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Mining & the mines, 1931

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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Sentiment on 'Change Red Funnel

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 2

The caution that has been the general feature of business on Aus[?] [?]tralian stock markets during…

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British Miners. No Agreement Reached. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 10

The Mines Department announced last night that no agreement was reached at a meeting of the South Wales Joint Conciliation Board at Cardiff yesterday…

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Mining Base Metal Shares. Influences on Opening Prices

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 11

The trend of base metal prices in London has exercised a dominating influence on Australian mining stocks, exclusive, of course, of gold interests. Such was the case particularly…

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Steelworks Mine Dispute Two Non-unionists Management Breaks the Award Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5

ALL mines in the district resumed work to-day with the exception of the State and Steelworks Col[?]. The State mine will commence…

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10 Millions New Guinea Gold Belt Big Plans Commercial Empire

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 8

Over £10,000,000 worth of gold awaits recovery in the Edie Creek and Bulolo goldfields alone in the Mandated Territory…

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Tumut Is Waiting Minister Has to Say "Go" in Gold Hunt

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 17

TUMUT, Monday. -- Outside the prospector's block at Splitter's Creek goldfield, all the land is on a forest reserve, and, until the Minister grants…

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Truth About Those German Marks "S.m. Herald" Taken to Task Sir H. Braddon and His Gold Fetish

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 4

PICTURES are known to appeal eloquently to children Perhaps it was because many readers of the "Sydney Morning Herald" are…

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New Guinea Goldfields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 11

New Guinea Goldfields, Limited, has received the following progress report for the week ended December 20 from the Mining Trust, Limited, consulting engineers for the…

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No Work on W.A. Goldfields. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 10

Information has been received in Kalgoorlie that large numbers of unemployed intend coming to Western Australia from eastern States in the hope of securing employment at the…

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Mines and Mining Lake View Oil Wells

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 14

A report from the company on December 31 read: "Bailed out yesterday; no increase water level this morning; drilling out cement and into glauconite to-day; testing for…

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Mount Isa Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 15

The following progress report has been received from the superintendent of Mount Isa Mines, Ltd., for the period ended December 27:…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 15

Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our correspondent cables, at 85/0[?] per oz fine, a decrease of /0[?] since Tuesday of last week…

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Microbes Found in Coal

The World's News · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 16

LIVING, brilliant-hued bacteria have been found in coal that is millions of years old, and appear to have lived there ever since the coal was formed. Great microscopic…

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Search for Hidden Gold

The World's News · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 24

MR. H. A. YOUNG, a prominent Johannesburg (South Africa) business man, has obtained permission from the Department of Justice to dig near Johannesburg Fort for…

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Coalcliff Miners to Meet Thirroul

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 5

Coalcliff Miners' Lodge executive has arranged a meeting for 11 a.m. to-morrow January 8. at the Arcadia Theatre, Thirroul, when the…

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Broken Hill Mines. Owners' Terms Rejected

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 6

At a largely-attended meeting of the Workers' Industrial Union at Broken Hill last Friday it was decided almost unanimously to reject that mining companies…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 15

Business in mining shares opened very quietly yesterday after the Christmas vacation. Prices were irregular. The outstanding movement occurred in N.G. Goldfields, which was…

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Broken Hill Mines. Why Companies' Proposals Were Rejected

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 4

At a conference at BroKen Hill last Wednesday between representatives of the Broken Hill Industrial Council and the Mine Managers' Association delegates…

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Gold Output in South Australia. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 14

According to departmental estimates, the total value of gold recovered in South Australia for the year ended December 31 was £5000, equivalent to over 1107 ounces fine…

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"MR. £?" Mystery Financier French Gold London

The Sun · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 1

Who is the mysterious Englishman who played a great but secret part in inducing the Bank of France to reduce the…

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