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Mining & the mines, 1934

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Activity In Gold And Tin Scrip Continues Speculative Gold Stocks Are Sought

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 11

Heavy buying of gold and tin stocks, particularly of the former, monopolised dealings on Change yesterday, activity in…

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Mining Exchanges. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 17

To-day's sales included:— Copper: Mount Ly[?]ll, 23/9. Silver-lead: Barrier South, /7[?] North Broken Hill, 92/6…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 17

Intense activity in gold and tin shares continued in yesterday's investment market. The turnover in the gold section was even heavier than on Thursday. Gains were less…

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Claims for Vic. Coal in Hydrogenation Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 6

In connection with the hydrogenation plant for extracting off from coal, the Electricity Commission is pressing for consideration by the…

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Tonnage Rates for Coal-cutting Machines. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 16

As a result of coal-cutting machines having been introduced at Helensburgh colliery, a conference took place between the miners' representatives and the management to discuss the…

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Mineral Output ' for 1933 Coal Drops in Value

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 6

The completed statement of the mineral production of New South Wales for 1933, released yesterday by the Minister for Mipcs. Mr. Vincent…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold London. April 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 16

The price of gold to-day was £6/15/1 an ounce fine compared with £6/14/8 yesteiday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip High Price for Tin B. Philp (S. Sea) Strong Tin Market

The Sun · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 2

Advice from the London representative of "The Sun" reports that yesterday's advance in the price of tin raised the quotation to the highest…

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Does Salvation of the Coal Industry Lie in Hydrogenation? Main Difficulty Is Selling By-Products Excessive Plant Costs Will Not Help

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 11

ONCE again the old, old question of "doing something" for the coal industry has been revived, this time not at the request of vested interests, but…

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Gilt-edged Securities Gold Toenails

The Sun · Sunday 8 April 1934 · page 47

HELP! shrieks Molllie Merrick. I can't stand it. The latest Hollywood fad is having gold toenails. Not just glided ones, mind you--gold…

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All About Gold: How It Operates Mechanics of the Exchange Are Explained

The Sun · Sunday 8 April 1934 · page 14

I once saw a bank-clerk in Samboanga refuse to change a sovereign (which he had never seen before) into Philippine…

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A Lost Gold Mine Officials Interested

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 5

Officials of the Department of Minces interviewed during the week-end could not recall the Cedar Cutters' gold mine, which…

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Are These Worth the Money? Caledonian Collieries, Ltd

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 12

Capital: Preference £464,295, ordinary £ 1,023,599. Reserves: £98,057. Pref. backing, £383 per fully paid 20…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Saturday at £6/14/7 per ounce fine, our correspondent cables, a fall of /6 on the day…

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A Gold Boom

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 8

The increasing activity of business in gold shares reported from day to day in our commercial columns has now reached a point at which the Stock…

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Japan's Price Op Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 11

Our Tokyo correspondent cables that Japan's official purchase price for gold was advanced on Saturday from 2.65 yen to 2.95 yen per gram…

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W.a. Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 11

Our Perth correspondent telegraphs that the gold yield for Western Austialia for March was 45,899 ounces, valued at £194,969, which was 5969 ounces below that of February, and…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 11

Extreme activity in gold and tin shares, with consequent heavy transactions, continued in the mining share market on Saturday. The advance in the price of tin on the London…

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Wagga Gold Cup Weights Wagga

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 6

weights for the Wagga Diamond Jubilee Gold Cup, 1½ mile, were declared to-day a follows: -- Closing Time 11.2, Lightning March 9.12. Persian 9.11, Australia Fair 9.3,…

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Miners' Levy for Wonthaggi Abermain Protests on Anomalies

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1934 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Sunday.--At a meeting of Abermain No. 2 miners, held today, it was decided to pay the levy for the Wonthaggi miners of 2½…

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