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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

302 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 16

Miners' President Nelson Defeats "Bondy" Hoare. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 4

Mr. C. Nelson was to-day elected general president of the Miners' Federation by a majority of 1960 votes. The final figures were: Nelson 6658, T. ("Bondy")…

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Sterling Drop in Gold Value Newspaper's Statement London

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 5

The newspaper "People's" lobbyist states that last week's drop in the gold value of sterling resulted in the Government's decision to devalue the £, side by…

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Price of Gold Sharp Rise in London. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 5

The price of gold in London rose sharply by 7½d to £6193 per fine ounce, and is now only 9d below the record high price touched on February 5…

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Record Price for Gold. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 August 1934 · page 5

The record high price for gold, £812 per ounce fine, was paid by the Commonwealth Bank last week…

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Police Probe Into Mining Concerns Heavy Losses Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 August 1934 · page 5

Complaints made by a man that lie had lost large sums of money in a mining company resulted in the C.I.B. taking up the case to-day. Detectives interviewed…

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Gold Stocks Accumulation in San Francisco. San Francisco

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 5

The transfer of an enormous accumulation of gold, presumably somewhere between 1,500,000,000 and 2,250,000,000 dollars worth, from San Francisco mint to…

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Those Were the Days Life on the Goldfields in the Sixties

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 August 1934 · page 3

Mr. Robert M'Conell, whose 81 years of life have been spent in witnessing events of permanent national greatness on the scene of Australia's first…

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Miners' Gift to a Town

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1934 · page 3

Miners in many parts of the Sooth Wales coalfield have been hard hit by the economic troubles of recent years but not all of them are without some surplus…

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Price of Gold Sovereigns Worth £202. MELBOURNE

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1934 · page 5

The record price of 1202 for sovereigns was offered by the Commonwealth Bank to-day, following the increase in the price of gold in London yesterday, to £703…

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Federal Elections the Campaign in Cowper Visit of Minister for Mines

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1934 · page 3

Arrangements have been made by the Clarence Electorate Council of the United country party for meetings to be addressed by Mr. R. S. Vincent (Slate…

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Still Rising the Price of Gold. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 September 1934 · page 5

A further advance of 5 12d. in the price of gold to a new high record of £715 per ounce, took place to-day…

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Use for Colliery Waste Experiments in Brickmaking

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 3

Experiments being conducted at the works of the Consett Iron Co., Ltd., Durham, hold out considerable hope of a new brickmaking industry being established…

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GOLD £717 Per Ounce. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 2

Gold reached a new record of £717 per ounce to-day…

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The Palmy Days Goldfields in the Sixties

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 6

Mr. Robert M'Connell, whose 81 years of life have been spent in witnessing events of permanent national greatness on the scene of Australia's…

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Improved Coal Trade

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 8

Evidence of an improved trend in coal trade and affairs generally on the South Maitland coalfields was given at the Maitland Licensing Court on Thursday…

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Finance Markets Sterling S Decline and Recovery Record Price for Gold. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 5

Although at the opening of business m the foreign exchange market, sterling showed a further small decline, as expressed in both French francs and American…

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Still Soaring Gold £8149 Per Ounce 105.71 Per Cent. Increase in Five Years. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 5

The record price of £8149 per ounce was fixed to-day, by the Commonwealth Bank for gold lodged at the Mint, representing an increase of 29 on last, week's…

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Beautiful Crystals Garibaldi Gold Mine Discovery of Calcite

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 4

In conversation with a representative of the "Daily Examiner" yesterday, Mr. T. Hodge-smith, well known mineralogist and petrologist, gave an…

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Black Bull Mining Leases. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 1

Arrangements have been made by Mining Ventures, Ltd., to take over a six months' option of several Black Bull mining, leases. The company intends…

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Four Thousand Million Tons of Coal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 September 1934 · page 12

A survey of the Lancashire coalfields issued by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research states that the proved coal resources available in the…

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