

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 1

Norman Timothy (45) and Albert Blake (40), both married men with families, were killed by a fall of earth at Cometock Mine, near Queenstown,…

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Rumoured Gold Strike

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 8 December 1930 · page 2

A very rich gold find is claimed by Mr. W. Miller, an experienced prospector, within 10 miles of Lithgow. He has uncovered a reef, he says, which…

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Rumoured Gold Strike

Western Age · Wednesday 10 December 1930 · page 3

A very rich gold find is claimed by Mr. W. Miller, an experienced [?] within 16 miles of Lithgow. He has uncovered a reef, he says, which…

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Unemployed Miners

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 2

According to Mr McNeil, secretary of the Northern Miners' Association, there are 2,000 unemployed miners in that part…

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Australianities Jumping a Mine

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 12

Mine-jumping was a great enterprise in the days when gold mining constituted one of our important industries. How many a row started…

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Parody on "Call Me Back, Pal o' Mine."

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 6

On the floor here I lay, In my cell at Long Bay, Counting the flies on the wall, Soon a bell will ring clear,…

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Unemployed Miners 10,000 In Australia SYDNEY

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 1

According to the secretary of the "Northern Miners' Association, there arc 10,000 unemployed miners in Australia…

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Australianities Jumping a Mine

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 11

Mine-jumping was a great enterprise in the days when gold mining constituted one of our important industries. How many a row started over the…

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Deadly Poison Gold Prospector Relates Unenviable Experience a Narrow Escape From Death

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 15 December 1930 · page 4

An old gold prospector, who claim to have made a rich discovery in New South Wales, relates an interesting and unenviable…

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Deadly Poison Gold Prospector Relates Unenviable Experience a Narrow Escape From Death

Western Age · Wednesday 17 December 1930 · page 4

An old gold prospector, who claims to have made a rich discovery in New South Wales, relates an interesting and unenviable…

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[?]Ar Mining

The Western Herald · Tuesday 30 December 1930 · page 2

a possibility that the fine will be re-opened [?]ood that negotiations are with the representatives…

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