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Mining & the mines, 1933

4,040 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 202

Struck by Fall of Coal Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 7

Robert May, a laborer employed at the State coal mine, painful juries when he had a foot crushed by a fall of coal from a truck…

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Oil From Coal. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 7

Sir,—In your issue of the 15th inst you referred to a general meeting of the Institution of Surveyors of New South Wales, when Mr. J. H. Cardew gave some information…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, March 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 10

The price of gold to-day was £6/0/6½ an ounce fine, compaied with £6/0/9 yesterday. NORMAN LLOYD'S EXHIBITION. Mr. Norman Lloyd's exhibition of paintings,…

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MINING Members Talk Of Machinery Duty Question Canberra

The Sun · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 7

THERE was nothing glittering about the gold discussion in the House of Representatives last night,…

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[?]Ormering O[?]racing Su[?] for £50 Object to Art Refe[?] to "Lo[?]unes" Claim Settle Alleged £10 on Gamble Plunge Mention Gold

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 7

BARNEY ALLEY er, a prominent [?]okmak[?] matropolitan racecoty on one time "King of t[?] and…

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Widest Possible Terms in Oil Problem Labor Council Will Fight for the Miners Operations of Foreign Combines Must Be Investigated Vital Industry Wholeheartedly Behind Labor Party in Fed. Parliament

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 7

BY a unanimous vote, the Sydney Labor Council last night declared itself wholeheartedly behind Mr. J. A. Beasley and his…

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Bulli Colliery

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 10

To discuss the refusal of the management of the Bulli colliery to reengage an employee who had suffered with nystagmus a conference is to…

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Gold Mine on Legs Prime Pickings For Peter Pan

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 1

THE Jews always want the best security when they're asked for a loan, but they're quite prepared to hand over £3,650…

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Day Dawn Mine

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 9

The secretary of the Day Dawn (South New Guinea) mine, Mr. J. T Davis, writes: "The directors wish to state that the leases of the…

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Tuberculosis "Miners Free Compared with Population"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--In the Workers' Compensation Court to-day, a doctor said that statistics showed that miners were remarkably free…

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"TREASURE." Wealth of Buttercup Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 9

I stood looking down upon the scene before me, drinking in the beauty of my surroundings. From the cliff upon which I stood, I could see acres of buttercups, stretching out for miles…

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Price of Gold London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 1

The price of gold in London to-day was £606…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 15

Small variations attended mining share business yesterday. A slight downward reaction in the price of gold tended to act as a restraint on the leading gold shares,…

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Bank of England. Gold Stock Again Higher

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 15

The Bank of England continues to augment its gold holding. An addition of £3,229,701 in the past week brings the total holding as at March 22 to £169,631,962. Since a low point…

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Mining Shares in London London. March 24

The Sun · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 2

Australian mining shares sold as follow on the Stock Exchange to-day: Mount Lyell 14s 9d: Great Boulder, 6s 5¼d: Sons of Gwalia, 16s 7½d; Lake View and Star,…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, March 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 14

The price of gold to-day was £6/0/6 an ounce fine, compared with £6/0/6½ yesterday. DAME CLARA BUTT. Dame Clara Butt's tour of Australia has…

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Gold in a Cow Bathurst, Friday MR. A. E. DIPLOCK

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 5

butcher, of Cooran when slaughtering a cow procured in the Kilvan district, found in its stomach a place of quartz…

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VICTORIA'S £20,000,000 'Baby Cries for More Coal Colossus That Has Squandered Millions

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 10

THE administrative brain is apparently beginning to show signs of activity on the £20,000,000 coalfield at Yallourn (Vic.). "A motor garage to accommodate 50 cars, for the…

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Cracking of the Cracow Cold Boom Nearly £250,000 Spent On Queensland Field Two More Mines Close Down

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 9

FOR nearly £250,000 sunk into the Cracow (Q'ld.) goldfield, shareholders have little to show for some of it but scrip, much of which is now of doubtful value. Dramatically, with a statement from an operating…

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Gold for Gahan at Rosehill Red Hot Sprinter Holdfast a "Honey" Bet Westmead Hcp. and Its Speedsters

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 25 March 1933 · page 2

FRANK GAHAN'S lightning-like speedster Holdfast will carry No. 1 saddle-cloth in the Westmead Handicap at Rosehill…

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