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Mining & the mines, 1934

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Gold Honor Is Smart Galloper

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 1

REAPPEARING after an absence from the race track of nearly three months, Gold Honor failed to show up…

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Mining Exchanges. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 15

To-day's sales included:- Sliver-lead: Zinc Corporation, ord., 40/, 39/9. Gold: Anglo-Australian, 11/6, 11/4; Apex, 1/5, 1/6; Bird in Hand, 3/3, 3/4; Boulder…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 15

The market for gold shares was comparatively subdued yesterday but business was well spread, and, in some instances, heavy. Prices showed a disposition to steady, and…

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No Hope for Entombed Miners Berlin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 1

EIGHTY -SIX miners were entombed in a potash mine at Baggingen near Karisruhe, when a fire broke out…

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Mt. Isa Mines To Issue 3rd Debentures

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 10

Mt. Isa Mines, Ltd., proposes to proceed with the development of its sulphide ores, and to create £500,000 sterling of third…

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No Scheme for the Miners Premier Asks Baddeley to Make One

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 8

Apparently the Premier has no scheme for absorbing surplus miners in other avenues of employment. In the Legislative Assembly…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 14

The price of gold to-day was £6/16/1 an ounce fine, compared with £ 6/16/2 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day…

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Trapped Two Miles Under Earth Miner in Fall of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 1

TWO miles from the tunnel mouth, Alec Marr, miner, was trapped in a fall of coal in the Excelsior Mine, in the heart…

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Gold Mining Revival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 8

The fact that gold has recently about doubled its value in Australian currency has the same effect as would follow from the discovery of new mining fields…

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Left Art to Seek Gold at 16, Is Now Part-owner of Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 6

AT 16, Bert Cornwell, of Hurstville, was studying art under Syd. Long, but he had no job…

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Finding Jobs Unemployed Miners

The Sun · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 23

In reply to Mr. Davies (Lab., Illawarra), who pointed out that the Mount Pleasant coalmine had definitely closed down, leaving the…

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Grains of Gold

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 12

THE devotions we practise in honor of the glorious Virgin Mary, however trifling they may be, are very pleasing to her Divine Son, and He rewards them…

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Tingha Gold Recoveries

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 18

After providing £ 73 for depreciation, Tingha Tin. N.L., operating a gold mine at Wood's Point, Victoria, Incurred a loss of £3329 for the 12 months ended December…

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Coal Contracts. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 10

At a public meeting last night a committee was appointed to airante a deputation to the Government to urge that rontnets for the supply of coal to the railway should be drawn…

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Support Given to Miners Waterside Workers

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 4

Following addresses by Messrs. P. C. Webb and J. O'Brien, Ms.P. (New Zealand). the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation…

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News From Mines Peninsula Tin Area

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 18

Negotiations with Langsuen Tin Dredging, Ltd., for the purchase by Peninsula Tin, N.L., Slam, of the former company's No[?] Hoot property have been completed, and…

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Gold, Franc, Dollar London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 12

The price of gold per oz. fine to-day was £61511 12, compared with £6162 yesterday. The dollar was quoted at [?] yesterday) and…

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Mining Exchanges. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 11

To-day's sales included:- Silver lead North Broken Hill, 93/6. Gold; Anglo Australian, 11/2; Apex, 1/5, 1/6; Bird in Hand, 3/6; Boulder Perseverance, 4/8½;…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 11

Several days' "shaklng-out" had left the market for gold shares on a steadier footing yesterday. Fluctuations were mainly of a light order. Activity had lessened considerably,…

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Commonwealth Mining and Finance, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 11

Our London couespondent cables that the underwriting having been completed, the prospectus will be issued next week of the Commonwealth Mining and Finance, Ltd, which…

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