Colliery Disaster. Three Rescue Parties Perish. 205 Fatalities Reported. London, Jan. 31
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 18
Five Europeans and 200 Indians are reported to have perished as a result of an underground fire in the Loyabad colliery, Jharla, Bihar, including three rescue parties…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Visiting Geologist. Interest in Opal Mining
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 16
Professor S. J. Shand, professor of geology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, who arrived in Sydney by the Anchtses yesterday, intends to have, to some extent, a "busman's…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 31
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 18
Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/9 an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/8 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Freight on Coal. Excessive Charges Alleged. Railways Criticised. Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 17
The president of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce (Mr. W. E. Alexander) has written to the Premier (Mr. Stevens), claiming that the establishment of a new coal shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →News From Many Mines Aberfoyle Tin May Pay 20 P.C.
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 9
The chairman of Aberfoyle Tin, N.L., Mr. A. D. Spiers, told shareholders at an extraordinary meeting called to sanction splitting of the shares that the profit for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ramadan Recovered His Lost Pace End of Section For Others Glenwitch Gold
Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 4
MORE than one punter who overlooked Ramadan in the second division of the Victoria Park Flying was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Fall in All Fijian Gold Scrip Loss In Value Of £2,500,000 MELBOURNE
The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 5
PRICES of leading Fijian gold shares, which have been falling since August, slumped heavily on the Stock Exchange…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dollar Drops. Talk of Inflation in U.S.A. Gold May Be Sent to Europe Washington, Jan. 31
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 17
The storm over the discussion of means of raising the approximately 3,000,000,000 dollars necessary to meet the cost of the war veterans' bonus and agricultural adjustment…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Disaster's Lesson Fires In Indian Coal Mines CALCUTTA
Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 18
THE fire and explosion at Loyabad colliery, in the Province of Bihar, in which five Britons and 32 Indians perished, is the culmination of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →HAD 2d in Cash Miner Lived Gay Life on Gold Mine Story Perth
The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 3
The effrontery of a man who ran up a big bill at the Hotel Adelphi, arranged to purchase a car for £525 with a cheque book got at the bank…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining New Occidental
Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 27
THESE at one stage caused much uneasiness, and prices touched 12 2. Bear attacks and Pitt-street rumors contributed to this condition more than…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Gold Shares Drop Melbourne
Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 18
FIJIAN gold shares continued to slump to-day, and the market is nervous. Emperor shares were sold at a record…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Mining Reports in Brief
Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 27
SWAN BITTER: In a first clean-up the new cyanide plant treated 838 tons for 107 oz. POMME D'OR: Crushed 150 tons for 32 oz…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →India Awakes To Mine Menace May Turn River Into Pits Calcutta
The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 5
It has now been learned that the total death-roll in the Loyabad colliery disaster at Jharia, Bihar, was five Britons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Cadgers Plausible Tale Told At Door Police on Trail
Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 22
THERE are oilier ways of getting gold than by digging it out of the ground, and they come easier, too. with a plausible tongue than with…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Half a Billion Bonus, But How to Pay It! U.S.A. Money Puzzle Inflation Fear Makes Gold More Valuable New Tax Burden To Raise The Wind WASHINGTON
The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 3
CONGRESS decided over the President's veto immediately to pay nearly [?]500,000,000 as a soldiers' bonus, but Congress fought shy of saying how this vast sum should be raised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price of Gold
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 11
The price of gold in London on Saturday was £7/1/ per ounce fine, compared with £7/0/9 on Friday.—(By cable.)…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Colliery Disaster. Drastic Measures Proposed. Calcutta, Feb. 2
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 10
The fire and explosion in the Loyabad colliery at Bihar, on Friday, in which five Britons and 32 Indians perished, is the culmination of a series of disasters in the past few years,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining the Share Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 11
Practically all classes of mining shares had a downward trend in Saturday's market. As selling pressure was less acute than on Friday, the movement in gold shares was not…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Seamen's Strike And the Miners' Threat
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 4
A few days ago it was reported from London that six cargoes of English and American coal for Australia have been arranged in consequence of the…
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