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Mining & the mines, 1933

4,040 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 202

Option Taken on Gold Field Queensland Leases North Arm (Q.)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 4

Following the negotiations of a Southern syndicate to purchase the Golden Surprise Gold Mining Company's mine and plant at North Arm…

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Labor Crisis Approaching Big Split Develops Miners May Drop State Party A.W.U. & UNITY

The Sun · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 9

AS the struggle for the control of the machine in the State Labor Party goes on, the Graves-Garden executive…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Nth. Sydney Coliseum Ss. Co.s' Dividends N. Sydney Coliseum

The Sun · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 2

Reduction in income from rentals received and in interest were principal causes which operated to lessen the net profit of North Sydney…

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Coal Lumper for Trial in Stabbing Case Death of Dwarf During Party in the 'Loo Prinking Wine Alleged Statement of Missing Witness Is Read

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 5

AFTER inquiring into the death of Robert Peel Widgery, 43, who was stabbed during a party in a house in Charles Street, East…

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State Coal Mine Rates

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 1

State Cabinet yesterday decided that the Government Coal Mine at Lithgow should be rateable for…

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State Coal Mine to Pay Municipal Rates

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 5

The State Cabinet yesterday decided that in future the State Coal Mine at Lithgow shall pay municipal rates on the same basis as…

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Gold Baths

The World's News · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 38

A Johannesburg Scotch gold miner saved the sediment of his baths for twenty years. Recently he panned it, and extracted gold dust worth £100…

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Gold in Fiji: Visit to Tavua Goldfields

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 19

HAVING partaken of a good breakfast at 5.45 at the Shamrock Hotel, Lau[?]oka, on Sunday morning, we boarded the car at 6 a.m., reaching Tavua at 7.50,…

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W.a. Gold Yield

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

THE Western Australian gold output for January was 45,755 fine ounces, worth £194,356 valued at £4/5/- an ounce. It…

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Manoa Gold Short Story

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 12

IT is always inspiring to hold a great belief, but the truly blessed are those who can prove their beliefs. Sir Walter Raleigh was so blessed. True, the knowledge came late—almost at the…

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Mine Fumes Kill Two MELBOURNE

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 5

WHEN Albert Dunstan fell from a bucket to the bottom of a shaft, 70 feet below, at Buninyong mine this afternoon, his mate, A. Berger, although he suspected foul air, bravely descended to the rescue…

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Miners Suffocated. One Attempting Rescue. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 14

Two miners were overcome by foul air and suffocated in a prospecting shaft at Bunniyong to-day. They were Albert Berger, 68 years, widower, with a grown-up family of…

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Two Men Die in Mine Heroic Attempts at Rescue

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Acts of heroism accompanied two fatalities at the Loco Extended Mine near Buninyong to-day…

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A Gold Rush Rich Deposits by the Danube

The World's News · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 38

Rich gold deposits have been discovered in Hungary in the valley of the Danube, and exploitation of the discovery is about to begin…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 14

The price of gold to-day was £5/19/9 an ounce fine, compared with £5/19/10 yesterday. THE PRINCE OF WALES…

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In Seven Years W.A. Expert Predicts Gold-mining Boom London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 9

Sir John Kirwan, President of the Legislative 'Council of W.A., speaking at a luncheon given by the W.A. Agent-General (Mr. W. C. Angwin)…

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Grains of Gold

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 3

IT needs a very pure intention, as well as great spiritual discernment, always to recognise the Divine Voice. Humor, even in the form of satire…

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Car Fuel From Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 5

Notable progress has been made in the successful production on a commercial scale of motor fuel from British coal, and recently some enlightening facts were made public by…

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Black Damp Causes Colliery Tragedy. Three Brothers Dead. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 9

Three men died from black damp in a colliery at Waro, near Hikurangi, to-day. They were brothers, named Ackers, James, aged 24, married, with one child; Jack, aged 20; and…

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Mining Shares in London London, February 15

The Sun · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 6

For shares in mining companies on the list of the London Stock Exchange, prices today included:--B.H. Prop., 20s 9d; Mount Lyell, 16s; Great Boulder, 6s 812d; Sons…

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