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Mining & the mines, 1938

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French Strikers in Pitched Battle 8000 Miners Hold-up 2000 GUARDS Labor Plans Nation-Wide Protest Against New Degrees Paris

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 November 1938 · page 2

Strikers throughout France now total 100,000, while resistance against the new decrees is steadily stiffening, despite the employers'…

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Gold Price Rises Highest Ever Attained London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 November 1938 · page 1

The price of gold was officially fixed to-day at £7/10/ an ounce, and a little business was done at £7/10/1. This is the highest price ever reached and…

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Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 17 Night in Camp Street, 1856—The Scene To-day the Alluvial Period—discoverer of First Reef Mount Charcoal (Copyright) Night in Camp Street, 1856

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 November 1938 · page 2

For half a mile or more the strange assortment of tents, huts, and hovels stretched in what was called Camp-street, and when the clatter and clang…

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State Goal Mine Work to Resume To-day Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1938 · page 2

Work at the State Coal Mine will be resumed to-morrow. The men have agreed to accept the terms of the management which include the…

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Werris Creek Coal Mine Questions in House SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 1

In the Legislative Assembly, today, answering Mr, H. C. Carter . (U.C.P., Liverpool Plains), who referred to the sealing down of the Werris Creek coal…

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German Miners Entombed Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 4

Twenty-three miners have been entombed and many have perished in a pit fire at Waldenburg…

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Gold Robbery of 1883

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 4

While the Governor-General, Lord Gowrle, was about to enter the Town Hall at Molong on Saturday to attend a civic welcome in his honor, he…

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"Gold Is Where You Find It"

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 2

With George Brent and Olivia de Havilland as its stars, "Gold Is Where You Find It," a thrilling melodrams of California in the 1870's has its local…

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High Price of Gold Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 3

The Commonwealth standard price of gold for the past week represents a premium of 119.34 per cent on the price which ruled when Australia was…

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Gibraltar Gold's New Reef

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 December 1938 · page 1

Gibraltar Gold Mine (Adelong), N.L.. reports that the new reef, at 270ft. level, maintains it's richness. A winze is being sunk six feet by…

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Gold Robbery of 1862

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 December 1938 · page 6

While the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, was about to enter the Town Hall at Molong on Saturday to attend a civic welcome…

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Another Spade Guinea Obsolete Gold Coin

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 December 1938 · page 3

Mr. W. J. Wymer also has in his possession a coin similar to those described in recent issues of the "Argus." He duff his up while digging…

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Gold at Junee Reefs

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 5 December 1938 · page 2

For some months work at Pike's Reef has been confined to development below 170 feet level, south of the main haulage shaft, where the vein…

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Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 18 Discoverer of the Reefs — WILLIAMS & Sons' Mine a Centenarian — a Turn Round the Batteries Highly Pyritic Ore — the Solution — the Old Hill Line (Copyright) the Late William Williams Discoverer of the Adelong Reefs

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 December 1938 · page 2

All honor to the memory of the late Mr. William Williams, discoverer and pioneer of gold reefing in Adelong. He took an enormous quantity of gold…

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20 KILLED In Mine Train Disaster SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 December 1938 · page 1

At Nova Scots twenty were killed and 38 injured when a mine train, carrying 250 men, broke a cable and plunged a mile down the…

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20 Killed in Canada Mine Thain Plunges to Destruction Mile Journey of Horror Sydney (Nova Scotia)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1938 · page 3

Twenty were killed and 38 injured when a mine train carrying 250 men woke a cable and plunged a mile down steep tracks and was smashed to pieces…

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Seven Miners Buried Alive Thetford Mines (Quebeg)

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 December 1938 · page 1

Seven miners were buried alive by a landslide, following a dynamite blast in Bell Asbestos Mine. Two hours later rescuers found all dead. They were all married, and 34 children without fathers…

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Miners Buried Alive Disaster in Canada Thetford' Mines (Quebec)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1938 · page 9

Thursday.—Seven miners were burled alive by a landslide following a dynamite blast in the Bell asbestos mine to-day. Two hours later, rescue…

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Hogan Gold Cup Competition No More Games Until January

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 December 1938 · page 2

UNTIL the second Sunday in January there will be no more games played in the Hogan Gold Cup Competition. Yesterday’s series of games were the last prior to a series of district games. The positions of the six teams at…

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Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 19 Old Hill Yields in 1859 — South Side of Hill -North Side Yields — Lights That Failed — Other Old Shows on the Field (Copyright) Old Hill Yields in 1859

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1938 · page 2

Williams discovered the first reef on the Old Hill line in June, 1857. There was no crushing battery then, and the yield, however rich and available, was…

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