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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Broken Hill Larger Mines to Work Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 1

The mining companies here have decided to keep the lugger mines working until Christmas. However, there will be 2000 men unemployed as a…

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The Gold Quest a New Gold Field?

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 1

A representative of the Central Australian Gold Exploration Co., which now has two aeroplanes and motor lorries attached to the…

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Mine for Sale in North Australia Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 2

The Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Blakeley) has decided that lands formerly included in the North Australian gold mining leases Nos. 735 and…

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Traces of Gold Discovery Near Forbes Forbes

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 1

A party of prospectors discovered traces of gold a mile from the town. Many claims have already been pegged out. The discovery has caused…

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Traces of Gold Discovered Near Forbes FORBES

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 1

A party of prospectors discovered traces of gold a mile from the town. Many claims have already been pegged out. The discovery has caused…

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Desert Gold "Irrigator" Article Rolls Back the Years

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 1

On August 1 last, there appeared an article in the 'Irrigator" from Jack O'Shannessy, relating to tho probabilities of gold being found in…

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Rich Coal Deposits Found in Central Africa Cape Town

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 4

Rich bituminous coal deposits, estimated at 100,000,000 tons, have been discovered in South Tukuyu, near Lake Nyasa. This is of the greatest…

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Weissel Gold Cup Tumut Easily Defeated

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 16

Filling the gap caused by the failure of Barme[?]man to keep their appointment, Tumut could only field a weak team at Junee on Wednesday in…

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Football Temora Refuses to Hand Over Gold Cup

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 8

Temora against whom a protest was upheld by the committee controlling the Jack Here Gold Cup, for having played an ineligible player…

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Gold Found Near Stewart Town Hopeful Signs Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 1

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver) has received a report from the Warden's clerk at Stewart Town, that a prospector named Fitzsimmons had…

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France's Gold

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 September 1930 · page 8

An undoubted cause of the world economic depression is the inability to use the world's existing gold supply as a basis for currency and credit…

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Chinese Gold Fossicker

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 September 1930 · page 4

I found "Old Ruggy" stooped over his prospecting dish, panning for gold up at Honeysuckle one day. "Hello, Ruggy; how much gold you ketchem…

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Mine Reopened New Syndicate Takes Over LITHGOW

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 29 September 1930 · page 1

Glendalo colliery, at Reedy Gully Hartley, has resumed operations, and it is expected that when development takes place the output will be about…

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Mine Re-opened New Syndicate Takes Over Lithgow

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 September 1930 · page 1

Glendale colliery, at Reedy Gully, Hartley, has resumed operations and it is expected that when development takes place the output will be about 200…

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Chinese Gold Fossicker

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 30 September 1930 · page 2

I found "Old Ruggy" stooped over his prospecting dish, panning for gold up at Honeysuckle one day. "Hello, Rugey; how much gold…

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An Alladin's Cave, What Mines Mean to South Africa

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 30 September 1930 · page 2

From the earliest dates of existing records to December, 1928, gold, diamonds, coal, copper, tin, silver, asbestos and other minerals of the…

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Gold at Grenfell Premising Strike in Star Gully

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 October 1930 · page 7

Grenfell was agog on Monday morning with reports of a promising gold strike in Star Gully. the scene of much activity in the years gone by…

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Colliery Closes Wollongong

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1930 · page 4

The Wongawi[?]y colliery at Dapto closed to-day, and 250 men are unemployed as a result…

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Colliery Explosion Fourteen Killed London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1930 · page 1

Fourteen were killed in a colliery explosion, which occurred to-day at Brown Hills, near Walsall…

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Fourteen Killed in Colliery Explosion London, Oct. 2

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 October 1930 · page 9

Fourteen were killed in a colliery explosion at Brown Hills, near Wallsall…

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