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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Money and Markets Gold Standard Getting Back Australia's Position

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 6

As a gold-producer, and also as a sufferer from the effects of the exchange, complications created by the practical withdrawal of gold from…

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To Bring Back Gold Bankers' Mission to the States Sterling Parity Can It Be Maintained? Washington, January 7

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 7

State officials have been informed that the hitherto unexplained visit to New York of Mr. Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of…

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Miner Crushed Colliery Fatality Heavy Fall of Coal. Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 5

THE mining industry claimed another victim to-day. Billett a miner employed at Aberdare Central colliery,…

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THISSYDNEY Gold, Gold, Gold!

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

POSSESSING in the aggregate the richest goldfields in the world, and after having dug out tuna and tons of the noble metal. Australia is…

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"That's Mine!"

Arrow · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

The host was in the act of adjusting his tie, preparatory to the arrival of his guests. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed…

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Central Mine Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 11

Our Broken Hill correspondent telegraphs that it was stated yesterday that the management of the South mine had placed two lines of hose down the open cut between the South and Central mines with…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 11
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Gold was quoted in London on Wednesday at 87/5 per ounce fine, a fall of 2d on the day. At this price the pound sterling would be worth in London 4.73 dollars…

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Mining Regulations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Fitzpatrick) yesterday received the report of the Mining Wardens' Conference, which was held in Sydney recently. It was stated that the labour…

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Return to Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 11

A return to gold, of which the course of sterling-dollar exchange gives hopes, premises two considerations, first, the removal of the embargo on the export of gold,…

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Northern Miners. Two More Stoppages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 8

Fresh stoppages occurred yesterday at the Northern Extended and Aberdare Extended collieries. At the first named the trouble concerned a…

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Matches in Mine Wollongong

Evening News · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 7

At the [?] court, Walter Forseall [?] £1 and £3/10/- costs on [?] having carried [?] into the South Bulli mine…

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Miners Injured. Cage Out of Control

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

Fourteen miners were injures in a cage accident at New Craigball colliery pit, near Edinburgh, on Monday, but only two of the men are in a…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 11

Rates showed general increase in yesterday's mining share market, and turnover was of satisfactorily improved volume. The increase shown by London copper prices during…

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Gold Leases Wardens Want Better Conditions

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

I letter conditions in [?]…

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Fall of Coal. Miner Killed. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 8

A fatal accident occurred at Aberdare Central Colliery this morning. Leonatd Billiet, a miner, and his mate, George Fleming, were engaged breaking away a bord, and…

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Mining Shares. Tin Ventures Improve

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

The feature of business recorded in mining stocks yesterday was the remarkable activity in tin ventures, and the advances made, as compared with…

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Australian Pound at a Premium in Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 10

Further improvement in the dollar value of the British pound is reported in latest cables from London. Our correspondent advises that exchange on…

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