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Mining & the mines, 1932

4,003 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 201

Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Commonwealth Bank Half=yearly Accounts Large Note Issue Profit

The Sun · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 2

Accounts of the Commonwealth Bank for the half-year ended December 31 last are noteworthy for the large increase in the profit…

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War Debts. Tariff Barriers and Gold. Commons Budget Debate. London, April 21

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

Mr. Winston Churchill, continuing the debate on the Budget in the House of Commons to-day, said that tariffs alone would not solve the world's awful economic depression. It was…

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Greta Living on a Volcano Foul Smoke People Driven from Homes; Sickness Threatens Burning Mine Newcastle

The Sun · Saturday 23 April 1932 · page 3

WITH a smoke pall hanging over the town and the air laden with sulphurous fumes, Greta is in constant fear of an explosion from a fire in the underground workings of the old Anvil Creek mine…

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Poison Fumes From Old Mine Greta Residents Alarmed Newcastle

Truth · Sunday 24 April 1932 · page 8

SULPHUROUS fume clouds hanging like a pall over the tiny village of Greta have alarmed residents of the district…

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Three Towns Are Menaced Poison Gas From Mine Subsidence Like Volcano Peril Greta

The Sun · Sunday 24 April 1932 · page 2

WITH poisonous gas and smoke pouring from a huge subsidence in a disused mine near Greta, the nearby main rail line…

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St. Aignan (Lucknow) Gold Mine

The Sun · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 4

The mine manager of St. Algnan (Lucknow) Gold Mine, N.L., reports as follows for the week-ended April 22.-- Intermediate stope: Advanced 7 feet by…

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Mine Fires Rage

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 1

THICK PALLS of black, poisonous smoke pour from the underground, fires raging in an old Greta mine. This picture shows how nearby…

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Burning Mine at Greta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 8
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Smoke arising from the burning mine, which has been on fire for some time…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 7

Gold was quoted in London on Friday at [?]10/6 per fine ounce, our correspondent [?], a rise of /7 on the day. Saturday's [?] was again £5/10/6…

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Smoke Pall From Burning Mine

The Sun · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 8

A close-up view of the dense pall of black, sufforating smoke i[?] from [?] Greto…

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Mercury Plant Opened Queensland Mine Treats 1500Lbs

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 7

BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Officially opening the plant at the mines of Queensland Quicksilver Development Syndicate, Ltd., on Saturday, the…

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Mine Fires. Smoke Increasing. Minister's Intention. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 5

Railway officials in Newcastle said this evening that the underground fire now burning in abandoned colliery workings at Gre[?]a were not likely to endanger the main…

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Coal Trade Grows in North Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 8

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped from Newcastle during the week, was 28,900 tons, of which 3355 tons represented overseas…

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Ran True to Her Trial Gravure's Win Gold Trail

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 2

On the strength of having run a trial, so it was reported, of five in 11¼ during the week, Gravure was backed down to…

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Coal Flames Bar Northern Line Leap From Cavity Affected Area Extends Grave Fears Greta

The Sun · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 7

BURSTING into flame, the dense volume of gaseous smoke pouring from the main cavity of the Anvil…

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Many W.a. Gold Shares Now Held in Sydney Activity at Week-end Wiluna and Sons of Gwalia Advance

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 9

WEST AUSTRALIAN gold ventures figured prominently in the week-end share market, and prices had a…

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"The Lid Might Be Lifted Off Hell!" Gas Menaces Population of Greta Town Air Is Being Poisoned From Old Mine Workings Eyes Water Smoke Belching Forth From Gaping Holes in Ground Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 April 1932 · page 5

GASES of various lethal qualities escaping from fissures in old colliery holdings in Greta have produced a vitiated atmosphere…

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Queensland Quicksilver Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 April 1932 · page 11

Our Brisbane correspondent telegraphs that the mercury recovery plant and mine of the Queensland Quicksilver Development Co., at Kilkivan, 155 miles north-west of Brisbane,…

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MINING. B.H. South Mine. New Plant in Operation. (By Our Broken Hill Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 April 1932 · page 11

The new haulage and crushing plant now in operation at the South mine, Broken Hill, which with its many mechanical devices tells at the end of the day's operations the story…

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