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Mining & the mines, 1935

4,579 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 229

Gold and the Exchanges London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 7

Gold was priced at £722 12 per ounce fine to-day. Id less than yesterday. Dollars were exchanged at 4.88 3-16…

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Pending Ballot W.A. Miners May Work PERTH

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 10

The Chamber of Mmes has been officially informed that the miners desire to return to work for six weeks, pending a ballot on the question of…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 14

The price of gold to-day was £7/2/2½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/2/3 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day…

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The Great Mystery of Gold Price Rising, Use Declining !

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 6

ABOUT five years ago a systematic canvass began for the purchase of any kind of old jewellery which bore a hallmark certifying to the percentage of…

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News From Mines Lakekamu Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 16

The legal manager of Lakekamu Goldfields advises that two special light-power drilling plants were despatched to Papua on February 2. One white driller, with…

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Grant for Gold Mining

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 8

The Minister for Mines, Mr. R. S. Vincent, said yesterday that the amount allotted to New South Wales by the Federal Government from the…

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Gold Mining. "Grant of £42,500. Minister Explains Purposes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 15

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent) yesterday disclosed details of the Commonwealth giant of £42,500 to New South Wales for the stimulation of the mining industry…

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£55,000 To Aid Gold-Diggers £5000 for Goal Miners Out of Work

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 10

OF the £42,500 Federal Government grant to assist gold-mining in New South Wales, £17,500 will be used to…

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Bulolo Gold Dredging

The Sun · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 4

During January total gross production by Buiole Gold Dredging, Limited, from dredges Nos. 1. 2, 3. and 4, amounted to 16,222 ounces of bullion, containing 11,199…

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Curnows Tin Mines, N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 13

Curnows Tin Mines, N.L. which is working at Torrington, New South Wales, reports that at present the net profit is about £600 a month, including; the tin just recovered. A…

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Mine Workers Re-engaged. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 12

Twelve former employees of the State min[?] the majority of them miners, have been reengaged. This brings the total complement os the colliery to about 360. The men are being…

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Go by 'Plane Inspect Mines Pilots Busy

The Sun · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 30

MINING men spend much of their time going down into the earth. Now they also spend a good deal of it going up into the…

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Mine Inspection (Continued from Page 30) TENTERFIELD

The Sun · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 19

Pilot Pat Hall's Percival Gull 'plane arrived at Tenterfleld at 8.30 a.m. After n hurried breakfast his passengers drove 32 miles to Inspect a…

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Owners Give Way When Miners Starve BUCHAREST, Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 1

AFTER a 38 hours' hunger strike, 387 miners in the Rashitsa Mine, who had threatened to starve themselves to death, won their point, the owners…

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Mining Grant Assistance to Approved Enterprises

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 7

OF the £42,000 Federal Government grant to assist gold-mining in New South Wales, £17,800 will be used to subsidise mine-owners, companies, and…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 33

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 12

The price of gold to-day was £7/2/4 an ounce fine, compared with £7/2/2½ yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES…

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£250,000 Mine Offer Story Theft Charge Winnecke Lease Alice Springs

The Sun · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 19

"NATURALLY not," replied a miner in the Supreme Court to-day, when asked whether he had…

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Oil From Coal. 30,000,000 Gallons a Year. LONDON, Feb. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 11

The "Daily Hciald" says: "By midsummer the petrol plant of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd, will be producing oil from coal at the rate of 30,000,000 gallons a year,…

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Mining Investors' Guide Market Values Sandy Creek At £105,917

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 16

Though Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing, Ltd., was not registered until January 31, the company was called unofficially on the Sydney Stock Exchange on February 4, and since then the shares have been the medium of extensive trading, "stagging" being…

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Two Men Charged. Alleged' Gold Stealing From Central Australian Claim. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Alice Springs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 15

Norman Crowther and Jacob Maurer were charged in the Supreme-Court at Alice Springs to-day with having stolen five pounds (weight) of gold, the property of Lawrence Garland,…

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