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Mining & the mines, 1933

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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 11

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended April 21, is at the rate of approximately £6/13/4…

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Cracow Gold, N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 11

At a meeting of shareholders in Cracow Gold, N.L., held in Melbourne yesterday, the chairman, Mr. H. G. Hanson reported that the directors had received from the company's…

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Strike at Wonthaggi Mine. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 5

All pits at the State coal mine were Idle at Wonthaggi to-day. The men refused to work, because the mine manager instructed two scout-miners to work in a bord at the…

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Price of Gold. London, April 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 10

The price of gold to-day was £5/18/2 an ounce fine…

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Vainly Search for Work Warning to Miners Repeated

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 5

The question of men travelling long distances ins vain-endeavor to secure work at collieries in various parts of the State was…

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Fascist-hitler Movements Feeling of the Miners Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 8

Following upon the formation of the A.L.P. branch at Wallerawang, marked interest is being displayed in the Labor Movement in that district…

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No Work at Wonthaggi Mine To-day Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 1

[?] stop-work meeting at Wonthaggi coal mine to-day 1000 miners decided not to resume work to-morrow as a result of a dispute with the…

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Price of Fine Gold (Special Beam Service) London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 7

Fine gold was quoted at £5182 an ounce to-day, a rise of twopence on Saturday's price, but a fall of lid on [?] days' operat…

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Important Mining Matters Deputations From the Federation to Govt. Food Relief

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 April 1933 · page 5

QUESTIONS of vital concern to employees in the mining industry were yesterday placed before the Government by…

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AUSTRALIANA Another Copper Mine

The World's News · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 12

A few months ago a Brisbane firm of shipping agents received two packing cases—one contained 20,400 pennies and the other 2400 halfpennies. This…

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Canada Off Gold Standard Ottawa

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 1

THE Minister of Finance, Mr. Rhodes, announced to-day that Dominion notes are no longer redeemable in…

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Price of Gold. London, April 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 13

The price of gold to-day was £5/19/ an ounce fine, compared with £5/18/2 yesterday…

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Gold Yield in N.s.w

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 3

A REPORT prepared by the Mines Department for the Government for the year 1932 showed that the value of metals and minerals…

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The World's Gold a New Record

The World's News · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 4

The first estimate of the world's production of gold last year has appeared, and the output is stated at 23,500,000 ounces, 700,000 more than in 1931…

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News From Mines Richer Vein at St. Aignan

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 12

St. Aignan (Lucknow) Gold Mine reports that the calcite vein referred to in last report has increased to 12 inches in width, and gold values have increased…

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The Poor Little Rich Boy Goes "Off" Gold

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 4

With a fatuousness, unusual even in him, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald marked his arrival at New York by telling the reporters that President Roosevelt's sudden and entirely uncalled-for abandonment of the gold-standard is a matter…

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Mining. Broken Hill Industry. Conditions of Production

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 15

Our Broken Hill correspondent telegraphs that Mr. W. S. Robinson, managing director, Zinc Corporation, who was recently in Broken Hill, has issued a statement pointing out…

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Q'land Mineral Wealth Large Increase in Gold Yield

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 12

The value of the Queensland gold yield during 1932 was £98.813, compared with £55,842 in 1931, and £33,224 in 1930 That figure does not…

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N.S.W. Mining Industry. Proposals for Rehabilitation

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 4

The Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. A. Teece) stated last week that he had received a letter from the New South Wales Minister for Mines (Mr…

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The Financial Outlook: The United States and the Gold Standard

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 26 April 1933 · page 18

AMERICA'S departure from the gold standard marks another phase of the struggle of the present Administration to rectify the desperate internal position of the country, of which the…

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