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Mining & the mines, 1933

4,040 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 202

Coal for Fremantle. Baldina to Load at Newcastle

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 4

The Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Baldina, which has been tied up at Sydney for some months, is to leave Sydney to-day for Newcastle to…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 28

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

The price of gold to-day was £6/1/2 an ounce fine, compared with £6/1/5 yesterday. DEATH OF COMEDIANS…

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OVER £40,000! Gold For the M.C.C.

Referee · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 13

IN taking back the Ashes to England the M.C.C. team will guard something like £40,000 in Australian cash with which to regale the…

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Driver Is Badly Burned Coal Lorry in Flames Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 5

When a lorry, driven by [?] Taylor, a coal carrier, burst into flumes this afternoon, he had the misfortune of having both hands and…

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Antwerp As a Coal and Ore Port Rates, Conditions, and Facilities

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 1

Some very remarkable information regarding the recent development of bulk traffic at Antwerp was given in a speech delivered by Mr. Grisar, expresident of the Antwerp Shipping Federation, during a visit to the…

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Mine of Wealth in Fishing Industry Resources Left Untouched Vast Scope for Fed. Govt. Expert Scheme

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 4

THE vast fishery resources of Australia are at last about to be developed. Should the scheme to commercially exploit the coastline of the continent be put into operation, fully 30,000 men and women, will, it is estimated be placed in employment…

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Strong Hopes of Assistance Fob Baerami Miners' Officials Are Exerting Every Effort Shale Field Federation Suggests Subsidy on Operations

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 7

STRONG hopes that the Federal Government would assist in the development of the Baerami shale field were expressed yesterday by…

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Better As 3-Year-old Than Desert Gold High Opinion Of Silver Scorn Clash with Peter Pan

Referee · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 3

THE Sydney trainer, F. T. Cush, certeainly picked up a bargain when he purchased the filly, Silver Scorn, for £2100, for since…

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New Guinea Goldfields Ltd

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

The report of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., the third, covers the year ended September 30 last. The directors state that the results of the full-scale work of the mill at Golden…

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Profit From Alluvial N.g. Goldfields Nets £84,907

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 12

Sales of bullion during the year ended September 30 last yielded £112,992 to New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., and a net profit…

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Miners Fight Fire Pithead Threatened at Glebe Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- At 2.30 p.m. to-day, when the temperature at Signal Hill was 100.8 degrees, several bush fires broke out. and six…

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Gretamain Collieries, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 11

At the annual general meeting of Gretamain Collieries, Ltd, yesterday, Messrs G. Biidges (chairman) and D. A. W. Robertson retired from the board of directors by…

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News From Mines B.H. Prop.'s Gold Areas

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 12

In a report on the progress of operations on gold mining areas in which Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd., is interested the managing director advises that prospecting…

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Payable Gold

The Sun · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 22

YEOVAL, Thursday.--Payable gold has been found five miles from Yeoval. The claim has been worked for 18 months, assistance having been…

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Coal and Coal-oil to the Rescue

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 4

It is announced from London that, altogether, 60 of the new "Isherwood" type of steamer have been sold or contracted for—and this in the first few weeks of the New Year! These new-type vessels, it is claimed, cost one-third…

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Grains of Gold

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 3

WHEN tribulations, infirmities, and contradictions come, we must not run away in a fright, but vanquish them like men…

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Bargain Gold Claims

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 7

DARWIN, Wednesday. -- Two adjoining claims of forty acres each on the Union line of reefs have been sold for £12, Machinery, including a…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 8

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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Prospecting Miners' Association Trunkey

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 8

At an Inter-district conference of delegates at Trunkey, convened for the etsabllshment of a temporary headquarters of the Prospecting…

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Bismarck Range (N.g.) Gold

The Sun · Thursday 2 March 1933 · page 13

Directors of Bismarck Range (New Games.) Gold Exploration, N.L.,. received & message to-day from the manager, Mr. Duncan Marshal, from the mine, at…

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