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Mining & the mines, 1933

4,040 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 202

Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Dealings in Dollars Resumption Next Week? Hesitant Stock Markets

The Sun · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 2

Advices received by banking institutions in Sydney this morning indicated that it was hoped in London that the New York banking facilities…

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Gold-Hoarders Rush To Disgorge Scared of Gaol Millions Now Pouring Into Emptied Vaults Banks Are to Open New York

The Sun · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 3

GOLD to-day became too hot to hold, and thousands of hoarders all over the United States were stung into sudden action. They scurried to the banks to rid themselves of what a week or two ago they had feverishly clamored to obtain…

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Jack Bailey Was Australia's Biggest Political Boss Outed After Years of Fighting How He Pulled Strings For The A.W.U. Now Goldfield Promoter

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 3

AN element of remarkable vitality is taken out of the control of the Australian Workers' Union with the removal of "Jack Bailey" from the A.W.U. Executive in New South Wales. But no man is indispensable…

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Arbitration in W.a. Coal Dispute Interim Price Agreed Upon

The Sun · Sunday 12 March 1933 · page 3

PERTH, Saturday. -- Parties to the coal dispute have agreed each to appoint an arbitrator, and in the event of disagreement, the Chief Justice…

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Gold Hoarders' Panic Move to Right U.S. Banks Dramatic Ukase of Roosevelt Washington

Truth · Sunday 12 March 1933 · page 14

PRESIDENT Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States while the banking system was crashing all…

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Price of Gold

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

Gold was quoted in London on Saturday at £5/19/9½ per ounce fine, our correspondent cables, a rise of /7 on the day…

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W.a. Coal Dispute

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 7

PERTH, Sunday.--The Premier (Sir James Mitchell) announced after a conference yesterday that the parties to the coal dispute had…

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W.a. Gold Returns

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

Boulder Perseverance, Ltd., reports:—Output for February: Tonnage treated, 6614 long tons; value of bullion, £11,676; working profit, £2; premium on exchange and enhanced value…

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Gulgong Gold Options, N.l

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

Our Gulgong correspondent reports that the closing of the mine of Gulgong Gold Options, N.L., surprised those interested in mining in Gulgong. especially as the mine was sunk…

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Collie Coal Dispute Temporary Settlement Reached Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 5

AT the conclusion of a round-table conference yesterday afternoon, the Premier, Sir James Mitchell. announced that a…

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Gold Hoarders. Drastic Penalties. New York, March 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 10

From vanity bags, steel chests, trousers pockets, and armoured cars gold poured in stacks—"double eagles," five-dollar pieces that dangled on last year's Christmas tree, and big…

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Worst Is Now Over Only Fumes From, Hill End Mine Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 5

CONDITIONS continue to be satisfactory at Hill End, and the only serious aspect now is the presence of fumes in the adjacent residential…

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W.A. Coal Dispute To be Solved by Arbitrators. PERTH

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

A round-table conference yesterday of representatives of the Ministry, the Commissioner of Railways, and Amalgamated Collieries, Ltd., agreed to refer the coal dispute to…

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Nervousness Departs Britain's Calm View of American Situation Future of Gold London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 10

While nobody in London ventures to forecast the course of the American crisis even a few days ahead, initial…

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Reserve Fund for Research From Profits Baddeley Tells Mine Owners Some Truths By-products Govt. Should Find Money for Oil Extraction Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 March 1933 · page 6

REFERRING to the position of the mining industry in Cessnock which,he said, was to be deplored, Mr. J. M. Baddeley…

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Hetton Bellbird Collieries

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

A meeting of shareholders of Hetton Bellbird Collieries Ltd. as been called to consider proposed alterations of the articles of association, including the empowering of the…

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Ready For Saturday's Carnival Filling Crater of Coal Mine

The Sun · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 18

QUEENSLAND surfers training at Bondi to-day for Saturday's interstate Carnival --F. K. Forster, G. Corstophan, M. A. Nash, A. Jarkman, R. A. Gilbert,. B…

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Queensland Gold

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

The Queensland gold yield for February was 4365 fine ounces, valued at £18,541. A return of 981 ounces, worth £4166, was made in the corresponding month of 1932…

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Danger of Mine Inferno Huge Fall of Coal at Ayrfield No. 1 KURRI

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 1

A tremendous fall of coal, estimated at thousands of tons, which occurred in Ayrfleid No. 1 colliery some days ago, has commenced to…

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Gold Flotation Process

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

Our Kalgoorlie correspondent telegraphs that, reviewing the progress made with the flotation process for the treatment of gold ores, Mr. T. B. Stevens, consulting metallurgist…

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