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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1935

33 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

The Gold Boom in Johannesburg Unemployment Has Gone

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 1

It is boom time in Johannesburg. The Rand dearly loves a gamble, and it is now having the time of its young and chequered life. In June…

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Suspect Woman Shop- Lifter Swallows Gold Brocch SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 1

A woman, who was arrested yesterday and charged with shoplifting, became ill in the police cell last night and when interrogated explained she…

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New Year’s Day Meeting Mountain Gold Wins Canberra Stakes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

Fine weather conditions again prevailed for the local Coursing Club’s meeting at the Showground on Tuesday afternoon, and the attendance was…

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Suicide Strike By Austrian Coal Miners BUDAPEST

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 1

The “suicide” strike has been resumed by the coal miners at Pech and 689 men have agreed voluntarily to imprison themselves below the…

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Town Pegged Out As Gold Prospecting Area

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 2

Considerable excitement has been caused at Southern Cross, Western Australia, by the action of an Adelaide company in pegging out 200…

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Gold Near Bowral?

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 February 1935 · page 1

Bowral residents are interested in a report that the Water Board has granted permission to G. R. Mowle to prospect for gold on the catchment…

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Dear Gold Prices May Rise Higher

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 4

The sovereign was worth £2/1/5 in Sydney yesterday. Record prices for gold are being obtained in Europe. It all depends on…

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Latest Cable News Record Price for Gold

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 3

LONDON.—A new high record price for gold was established on Saturday, when it was quoted at £7 6/10½ per fine ounce…

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Miners Buried by Fall of Earth

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 2

PERTH.—Two miners, Horace Prindall, aged 29, and Nicholas Plews (32), were killed by a fall of earth at the old Tindala mine. They were…

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The Home Gold Night Comforts

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 3

Cold nights, call for easy comforts, and fortunately these are easily supplied. Consider your beds. Those nice cool mattresses, which were such a…

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Telegraphic News Sydney. 2 p.m. Gold Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 2

The Orange police are investigating the theft of £400 worth of cyanide gold from the iron cyanide vats at the Bismarch mine works at…

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Mine Disaster

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 April 1935 · page 2

CAPETOWN.—Three Europeans and 40 natives were drowned in the Machavie mine, which had been re-­opened after the Union had…

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Lake George Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 May 1935 · page 2

The future equipment, with mining and milling plant, of the Lake George silver-lead-zinc mine at Captain's Flat remains dependent on an…

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Lake George Mine Metal Prices a Bar

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 May 1935 · page 3

The future equipment, with mining and milling plant, of the Lake George silver-lead-zinc mine at Captain’s Flat remains dependent on an…

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Local and General Mining at Major's Creek

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 2

We understand that the Great Star mine, which has been closed down for about a mouth, has been re-opened following the result of an assay of…

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Miners Entombed Tokio

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 May 1935 · page 1

Ten miners are dead and 40 others are hopelessly entombed in Irivan’s Colliery at Fukushima…

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Big Parcel of Gold Mysteriously Disappears

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 May 1935 · page 2

ADELAIDE.—A consignment of bullion worth £6000 disappeared from a train between Alice Springs and Quorn. The gold was being…

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Mining Act Has Been Altered Prospecting on Private Land

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 July 1935 · page 3

A proclamation has been issued to the effect that the Mining (Amendment) Act. 1935 will come into operation on 15th July, 1935. Two of the…

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State Battery for Major's Creek Visit of Minister for Mines and Under-secreary for Mines

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1935 · page 5

Following on representations from influential sources through Mr. W. W. Hedges, M.L.A., pressing the necessity for a State battery at Major's…

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Local and General Mining Revival at Araluen

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1935 · page 2

There seems every indication that we are to see a big mining revival at Araluen in the near future. Only recently the old Redbank dredge has…

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