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Mining & the mines, 1941

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Gold Salute Party Stewed by Stipes Cooper Clears Munro "Rings to Blame"

Truth · Sunday 26 January 1941 · page 2

THE IMPOSSIBLE happened at Randwick yesterday. Gold Salute, regarded as the greatest first-mortgage proposition to ever step out in a Challenge Stakes—he…

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Gold Salutes Failure Queried Amazing Statement By Owner: Blames Use Of Rings

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 January 1941 · page 25

Stewards at Randwick yesterday inquired for an hour into the inglorious run of hot favorite Gold Salute in the Challenge Stakes. The explanations were accepted. Gold Salute, who started at 5 to 4 on, finished a poor seventh…

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Alan Cooper Clears Munro in Gold Salute Inquiry: Admits Own "Sin" Forgot To Tell Price Of Horse's Queer Antics In Rein Rings

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1941 · page 7

A.J.C. stewards took sensational action at Randwick yesterday when they demanded reasons why the odds-on favorite, Gold Salute, had finished only seventh in the…

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Cullengoral Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1941 · page 5

Cullengoral Alluvial Gold Sluicing, N.L., reports that work was delayed for the first week in January by a succession of floods. For the fourweekly period only three weeks actual dredging…

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Adelong Gold Costs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1941 · page 5

Adelong Gold Estates, N.L., had a working profit of £395 for the half-year ended October 31, 1940, but[?] after payment of administration and management charges[?] a net loss of £59 was…

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Australian Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1941 · page 5

GOLD (lodged on Friday): Fine ounce, £10/14/ (unch.); standard ounce (22 carats), £[?]/16/2 (unch.). (Commonwealth Bank). SOVEREIGNS: £2/9/3 (unch.)…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1941 · page 5

ROMA BLOCKS OIL, KALIMNA OIL, AUSTRALIAN OIL DEVELOPMENT (No Liability).— January 23[?] Field superintendent reports depth of No. 4 well at 2,763ft[?] formation, [?]ale and soft…

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Gold Salute, Caesar For Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 January 1941 · page 12

Despite his defeat in the Challenge Stakes on Saturday, Gold Salute will go to Melbourne for the autumn…

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Owner Explains Failure. Gold Salute's Run. Aversion to Ring

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1941 · page 10

Attributing the failure of the odds on favourite Gold Salute in the Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday to the fact that the…

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Miners May Strike

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 8

CESSNOCK, Monday.--Unless some action is taken tomorrow over the seniority dispute at the John Darling Colliery, all collieries in the north will…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 5

MORNING STAR (G.M.A.): Four weeks ended [?]anuary 16: [?] treated 723 tons for the production of bullion estimated to contain 454oz of fine gold; 11 tons of concentrates were recovered,…

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John Darling Mine Proposals Newcastle

The Sun · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 5

After the miners' leaders had met officials of the B.H.P. Co. Ltd., in Newcastle to-day in an attempt to settle the John Darling dispute over…

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News From Mines Lancefield Plant Auction

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 11

The whole of the mining machinery and plant of Lancefield (W.A.) Gold Mine, N.L., will be offered by auction on February 24, 25, and 26 at the mine…

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Eire Monthly Coal Ration Now Half Ton

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).--The Government of Eire has rationed domestic coal to half a ton a month. It has also raised the extraction of…

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Pensions for Miners

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 15

THE Royal Commission appointed by the N.S.W. Government early last year to investigate the question of pensions for aged and…

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Miners' Strike Threat Averted

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.-- Aggregate meetings of northern miners which were to have been held tomorrow to discuss…

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Soldiers Killed Demolishing Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--Three soldiers were killed when a mine was washed up on the coast of Wexford (south-east coast of Eire)…

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Adelong Gold Estates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 9

Despite disabilities the yardage treated by Adelong Gold Estates, N. L., was the largest since 1938 Mr.C.Gordon Lyon, the chairman said at the half-yearly…

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Australian Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 9

SOVEREIGNS: £2/9/3 [?]nch. The price for gold lodged last Saturday and yesterday will be announced by the Commonwealth Bank to-day…

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Coal in Manufacture of Textiles

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1941 · page 6

Because coal might be needed for the manufacture of textile fabrics having coal as a basis, Australia should conserve her supplied, said the curator of the Sydney…

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