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Mining & the mines, 1932

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Foreign Credits Repayments by Britain £30,000,000 to Be Met No Reduction in Gold Reserve London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 3

The Bank of England announces that it will repay on January 31 £15,000,000 each to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank…

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Gold From Earth Amazing Experiments

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 17

An important group pf English bankers heavily backed the Polish Professor, John Dunikowski, at present on trial to Paris for allegedly…

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Price Of Gold PREMIUM 75 Per Cent

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 9

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint from January 18 to 22 is at a…

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Gold Standard or Managed Currency British Banker's Views London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 1

[?] we must have a soundly managed geld standard, which can be secured only by well-ordered international action, or we must definitely…

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Smoke Signals From the Never-never No. 29 Lassetter's Last Ride Was in Vain Lost Reef of Gold Only a Myth

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 4

Another wild dash to the foot of the rainbow has ended in the vanishing of the crock of gold. The big expedition sent out by the Central…

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Bonus on Gold Perth

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 1

Mr. Green, M.H.R., states that he has been conferring with the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) regarding the gold bonus, and that Mr. Lyons says,…

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Gold Shipment £33,774,000 From India London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 2

The, "Evening Standard" says that during the last four months India shipped £33,774,000 worth of gold to England. This had' been subsequently…

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Miner's Luck Copper and Gold Rich Find Under Tree Cairns (Q.)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 1

A promising copper and gold mine eight miles from Almaden near Cairns, has been discovered in remarkable circumstances by Mr. R. A. Boss. Mr. Ross…

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Fire Damp in Mine Five Miners Injured Eighteen Others Trapped Charleroi (Belgium)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 2

Owing to fire damp at a level of 3000 feet in a coal mine at Bois Longpre, five miners were seriously injured, two of them critically[?]…

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Miners in Lonely Hut Fears for Safety MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 1

Fears are entertained for the safety of Hugh McKinnon and John Couli, two miners, who were staying in a hut at Fumina in the heart of the country…

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Two Miners in Lonely Hut Fears for Safety Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 2

Fears are entertained for the safety of Hugh M'Kinnon and John Couli, two miners, who were staying in a but at Fumina in the heart of the…

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Fire at Ulimaroa Coal Bunkers Alight Crew Quells Outbreak Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 1

When 100 miles off the coast of New South Wales at 11 o'clock last night a fire was discovered in the coal bonkers of the Union Co's liner…

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State's Production of Gold Output Increased Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 3

The production of native gold in New South Wales for the year ended December 31, 1931, is estimated at 19,673 ounces of fine gold, valued…

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Empire Currency Other Than Gold Canadian Suggestion Ottawa

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 2

Mr. William Irvine, in the House of Commons, moved a resolution advocating the stabilisation of the currency of all British countries on a basis…

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Adelong Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 3

After weeks of bailing and cleaning out th[?] sludge and rubbish that had collected, Mr. Fred Watson has at last seen the bottom of the Mystery…

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Trade in Gold Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 1

An enormous trade in sovereigns and old gold was disclosed in a case in the District Court, when Arthur Calder, a jeweller, was charged with…

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Possessors of Gold Coins Appeal by Mr. Chamberlain London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 2

Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) said that there were not enough gold…

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Trade in Gold Extensive Buying Jewelled Fined for Breach of Act Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 2

An enormous trade in sovereigns and old gold was disclosed in a case in the District Court to-day when Arthur Calder, a jeweller, was…

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Reef Gold Fossickers' Find on Quartz Reef Hill Crushing Shows Ounce to Ton

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 3

Gold to the value at present rates, of nearly £100 has been won by Quartz Reef Hill, Young, by Messrs. O'Connell and Mother during the…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 19 February 1932 · page 3

Some of the diggers working alluvial gold about, the Adelong district have had a fair measure of success lust lately. Two brothers struck a…

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