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Mining & the mines, 1933

4,040 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 202

General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, April 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 10

The price of gold to-day was £6/0/6 an ounce fine, compared with £6/0/2 yesterday. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S MEMOIRS. Mr. Lloyd George, M.P., has signed a…

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Further Wage Cuts Loom For Coal Miners Real Purpose of the Govt.'s Rehabilitat'n Scheme Contingent on a Reduction in "Costs" Plan Exposed Policy Announcement by Authoritative Spkaker

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 6

THE real purpose behind the Government's plan to rehabilitate the coal-mining industry was exposed yesterday, when it…

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U.S.A. Abandons Gold. New Embargo. Policy of Controlled Prices. WASHINGTON, April 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 9

President Roosevelt announced today that the embargo on the export of gold had been restored in order to improve domestic commodity prices…

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America Off Gold Savings in Interest on U.s. Loans Government's Debts £47,000,000

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 8

THE Australian Governments expect considerable reductions in interest payments owing to the recent trend of…

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U.S. Gold Abandonment Shocks Britain "Deliberate Wrecking of Currency" May Be Tactical Move to Influence World Pound Sterling Soars

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 1

British financial circles are shocked by the official declaration from Washington that the United States has quitted the gold standard. In many quarters it is believed that the move is a…

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America Again Goes Off the Gold Standard Announcement Follows Banning of Exports Dollar Deals Buying Movement in U.S.A. Excitement in London Washington. Thurs

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 1

THE Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Woodin, announced to-day that the United states had again gone off the gold standard…

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Crisis and Gold Mines Big Asset to Canada Help Stocks

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 6

What will be the effect on gold mining of the action of the U.S.A. in "going off gold"? When Britain went off the gold…

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Bulli-camden Mine

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 5

The central executive officers of the Miners Federation yesterday advised members before seeking employment at Bulli-Camdon colliery…

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Bank of England Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 15

The accumulation of gold by the Bank of England continued during the past week, and the increase of £5,452,923 is larger than that of recent weeks. The gold holding shown in…

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High Level Gold Leases

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 13

MYSTERY surrounds the recent pegging of eight 20-acre gold-mining leases on the summit of Mount Cordeaux, in the Great…

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Canada Exports Gold Montreal, April 21

The Sun · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 2

Nearly 5.900,000 dollars in specie were shipped to-day to the gold market in London. The Minister for Finance (Mr. Rhodes)…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, April 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 13

The, price of gold to-day was £5/19/1 an ounce fine, compared with £6/0/6 yesterday. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. Mr. Claude Muncaster is exhibiting 28…

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Miners Will Press Claims Plight Of Men On Intermittent Work Meeting Govt

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 6

THE plight of the intermittent mineworkers and the necessity for the Government to extend better treatment to them in the…

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Nations Seek World's Gold Still Chief Backing for Currency Purposes

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 9

America's suspension of the gold standard is being watched with interest, and not a little apprehension by bankers,…

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Victoria Halt in Mining Boom Government Inertia To Blame

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 10

GOVERNMENTS frequently have a perverse way of doing the wrong thing, and in the case of Victorian…

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MacDONALD and Gold Standard Conference May Prove Abortive London

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 1

A curious position has arisen in regard to the conference between Mr. Ramsay, MacDonald, Prime Minister of England, and Mr. Roosevelt…

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Western Australia Dead Man's Gold Is There a Hoodoo On It?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 10

SOME years ago a man whose surname was Lean, and who was commonly known as "Bill," died in Perth as the result of an epileptic…

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British Financiers Up in Arms "Diplomatic Blackmail"; Going Off Gold Power for Roosevelt London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 1

"Diplomatic blackmail" is the description applied by the "Financial News" to America's action in going off the gold standard. A message from Paris states that the Premier of France…

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New Perils Menace the Workers Crises at Home and Overseas Gold Standard and Pools Labors Fight

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 10

EVERY day brings fresh development at home and abroad, creating new political and economic crises and intensifying Labor's…

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Only Part of Plan to Rehabilitate Far-reaching Moves in the U.S.A. Gold Standard Washington

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 1

ALTHOUGH the repeal of prohibition and the abandonment of the gold standard for the second time have…

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