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Mining & the mines, 1948

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Mine Host outpaces Slander

The Sun · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 12

Mine Host (9 to 4) made a one-horse affair of the Second Parramatta Stakes at Rosehill easily beating…

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Quarter's Gold Output Rises

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 16

Gold production in New South Wales for March last was 4641oz. fine, compared with 4615oz. for March, 1947…

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Heavy Coal Output on Western Fields

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

LITHGOW, Saturday. -- In four days this week Western District miners won 65,000 tons of coal, the highest…

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Heavy Coal Output on Western Fields

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 2

LITHGOW, Saturday. --In four days this week Western District miners won 65,000 tons of coal. the highest…

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Heavy Coal Output on Western Fields

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

LITHGOW, Saturday. -- In four days this week Western District miners won 65,000 tons of coal, the highest…

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Heavy Coal Output on Western Fields

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

LITHGOW, Saturday. -- In four days this week Western District miners won 65,000 tons of coal, the highest…

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Heavy Coal Output on Western Fields

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

LITHGOW, Saturday. -- In four days this week Western District miners won 65,000 tons of coal, the highest…

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Heavy Coal Output on Western Fields

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 2

LITHGOW, Saturday. -- In four days this week Western District miners won 65,000 tons of coal, the highest…

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Old Scandal Recalled By Gold Box

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

LONDON. -- An historic gold box commemorating a scandal in 1809 will be sold at the Antique…

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Old Scandal Recalled By Gold Box

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 4

LONDON. -- An historic gold box commemorating a scandal in 1809 will be sold at the Antique…

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Mine Host Showed Brilliant Speed To Hold Off Slander

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 12

Mine Host (94) beat Slander(52) and Nonchalant (61) in follow fashion in the Second Parramatta Mixed Stakes at Rosehill this afternoon. APPRENTICE Coles got Mine Host into the lead on…

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Mine Host Showed Brilliant Speed To Hold-off Slander

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 12

Mine Host (94) beat Slander (52) and Nonchalant (61) in hollow fashion in the Second Parramatta Mixed Stakes at Rosehill this afternoon. APPRENTICE Coles got Mine Host into the lead on settling down and did not give…

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N.s.w. Gold Output Up 26 P.c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 6

New South Wales produced ll,697oz of fine gold valued at £125,888 in the first quarter of this year—26.7 per cent. more…

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Hanlon Govt. May Hand Q’land Coal Control To Wall Street

Tribune · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE.—Wall Street capital, and not English capital, may be handed the rich Blair Athol coal deposits by the Hanlon Government. THE Federal Government,…

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Doomben start for Mine Host

The Sun · Sunday 2 May 1948 · page 10

BRILLIANT Sydney speedster Mine Host will tackle Australia's best sprinters in the QTC…

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A modern Midas turned flowers into gold

The Sun · Sunday 2 May 1948 · page 21

Dr. Ariel Millais was this week taking roses and gardenias and transforming them into solid gold jewellery, retaining in every detail the original form of the flowers…

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Mine Host to be set for £10,000 Qld. sprint

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 May 1948 · page 10

Mine Host, who won the Second Parramatta Mixed Stokes (7f.) at Rosehill yesterday, will be set for the Doomben £10,000…

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Mixed [?]sings of the gold rush Those Were the Days

The Sun · Sunday 2 May 1948 · page 6

Sydney during the gold rush of 1851 was strangely like the Sydney of 1948. Prices went sky-high, blackmarketeers flourished, everyone was restless. The more sedate…

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Low Gold Values

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1948 · page 8

Gold Mines of Australia, Ltd., reports that at Trawalla Aluvials (Vic.), bore values were low and the company abandoned…

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Holiday hits coal output

The Sun · Monday 3 May 1948 · page 6

Though output of 54,000 tons of coal was lost by the May Day holiday on the coalfields today, the Joint Coal…

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