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Mining & the mines, 1932

4,003 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 201

Struck Gold After 30 Years' Search! BRISBANE

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 February 1932 · page 1

SEARCHING for gold for over 30 years in a district, which had been generally abandoned as containing little or none of the precious…

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City Gossip Rise in British Stocks Wiluna Gold British Stocks Advance

The Sun · Saturday 27 February 1932 · page 2

There was another all-round rise yesterday in British Government stocks on the London Stock Exchange, states a cable message from…

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Sticks to His Gold Luck True to 50-Year-old Dream London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1932 · page 1

An 83-year-old Plymouth man refuses to join the gold rush, though he possesses a hoard of 800 sovereigns which, he contends, has brought him…

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Central Australia's Gold Prospects Those Who Blazed the Trail 'Planes Needed to Co-operate Future Visions

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 February 1932 · page 4

BATTLES against Nature, thirst, hunger, and blacks, all in a search for gold in an unknown land--these exciting incidents were described by Mr. Frank Green, an experienced miner, who has returned to Sydney from an extended prospecting tour of Central Australia…

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Stolen Gold

The Sun · Sunday 28 February 1932 · page 1

WELL, here's how! If this ticket turns out to be the winner of the big £20,…

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Gold Bounty. Australia's Future Gold, Production Dependent Upon It. (By "Gold Industry.")

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 4

"Pyrrho," on the gold bounty, contributes an article published in the "Sydney Morning Herald" of February 20, 1932. It is evident that "Pyrrho" has not enjoyed any…

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Gold Find Near Moruya

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 11

Our Moruya correspondent reports that Messrs. H. J. Thomson and J. Coppin, and a party of six, have discovered a reef at Moggendoura, about 3[?] miles from Moruya,…

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Promising Gold Find. Gulgong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 10

Thirteen ounces five pennyweights of gold, including a piece weighing an ounce and a half, was secured from 30 loads of wash from Little Caledonia mine, two and a half miles…

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Thieves' $100 Haul Gold and Jewellery Stolen

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 5

Almost £100 worth of jewellery and 10oz. and 17dwt. of New Guinea gold were stolen from the home of Harold Arthur Roberts at the corner of…

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Fuel Oil From Coal. Research Work Abroad. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 10

The importance to Australia of research work now being carried on abroad in the production of petrol and fuel oil from coal by the hydrogenation process was emphasised…

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Stick to Gold British Bankers Watch the Dollar LONDON

The Sun · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 1

The opinion expressed by Sir Henry Strakosch, the economist, that the abandonment of the gold standard is not to be deplored, is not endorsed…

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Old Gold Worth Millions Duke's Cheque for Ancient Coronet London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 5

Ten million pounds' worth of old gold has been sold in a fortnight. A duke, whose title was created in the 17th century, yesterday took a…

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Fuel Oils From Aust. Coal Sen. McLACHLAN Sceptical "Big Finances" Canberra

The Labor Daily · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 5

According to Senator McLachlan, Vice-President of the Executive Council, the possibility of producing petrol and…

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Rush to Sell Gold. Duke's Coronet Realises £15,000. LONDON, Feb. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 9

The rush to sell gold while it commands a high price continues, and affects all classes. A duke, it is reported, sold his corona to a Bond-street firm for £15,000. A man visited…

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If Gold Were Found in Central Aust. What Use to Humanity? All Would Go Into Vaults

The Labor Daily · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 6

"Mr. Green tells particularly of one gold reef, found twice and lost twice by men totally unknown to one another. Each…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle Anc District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 6

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

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Fabulous Gold London

The Sun · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 1

The Secretary for India (Sir Samuel Hoare) told a questioner in the Commons that he estimated the hoarded gold in India to be worth…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 March 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 26, is at the rate of…

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News From Mines Work at St. Aignan

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 11

Last week the St. Algnan Company drove the intermediate cross-cut 4ft., to 18ft., and then drove west along the footwall for 9 feet…

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Stream Is Drying Gold Coins Are Scarce Now

The Sun · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 9

A SLUMP in the trade of sovereigns points to the fact that Australia has been practically cleaned out of its…

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