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Mining & the mines, 1937

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Trade Talks and Industrial Planning Oil From Coal Fremantle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 6

"Trade talks" between industrialists and political leaders as a means of hastening recovery and of decreasing the impact of sharply changing…

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General Mining Report for Ardlethan Division for 1936

The Ardlethan-Beckom Times · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 2

Mr. E. A. Williams, C.P.S. (Mining Warden’s Clerk) has kindly supplied us with a copy of his general mining report for the Ardlethan…

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EXPLOSION Kills Seven Miners LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 1

As a result of an explosion, three-quarters of a mile below the ground, severs miners were killed in the Makham colliery at Duckmanton…

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Telegraphic News SYDNEY, Thursday Developments in Mine Murder

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

There have been dramatic developments in the investigations of the mine murder at Wedderbury (Vic.) The supposed male victim has been…

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Relief Worker In Luck Children Find Gold Worth £150

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 11

Two sons of Mr. H. E. Bell, a relief worker at Temora, put their holidays to profit. They were playing on the hill where the Mother…

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Mining Explosion Seven Killed in England London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

As a result of an explosion which occurred three-quarters of a mile below the ground, seven miners were killed at the Markham Colliery,…

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Mine Shaft Mystery New Police Theory Murder and Suicide Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1

Detectives to-day abandoned the double murder and murder and suicide theories in the Wedderburn mine shaft mystery. The search of the bush…

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A Talk With a Traveller the Coronation a Mine that Turned up Trumps

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 1

In Lockhart last week we had the opportunity of talking to a gentleman who is making his third trip from England to…

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16 KILLED Over 200 Missing Mine Explosion CHUQUISCAMATA (Chile), Tues

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 1

A premature explosion of 1500 tons of dynamite in the largest copper mines in the world killed 16 men, and 201 are missing. The charge was set…

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Sixteen Killed Over 200 Missing Mine Explosion Exhibition for Tourists

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 4

CHUQUISCAMATA (Chile), Monday.—A premature explosion of 1500 tons of dynamite in the largest copper mines in the world…

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A Golden Gold Mine

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 8

Nearly £l0,000,000 worth of gold has been taken from the 20-acre lease of the Boulder Perseverance Gold Mine at Kalgoorlie, West Australia,…

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Mining

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 6

The directors of Gibraltar Gold Mine, Adelong, N.L. report having purchnscd the adjoining South Gibraltar leases, on which gold was struck early…

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Big Miners' Strike Feared in U.S.A. 25,000 Unionists Involved New York

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 11

The Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says the possibility of a strike of 25,000 union coal miners in mines operated by leading…

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Modern Gold Digger Enjoys Radio and Morning Shower

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 3

If gold prospectors have shades, the mighty battalion of "bygone days that hover around the diggings at Ballarat must have been, intrigued…

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Demonstration at Randwick Mananui's Anniversary Win Gold Rod Easily Beaten Sal Volatile Wins Adrian Knox Stakes Cloudy's Easy Victory Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 8

Displaying more stamina than he disclosed in the January Handicap on Saturday, Mananui won the Anniversary Handicap at Randwick to-day and was roundly hooted as he returned to scale. A section of the crowd…

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Two Miners Killed Motor Bus Leaves Road Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 6

"Percy Tricksy and Alan Smith, miners, were killed near Avoca early this morning when a motor bus in which they were riding ran off the road. It…

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£545 GONE Tin of Gold was Overlooked Result of Police Inquiries YOUNG

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 1

Police inquiries into the report of a robbery in a room occupied by Mr. Peter Scoring, proprietor, above the Town Hull Sundae Shop on Friday…

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Gold Rod Good Seven at Victoria Park Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 8

Although Gold Rod failed at Rand-Wick on Monday, there evidently nothing amiss with him, for he ran an exception the 7 furlongs at…

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Albury Gold Cup Meeting

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 14

The Albury Racing Club has decided to include Brush Hurdle Races on both days of its Cup Meeting on April 9 and 10, each of £30; The Gold…

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Colliery Disaster of 1934 Sharply Critical Report London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

The Socialists propose to seek a debate in the House of Commons on the report of the court of inquiry into the Groford Colliery disaster in…

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