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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

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Gold Price Unchanged New York

Northern Star · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 7

The price of gold was not changed to-day. The dollar wavered on the Exchange markets and was moved apparently by diverse influences…

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Gold Price Advance Information Alleged Treasury Investigation WASHINGTON

Northern Star · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 5

Something of a sensation developed to-day when it was announced that the Treasury was investigating complaints that the…

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Rich Parcel of Ore Owners on Point of Abandoning Mine KALGOORLIE

Northern Star · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 7

One of the richest parcels of ore ever treated in this State, reminiscent of the sensational yields of the early years of gold-mining, was…

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Intensive Gold Hunt Governments' Plan Aerial Survey of North Australia

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday:--With a View to making an intensive gold hunt across the entire northern area of Australia, the Government…

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Gold Price Unchanged Prior Information in London WASHINGTON, Tuesday

Northern Star · Thursday 14 December 1933 · page 9

The gold price, although unchanged again to-day, was one dollar 76 cents above the London price…

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Buying Gold

Northern Star · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 8

BEFORE President Roosevelt commenced buying gold outside the United States the dollar rate on London was 4.53 dollars to the…

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Miners Strike MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 9

Wonthaggi miners, at a stop-work meeting to-day. decided to go on strike as a protest against the suspension of seven men earlier in the week. The…

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Rich Yield of Gold

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 3

One of the richest parcels of ore ever treated in this State -- reminiscent of the sensational yields of the early years of gold mining -- was…

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Mt. Isa Cheers Mines to Re-open in New Year

Tweed Daily · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 6

MT. ISA, Thursday:-- Mt. Isa, or what, is left of the population, cheered and cheered' again to-day when news came though in the…

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Gold Price Still Unchanged New Yor

Northern Star · Monday 18 December 1933 · page 7

For the 14th consecutive business day the gold price remained at 34 dollars, one cent an ounce, on which the dollar decline moderately in…

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Gold Clause Validity Upheld Australian Position London

Northern Star · Monday 18 December 1933 · page 7

The House of Lords delivered a judgment to-day upholding the validity of the gold clause in the Societe Intercommuniale…

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Mining in Streets for Gold

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 1

Some old miners evidently believe that beneath the streets in the historic mining town of Hill End there are rich gold deposits, and they have…

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End of Famous Old Mine

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 2

Nature, in a few minutes on Sunday, wiped out the old, long-deserted Great Victoria mine work that had taken years to complete (states…

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Gold Production MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 8

Estimates made available to-day place Australia's gold production for 1933 at 822,000 [?]ne ounces, worth…

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Loan Contracts Gold Clause Valid Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 15

Financial circles in Sydney view with disfavour the decision of the House of Lords in holding that the gold clause in loan contracts is valid…

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Kitchener Deathship Secret Salvage Germans Recover Gold and papers?

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday:- That a German vessel is secretly salvaging the Kitchener deathship, Hampshire, is the startling assertion of…

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Remarkable Story Secret Salvage of Gold Sunken "Hampshire" LONDON

Northern Star · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 8

An extraordinary story is published in Berlin, in which a Sydney diver named Costello is concerned…

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Australia Not Affected Gold Clause Case United States Law Canberra

Northern Star · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 8

The decision of the House of Lords in upholding the validity of the gold clause in the case of the Societe Intereommunale…

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Five Cents Increase in Gold Price Washington

Northern Star · Wednesday 20 December 1933 · page 7

The Government increased the price of gold by five cents to-day to 34 dollars six cents. The value of the dollar was…

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Dollar Rallies Gold Price Unchanged WASHINGTON

Northern Star · Thursday 21 December 1933 · page 5

The price of gold was unchanged to-day and the dollar rallied on the foreign exchange markets, while s[?] ing and the fran[?] sold off…

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