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Mining & the mines, 1938

4,311 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 216

The Jubilee of 1887. Queen Victoria and the Gold Coach

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 16

IN the Jubilee of 1887, attempts were made to Induce Queen Victoria to wear robes of State. In his book, "Queen Victoria," Mr. E. F. Benson…

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Gold Shipment to Canada. Rumours of Munitions Purchase. OTTAWA, May 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 11

Secrecy surrounds the arrival of a shipment of gold valued at 25,000,000 dollars (£Aust.6,250,000), by way of Paris. Mr. Graham Towers, governor of the Bank…

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Our Country As I See It The Smaller Wool Cheque—Carob Beans—Oil from Coal—Country Doctors—Agricultural Council

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 1

A SYDNEY business journal, commenting on the drop of eleven millions in Australia's wool cheque this season…

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Air Service to Goldfields New York

The Sun · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 14

Mr. Charles Arthur Banks, managing director of Placer Development, Ltd., has received the gold medal of the Mining and Metallurgical Society…

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Alleged Mine Encroachment

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The blowing up of the entrance to an alleged encroachment from the Little 180 to the Central Blue gold-mine was described…

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Mine Deaths 80

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.-- The death roll in the Markham colliery disaster is now 80. All the bodies entombed by the explosion have been found and identified…

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Mining Reports

The Sun · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 16

MONTANA SILVER LEAD.--100ft. level, south drive advanced to 248ft. owing to variation in strike, drive now in lode which comprises milling ore. Plant working…

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Pacific Mine Resumes NEWCASTLE

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 10

DUE to the intervention of the secretary of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, Mr. C. F. Mallet, in the dispute, work was…

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Gelignite In Coal ORANGE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 1
Also in The Labor Daily

Three sticks of gelignite were found among coal on the floor of the tender of a goods train near Molong this morning…

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W.a. State Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 10

The April gold yield in Western Australia was 94,676 ounces, valued at £822,121, an increase of 5,931 ounces on the previous month's, and of 14,130 ounces on that for…

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Dramatic Turn in Mine Case Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 3

A dramatic development, occurred in the gold mine conspiracy charge case at Bendigo to-day when a former manager of the…

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Coolgardie Brilliant. Pomme d'Or Mine Option

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 10

Coolgardie Brilliant, N.L., reports that it has given to Options, Ltd., a Perth concern, a 12 months' option over its Pomme d'Or gold mine at Kingston, W.A. The purchase price…

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Story Of Explosion In Mine MELBOURNE

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 10

"YOU did a wonderful job," said Ernest Gordon Robertson, mine manager, after he had blown up the entrance to the alleged encroachment…

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Eighty Killed in Mine Explosion. London, May 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 13

The death-roll in the disastrous explosion that occurred on Tuesday in the Markham colliery. Duckmanton, near Chesterfield, now totals 80…

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Miner Injured by Fall of Coal Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 9

After a fall of coal at Bellbird Colliery to-day, Forest Mitchell, 49, miner of Shedden Street, Cessnock, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital…

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First Pictures of Disastrous New Zealand Flood — Mine Rescue Equipment — University Procession

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 16

Copies of pictures by "Sydney Morning Herald" photographers may be purchased from the Art Gallery at the "Herald" Office. Scale of charges may be obtained on application…

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Dust Menace to Miners Takes Toll Of Health, Life And Happiness Disgrace to Australia

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 1

“Consigned to nothing better an that which may moderately be described as a living death. “Physical wrecks, though only in middle age....” Thus Mr. J. M. Dunningham, just must be amended,” cry the…

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Mining Shares Dull. Market Lacks Interest. Few Changes in Prices

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 10

Business in the mining share market was the dullest experienced lately. The influence of lower metal prices kept the leading base metal shares in an…

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Baby Princess In Gold Coach The Labor Daily Special. the Hague

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 1

Many Royalties, including King Leopold of Belgium and the Countess of Athlone from England, will be present at to-day's christening of…

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