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Mining & the mines, 1932

4,003 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 201

Does Anybody Want Some Gold?

The World's News · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 4

SIX hundred thousand pounds in gold bars lies in the railway station at Constantinople after an adventurous trip across Europe, undelivered because the…

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Mine Vandals Petrol Lost And Cable Cut

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 4

A vandal who visited the premises of the Burragorang Coal Mining Co., which commenced operations last year, caused a considerable amount of…

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Sales of Old Gold. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 10

More than £20,000 was paid for old gold at the Perth Mint last year. The deputy master of the Mint said that several Perth Cups had been melted down,…

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Lured to Death By Lost Gold

The World's News · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 3

THE proverbial pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow has not as many seekers as the ghost mines that abound in…

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Koonda Recommissioned to Load at Southern Coal Ports

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 4

The Mcllwraith, McEacharn steamer Koonda has been replaced in commission and was to leave Melbourne yesterday for southern jetties to load coal…

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New Guinea Gold. Work of Aeroplanes. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 13

A description of the way in which the aeroplane is stimulating gold production in New Guinea was given by Mr. H. L. Downing, a Government officer attached to the goldfield…

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Working a Mile and a Half Underground The World's Deepest Mine

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 7

What is claimed to be the deepest mine in the world, that at Morro Velho, Brazil, is at present being operated by British control. The mine pit lies more than 7500 feet below the…

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The Terrible Heap of Gold. Piling Up Useless Wealth

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 6

The amount of gold now held by the United States is said to exceed a thousand million pounds. This enormous hoarding, which is worse,…

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An £8,000,000 Industry Effort Needed to Clinch Deal Oil From Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 6

A BIG industry, from which it was hoped the Newcastle district and the State in general would have derived…

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"Treasure Island" in Real Life Picking Up Gold Death-bed Story Told to Priest

The World's News · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 6

A "TREASURE ISLAND" in real life—a story of "dead men's chests," mutinies, and doubloons—may be revealed if the…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 9

Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday, our correspondent cables, at 122/5 per oz. fine, an increase of /3 on the day…

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Gold Options Activities

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 9

Directors of Gold Options, No Liability, report that they have secured a working option over a gold mining property about 40 miles north of Condobolin, in the same belt of…

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Grains of Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

LET us bless God that we are children of His Mother; let us imitate her and consider our great happiness in having her as patron…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 7 January 1932 · 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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Wallsend Park Co-op. Mine Reopening Proposed Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

At a meeting of former employees of the Co-operative Colliery, at Wallsend Park, yesterday, the question of its re-opening was discussed…

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The Lure of Gold. New Chums and "Hatters."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 6

It is doubtful if even in the great digging days of the 60's and "70's there were more men searching for gold than there are at present roaming the hillsides and raking the river…

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Auburn-lidcombe News on Holidays Gold Prospectors Return Home

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

Back from the gold fields where they have been digging feverishly for many weeks, a large number of unemployed, all students of Mr. Sam Crouch, the…

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Old Cavan to Be Sold Last "Windbag" in Coal Trade Brown Vessel Newcastle, Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

The Jr and A. Brown Co.'s old collier schooner, Cavan, which has been identified with the coal trade at Newcastle for over a…

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Dived Twice for His Fortune 300 Ounces of Gold Lost in Flood Cairns

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 1

Nine diggers from the Batavia goldfields, making for the coast, were overwhelmed by rain at Claudie River, and,…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip M.L.C. Assurance Co Div. Rate 80 P.C. Dividend Equals 80 Per Cent

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

Interim dividend of 8s a share has been declared by the board of the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Co., Ltd…

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