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Mining & the mines, 1950

4,021 stories in Sydney's papers · page 79 of 202

Story of Gold Buried in Road

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 8

TORONTO, (Canada). -- Schumacher (Ontario) Town Council are debating whether they should dig up a road to…

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Stort of Gold Buried in Road

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 8

TORONTO, (Canada). -- Schumacher (Ontario) Town Council are debating whether they should dig up a road to…

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Mining Magnates in Huge Swindle

The Sun · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 6

JOHANNESBURG, Friday.--Two men who ran a financial empire worth £100 million were found guilty of many charges when South Africa's most complicated and expensive trial neared its end yesterday…

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Setback to plan to end petty coal stoppages

The Sun · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 7

Biggest northern miners' lodge --Richmond Main-- has rejected the Northern Miners' Management Board minute for setting up a…

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Grim Find in Mountain Gully "Mine" of Murders The Story Of the Butler Murders

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 17

ON a hot, dry summer afternoon in December, 1896, on the rocky, wooded slopes of a desolate gully near Glenbrook in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, hundreds of morbidly curious sightseers gathered to watch…

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Grim Find in Mountain Gully Unearthed "Mine" of Murders The Story Of the Butler Murders

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 17

ON a. hot, dry summer afternoon in December, 1896, on the rocky, wooded slopes of a desolate gully near Glenbrook in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, hundreds of morbidly curious sightseers gathered to watch…

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Grim Find in Mountain Gully Unearthed "Mine" of Murders The Story Of the Butler Murders

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 17

ON a hot, dry summer afternoon in December, 1896, on the rocky, wooded slopes of a desolate gully near Glenbrook in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, hundreds of morbidly curious sightseers gathered to watch…

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Grim Find in Mountain Gully Unearthed "Mine" of Murders The Story Of the Butler Murders

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 17

ON a hot, dry summer afternoon in December, 1896, on ; the rocky, wooded slopes of a desolate gully near Glen brook in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, I hundreds of morbidly curious sightseers gathered to watch…

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Grim Find in Mountain Gully Unearthed "Mine" of Murders The Story Of the Butler Murders

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 17

ON a hot, dry summer afternoon in December, 1896, on I the rocky, wooded slopes of a desolate gully near Glen- brook in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, hundreds of morbidly curious sightseers gathered to watch…

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GRlM Find in Mountain Gully Unearthed "Mine" of Murders The Story Of the Butler Murders

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 17

ON a hot, diy summer afternoon in December, 1896, on the rocky, wooded slopes of a desolate gully near Glenbrook in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, hundreds of morbidly curious sightseers gathered to watch…

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Brisbane's Gold Mine

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 4

About 12 miles from the Brisbane G.P.O. is a hill of gold bearing country. FOR more than 15 years Mr. A. Kussman has worked an open…

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Gold Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 9

Cent. Deborah, 106 tons, 45oz. 13dwt. Sth. Virginia, 76 tons, 8oz. Wattle Gully (fortnight): 794 tons,…

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Steelworks Miners Resent Decision

Tribune · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 7

LITHGOW.—Members of the Steelworks works Miners’ Lodge were idle on Monday because of a decision of the Local Coal Reference Board…

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Chinese Mines Exceed Quotas

Tribune · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 6

PEKING.—Leading State-owned mines in Kiangsi province have fulfilled and exceeded the January and February production targets…

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Rightwing “Code” Is Harmful To Miners

Tribune · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 8

At a time when the coalowners, the Menzies Government and the Tribunal are intensifying attacks on miners’ conditions, the Rightwing leadership in the North has produced a disciplinary code to damp down rank and file action…

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Eight Mines Strike On Machines Issue

Tribune · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 7

On Machines Issue SINCE Coal Tribunal Gallagher overrode Labor Government legislation against use of machines in…

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They All Woo the Coal Miner

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 13

The coal miner must be a pretty important kind of bloke these days. THREE important and two expensive propaganda weapons…

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Death guards these cities of gold

The World's News · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 6

SOMEWHERE in the steaming jungles of Matto Grosso, in deepest Brazil, are hidden fabulous cities of gold…

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Australian Girls Get Gold Star Divorces

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 2

Australian girls who were married to, and then deserted by, American servicemen are still hearing from their former mates in the form of certified copies of divorce journal entries issued by obscure…

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Miners’ Lives In anger; Machines Will Mean Death

Tribune · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 7

Where machines in pillars have been used in mines, roof falls have buried entire machines and men have been mangled beneath the debris. NERVE shattering noise in…

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