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Mining & the mines, 1936

4,419 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 221

Unlisted Mining Shares

The Sun · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 6

Boulder Perseverance, [?] 5s 3d, s 5s 4d, Lake View and Star, [?] 29s 6d, s 30s 3d; Nth. Kalgurll, b 21s, s 21s 3d; Paringa, b 3s 11d, s 4s; Gold Mines of Papua, s 12s;…

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Gold Basis Rise Geneva

The Sun · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 17

League statistics snow that the gold value of world trade in 1935 showed an increase over the previous year for the first time since…

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Gold, Dollar, Franc London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 7

The price of gold to-day was £710½ an ounce fine, an increase of 2½d on yesterday's price. The dollar was quoted at 4.99 to the £…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 13

Business of small dimensions was transacted in the mining share market yesterday, and price variations were generally of small magnitude. In the gold section, active…

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Mine Tragedy. Sulphuretted Hydrogen. Given Off by Water. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 15

Further details of the tragedy yesterday at the Golden West mine at Kunanalling, when three men lost their lives in an old shaft containing foul air, reveal that apparently two…

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Oil From Coal. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 7

Sir,—Mr. Mark B. Young's continued advocacy of production of oil from shale, despite the loss of public money in the company of which he was a director formed for that…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/1/0½ an ounce, compared with £7/0/10 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted…

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Off to Islands Conrad Sails Seek for Gold Auckland

The Sun · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 23

AFTER a brief stay in which the vessel acquired a new mate, a Sydney man, and shipped three New Zealand…

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Bustard for the St. Leger Gold Rod To Beat Fidelity

Referee · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 3

THE manner in which the race is run is likely to have marked hearing on the result of the V.R.C. St. Leger…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Return of Capital Standard Cement Cement Co.'s Capital

The Sun · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 6

A proposal to reduce the capital of Standard Portland Cement Co., Ltd., from £500,000 in £1 shares (of which 499,257 have been issued and…

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Gold Mine Shows Promise. Gulgong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 5

Mr. C. Bennett and a party of four men have secured 56 ounces of gold at the Three Mile, near Gulgong since last Monday week Their shaft is sunk to a depth of about 14ft,…

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Caledonian Collieries Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 13

Directors of Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., announce that, while the volume of trade for the year ended December 31 showed an improvement, keen competition and…

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Southern Miners’ Delegate

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 2

The citizens of Dapto are preparing a send-off to Prank Revitt, southern district miners’ representative, who is to leave for the Soviet Union. The farewell…

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Caledonian Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 10

Caledonian Collieries, Limited, announce that while the volume of trade for the year ended December 21 showed an improvement, keen competition and unsatisfactory…

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Fijian Gold Discovery

The Labor Daily · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 13

"IT was never expected that gold would be found in Fiji." said the Rev. R. L. McDonald, chairman of the Fiji District of the Methodist…

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Tavua Gold Developments

The Sun · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 3

Reporting to Tavua Gold Developments, Ltd., on completion of the first stage of the geological survey of the Tavua, goldfield, Dr. L. Hills states that the significance of…

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Gold Basis Assessing Duty

The Sun · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 8

"Australia is the only country in the world which values goods for duty in a currency other than its own, that is, in sterling," declared the…

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Mining Exchanges. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 13

To-day's sales included:- Copper: Mount Lyell, 25/6. Silver-lead: Barrier South, 2/7, 2/6, 2/8; North Broken Hill, £8/4/, £8/3/; Zinc Corp., ord., 74/9;…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 13

Prices of gold shares in the mining share market yesterday showed signs of relaxing, and many important counters were traded at concessions. Placer Development changed…

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Against Small Mines Co-operation with Unemployed

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 3

NEWCASTLE.—At the meeting of the northern district board of management of the Miners’ Federation, two representatives of the…

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