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Mining & the mines, 1936

4,419 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 221

Challenge of Miners to Lyons Intend To Call His Bluff On Oil From Coal NEWCASTLE

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 6

DECLARING that the Northern Miners' Federation was determined to call the Prime Minister's bluff over the attitude of the Federal…

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Tyalgum Coal Satisfactory. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 9

It was reported by Alderman A. K. Black to Murwillumbah Municipal Council that coal was being successfully mined at Tyalgum. He understood a 6ft 6in seam was being worked…

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Victorian Dispute Move to Withdraw Union Men From Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A move to have all union labor withdrawn from Sunbeam colliery, Korumburra, will be considered by the industrial…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 13

Interest in gold stocks on the mining share market was more diversified on Saturday and the general trend of values indicated a tendency toward steadiness. Slight recovery was…

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Big Bell Mine. Agreement with American Company. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 12

Mr. Dale L. Pitt, general manager of the Premier Gold Mining Company, a subsidiary of the American Smelting and Refining Co., said to-day that the premier company was…

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Oil From Coal. British Company's Patents. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 12

Sir Frederick Stewart, M.P., in the course of his report on unemployment, presented to the House of Representatives, suggested that an early approach be made to Synthetic…

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Mine Fire Bellbird Idle Sealing Off Fumes Spread Cessnock

The Sun · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 7

FIRE has broken out in the Bellbird Colliery. The mine is idle to-day and fumes, coming from the fan-shaft,…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, March 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 12

Gold was quoted on Saturday at £7/1/1 an ounce fine, unchanged from the previous day. 'PLANE FOR KINO OF IRAQ…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Woolworths' Prosperity Austn. Iron & STEEL Woolworths' Increased Div. & Bonus

The Sun · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 5

After deduction of all working expenses and provision for depreciation, Woolworths, Ltd., discloses in its accounts for the 12 months ended…

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Wildcat Mining Companies N.Z. Govt. Will Act Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 March 1936 · page 6

The statement that the day of the small mineh in the gold-mining industry had definitely gone, as promoters now had to concentrate on…

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Dispute at Colliery Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 6

All the volunteers whose employment at the Sunbeam Mine, Korumburra, caused unionists to refuse to work, failed to report work to-day. Five of them are…

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Miners, Impoverished, Dispense with Hearses

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 1

HELENSBURGH miners will carry their own dead to the local cemetery. The little South Coast mining…

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Lady Shenton Mines. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 12

At a special meeting of the directors of the Lady Shenton Gold Mines (1934), N.L., to-day, after considering the result of the initial February crushing, the board affirmed its…

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Gold, Dollar, Franc London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

The price of gold to-day was £711 per fine ounce. The dollar was quoted at 4.97 to the £ sterling, and the franc at 74 15-16…

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Gold Production Increased Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 12

The production of gold in Australia during January, states the Commonwealth Statistician, amounted to 78,977 fine ounces, compared with 68,829 fine ounces for the…

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Production of Gold Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 8

The Commonwealth Statistician, Dr. Wilson, said to-day that the production of gold in Australia for January amounted to 78,977 fine ounces,…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 13

A weaker feeling characteiised light business in the mining share market yesterday. Dealings assumed important dimensions only in the case of New Occidental gold, which…

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Bellbird Colliery. No Work Yesterday. Precautions Against Heating. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 11

Bellbird Colliery did not work, to-day, as the result of precautions taken by the management against the heating up which had occurred in the airway between No. 1 and No…

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Newcastle Coal Shipments. 54,545 Tons Last Week

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 3

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped from Newcastle last week for places beyond the State was 54,545 tons, of which 11,200 tons…

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Mine Workers. Threepence Rise Demanded. Strike at Cobar. Cobar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 11

The committee of the A.W.U. approached the management of the New Occidental Goldmine this morning, demanding 2/ per truck for certain workers at the Number 9 level…

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