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Mining & the mines, 1933

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News From Mines St. Aignan Developments

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 May 1933 · page 9

St. Algnan (Lucknow) Gold Mine reports for the week ended May 11 that at 50ft. above the 110ft. level the drive on the foot-wall towards the west has been extended…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1933 · page 15

A resumption of the upward trend in metal prices gave renewed impetus to the mining share market yesterday. but the movement was more restrained than earlier in the week…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, May 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1933 · page 14

The price of gold to-day was £6/3/3 an ounce fine, compared with £6/3/6 yesterday. LONDON STOCK MARKETS. The stock markets closed yesterday with a…

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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip British Conversion Loan Automobile Insurance British 2½ P.C. Stocks

The Sun · Saturday 13 May 1933 · page 2

Tenders for £50,000,000 of 24 per cent. conversion loan 1944-1949 and Treasury Bills, were opened at the Bank of England yesterday, states a…

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Western Australia Died with Their Boots on Unique Cemetery In Dead Mining Camp 42 Victims of Violence

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 13 May 1933 · page 4

BACK on the Mount Margaret Goldfields, of W.A., about 20 miles from the edge of the Great Australian Desert, lies the little mining camp of Burtville, which has a record that probably no other mining camp on earth can boast…

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The Floating Mine

The Sun · Sunday 14 May 1933 · page 5

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Dollar Devaluation Will Not Raise Gold Price of Commodities

The Sun · Sunday 14 May 1933 · page 20

With only a few nations of the world left on the gold standard, but with general agreement (momentarily, at any rate) that gold will not be completely abandoned, there is a feeling abroad that American inflation proposals will succeed in raising world prices in terms of gold. Unfortunately there is no reason to believe that any hind of dollar depreciation will do more…

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Five Dead Flies On Gold Platter What a Nice Prize

Truth · Sunday 14 May 1933 · page 12

ALTHOUGH lotteries are a comparatively new method of raising money for N.S.W. charities their history dates back to the time of the Roman Empire, when, as far as…

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Stability Before Return to Gold Standard Danger of Linking Other Currencies Keep Prices and Costs at Equilibrium

The Sun · Sunday 14 May 1933 · page 3

In 1927, Mr. R. G. Hawtrey, Assistant Secretary of the British Treasury, and a recognised financial authority, published "The Gold Standard in Theory and Practice." In 1931 he added a chapter which traced the causes of its…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Saturday at £636 per ounce fine, our correspondent cables, a rise of /3 on the day…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 8

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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W.a. Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 11

Our Kalgoorlie correspondent telegraphs that Lake View and Star, Ltd., treated 40,317 tons of ore during Apiil, for a total revenue of £90,826, the value of the gold being calculated…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Godfrey Phillips Woolworth's (Vic.) Tobacco Company's Progress

The Sun · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 3

That money owed by its Australian subsidiary to Godfrey Phillips. Ltd., was being placed on deposit in the Commonwealth because of "the…

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Return to Gold? Rumors of Currency Agreement Brighter Outlook London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 10

Rumors are prevalent in well- informed circles that President Roosevelt and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald are preparing a currency…

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Backyard Gold

The Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1933 · page 15

TEMORA, Tuesday.--While playing in the backyard of his parents' residence at Upper Temora, Jack Linnegar picked up gold, weighing…

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Guinea Gold's Future

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 May 1933 · page 13

Discussing the future of Guinea Gold, N.L., at the annual meeting of shareholders in Adelaide, the chairman of directors (Mr. C. V. T. Wells) said that it was expected that…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 16 May 1933 · page 5

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 May 1933 · page 13

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank: for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended May 12, is at the rate of approximately £6/18/4 per…

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Miners' Com'tee Meeting Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 May 1933 · page 6

The Northern minors' committee of management will meet at the Trades Hall at 9.15 a.m. on Thursday, to discuss matters of an internal…

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Followed Gold Rushes Young

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 May 1933 · page 1

The death has occurred of Mrs. Margaret Haub, aged 80, who spent her early life following the gold rushes in New South Wales and…

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