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Mining & the mines, 1933

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, March 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1933 · page 10

The price of gold to-day was £5/19/7½ an ounce fine, compared with £5/18/11 yesterday. IRISH FREE STATE. A bill has been introduced in the Dail…

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Drop Pension Claim or Else Be Deported! Remarkable Threat to Invalid by Fed. Govt. James Tells Worker Who Strained His Heart in a Mine Canberra

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 March 1933 · page 4

A REMARKABLE case of a man who was threatened with deportation if he applied for the invalid pension was revealed by Mr…

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BY - Products Works to Be Established Plant to Cost 3 Million to Employ 1500 Men Tests of Coal Suspension of Labor Conditions for Leases Granted Maitland

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 March 1933 · page 13

IN evidence at the Maitland Warden's Court to-day, in support of four applications for suspension of labor…

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Inferno Rages at Hill End Mine Two Cavities Now Pouring Dense Smoke Prominent Managers View the Position As Very Grave New Fissures Flames Make Approach to the Outbreak Impossible Cessnock, Thurs

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 March 1933 · page 4

INFINITELY worse than Greta, the inferno at Hill, End Colliery has become a problem so grave that prominent mine…

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Finance Letter. a City Man Writes to His Country Cousin The U.S.A. Financial Crisis —How Australia May Be Affected—Future of Gold Pitt Street, Sydney, March 7, '33

The Land · Friday 10 March 1933 · page 21

Dear Tom,— Overshadowing all else in the financial sphere is the banking crisis which has developed with amazing…

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Billions in Notes in U.S.A. Scheme Bank Assets, Not Gold, As Basis President Asks Powers of Dictator Plan for Re-opening Nation-wide Business Is Held Up Washington

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 March 1933 · page 1

At midnight President Roosevelt announced his programme for the re-opening of the banks. Instead of clearing-house scrip, there will be a colossal issue of new currency up to 25,000,000,000 dollars…

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News From Mines Mt. Coolon Gold Yield

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 9

Mt. Coolon Gold Mines, N.L., has intimated that it will issue progress and yield reports fortnightly, instead of monthly, in future…

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Extensive Fire in Cessnock Colliery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 14

Smoke belching forth yesterday from one of the craters in the Hill End Colliery, near Cessnock. The fire has caused considerable alarm among residents in the vicinity…

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Wonthaggi Miners Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 6

In an effort to stop further dismissals at the State coal mine at Wonthaggi, the miners, at a stop-work meeting to-day, carried a…

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Australian Gold Yield

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 6

The quanity of gold produced in Australia last year was 709,040 fine ounces (subject to revision), according to the Commonwealth…

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Miners Support Unemployed[?] Kurri Kurri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 14

A combined meeting of Richmond Main, Pelaw Main, and Stanford Main No. 1 miners' lodges last night decided to support the unemployed in their fight against the…

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Old Mine Craters Four Belching Flames

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Friday.--There are now four craters belching smoke and flames from the abandoned Hill End…

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Price of Gold LONDON,Friday

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 1

The price of gold per fine ounce to-day was £519212, against £619712 yesterday…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 15

Yesterday's mining share business was the most representative recorded lately, the gold section sharing the turnover much more proportionately than usual. Though widespread,…

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Colliery Fire. Less Serious Turn. a Helpful Subsidence. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 13

The fires which have been burning in the abandoned workings of Hill End Colliery, near Cessnock, took a less serious turn this evening[?] The smoke which had been issuing from…

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More Gold. Less Unemployed. Statistician's Figures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 13

An increase was notable in the quantity of gold produced in Australia for the year 1932, the number of fine ounces returned for the year being 709,040, compared with 595,123 in 1931,…

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Bank of England. Gold Holding Again Higher

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 15

Another increase in the Bank of England's holding of gold is shown in this week's return. The amount of gold as at March 8 is £159,954,080, an addition of £9,728,146 on…

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Of New South Wales Earth Subsides in Mine Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 1

TWO GAPING CRATERS which appeared yesterday at Cessnock above the underground fire in the old Hill End mine…

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Round Table Parley on Collie Coal Perth

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 1

At the request of Amalgamated Collieries a round-table conference, at which the Government, the Railways Department and coal…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, March 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 13

The price of gold to-day was £5/19/2½ an ounce fine, compared with £5/19/7½ yesterday. LORD INVERCLYDE…

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