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Mining & the mines, 1934

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Associated Gold's Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 11

During the month of February, our Kalgoorlie correspondent telegraphs, Associated Gold Mines produced 3957 tons. Revenue was £11,919 and expenditure £7122, including…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 11

MORUYA GOLD MINES N.L.—The first crushing of 70 tons has yielded a net result of 38½oz of gold, apart from 11 to 12 oz estimated to be still on plates. Sands have not yet been treated…

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Coal Barter Deals. Previous Successes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 5

Having proved successful last year, two coal barter deals are to be repeated. Both are being carried out by Welsh firms, one to go to…

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Price of Gold London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 8

The price of gold is £6168 an ounce fine. The dollar is 5.081, and the franc 77.14…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 11

Apart from a very moderate improvement in some of tile lower-priced tin stocks, the mining share market yesterday was unchanged. The hinher-priced tin shares were still…

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Protracted Dispute at Mine Indicated Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 6

There is every indication that the dispute at the State coal mine at Wonthaggl over the dismissal of ten men will be protracted…

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Theft of Gold. Capetown. March 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 9

Bar gold weighing 936 ounces consigned from Bulawayo, Rhodesia, to London had disappeared. When an undamaged box was opened on…

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Movie Gossip "Gold Digers" Song Hits

The Biz · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 3

Three hundred beautiful girls, in myriads of glories; 5 wonderful song-hits; seven sumptuous spectacles. Rich in sang; mighty in splendour! Words…

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Mine Romance Mt. Isa Carved Out of Rush

The Sun · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 9

Nature makes a habit of hiding her richest mineral treasures in barren, inaccessible spots where only by a lucky chance are they…

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New Collier. For the Wallarah Coal Company

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 4

An order has been placed with the shipbuilding firm of Messrs. Henry Robb & Co. by the Wallarah Coal Co. for a steel screw steamer of 1600 tons,…

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Cessnock Coal Oil Proposal. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 10

Four months' suspension of labour conditions on leases covering 32,000 acres of coalbearing land near Cessnock was granted Albert Andrew Holland, mining agent, of…

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The Moving Picture Show Great Gold Racket

The Sun · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 8

Robbers who got into the vaults of the U.S. Treasury made off with a number of large bars of imitation gold which were kept to show to…

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19 Natives Slaughtered in Search for Gold

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 1

Nineteen New Guinea natives were killed and seventeen were wounded on Feb. 22 in a fight with a police party which was stated to be…

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Mysterious Disappearance Of Box Of Gold LONDON

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 1

THE South African police are co-operating with Scotland Yard in an attempt to solve the mystery of a sealed box containing gold valued at…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, March 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 9

The price of gold to-day was £6/16/8 an ounce fine, compared with £6/16/10 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES…

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Back to Wyalong Pioneers Revisit Scene of Gold Rush

The Land · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 12

The "Back to Wyalong Goldfields Week" opened on Wednesday, when a start was made with a big programme of entertainments…

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Oil From Coal Conference Deputation to Mr. Lyons Kurrai

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 7

The question of the extraction of oil from coal was explained to a conference of public bodies last night by Mr. G. Lyon, of…

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All Is Not Gold, Etc. Said Sadder, Wiser Thief Washington

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 1

BARS of gold worth £6000 coolly carried off from the U.S. Treasury! How the thieves who worked that…

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Action Mining Fields Hopeful Note Lyons to Tell Canberra

The Sun · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 13

WITH a message of hope for the coal miners of N.S.W., the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) will visit the…

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Vic. Mine Stoppage Explained Direct Attack On The Miners' Federation WONTHAGGI

The Labor Daily · Saturday 10 March 1934 · page 7

THE Central Executive of the Miners' Federation, in a statement issued yesterday, stated that, the present dispute at Wonthaggi…

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