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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Miners Strike At Balmain SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 1

About 300 miners employed at the Balmain colliery have struck work, owing to the refusal of the management to make up their wages to the…

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Entombed Miners One Found Dead Wellington (N.z.)

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 1

The body of McGowan, one of the two men imprisoned in the Tarata mine, has been recovered. The rescuers are now searching for…

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Coal Mining in Britain. Trouble Threatened. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1925 · page 8

Twenty thousand coal miners in Derbyshire are threatening an early strike, and the miners in other parts of the country are most discontented…

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Mining on State Forests

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 2

Mr. M. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., has been advised by Mr. E. P. Fleming, Under-secretary, Department of Lands, that with reference to his inquiry in…

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A Gold Find

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 1

About ten miles from Orange, Mr. Fred Parish, of "Bexley," has discovered a deposit of stream tin in one of his paddocks. He is also…

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Big Gold Consignments

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 3

A cable message from New York states that the Equitable Eastern Banking Corporation is Shipping 550,000 dollars in gold and the…

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Passing of King Coal. Oil Fuel Much Used

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 1

When the man in the street thinks of the oil age he thinks of the motor cur, the motor lorry, the farm tractor, the earoplane, and the airship. In…

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British Wage Movements. Railwaymen and Miners' Leaders Talk Strike. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 2

Two important wages movements are coming to a head. They were the subject of speeches by the respective leaders to-day. Mr. Dobbie,…

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A New Klondyke. Gold Rush in New Mexico. "Greatest in America's History."

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 6

At Hatch, New Mexico, what old prospectors describe as the greatest gold rush in the history of America has began with the Great Placer…

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People's Pictures "Flowing Gold."

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1925 · page 5

An epic or the oilfields—first of its kind to reach the screen. The love of a woman for a man—a love laughing at obstacles…

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Gold for Australia. Another Shipment. New York

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1925 · page 6

The New York Seaboard National Bank has announced a further shipment of 700,000 dollars gold to Australia…

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Gold From U.S.A. Proposal to Stabilise Currency. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1925 · page 3

It is considered likely that several large banks will follow the example of the E.S. and A. and Commercial Banks and arrange for gold shipments…

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The People's Pictures. "Flowing Gold."

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 30 January 1925 · page 1

Absorbing romance, thrilling adventure, delightful humor. You will find them in generous measure in "Flowing Gold," a First National picture…

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Gold For Australia. Released by America. New York

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1925 · page 4

The export of gold has been swelled by more than 17,000,000 dollars by unusually heavy consignments to India and Australia, the heaviest daily…

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Gold

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 7

A consignment of 200 ounces of gold has been delivered at the Union Bank, Young, from the Bribbaree Combined Gold Mine. This amount was…

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Broken Hill Dispute. Miners Decline Bonus. Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

A mass meeting of Broken Hill miners rejected the company's offer of a bonus and demanded another conference, failing which the industrial…

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Mining. Mt. Tumbling G.M. Co

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

A special meeting of shareholders of Ml. Tumblong Gold Development Co. N.L., will be held early next month, when the following…

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Mining

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 4

It is a far cry from Mt. Tumhlong, Gundagai, N.S.W. to Tansmi, in the Northern Territory. There is a deal of unanimity in…

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State Coal Record

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 2

The coal production in New South Wales in 1924 was a record, according to a statement issued by the Mines Department. The output was…

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Items of News. Coal Mine Fatality

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 2

Jack Evans, a miner, was killed by a fall of coal in the Killingworth colliery, Newcastle, yesterday. He was working when several tons completely…

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