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Mining & the mines, 1935

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Coal Exports. Victoria's Big Shipment

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 4

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 41,100 tons, of which 1800 tons…

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News From Mines Copper Prices Lower

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 17

A fall in copper marked an otherwise featureless market in London on Thursday. Quotations, as cabled to the Australian Mines and Metals Association,…

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Gold, Dollar, Franc London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 9

The price of gold per ounce fine to-day was £7145, compared with £714 yesterday. The dollar was quoted at 4.87…

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Mining Exchanges. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 19

To-day's sales included:- Silver-lead: Broken Hill South, 75/6, 75/; Sulphide Corporation, ord., 6/3. Gold: Adelaide Mines Development, /6[?] /6;…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 19

The market for gold shares yesterday failed to consolidate the stronger tendency noted on the previous day. Western Australians made headway, but interstate advices militated…

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Wonthaggi Miners to Stop Work Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 8

The Wonthaggi State coal mine will cease work again on Monday, when stop-work meeting will discuss the deadlock in the dispute over…

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Wongawilli Mine Dispute Conference Called Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 8

To discuss the dispute at Wongawilli Colliery, which arose over the dismissal of a weighman, a compulsory conference was last night covened by the…

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Gold Rush at Batlow Inspector Makes Report

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 12

A report has been received-by the Minister for Mines, Mr. Vincent, from the Chief inspector of Mines. Mr Farrier, on an…

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Industrial News Sth. Bulli Colliery to Resume Rationing System Abolished Agreement Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 8

WOLLONGONG, Friday. FOLLOWING agreement yesterday between the parties for the abolition of the rationing system…

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Power Supply Bellambi Coal Co. Seeks to Extend Area

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 6

The first application under the recent Act to limit the activities of private power supply companies was granted yesterday by the Minister for…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 18

The price of gold to-day was £7/1/4[?] an ounce fine, compared with £7/1/4 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day…

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Financial. the Price of Gold. Is It Artificial? Effect of Currency Changes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 19

When gold is the monetary standard its price is fixed bv the simple, but necessary, expedient of fixing the number of coins that will be minted from a given quantity of gold…

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Would Have Revealed Who Max Gold Was Before Race "Smith's" Scheme For Registration Of Racing Stables

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 8

THE need for something like "Smith's" suggestion of a registration of all racing stables and their inmates was further emphasised when Max Gold, the winner of a recent Sydney 14.1 pony race, was found to be identical with a horse named Bush Lad, who had won races in the country…

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Mining Disputes. Steel Mills Suspend Operations. BETWEEN 600 AND 700 Men Idle. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 17

Owing to the strike at the Wongawilli colliery and the consequent shortage of coke supplies, the Australian Iron and Steel, Ltd., will close its blast furnace. While it is…

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Phenomenally Rich Gold Deposit Opened Up In W.A. New Rush to the Golden West Romantic Tales Of Poverty And Affluence

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 10

THERE is a new rush in the Golden West--that for a selection in the gold seeking campaign under the Federal grant of £50,000 for gold-mining. Recent instances of Fortune's favors have hastened the…

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Gold Teeth of Old Romans Are Revealed. Excavators Find Skeletons 2,000 Years Old With "Modern" Dental Treatment. Naples, December 12

Italo-Australian · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 1

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SPORT and Sportsmen Noted Jockey Works in a Mine, But Not Because He's Broke G. R. Robinson, Who Rode Rogilla To Victory In His Only Cup Triumphs, Is a Trojan Back in the Saddle in the City Again

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 8

WINNER of two of Australia's biggest races, the Caulfield Cup and the Sydney Cup, within a period of six months, Bob (G. R.) Robinson, jockey, was back working as a pit boy in a mine less than six months after those triumphs. People at Newcastle who saw him in his blackened clothes believed that he had gone…

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Mining

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1935 · page 21

CULLENGORAL: The ordinary shares touched 32/6. A report on the property is overdue. NEW LUCKNOW: Early in the week…

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Gold-diggers Of Russia Do Well LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 27 January 1935 · page 5

Russia is finding salvation in her gold production, states the Moscow correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian."…

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Addition to Official List. Pomme d'Or Gold Mining Co. N.L.

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 3

Authorised capital: £20,000 in 200,000 shares of 2/. Subscribed capital: 175,000 shares fully paid…

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