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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 213

HEROES Mine Disaster Tributes London

The Sun · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 1

Eighty children are fatherless as a result of the Whitehaven colliery disaster. The dead include a young man…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 15

Mining share prices weakened noticeably yesterday on a moderate turnover. Barriers experienced further sharp reaction, partly owing to the influence of London prices. Norths, with…

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J. Brown-abermain Coal Merger

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 12

The first meeting of the board of the new merged company. J. and A. Brown and Abermain Seaham Collieries, Ltd., was held yesterday--at…

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Result of Miners' Ballot Next Week Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 5

IN connection, with the ballot for the, positions, of president and vice-president of the Northern Miners Federation, Mr. Les Hallitlay. northern…

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Rescuers in Mine Awful Scenes Of Death Braved Gas London

Evening News · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 1

RESCUERS relate terrible experiences in Haig pit, the under-sea colliery at Whitehaven, where 28 lives were lost as the…

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Gold "At Intervals" Surveyor's Guarded Report on Tumut Find

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 5

THERE are no extravagant hopes in the report of the Geological Surveyor, Mr. Harper, on the recent gold find at Tumut…

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Search for Gold. Prospecting Activity at Young. YOUNG

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 12

Consequent upon the visit of the Acting Government Geologist (Mr. Harper), Young, is in the grip of the gold fever. During January the local warden issued 60 miners' rights…

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Past Gold Workings Tumut Area "May Be Payable" Expert's Report

The Labor Daily · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 6

THE Minister for Mince, Mr. Baddeley, is in receipt of a report from Mr. Geological Surveyor Harper respecting the area in which a…

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Letters to the Editor Search for Gold. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 8

Sir,—The formation of the Gold Search Association interests me exceedingly; with many others, I believe it to be a national undertaking, which may well save our nation. But,…

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Oil Gas v. Coal Gas in Strike Days How the A.G.L. Met Emergency With Coke Surplus

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 3

"GENERAL STRIKE" has been half-and-half instructed, by the N.S.W. Labor Council, to take command of the industrial movement once again. If this General should lead the troops again," he will inflict a nasty…

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Abolition of Loan Council Keen Debate at A.w.u. A.c.t.u. Makes Overtures for Cooperation Miners' Affiliation

The Labor Daily · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 5

THE debate on the abolition of the Loan Council by the A.W.U. Convention was advanced another stage yesterday, and was adjourned until Monday, when the sponsors of the motion will reply to the very searching criticism levelled at them…

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If You're After Gold, John Drayton Tells You How to Seek Lure of Fossicking and Prospecting Here's a Fascinating Lawful Game of Chance Real Anti-'flationists Who Talk in Facts

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 8

THE poet is born not made. The prospector is made. There are other differences. Any man with a good long ear, a big-howled bent-stemmed pipe…

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Gold, Hot Air, and Our Bread and Butter We Cannot Eat Gold, Yet We Live by Its Sufferance

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1931 · page 12

WITH the air filled with repinings, recriminations, reductions, retrenchments, repudiations—and rehearsing for the electorate; with…

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Dog Face What Law Says Roman Link If Mine Washed Away

The Sun · Sunday 1 February 1931 · page 6

AT first glance there is slight connection between Katoomba and the Roman Emperor Justinian, who lived early in the sixth century, but…

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Gold! Lure Calls 'New Chums' 2000 in Jan. Taking Lessons First

The Sun · Sunday 1 February 1931 · page 6

More than 3000 "new chum" prospectors, most of them enlisted from the ranks of the unemployed, left the city during January to try…

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Mararoa Gold Mining Co

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 11

Advice has been received by cable from the manager in London of the Mararoa Gold Mining Co., N.L., stating that a nine months' option from February 1, 1931, has been taken…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 8

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies, with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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Coal, Oil (N.z.)

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 3

Coal, Oil (N.Z.), Ltd., reports "No 1 Omata bore was bored to 2917 feet, and was in perfect condition when work was suspended to test several oil and gas…

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Ale of Clwydd Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 11

Loss on trading shown by the Vale of Clwydd Coal and Brick Co., Ltd., for the half-year ended December 31 was reported in Saturday's "Herald." Particulars of the…

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The Gold Bounty Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 11

In their annual report, the directors of the Australian Mines and Metals (Inc.) give an account of the operation of the Gold Bounty Act, recently passed by the Federal…

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