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Mining & the mines, 1934

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"Limited Life" Wonthaggi Mine Men Warned Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 13

A serious warning that the Wonthaggi coal field has a limited life, and that, inevitably, substantial losses must continue, is contained in…

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£6000 Gold Bar Stolen Replaced By Cement

The World's News · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 16

QNE of the most astonishing robberies of recent times—and one of the cleverest—is revealed by the disappearance of a gold bar worth about £6000…

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Wonthaggi Mine Has Justified Itself, Says Expert Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 8

Stoppages at Wonthaggi coal mine have caused a direct loss which has considerably increased the cost of inining, stated Mr. Robert Lee a New…

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Coal From Newcastle. First Quarter Values £444,000

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 8

Details of coal shipments to oversea and interstate destinations from the port of Newcastle during the first quarter of 1934,…

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Gold Shares. Rapid Price Changes in Heavy Dealings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 14

Though the Stock Exchange has come to accept activity in gold shares as a normal concition the market experianced a busie day yesterday than usual. Each of the three…

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Oil From Coal. Lyon Brothers' Process. "Claims Not Extravagant."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 13

An expert committee appointed by the State Government yesterday reported to the Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent) that the claims made by Messrs. Lyon brothers, of Newcastle, about…

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Northern Coal Is Suitable Experiments' Show Satisfactory Results HYDROGENATION

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 6

THE final report of the committee set up by the Government to investigate and report on the coal treatment experiments of…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, May 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 14

The price of gold to-day was £6/15/11½ an ounce fine, compared w[?]h £6/15/8 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day…

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Mount Lyell Mines Basic Wage Rate Reduced by 2/11 Per Week

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 20

At Melbourne last Friday the Full Bench of the Federal Arbitration Court granted the application of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company for…

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Remarkable Boom In Gold Stock Trading Record Business on Change

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 7

INTENSE buying of gold stocks over a period of weeks culminated yesterday in the most liveliest trading in mining…

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Miners of N.Z. Taking the Lead Offensive Against Niemeyer Plan in Dominion Wages Fight

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 6

JUST as the Workers in Australia have set their face steadfastly against the Niemeyer policy and are determined to have its devastating…

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Goldfields Loyal To Federation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 1

KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--Kalgoorlie Municipal Council last night passed a resolution urging that, if secession were granted…

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Leaves of Hansard (No.5)--by Asher A. Joel the Drama of Gold !N Australia Dispute As to First Discovery Sacking Nature's Store-houses Hargraves a Bushman's Naivete

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 4

At a time interest in gold mining, due to the phenomenal price of gold,is being revived, I am loth to pass over a holly-contested debate which shook the Parliament of December 2, 1891, as to whether it was E. H. Hargraves who first discovered gold in payable [?]…

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Gold Aid Stevens Tells Mining Bill Schools' Milk

The Sun · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 20

ANNOUNCING in the Legislative Assembly today that it was intended to amend legislation…

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Mine Hero

The Sun · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 1

Joe Staplcton, who rescued his workmate, Jack Lynch, from a nest of burning fuses in the New Red, White and Blue Mine at Bendigo (Vic.)…

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Gold Boom

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 1

For the first time in the history of the Stock Exchange, pressure of business yesterday forced the abandonment of the midday call for…

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Hilltop Gold

The Sun · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 27

The mine manager of Hilltop Gold, N.L., reports in respect of the week ended April 28: No. 1 tunnel (cross-cut) driven to 427 ft., last 23ft. of drive through heavy…

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Australian Gold

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 3

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended April 27, is at the…

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Gold, Dollar, Franc

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 8

LONDON, Wednesday.--The price of gold per ounce fine to-day was £6163 12, compared with £61511 12 yesterday. The dollar was quoted at…

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Grains of Gold

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 12

IT is an unbearable thing to see how we receive so many graces and blessings from God and afterwards are so insensible of them, and so negligent in…

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