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Mining & the mines, 1932

4,003 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 201

West Miners' Claims City Council Orders Report Asked

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 April 1932 · page 3

On the motion of Ald. J. S. Garden at yesterday's meeting of the…

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Gold Classes Re-opening at Auburn Last Year's Success

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1932 · page 3

Mr. Sam Crouch, veteran Auburn miner, proposes reopening his gold mining classes next month. Last year, Mr. Crouch, assisted by…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip P. AND O. Def. Stock No Interim Div. Shipping Co.'s Dividends Missed

The Sun · Thursday 21 April 1932 · page 4

Directors of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., have decided that no interim dividend for 1931-32 on the company's deferred…

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Gold Yield May Add £100,000 to Our Income Large Increase in First Two Months N.s.w. in Lead

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 April 1932 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--If the increase in gold production, revealed in the figures for the first…

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Northern Coal Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 11

Our Newcastle correspondent telegraphs that statistics of northern coal exports for the first quarter of 1932, released by Mr. A. H. Gibson, Sub-collector of Customs at…

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Collieries Idle Deputies Annoyed Over Case CESSNOCK

The Sun · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 10

All collieries on the South Maitland coalfields will be idle on Wednesday next, as the South Maitland deputies have called a stop -work…

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Miners' Hours London

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 1

The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, in an interview with representatives of the Miners' Federation urged the…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Wednesday, at £5/10/ per ounce fine, our correspondent cables, a rise of /9 on the day…

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Soviet Coal Production Steadily Rising. Moscow

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 4

World coal production in 1931 dropped by 13 per cent. In the same year Soviet coal production increased by over 13 per cent. In February, 1932,…

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Eight Tons of Russian Gold London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 6

Eight tons of gold were delivered to the Reichsbank to-day, says the Berlin correspondent of "The…

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Big Plan to Turn Our Fish Into Gold CANBERRA

The Sun · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 10

With the hope of adding £3,000,000 a year to Australia's wealth production, officers of the Prime Minister's Department and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are putting the finishing touches to a scheme to…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip R. H. Gordon's Capital Bon Marche

The Sun · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 7

R. H. Gordon to Repay Pref. Capital Following on the alteration of the articles of association of R. H. Gordon and Co., Ltd., confirmed…

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Has Promised to Make Gold London Banker As Backer London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1932 · page 5

The "Daily Mail" says that London laboratories may be converted into alchemists' workshops, as Prof. J. Dunikowski has promised to reveal…

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Mine Fire Peril

The Sun · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 5

The entrance to the Greta Colliery. Underground fires in the old Anoil Crech mine are causing great alarm and a disastrous explosion is feared. (See story on Page 3.)…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 15

Gold was quoted in London on Thursday at £5/9/11 per ounce fine, our correspondent cables, a fall of /1 on the day…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 8

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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Bulolo Gold Dredging. the Second Return

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 15

Bulolo Gold Dredging, Limited, reports that the interim clean-up for 10 days to April 15 yielded 1700 ounces of bullion, of an approximate value of 23,000 gold dollars, from 103,000…

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Police Terrorism in America the Martyrdom of the Miners

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 9

Jennie Lee was a Labor member of the British Parliament. She represented the Scottish constituency of North Lanark under the late…

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Grave Fears of Mine Explosion Underground Fires Rage in Abandoned Pits

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 5

UNDERGROUND fires which have broken out in the old Anvil Creek Colliery, Greta, are causing great alarm in the district, and it is feared that an explosion may take place at…

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Mine Fires. Abandoned Pits. Explosions Feared. Dense Pall of Smoke. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 13

Fires which are burning underground in deserted colliery workings are frightening the people of the coal-mining township of Greta 31 miles from Newcastle…

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