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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Private Lands. Open to Mining

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 2

The Mining Amendment Act of 1924, which was passed during the last session of Parliament, removes a number of disabilities in regard…

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Mining. Cooleman Silver-lead Mining Syndicate. Big Monthly Output. Bright Prospects

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

During the absence of the manager (Mr. Victor Kearns) of the Cooleman Plains Silver-lead mine, in Sydney, making arrangements for the…

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Private Lands. Open to Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 4

The Mining Amendment Act of 1924, which was passed during the last session of Parliament, removes a number of disabilities in regard to…

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CABLES Fourteen men Injured. Mine Cage Crashes. London

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 1

Fourteen miners were seriously in lured when a cage in which they were travelling, crashed to the bottom o the pit, at a near Edinburgh…

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Cage Crashes Fourteen Miners Injured. Engineman Loses Nerve. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

Fourteen miners were injured when a cage crashed to the bottom of the pit at the New Craighall Colliery, near Edinburgh, this morning…

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The Gold Standard

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

In well-informed circles au early restoration of gold currency in Australia is not regarded as within the range of possibilities. It is pointed…

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Gold Currency. Not for Australia

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

In well informed circles an early restoration of gold currency in Australia is not regarded as within the ranged of possibilities…

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South African Gold. Retention for Home Minting. None Reaching London. Capetown

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 2

In reference to a cable message to the effect that no gold has been offered on the London market since January 2 because it paid the Rand producers…

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Mining Accident Workman Killed SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 1

A workman named Peter Peterson, was descending a shaft at a mine near Lithgow to-day, when the ladder broke and he fell 50 feet to the…

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Mine Worker Killed. LITHGOW

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 2

A workman named Peter Peterson was descending the shaft at a mine near Lithgow to-day when the ladder broke. He fell 30ft to the bottom and…

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Mine Workers' Strike. Town Threatened with Baseness

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 January 1925 · page 2

The trouble which has been threatening at the Wonthaggi coal mine for some time reached a crisis last night when the Engineers' Union resolved…

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Gold Find. "Best for Years." BATHURST

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 2

What is said to be the best gold find for yeas is reported from Hill End. Matthews and Davis, prospectors, have discovered a reef only…

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CABLES Mining Fatality Miners Gassed GLASGOW

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 1

Minors were fatally gassed in the Kirkstyle colliery…

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A Rumor Denied Not Buying a Coal Mine SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 1

The Lord Mayor to-day emphatically denied the statement that negotiations had been entered, into for the purchases of a coal mine for the…

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Miners Gassed. Five Lose Their Lives. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 2

A message from Glasgow states that five miners were fatally gassed at Kirkstyle colliery this morning…

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Passing of King Coal. Oil Fuel Much Used

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 1

When the man in the streets thinks of the oil age he thinks of the motor car, the motor lorry, the farm tractor, the aeroplane, and the airship. In other…

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Municipal Mine Rumor

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 2

The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Aid. Stokes, yesterday emphatically denied the statement, appearing in a city paper, that negotiations had been…

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Sensational Gold Rush in United States

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 2

It is reported from Hatch, in New Mexico (U.S.A.) that what old prospectors designate the greatest gold rush in the history of American has…

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Broken Hill Mines. Wages and Hours Discussed. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 3

For three days delegates' representing employees in the Broken Hill mines have been conferring in Melbourne with representatives of the mine owners…

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Housing for Coal Reserves

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 2

The municipal engineer, Mr. H. J. Chaston, reported to the Wagga Council last night that coal supplies had ceased on account of strike…

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