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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 213

Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 15

Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our correspondent cables, at 85/0ft per oz fine, an increase of /0[?] over the week-end…

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Western Australian Gold Find

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 15

A message from Mullewa, telegraphs our Perth correspondent, states that a prospector of 42 years' experience has arrived there telling of a new gold find near Yalgoo, which…

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Bank of England Gold Losses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 15

The gold reserve of the Bank of England has fallen steadily recently, last week's return showing £145,918,269, compared with £156,560,569 towards the end of November…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 15

Mining shares developed increased activity yesterday, and most sections saw higher prices. Following an increase in exchange rates, Barriers, which were being bought for exchange…

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Barrier Miners. Men Demand 15/- Per Day

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 12

A mass meeting of Unionists held at Broken Hill on Friday afternoon decided to seek another conference with the mining managers with a view to securing a minimum wage of 15/- a day, with a rise…

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A.w.u.-miners Full Committees to Meet

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 5

FULL committees of the A.W.U. and of the Miners' Federation will meet to-morrow to review the draft…

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London Mining Prices London

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 4

SAILS [?] willing shares on [?] to-day were B. H. South [?] Mount [?]…

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Gold Seekers. Activity Near Harden. Harden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 14

The gold "fever" is spreading here." A local syndicate, and two Sydney syndicates, have a large area pegged out on the old McMahon's Reef diggings, 12 miles from…

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Uses for Gold Especially Just At Present

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 3

Ordinarily gold is mainly used for coinage and for jewellery; in neither case is it used pure but a proportion of silver or copper is added to resist abrasion. The “fineness” of…

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Tax Causes Strike Miners Up in Arms; May Be Amendment

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 3

AN effort to amend the 1 in the £ Tax Act will follow a strike of wheelers in South Clifton Mine. The men disagree with a ruling of…

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Prospectors Rush Gold Find... Scenes at Splitter's Creek

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 16

VIEW of the shaft of the original workings, where gold was recovered in the days gone by. THE Chambers…

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Western Gold Prospectors Busy Round Orange ORANGE

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 9

PROSPECTING for gold in the Orange district is being actives carried out and [?] big revival of the industry up expected. Nearly 200 men…

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Dead Dog Too Dead Miners Demand Best Water For Washing

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.-- A dead dog to-day held up all work at Aberdare Extended…

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Gold Influx. French Monetary Policy. LONOON, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 13

"The Bank of France cannot refuse gold brought to it," said M. Germain-Martin, the French Minister for Finance, in an interview published in the Paris newspaper, "Midi,"…

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Miners' Leader Mr. A. J. cook May Lose Leg LONDON

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 1

The secretary of the Miners [?] Mr. A. J. cook has entered hospital with [?] trouble that arises from a [?] accident when he was a young…

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Broken Hill. Mines to Resume. Companies' Offer Accepted. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 13

The North and South mines and the Zinc Corporation will reopen to-morrow. This decision was reached after a mass meeting of unionists this morning and a…

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Two Wins—two Gold Cups Jockey Morris Runs to Form

Referee · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 3

IN the three months that E. J. Morris has been riding in Melbourne since his retirement from race rilling in India, he has won…

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Coal Dispute. Stocks Exhausted. Danger of Losing Orders. London, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 14

The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Graham) and the Secretary for Mines (Mr. Shinwell) met representatives of the mineowners and the Miners' Federation separately,…

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No Work To-day New Turn in Barrier Mine Trouble Broken Hill

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 5

THE Barrier mine trouble took a new turn last night at a meeting of the management committee of the Workers industrial Union, which…

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1/- Wage Tax Law May Be Amended Lang Govt.'s Many Critics Mine Outcry

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 7

THE outery in coal-mining and other industrial centres regarding the wages tax of 1/- in the £ is so serious that it is…

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