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Mining & the mines, 1936

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Gold, Dollar. Frang London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 7

The price of gold to-day was £706 an ounce fine, compared with £708 Saturday. The dollar was quoted at 6.01 9-16 to the £ sterling, and the…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 13

A strengthening movement developed in gold shares in yesterday's market. The Western Australian and Fijian concerns, which had been depressed lately, made a recovery, Fiji…

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Mining Exchanges. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 13

To day's sales included:— Silver-lead Broken Hill South, £5/14/6, £5/14/ Zinc Corporation ord., 71/. Gold: Associated Northern Ora Banda (paid)…

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Milk Picnic Miners' Day Out CESSNOCK

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 13

Milk, not beer, will be the beverage at the Aberdare Miners' Lodge picnic to Taronga Park on Sunday week. Seven hundred and fifty bottles…

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Non-union Miners. Campaign for Boycott. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 12

Efforts are being made to organise, on the northern coalfields, a boycott of all nonunionists and to strengthen the Miners' Federation campaign against small mines…

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Gold Output Worth Over £8,000,000

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 10

Australian gold production in 1935 was estimated at 915,944oz. fine, against 888,558oz. fine in the previous year. At £815 an oz., the product…

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W.a. Miners Strike B.h.p. Victimisation Tactics

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 3

KALGOORLIE, February 2.—The workers of the Hannan’s North Mine are on strike against victimisation of one of their mates…

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Southern Miners' Protest Violation of Old Practice Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 6

A strong protest was voiced at today's meeting of the Southern Miners' Delegate Board at the action of the management at Mt. Kembla and Mt. Keira collieries in…

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Red Square on May Day! Several Miners Will Be There

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

The New South Wales workers will be well represented in Moscow next May Day. The coalminers are very prominent in this respect…

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Missing Teacher Gold Searcher's Theory of His Whereabouts

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 8

Back from conducting an expedition in the search for gold in the country where Mr. Ellis Rankin, a school teacher, is now. missing,Mr. Stan…

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Unions Must Act Against Small Mines Deputation Gets No Satisfaction

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 3

The conference with the N.S.W. Minister for Mines bringing no concrete result in curbing the activities of the small non-union mines, the next step by the workers is to put Into operation the resolutions carried throughout the coalfields for…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/6 an ounce fine. compared with £7/0/8 on Saturday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day…

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Freighter Battered by Gales Limped Into Port On Last Of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 4

THE British freighter Anglo-Saxon limped into Sydney yesterday short of coal, after fighting her way through…

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Gold Gain £8,000,000 Rise in N.S.W. CANBERRA

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 17

Australia's gold production last year, according to official figures issued to-day, amounted to 917,262 fine…

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£2000 Weekly Strike Levy Planned NEARLY 500 More Men Out in South Three Mines Are Stopped

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 7

PRELIMINARIES to finance Port Kembla strike with a minimum income of, £2000 a week were launched yesterday…

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Slow and Uneven Recovery in Europe. Difficulties of "Gold Bloc" Countries. British Attitude to Stabilisation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 12

Economie events in Europe during the past year have been completely overshadowed by political developments, but that by no means implies that they have been either unimportant in themselves or in their…

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Metrop. Colliery

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 6

The compulsory conference regarding the dispute at the Metropolitan colliery. Helensburgh, was resumed yesterday before Mr. Justice Cantor in the Industrial…

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Excelsior Collieries, Ltd: Shareholders' Meeting Adjourned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 15

At a meeting of Excelsior Collieries and Coke Works, Ltd., held yesterday to consider the directors' proposal for voluntary liquidation, the shareholders were informed that the…

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Miners' Council Meets

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 6

Domestic matters were discussed at the opening session yesterday of the annual meeting of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation. The council is faced…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 15

MOUNT LYELL CO., LTD.—Fortnight ended February 5: Ore extraction: NOrth Mount Lyell mine, 4305 tons; Crown Lyell mine, 708 tons: Royal Tharsis mine, 2205 tons; West Lyell mine, 11,723…

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