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Mining & the mines, 1934

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 17

ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN GOLD DEVELOPMENT LIMITED.—Beryl Mine: No. 2 diamond drill bore[?] hole at Harbour View mine reached 283ft. Mo. 3 diamond drill borehole on Gem mine reached 256ft…

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Price of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 8

LONDON, Friday.--The price of gold to-day was £6165 an ounce fine. The dollar was at 5.09½, and the franc at 77[?]…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 8

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

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Western Deep Leads Gold

The Sun · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 8

Mr. E. D. Aboud has Joined the directorate at Western Deep Leads Gold Development, N.L…

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Gold As Cure for Rheumatism

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 5

A FEW months ago cables announced that startling cures of rheumatism had been made by the use of gold injections…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 17

After the spasm of interest in tin shares earlier in the week, gold shares again received most attention in the mining share market yesterday. Weakness developed in the tin…

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Deadlock at Wonthaggi Miners' Request Refused Wonthaggi

The Labor Daily · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 6

The deadlock in the mining dispute was intensified to-day when the miners were informed that the Minister for Railways would not…

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Coal Trucks Off Rails Trains Delayed on Mountain Line

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 7

PENRITH, Friday.--Nine trucks, each loaded with 35 tons of coal, broke away from a goods train at Hazelbrook station at 4.45 this…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, March 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 16

The price of gold to-day was £6/16/5 an ounce fine, compared with £6/16/4 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES…

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Coal-box Is His Bed Quaint Ways of a Pet Pussy

The Labor Daily · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 9

MY PET is a cat, a black and white cat, with such a delightful little pink nosel His name is John Buchan, and he…

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"Don't Go Down the Mine, Daddy" Let the Dividends Come Up To You

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 6

WHO is the brains behind the Nationalist Party? Who is the brains behind the Employers' Federation?…

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Cyclone's Toll Now 79 LIVES Camp Of Miners Marooned And Starving S.O.S. Message Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 1

THE latest estimate of the death-roll, as the result of the cyclone is 79. The list of boats lost and the number of…

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Public Forces Stevens To Back-Down Payments to Miners Restored Food To Be Issued To Mothers And Children VOLTE-FACE

The Labor Daily · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 6

PANICSTRICKEN at the widespread public resentment which followed the penalising of the wives and children of…

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Another Of Bill Kelso's Rare Bargains Misnomer Dirt Cheap at 50 GNS. "Put Your Thou, on Gigandra and Make a Market for Mine Beverage Was a Decent "Buy"

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 11

BILL KELSO doesn't make a habit of throwing money away. SOMETIMES there's wonderment when he goes out of his way to get hold of a galloper, but invariably his…

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Big Cigar for the Bookmakers Havana Not Gold Leaf For Punters MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 18 March 1934 · page 20

Gay Gipsy is a flying machine, but unfortunately races are not run over three furlongs. The Western Australian filly was all the rage for…

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Price Op Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 11

[?] quoted in London on Saturday at £6/16/6 per ounce fine, our correspondent cables, a rise of /1 on the day…

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Moruya Gold Sands

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 12

The mine manager of Moruya Gold reports that stoping has been continued at 130ft. and 300ft. levels. [?]nds from the last crushing assay 1[?]½dwt. to the ton…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 8

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

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Gold Find at Rockley

The Labor Daily · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 1

According to the Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent), gold mining on a large scale is being commenced at Rockley, 22 miles…

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Marine Insurance. the Gold Rush

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 3

Early in February, when President Roosevelt devalued the dollar to 59 cents and fixed the price of gold at 35 dollars per fine ounce, a flood of gold which had fled from America last year, returned to that country to a total of…

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