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Mining & the mines, 1954

2,282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 115

Gold Co. Now Seeks Uranium

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 23

Red Ned (Tennant Creek) Gold Mine N.L. has applied for an authority to prospect for uranium…

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Gold Co. to Issue £10 Cons

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 38

Australian Gold Development, N.L., will issue 2000 £10 contributing shares to shareholders on…

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Mine-sweeper To Rescue Dutch Vessel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 9

BRISBANE, Tuesday.— A Dutch landing-craft coming down the Queensland coast has had to seek…

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Finder of First Great Goldfield Preferred to Go Hunting Fossils

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 21

PEPPERY Sir George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, lay abed with a heavy cold at Government House, Parramatta, one winter's day in 1844. Nobody liked Sir George. He was probably the least popular man in the colony so only a few…

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Gold Mining Benefit Lost

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 9

Benefit of the 40 per cent. price rise in the Australian price of gold, which followed from devaluation in 1949, has been largely. If not…

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Wharfies' Official Relates Story of Cash for Miners £6000 buried in coal

The Sun · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 5

Melbourne, Thursday.-- A witness told the City Court today he had heard that £6000 from the Waterside Workers' Federation for the…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 8
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ARAHURA: May. 301.000 cubic yards for 896oz (April, 802oz). NORTH KALGURLI: 4 weeks to May 18, 18,818 tons for 4,467oz…

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Mine ships first uranium

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 3

DARWIN, Wed.--The first uranium that private enterprise has produced in Australia left Brock's…

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U.k. Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 8

The London price of gold, fine, on Tuesday was £stg.12/8/10½ an ounce (up ½d)…

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Coal Co. Raises Interim Dividend

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 45

New Redhead Estate and Coal Co. has declared an interim dividend of 4 p.c. on ordinary shares…

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Warning to miners on job loss

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 7

The Joint Coal Board yesterday warned the Miners' Federation that some Newcastle mines would have to cut production…

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New Mine Sets Lead First Private Uranium

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 4

DARWIN, Wednesday.— The first uranium ore produced in Australia by private enterprise was to-day sent by…

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Department of Mines

The Land · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 43

"W.B.M.": The address of the Department of Mines is Bridge Street, Sydney…

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U.k. Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 8

The London price of gold, fine, was unchanged on Wednesday at £stg12/8/10½ an oz…

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Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 6

WELLINGTON ALL.: Week to May 28, 66,000 cubic yds for 357oz[?] costs, 15.31d a cubic yard…

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Injured by coal fall

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 2

A New Australian had both legs crushed and broken yesterday when he was half…

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Women in Sport Croquet Gold Medal Winner

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 6 June 1954 · page 40

THE N.S.W. Croquet Gold Medal, played in the form of an Amencan tournament at…

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U.k. Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 5

The London price of gold, fine, last Friday was £stg—12/8/ an oz (down ½d)…

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Miners Who Work Under The Domain By a Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 2

THE usual calm of the Domain was broken only by the cries of schoolchildren one afternoon…

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