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Mining & the mines, 1933

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Hogan Gold Cup Competition

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 2 January 1933 · page 3

Sunday week, January 15th, the Hogan Gold Cup competition, will be resumed. The draw is as follows: Nangus v. Mundarlo, at Nangus,…

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Mining Horseshoe

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 3 January 1933 · page 4

Mr. Matt Blood. secretary manager of the Horseshoe Gold Mine, re-started work in the mine yesterday. Messrs Jack Kitto and Bob…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 2

Under an agreement entered into to take over an alluvial gold-bearing area in the Ovens Valley, near Bright (Vic.), the Adelong Gold Estates,…

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Oil And Gold Scientific Discoveries

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 8

Working incessantly in the interests of economic progress, Science is ever on the threshold of great discoveries, and some of these may be…

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Women in Soviet Coal Mines

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 3

In consequence of satisfactory reports from the Don Basin about the employment of women in the mines the Soviet authorities have decided…

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Victory of Sterling More Stable Than Gold London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 2

"Sterling las become a far more stable measure than gold," says the Financial editor of the "Observer," in laking how long the United States and…

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Tumut Police Court (Before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.m.) Theft of Gold Watch Man Convicted

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 2

A[?] Court last [?] was [?] he did, at Tumut, steal, in the [?] Annie Davis, one…

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Economic Conference Meeting of Committee Britain and Gold Standard. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 January 1933 · page 2

Tie preparatory committee of the World Economic Conference will resume its meetings at Geneva to-day after the deadlock on monetary…

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Coal Freight Cost to Wagga Council

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 1

The extraordinary position has arisen that the Wagga Municipal Council is paying more for the carriage of its coal than the cost of the coal…

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Hogan Gold Cup Competition Next Sunday's Games

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 3

Nangus v Wanderers, at Gundagai, Tumblong ,v Nangus, at the Reserve,…

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Rush at Bribbaree Mines

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 6

An animated scene took place at the old Bribbaree mines when Mr. R. R. Newton, warden's bailiff, measured up a number of authorities to enter…

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Wonthaggi Mine 800 Men Cease Work Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1933 · page 4

The trouble at the Wonthaggi State coal mine over the allocation of work took a more serious turn to-day, when 800 miners decided not to resume…

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New Railway Record Test of Locomotive Grate Reduced Coal Consumption

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 January 1933 · page 4

Claiming it an a record performance by any locomotive in New South Wales and most probably in Australia, details are given by the…

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Colliery Explosion Man's Injuries Fatal Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 1

William M'Pherson, one of the victims of the explosion at the old Balmain colliery yesterday, succumbed to his injuries to-day…

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Price of Gold London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 3

The price of gold to-day is £6/2/7 an ounce…

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Miners' Escape From Flooded Shaft Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 2

Three miners had a narrow escape from death at Tirranaville, five miles from Goulburn, yesterday. Seeing storm approaching they took cover in…

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Gold on Cricket Pitch Excitement at Home Rule

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 2

The finding of an ounce nugget of gold on a cricket pitch at Home Rule by E. James, of the Home Rule club, has set many people in that locality…

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A Successful Adventure But Gold Was Only a Dream The Isolated North and Its Cheap Black Labor

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 7

Sun-tanned, but looking the picture of health, Crs. Ashton and Struck returned to Leeton last week, glad to pick up the old…

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Gold In The West

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 8

Western Australia reached, its lowest ebb in gold-mining production in 1929, when the total output was 377,176 oz., valued at £1,602,142…

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Gold In Lumps South Australian Find

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 8

A gold find, valued at about £744, has been made, at Pexton's claim, Mongalata (S.A.). The find comprised 98oz. of pure gold…

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