The Gold Boom in Johannesburg Unemployment Has Gone
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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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines
33 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
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…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fine weather conditions again prevailed for the local Coursing Club’s meeting at the Showground on Tuesday afternoon, and the attendance was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The “suicide” strike has been resumed by the coal miners at Pech and 689 men have agreed voluntarily to imprison themselves below the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Considerable excitement has been caused at Southern Cross, Western Australia, by the action of an Adelaide company in pegging out 200…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The sovereign was worth £2/1/5 in Sydney yesterday. Record prices for gold are being obtained in Europe. It all depends on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON.—A new high record price for gold was established on Saturday, when it was quoted at £7 6/10½ per fine ounce…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cold nights, call for easy comforts, and fortunately these are easily supplied. Consider your beds. Those nice cool mattresses, which were such a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Orange police are investigating the theft of £400 worth of cyanide gold from the iron cyanide vats at the Bismarch mine works at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAPETOWN.—Three Europeans and 40 natives were drowned in the Machavie mine, which had been re-opened after the Union had…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ten miners are dead and 40 others are hopelessly entombed in Irivan’s Colliery at Fukushima…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELAIDE.—A consignment of bullion worth £6000 disappeared from a train between Alice Springs and Quorn. The gold was being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following on representations from influential sources through Mr. W. W. Hedges, M.L.A., pressing the necessity for a State battery at Major's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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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