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Mining & the mines, 1932

4,003 stories in Sydney's papers · page 79 of 201

Judge Beeby May Heal Vic. Mining Breach Offered to Be Private Arbitrator in Dispute Wonthaggi Pit Men Willing; Owners Want Cancellation of the Award Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 June 1932 · page 5

JUDGE BEEBY recently heard an application in the Arbitration Court by the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the cancellation…

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Street Gold Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 7

IN THE STREETS of Wedderburn (Vic.), prospectors are working claims --and getting results, too. One is at the rear of n grocery store in the…

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GOLD-HUNTING Tradesmen of Yesterday— Miners of To-day

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 8

The accompanying pictures were taken in the Nundle gold-mining area, which is now being operated mainly by men who have found it…

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Sunshine Clue to Gold Mine Rediscovered After Sixty Years

The World's News · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 36

A PARTY of Indian hunters at Scurvy Creek, in the Lower Yukon (Canada). are believed to have rediscovered a fabulously rich gold mine which has…

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Gold Mining Industry an Estimate of Its Accounts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 15

The Australian Gold Industry Council has prepared a record of the Australian gold industry for 1931 in the form of accounts claiming to show the financial advantage to…

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Ferndale Colliery. An Instruction Disaster

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 18

The two enemies which confront the coalminer are fire and water. Newcastle district has had its share of both. The recent outbreak of fire at Greta shows the danger that…

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Gold for Weights

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 6

LEGEND has it that the children of Visby in its golden days played with precious jewels, but the junior members of the staff of the famous Mount Morgan mine, in the eighties, went one better. They practised putting the weight with ingots…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 15

Gold was quoted in London on Monday at £5/14/ per oz. fine, our correspondent cables, a rise of /1 on Saturday's price…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 15

Base-metal sections were almost passed over in yesterday's mining share business. No material alteration in quotations was evident. A forward sale in Norths at 60/3 was the only…

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Mine Strikers To Be Reinstated. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 17

At a meeting of the Labour Government to-day, it wets decided to reinstate the railwaymen who were dismissed because they participated in the Dobbyn-Mount Oxide strike last…

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Gold Gift for Government a Woman's Thank Offering

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 9

Signing herself "A Young Australian Mother," a woman, who did not disclose her name or address, yesterday sent a sovereign and a…

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Country News. Illegal Sale of Coal. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 14

For many years it has been the habit of local fuel merchants to sell coal by the bag. This, according to the inspector of weights and measures, is an offence against the law,…

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Wallsend Mine Idle Claim for Water Money Secy. Explains Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 6

Wallsend miners have decided not to resume work until the matter of the payment of water money has been satisfactorily adjustred…

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Trimdon a Champion Stayer Second Ascot Gold Cup Win

Referee · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 8

Trimdon, who has won the Ascot Gold Cup (2½ miles) for the second year in succession, is a member of the No. 1 family. He is a 6-year-old bay horse bred by the late Lord Durham, and is owned and raced by Brigadier-General Lambton…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Australian Estates Pref. Div. Deferred Dividend Postponed

The Sun · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 6

Directors of the Australian Estates and Mortgage Co., Ltd., have decided to postpone payment of the halfyearly dividend on the company's 6[?]…

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Grains of Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 June 1932 · page 3

TO know a people's character we must see it at its homes, and. look chiefly to the humble abodes where that portion of the people dwell which makes the…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1932 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday at £5/14/6 per ounce fine, our correspondent cables, a rise of /5 on the day…

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That Little Chap o' Mine

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1932 · page 15

To feel his little hand in mine, so cl[?]nging and to warm: To know he thinks me strong [?] to keep him safe from harm…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1932 · page 11

What mining share business was transacted yesterday was almost wholly in the geld section. Ease-metal interests had no relief from falling metal quotations. Leading Barriers…

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