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Mining & the mines, 1936

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, April 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 8

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/[?] an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/10 on Wednesday. FOREIGN EXCHANGE…

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Mining. Low Grade Ore. Western Australia's New Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 9

Last year the average grade of ore treated by Western Australian gold mines dropped to [?] dwt per ton, the lowest average for the State ever recorded. In five years the average…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining A Broker To His Client Kauri Timber Co

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 18

CLIENT: I don't know why the fully-paid 25 shares of Kauri Timber, which have an assets value of 3010, stand at only 243 when profits were…

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"Too Civilised." Life at Wau. Goldfields' Tea Parties

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 3

"Wau is becoming far too civilised," said Mrs. W. V. Quinn, who arrived last night by the Macdhul after eight years in New Guinea…

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News From Mines Power for Emperor Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 16

Tavua Power Pty., Ltd., which is to supply electrical power to the Emperor and Loloma Gold Mines at Tavua, Fiji, was registered in Melbourne on Thursday with a nominal…

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Win For Gold Rod

The Sun · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 6

Cold Rod winning the Sires' Produce Stakes at Rand wick his afternoon. Fidelity was second with Siren third…

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Mining. Lena Goldfields, Ltd. £3,000,000 Compensation Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 15

With the sanctioning by the Court in London of the company's scheme of arrangement with its creditors and the dismissal of the petition of creditors for the winding-up…

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Celebration Mine May Be the Exception

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 7

IF free expenditure and calls on acknowledged plant experience can ensure satisfactory running Celebration's entry into production…

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Everybody --And-- Everybody! Gold Rod

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 4

NO doubt, many backers will cheerfully lay odds on Gold Rod for the sires Produce Stakes at Randwick this afternoon, for he has…

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Should Be Easy For Gold Rod

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 20

Backers will be asked to take a very short price about Gold Rod in the A.J.C. Sires' Produce Stakes, at Randwick today. The owner, Mr. E. J…

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The Miracle Of Black Gold In Persia Modern Al-raschid Arises

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 10

Eleven centuries ago, Haroun Al-Raschid brought renown to his birthplace at Teheran when he established the Caliphate at Bagdad and made it the centre of all the wit, learning and art of the Moslem world, and achieved immortality as a result of the fantastic stories…

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It Looks Easy for Gold Rod Three Firsts In Four Starts £2435 PRIZE

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 2

GOLD ROD'S superiority has affected the field for to-day's Sires' Produce Stakes, a set-weight race for two-year-olds to be run over…

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W.A. Mining Industry May Be Placed on Sounder Basis Necessary Reforms Are Being Advocated

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 7

A CALL for better attention to the technical and, incidentally, the practical side of gold mining, is becoming clamant in Western Australia. Hitherto booms have come and gone, and the wreckage…

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Mining

Truth · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 23

THE market for cold shares was better. A little animation was shown here and there. In some instances there was…

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Some Psychological Gold-bricks

The Sun · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 4

"THE SUNDAY SUN" for March 29th., told its readers of a man who once paid £3 3s to a leading psychologist…

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Gold Rod Away So Fidelity Should Fly Home

Truth · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 5

FIDELITY has lost only twice in her career, and that was when she was stacked against the freak two-year-old Gold Rod. Mr. Watt's…

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Memories of Phar Lap When Gold Rod Won Sires' Produce

The Sun · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 2

Gold Rod proved the good thing he looked in the A.J.C. Sires' Produce Stakes. He made an exhibition of the field and won as he liked. Not since the mighty Phar Lap's…

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Fill 'Em Up for Gold Rod Deserves Toast for Devastating Win in Sires Produce

Truth · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 3

THERE'S only one way to describe Gold Rod. He's a freak. We all know Fidelity to be a phenomenal filly, but on the two occasions she has met Mr. E. J. Watt's wonder colt she has been beaten with consummate…

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Cuddle's Desert Gold Dash to Win Doncaster Cut Out Amazing Mile Kissed Them Ta Ta Halfway and Just Cantered In Regular Bachelor Dead Unlucky Freak Effort After Being Biffed and Bunkered

Truth · Sunday 12 April 1936 · page 2

MUSTERING a burst of speed that literally paralysed the opposition with half a mile to go, Cuddle, styled as the Desert Gold of New Zealand, dashed to the front and setting up an…

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Mining. Canada's Gold. Record Output in 1935

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 9

Maintaining a position in the front rank of world gold producers, Canada rccoided a new high output last year. The output totalled 3,290,664 fine ounces,…

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