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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 213

Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 8

The following are the names of the collieries and snipping companies, with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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Bellambi Coal Reduces Dividend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 11

An interim, half-yearly dividend of 6d per share or 10 per cent. per annum, has been declared by directors of Bellambi Coal Co., Ltd. This distribution is a reduction on the…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 11

Prices were irregular in yesterday's mining share market. Barriers had active trading at firmer rates. Norths, with 450 taken, recovered /6 to 45/; Souths, of which 200 were…

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Council Coal. Tenders for Further Supplies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 13

Recent tenders for City Council coal having provided for approximately 10 weeks' supply, the electricity committee agreed yesterday to recommend that tenders for the supply of…

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Unemployed Miners and the Dole Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 5

The matter of relief payment to unemployed members of minerals lodges has been refarred in Mr. Baddeles Minister for Mines and Industry by Sir. J…

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Rumored Gold at Junee Junee

The Sun · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 15

Following false rumors recently of a gold find on Mr. C. J. McCarthy's property near Junee, prospectors were reported to-day to have struck metal…

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The Bank Return. Notes and Gold Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 11

Note issue and gold reserve are steady on the week, according to the return of the Commonwealth Bark, as at January 26. The only change in the Lote issue department is a…

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Women Rush Gold in Main Street Perth

The Sun · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 26

Mining regulations were forgotten in a remarkable gold rush in the main street at Menzies, reports of which have reached Kalgoorlie…

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Pontiff Sends Gold Medal to Thos. A. Edison

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 37

A gold medal presented by His Holiness Pope Pius XI. to Thomas A. Edison, the distinguished American inventor, has been sent from Rome, it was…

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Gold Promoters Remanded Huge Sum Mentioned In Fraud Charges

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 4

Frederick Oertei and Olive Ashley Cooper were remanded for eight days at the Central Police- Court yesterday on a charge of fraud…

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Gold Buyers Pay 26/- Sovereigns Wanted For Export Exchange Save

Evening News · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 7

THERE are good offers for sovereigns in Sydney to-day. If a person offers you, say, 26/- for a sovereign you can rest assured that…

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Huge Amounts Involved Charge Against Co. Promoters Mining Shares

The Labor Daily · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 2

WHEN the two prominent mining company promoters arrested in a police raid on Hunter Street Offices appeared at Central police Court…

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A Tourist in Russia. The Communist Paradise. Not All Gold That Glitters

The Catholic Press · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 5

Mr. Gardon recently told, the Federal Arbitration Court that wages have not been reduced in Russia. and that there are no unemployed there. Business was brisk and…

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How to Get Gold a Novel and Simple Method (To the Editor)

The Labor Daily · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 5

Sir,- I have read with interest a statement in the columns of your paper headed. How to get gold . I thin that such suggestions will go a long way in help…

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Mines and Mining Base Metals Up

Daily Pictorial · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 12

All base metals were dearer in the London metal market on Wednesday. Closing (middle) quotations, as cabled to the Australian Mines and Metals Association, were:…

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Seek 3,000 for Work in Coal Mines

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

A, campaign ta enlist 3,000 young Jews for work in the coal mines of the Donetz Basin in Ukraine, largest coal field in the Soviet Union hag been started on the…

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Mine Disaster London

The Sun · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 7

Eight are dead and 25 are unaccounted for as the result of an explosion in the Haigpit Colliery, at Whitehaven. Little hope is held…

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Searching for Gold

The Propeller · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 6

The recent discovery of a £5000 nugget of gold, coupled with the enforced inactivity of men of all trades and callings through lack of…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 8

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies, with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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Motor Cycling. Advanx Gold Helmet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 16

As there will be a remarkably strong scratch division in the Advanx Gold Helmet rare at the Speed way Royal to-morrow (Saturday) evening, the limit has been extended from six to nine seconds in four…

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