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Mining & the mines, 1932

4,003 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 201

Oakey Park Mine. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 10

Following a conference between the Miners' Federation officials and representatives of the Oakey Park Mining Company, regarding the recent stoppage at the colliery, the lodge has…

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Mine to Be Reopened. Dunedoo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 10

The Mt. Stewart mine at Leadville will soon be working, after a long period of Idleness. Contracts have been signed for the delivery of 70,000 tons of ore annually for five years…

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Gold Shipments. £33,774,000 From India. LONDON, Feb. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 10

The "Evening Standard" says that during the past four months India shipped £33,774,000 worth of gold to England. This had been subsequently transhipped to the Continent…

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Trapped in Mine All-Night Rescue Work To Save 18 Charleroi (Belgium)

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 11

Owing to a firedamp explosion, at a depth of 3780 feet, in a coal-mine at Bois Longpre, five miners were seriously injured, and two…

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B.H.P. Miners Will Not Strike. Rebuff for Central Council. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 9

Miners employed at the Broken Hill Pty. Co.'s John Darling colliery to-day reiterated their previous decisions not to strike in sympathy with members of the Seamen's Union…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Pastoral Co.'s Loss Metrop. Building Queensland National Pastoral Co

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 5

Accounts of Queensland National Pastoral Co., Ltd., covering the year to December 31 last, disclosed a loss of £49,481, which increased the debit…

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Fire-damp Explosion. In Belgian Coal Mine. LONDON, Feb. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 10

Owing to a firedamp explosion at a depth of 3780 feet in a coalmine at Bols Longpre, Charleroi, Belgium, five miners were seriously injured, and two are in a critical condition…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 5

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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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 11

The price fixed by the Commonwealth, Bank for gold, including jewellery, but not sovereigns, lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended February 5 is at the rate of…

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News From Mines Work at St. Aignan

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 11

St. Aignan (Lucknow) Gold Mine, N.L., reporting for the week ended February 5, advises that the cross-cut in the bottom level has been advanced a further eight…

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Gold at Mt. Mitchell. Glen Innes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 10

Mining operations at Mt. Mitchell are attracting attention. There are five employees of an Inverell syndicate working on the Mitchell River, and their last three weeks' work…

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Moonta Mines. Closing Through Lack of Funds. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 10

As no more money can be got from the Federal Government, 60 Moonta miners will lose their jobs on Saturday. They have been employed by the Moonta Prospecting…

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Wiluna Gold Corporation. Working Surplus Op £66,923

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 11

In their annual report, written in London under date December 21, 1931, directors of Wiluna Gold Corporation, Ltd., state that during the year ended March 31, 1931, work…

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Queen's-square Jury Causes (Before Mr. Justice Stephen and jury.) Coal Contracts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1932 · page 6

R. W. Miller and Co., Ltd., v Wilson. Hearing was continued of the action brought by R. W. Miller and Co., Ltd., against Andrew Wilson, as the nominal defendant of the…

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Deserted Gold

The World's News · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 4

AFTER spending hundreds of pounds a group of Palestine merchants have abandoned their quest for £115,000 worth of gold, alleged to have been…

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Mine to Be Reopened

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 14

Mr. L. Burkard, on behalf of the Mt. Stewart syndicate, says that although the Mt. Stewart mine at Leadville will be reopened, some considerable time must elapse…

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Rich Gold Find

The World's News · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 4

THE Panama Corporation, Limited, of New York, announces that it has made the discovery of a new gold vein, said to be worth 16,000,000 dollars…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 15

Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our corrpspondent cables, at 120/1 per oz fine, a rise of /4 since Friday…

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Palmer River Gold Field

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 15

Mr. B. Dunstan, ex-chief Government geologist of Queensland, telegraphs our Brisbane correspondent, for the past three months has been examining concesisons of large areas of…

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Oldest Miner Retires Worked Alone in Coal Pit for 40 Years

The World's News · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 4

ENGLAND'S oldest miner has retired, after working in a coal pit at Newmill, near Moorhouse, for 76 years. He is Harry Moorhouse, of Newmill, who…

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