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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 213

Big Merger Strong Coal Group

The Sun · Sunday 22 February 1931 · page 2

Preliminary negotiations have been completed for the whole of the shares of the East Greta Coal Mining Co., Ltd., to be acquired by J. and A…

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Hercules Gold Mining Loss

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 11

Hercules Gold Mining Co. shows a net loss of £508 for the half-year ended December 31, thereby reducing the accumulated surplus to £9357. Returns from the operations of the…

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Gold at Dorrigo Mines Dept. Is Active

The Labor Daily · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 1

The reported discovery by two prospectors. Cook and Moseley, of rich, gold-bearing quartz from a reef near Nymbolda, in the Dorrigo…

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Old Gold Prices

The Labor Daily · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 4

Sir,--During the last few days floor-to-door purchasers of old gold have been busy. Their cry is that the banks are badly in need of gold…

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Mine Manager Charged with Forgery

The Labor Daily · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 1

On a Charge of having forged, a wages receipt Charles Roberts, manager of the Colon Peak Mining Company at Yerranderic, was arrested by…

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Q'land Gold Yield

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 12

Queensland gold yield during January was 405oz. fine, valued at £1720, against 209oz., worth £888, in January last year…

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Mining Company Reunion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 11

The eleventh annual reunion of the Australian Electrical Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, A.I.F., on Saturday night, was full of remembrances of the strenuous last two…

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Newcastle Coal Export Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 6

The quantity of coal, including bunkers shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the state was 25,807 tons; of which 600 tons represented overseas…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 11

Base metal concerns were firmer in Saturday's share market, following a further rise in London metals. Among Barriers, Souths, with 200 taken, rose 1/ to 33/, and Norths…

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Financial. East Greta Coal. Absorption Proposal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 11

Directors of East Greta Coal Mining Co., Ltd., in a circular to shareholders, announce that preliminary negotiations for the acquisition of the whole of the company's shares…

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Mine Manager Is Arrested Police Allegations of Fraud

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 1

Yerrander[?]e, a small settlement in the Burragorang Valley, was provided on Saturday with its biggest sensation for many years, when the news leaked out that…

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Mine Explosion. Death of a Victim. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 10

David Jones, one of the deputies who was seriously injured in an explosion in the State coalmine at Wonthaggi on Friday, died in the Wonthaggi Hospital yesterday morning. Claude…

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Rainbow Gold Beach Find Was Not Ambergris

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 1

MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday. -- Visions of great wealth were conjured up by Mr. Harold Stevenson, of Kynnumbo, who picked up three lumps of an oily,…

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Mine Explosion Over 30 Killed; Many Injured Cologne

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 8

A DISASTROUS explosion occurred in a reserve pit at Nothberg, near Eschweller, when 31 persons were killed instantly…

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Explosion in Mine. Heavy Death Roll. London, Feb. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 10

Thirty-one miners were killed by an explosion of fire damp in a reserve pit at Nothberg, near Eschweiler, in Germany. Fourteen were injured, four seriously. Forty pit ponies…

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Scathing Attack by Miners' Sec. McDONALD'S Hypocrisy Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 6

MR. SWEENEY, secretary of the Southern District Minors, was scathing to-day to referring to a statement in the Sydney Press by the President of…

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Coal Companies. Another Amalgamation. East Greta to Be Absorbed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 9

Following the amalgamation a few weeks ago of Abermain Seaham Collieries, Ltd., and J. and A. Brown, steps have been taken to bring under the same control other important…

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Huge Coal Merger East Greta to be Taken Over

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 12

PRELIMINARY negotiations for the acquisition of the whole of the 600,000 issued shares of 20 each in East Greta…

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Hunt for Gold Intensified Dorrigo Strike in Old Shaft

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 10

The gold find on Friday in the Dorrigo district, on the North Coast, has intensified interest in the State-wide search for the precious metal…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip J. C. Williamson's Loss Modern Building Amusements Business Overdone?

The Sun · Monday 23 February 1931 · page 5

From the chair, at the annual meeting of shareholders in J. C. Williamson, Ltd., held to-day, Mr. F. J. Smith stated that it was tho first…

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