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Mining & the mines, 1939

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England Is Still Producing Best Stayers "Cashing In" on Two-year-olds Ascot Gold Cup a Good Guide

Referee · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 2

IN discussing the alleged deterioration of the English thoroughbred, "The Referee" reproduced…

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New L'aiglon Gold Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 8

Properties of L'Aiglon Gold and Tin Syndicate, N.L., near Ballow, are to be acquired by New L'Aiglon Gold Mines, N.L., which is being formed with a capital of £100,000. The…

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Declares Miners Suffer Mondayitis

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 7

References to "Mondayitis" were made in the Federal Arbitration Court, yesterday. Mr. Pinkerton (for the Enginedrivers…

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Mine Dispute Over Electric Equipment

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 2

BULLI, Thursday. -- Wongawilli Mine, employing 350 men, was idle today. The men claimed that as a result of loose supervision over the electric…

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Scarborough Tunnel Coal Dust Problem

Daily News · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 8

ANOTHER instance of a colliery stoppage through the coal dust menace is provided by the dispute at the Scarborough Tunnel Colliery. When wheelers found an…

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Gold Nugget Found. Kalgoor[?]e

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 11

A nugget of gold, weighing 19loz 14dwt. found four miles south of Nors[?]man by the Newman Brothers, was lodged at the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank to-day. It…

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Watersiders Protest Request For Coal- Loading Plant

Daily News · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.--Concern is being expressed along the waterfront at another request by a colliery company to erect a coal-loading plant on the Hunter…

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£250,000 in Dividends. Victorian Gold Producers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 8

Victorian gold mining companies paid £250,000 in dividends in 1938. This was the largest total since 1914, according to the annual report of the Department of Mines…

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Industry's Toll Left to Die by Coal Owners

Daily News · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 8

BEDRIDDEN with the dreaded dust disease, pneumonoconiosis, another South Coast miner has…

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Town Agog At Brothers' Lucky Gold Strike KALGOORLIE

Daily News · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 1

A NUGGET of gold weighing 101oz. 14dwt., found four miles south of Norseman, caused excitement in the town to-day. The lucky prospectors are the brothers Newman, who…

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Many Badly Off Agrees Judge Miners Who Don't Average Basic Wage

Daily News · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 6

A LARGE percentage of coalmine workers would not average the basic wage. Judge Drake-Brockman, who is presiding over the coalmine workers' award hearing, agreed on this…

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Three Miners Injured. Muswellbrook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1939 · page 5

When a utility truck overturned near Gardiner's Creek, on the New England Highway, three miners—Joseph O'Brien, Singleton; H. Broomfield, Singleton; and Robert Rainger,…

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Gold Braid for Rail Officers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1939 · page 8

Smart, new, double-breasted uniforms will be issued to senior railway officials early next month Those affected are stationmasters and…

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London Mining Sales London, March 10

The Sun · Saturday 11 March 1939 · page 6

Sales of mining shares on the Stock Exchange to-day included:-- North B.H., 37s; B.H. South. 22s 10½d; B.H. Pty.. 45s; Zinc Corp., ord.. 79s;…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, March 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1939 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/8/3 an oun[?] fine, unchanged from yesterday.—A.A.P. BASE METALS. Base metals were quoted at noon to-day as…

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Ngahere Gold Dredge Launched

The Sun · Sunday 12 March 1939 · page 27

The pontoon of the dredge of Ngahere Gold Dredging, Ltd., one of the New Zealand alluvial concerns, was floated on March 3, and the…

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Urges a Coal Oil Industry Cessnock

The Sun · Sunday 12 March 1939 · page 2

The hope that the time was not far distant when such an important secondary industry as the extraction of oil from coal…

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Yesterday's Weddings... White and Gold Color Scheme

The Sun · Sunday 12 March 1939 · page 40

WHEN Miss Edna Myra Walker was married yesterday at St. Stephen's Church, Macquarie-street, to Mr. Lancet Talbot Littlefair, she…

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Gibson Carmichael JOCKEY J. O'sullivan Thrown Into Hedge Pure Gold Hit Rail In Race MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 12 March 1939 · page 50

When leading less than a furlong from the finish of the Gibson Carmichael Stakes at Flemington to-day, Pure Gold…

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Colliery Rumors Investigation Demand

The Sun · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 8

A demand that "malicious rumors" should be investigated and cleared up, was voiced when the Royal…

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