South African Mine Sets New Record
JOHANNESBURG.— For the first time in history the monthly output of the Transvaal gold mining industry has exceeded 1,000,000 ounces of gold…
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Mining & the mines, 1938
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Gold the Nation's Great "Refuge" Johannesburg
Complete confidence in the future of gold, which he described as "the ultimate refuge in times of financial trouble," was expressed by Mr. P. M…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Parisian Workman's Find: £14,000 in Louis Xv. Gold Coin Paris
A workman was demolishing an old house in the Latin quarter when he thrust a crowbar into the wall and revealed a long-hidden hoard of 5000…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gold Reserves
THE gold reserves of the world kept by the banks totalled 757,695,000 troy ounces at the beginning of 1938 (the figures are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners Seeking Better Conditions Six-Hour Day and Pension for Aged
SYDNEY, Sunday.--The coal mining industry is approaching a crisis. The outcome will depend on the rank and file ruling on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gamble in Gold Butter Collapses on London Market LONDON
While interest is almost entirely lacking in sound investment stocks, plenty of money is available for gambling in gold shares,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Miners Seek Improved Conditions
SYDNEY, Monday-—Flans for the "mobili[?]ation and the organisation of resources" to bring [?]cut shorter hours in the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Workmen's Hopes Dwindle Sharing Gold Coins Discovered in Paris
PARIS, Monday:— Hopes by some workmen of sharing in the gold coins of the Nivelle fortune are receding with the discovery that there are 300…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.S.W. Gold Output
Gold production of New South Wales for the first four months of 1938 was 23,306oz. fine, valued at £A202.06l, compared with 20,749oz…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Entombed Nearly Three Hours Forty Men in Mine
BRISBANE, Friday.—Forty men were entombed in the Rosewood coal mine for nearly three hours this afternoon, but for the greater…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Miners' Demands Owners Will Not Comply
SYDNEY, Sunday:- It was announced to-night that the coal owners will not accede to the demands of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →40 Miners Entombed, But Worked On
Forty men were entombed in Rosewood coalmine for nearly three hours on Friday. For most of the time they did not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Demands "Queensland Very Much in It"
IPSWICH, Monday:-After a meeting of the management committee of the Colliery Employees' Union to-day had discussed the demands of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Underground Fire Kalgoorlie Gold Mine
KALGOORLIE. Tuesday.--Miners and firemen equipped with gas masks labored from 8 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. to-day to subdue a fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boys Lit Fire in Mine to Drive Out Pigeons: Caused £250 Damage Kalgoorlie
Some boys who started a fire in the disused Hinchcliffe shaft of Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie Ltd., to smoke out some pigeons, smoked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One of Two Miners Rescued Fall of Coal at Aberdare SYDNEY, Tuesday. --
A rescue party, digging since early this morning through a tremendous fall of coal at Aberdare Central Colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brothers Buried in Coal Fall in Cessnock Mine: One Dies Cessnock
Two brothers, James Harrower (42) and Peter Harrower (48), both married, were trapped in the Aberdare Central colliery, a few miles from Cessnock, by a fall of several hundred tons of coal early this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Strike Threat Extensive Credits Being Arranged
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Orr). who conferred in Melbourne to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Labor Advocates Production of Oil From Coal
LONDON, Monday:-- Emphasising the point that all fighting services require o[?] for which there is no alternative, a Labor Party…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Financial and Commercial Gold Market Sensitive To Unauthenticated Reports
Rumours, apparently emanating from France, have been diligently circulated during the week that President Roosevelt intended to revalue the dollar, the idea presumably being that the gold content of the dollar would be…
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