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Mining & the mines, 1933

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 10

The price of gold to-day was £6/1/5 an ounce fine. ALLEGED MURDERERS MURDERED. A band of 70 armed Macedonians stormed a…

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£670,684,000 in Gold Deflation Caused By "Wealth" in France

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 12

The assumption that gold was a stable measure of value has been called "the major premiss of all money contracts."…

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Veteran Mining Man Dead John Jenkins, A.w.u. Organiser

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 7

Mr. John Jenkins, one of the veteran members of the A.W.U., and an organiser of the mining section of the union, died yesterday…

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Off Gold Canada May Be The Next To Go Conversion Idea Vancouver

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 1

THAT Canada will sooner or later abandon the gold standard and will have to undertake a large loan…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Standard Cement Co. P.P. Bank (In Liq.) Standard Portland Cement Div

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 4

Directors of Standard Portland Cement Co., Ltd., have declared a dividend of 2 12 per cent, out of profits for the half-year ended…

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Sterling Advocated As World Money Standard Means to Revival of Trade Low Prices Due to Gold Scramble and Unregulated Return Views of Bank N.s.w

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 12

The scramble for gold, incidental to an unregulated return to the gold standard but exaggerated since 1928 by France's…

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Newcastle Coal Mining. Half-year's Loss of £1560

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 15

The Newcastle Coal Mining Company, Ltd., reports a loss of £1560 for the half-year ended December 31. This follows a loss of £1795 for the previous half-year, and increases the…

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Billabong Gold

The World's News · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 28

SHE came out of a nearby doorway and held a warning finger to her lips. Then she led him softly along the passage to another room…

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Gold Water For

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 5

WASHING pastry and flour off boards and roiling-pins. Soaking hard crusts preparatory to use. Soaking dirty linen, especially starched…

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Mine Workers Injured. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 14

Hugh Phillips, an employee of the Ayrfield, No. 1 Colliery, was caught by a fall of coal. He received a compound fracture of the left thigh and injuries to the head. He was…

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N.s.w. Gold Yield

The Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 19

The production of gold in New South Wales, for December, 932, is estimated at 2368 ounces fine, the nominal value at the standard rate…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 15

A slightly higher price of gold gave gold shares a stronger opening in yesterday's mining share market. Subsequently a selling movement gathered way, and the market closed…

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Vale of Clwydd Coal and Brick

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 15

The Vale of Clwydd Coal and Brick Company, Ltd., reports a net loss of £1220 for the half-year ended December 31, compared with a loss of £5318 for the previous half-year…

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Hope for Buried Miners Abandoned Launceston

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 1

AFTER driving through solid rock to the [?]ope in the Mr. Buell mine where two miners Larry Successor and…

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Coal Shipments. 43,926 Tons for Week

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 15

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle during the week ended January 19, for places beyond the State was 43,926 tons, of…

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Canada May Go Off Gold Vancouver

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 1

It is regarded as certain here that Canada, sooner or later, will abandon the gold standard, and undertake a large loan conversion…

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Building Up The Gold Reserve LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 1

The Bank of England is quickly rebuilding its gold reserve, following the depletion due to last month's payment to America…

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Mining Shares in London (Special Service)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 12

LONDON, Tuesday.--Mining sales yesterday:--B.H. South, 339; Great Boulder, 7214: Sons of Gwalia, 143; South Kalgurli, 23112; Golden Horeshoe. 31012: Lake View…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 14

The price of gold to-day was £6/1/3½ an ounce fine, compared with £6/1/5 yesterday. MR. BERT HINKLER. On his relatives' representations, the…

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50 Years Too Late for Gold Hoard? Running Stream

The Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 17

GREAT excitement has been aroused in the Running Stream district, near Mudgee, as a result of the report published in "The Sun" yesterday, of the fruitless search for a bushranger's treasure hoard at Mt. Vincent…

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