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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 83 of 213

Motor Spirit. Production from Coal. Possibilities in Australia. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 May 1931 · page 11

The possibilities of the recovery of motor spirit by gas companies from coal used in the production of gas are being investigated by the Assistant Minister for Industry (Mr…

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Mt. Morgan Gold Recoveries New Company to Work Higher Levels

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 May 1931 · page 10

In 1929 a company, styled Mt. Morgan, Ltd., was formed to buy from the old Mt. Morgan Co., now in liquidation, its property and plant at Mt…

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Rich Gold Find. 600 Ounces from One Patch. KALGOORLIE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 May 1931 · page 9

A man named Irving, who has been prospecting at Goongarrie, lodged 600 ounces of gold in a Kalgoorlie bank yesterday. He found it in a pocket…

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Petrol to Be Won From Coal New Treatment Investigated Simple Plan Canberra

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 May 1931 · page 1

The Assistant Minister for Industry and Development, Mr. Holloway announced to-day that he was investigating the…

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News From the Mines Coal Oil (N.Z.) Bore

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 10

Coat Oil (N.Z.). Ltd., reports for week ended May 2 that heavy southerly gales del[?]ved operations. The company is now drilling out cement plugs…

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18 Gold Wealth?

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 4

Sir,--"G-O-L-D," just a combination of four innocent latter but, what an agglomeration of world meanings those four letters imply…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 May 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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Looks Something Like a Mine

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 5

Widening Argyle Cut--the historic by-way is being "cut" a bit more at the western end…

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Coal Shipments. 25,589 Tons for Week

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 4

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle during the week ended April 30 for places beyond the State was 25,589 tons, of…

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Gas Experts Seek Motor Spirit Recovery From Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 6

The possibility of recovering motor spirit from coal during gas production is being considered by experts attached to the various gas…

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Shale Oil and Gold. Minister's Inquiries. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 8

Before he left for Canberra to-day the Assistant Minister for Industry (Mr. Holloway) had a conference with the Director of Development Mr. J. Gunn, and the developmental…

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Green and Gold College Colors at Bright Dance

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 4

BY introducing the College colors, green and gold, into the Brigidine ex-students' annual dance last night, at…

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Senate Wants to Know Bank Chief at the Bar To-morrow Shipping Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 9

CANBERRA, Monday.--The great event in Canberra this week will be the appearance of Sir Robert Gibson at the Bar of…

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Govt. May Send More Men to Look for Gold Assistant Minister's Announcement Powers Defined Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 1

The Federal Assistant Minister for industry, Mr. Holloway, to-day conferred with Mr. John Gunn, one of the Development…

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'Twill Be a Shame to Take the Money More Gold for the Gag Cook's Champion Has Big Weight But There's Nothing to Beat

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 2

THOUGH we have spilt enough ink on The Gag of late to sink a man-o'-war, we have to write some more nice things about Joe Cook's champion for the Kensington meeting to-morrow. The Gag is dually…

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New Guinea Goldfields Limited

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 11

New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., advises that the following progress report for the week ended April 18 has been issued by the Mining Trust, Ltd., consulting engineers for the…

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Nundle Goldfields. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 10

Mr. Ault, of the Goldsearch Association of New South Wales, after a visit to the Nundle fields, says that several shows give promise of developing into good gold…

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This Gold-Mining

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 50

THERE have been many prospectors for gold around A Dubbo, and there are undoubtedly signs of gold in the hill-country. So it is not surprising that we made up a party to go out gold-digging. My cobber "Charlie"…

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Invincible Colliery Passes Dividend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 13

As the company's operations for the halfyear ended March 7 resulted in a loss of £490, the directors of the invincible Colliery, Ltd., have decided not to pay an interim…

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"Getting Gold."

The World's News · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 34

This paper-covered publication of 42 pages is presented as an "A B C of Prospecting in Australia," and essays to tell the amateur who proposes to go seeking for gold how to go about it—…

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