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Mining & the mines, 1934

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 11

[?] was quoted in London on Saturday £6/15/8 per ounce fine, our correspondent [?], a rise of /5½ on the day…

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Coal Gas for Automobiles

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 11

The Wallasey Gas Authority, Cheshire, has decided to instal plant at the gas works for the supply of compressed gas for fuel for internal combustion engines. Gas under a…

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Coal From Kent. Belgian Order

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 3

The report that the Belgian State Railways have ordered 20,000 tons of English coal is interesting on account of the fact…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 11

Gold shares retained a proportionate degree of activity in the week-end mining share market on Saturday. Among the best-class issues, Bulolo and Placer Development retur[?]ed to…

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Oil From Coal. Newnes Committee Report

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 5

It was suggested by the Newnes Investigation Committee that a company with a capital of £600,000 should be formed for the…

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Many Killed In Mine Tragedy BELGRADE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 8

It is feared that from 80 to 150 lives were lost in an explosion of firedamp wrecking a whole gallery in the Kakani coalmine, near…

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Explosion Kills 150 Men In Mine BELGRADE

The Labor Daily · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 1

IT is feared that 150 miners were killed by an explosion in the Jugoslavian it State coal mine at Kakanj, in the State of Bosnia. Eighty bodies have been…

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Letters Workless Miners. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 6

Sir,—The "Back to the Land" movement will get malignant criticism and not fair comment or support fiom Labour papers or Lang plan politicians. The practical and worthy…

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Gold Medal. Award of the Lifeboat "V.C."

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 5

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has awarded its gold medal to the late Coxswain Robert Patton, of Runswick, Yorkshire,…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Standard Trust, Ltd. Investments Investment Trust's Problems

The Sun · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 4

For the Standard Trust, Ltd.--formerly the Melbourne Trust, Ltd.-- conditions throughout 1933 "caused the directors great perplexity and…

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No Rest Gold on Move to Leave U.S.A. Aid for Dollar Washington

The Sun · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 1

NOW that the flow of gold into the United States has ceased, there is every prospect of it going abroad…

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147 Bodies Recovered After Mine Disaster Women's Agonising Vigil Songs of Death Serbian Horror Miraculous Escape Belgrade

The Sun · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 1

WIVES, mothers and children of the many scores of miners entombed by an explosion in a colliery at Kekanj, near Sarajevo, spent last night at the pithead, singing "death songs" as 147 corpses were brought…

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Arnheim Land Gold

The Sun · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 4

Directors of Arnheim Land Gold Development, N.L., have received a telegram from the chairman of directors (Mr. J. Bailey), reading: "Goods shed Darwin burnt last…

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Guinea Gold Areas

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 12

A brief preliminary report has been received by the secretary of Guinea Gold, from the company's field representative in New Guinea, Mr. P. Nason Jones, advising…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 11

GOLDFN PLATEAU. N.L.: East drive off main east drive at 600ft; started on 8ft quartz, value 2dwt. Main east drive in rhyoute; all stoping from tunnel level and north crosscuts off east…

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Queensland Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 11

The Queensland gold yield for March was 11,807 fine ounces, valued at (standard) £50,153, compared with 4758 fine ounces, valued at £20,211, for March, 1933. The yield…

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Dutch Coal for Italy

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 3

By a recently approved trade, agreement, the Italian Government will buy coal from Holland, possibly at the expense of her…

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Leadville Mine Dispute. Dunedoo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 10

The Mount Stewart mine at Leadville is still [?], and there appears to be no prospect of an immediate settlement of the dispute. There is sufficient ore already mined to keep…

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Miners Have Victory WASHINGTON

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 8

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT tonight appealed to 50,000 striking coal miners to resume work, as General Johnson,…

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News From Mines Dewatering Lancefield

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 12

The managing director of Lancefield (W.A.) Gold Mine. N.L. reports that the main shaft, which had practically collapsed from 50ft. below the surface down…

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