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Mining & the mines, 1936

4,419 stories in Sydney's papers · page 69 of 221

Money Talks Smith's Financial Review Production Delays In W.A. Mines Largely Due to Plant Troubles

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 18 April 1936 · page 11

ALTHOUGH blame for slow development work in W.A. mines has been attributed to the lack of experienced miners, there is just as much…

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Gold Rod Shipwrecked On Sodden Track Stumbled at Start Freak Youngster Was Bowled Over By Speedy Tonga Paddock Patron All Het Up

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 18 April 1936 · page 3

GOLD ROD, styled as the "Phar Lap of the two-year-olds," started at 6/1 "on" in Wednesday's Champagne Stakes at Randwick, and did not fill a place. It was the sensation of the meeting, and…

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Finance And Commerce Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Markets And Mining Govt. Loans Ease on Sale of £60,000 Worth More Overseas Orders for Placer

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 April 1936 · page 15

HEAVIEST selling of Government securities for some considerable time produced a weaker tendency yesterday, mainly in short and medium currencies…

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Real Bargain Silver Edge Proves A Gold Mine CAULFIELD

Truth · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 3

TO-DAY'S two-year-old event at Caulfield wasn't a race so much as a procession. Silver Edge, a Gill Edge colt, scurried to…

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Mining

Truth · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 29

THE gold market showed a few bright spots, especially on the opening day. Thereafter it languished. The position overseas is Interesting…

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Gold Fox Appeal CAULFIELD

Truth · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 3

NEXT Friday the V.R.C. Committee will hear appeals in the Gold Fox case, and one or the witnesses will be Mr. G…

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Mining Reports in Brief

Truth · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 29

SANDY CREEK: TO April 1 a further 1440z. recovered from s[?]. GEORGETOWN: Gold locked up in plant should be 250oz fine and not 130oz, as…

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Golden Died Finding Gold MUDGEE

The Sun · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 1

WILLIAM Murray Golden, 37, was suffocated through the cacing-in of a Creek bank in which it is believed he had found…

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Found Gold In Sheep's Teeth MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 9

Mr. C. Cottrill, of Argyle-street, Fitzroy, had gold served with his midday meal today. It didn't cost him anything extra Indeed, he…

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Mine Men's 'Plane Damaged Came Down in Lonely Tasmanian Area Hobart

The Sun · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 3

Carrying a new propeller. Captain D. F. Saville, Tasmanian Aero Club instructor, left today for the uninhabited country in the south-west of…

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Old Shore Boy Searches for Inca Gold Disprove a Legend

The Sun · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 21

SEEKING the fabulous gold treasure which records tell us the Incas threw in the bottom of a lake in South…

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Pit Pony's Ordeal Without Water For 18 Days Heroic Miners Crooksville (Ohio)

Truth · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 21

FANNIE, a five-year-old pit pony which was trapped by a fall of earth for 18 days, took the longest drink she…

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A Broker To His Client (With apologies to Mr. W. J. Jackson, Financial Editor, "Daily Telegraph.") Emperor Mines, Ltd

Truth · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 29

Client: That Idea of yours late last year that Emperor shares were worth a flutter at 28/- was great. I took some and still have the shares. They are…

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Books Got More Than Champagne Out Of Gold Rod Big Bettors Caned Punting Publican Needed a Stiff Spot After Laying £2000 On Moral Who Proved Nightmare

Truth · Sunday 19 April 1936 · page 5

THE ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum had nothing on the devastation in the ranks of punterdom last Wednesday when the 7 1 "on" favorite Gold Rod bit the dust—or, rather, the mud in this case—in the Champagne…

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Mine Dispute Parties Summoned

The Sun · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 9

ON its own initiative, the State Industrial Commission to-day intervened in the Helensburgh mine dispute…

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Home News. Scathern Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 1

The State executive of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Union yesterday considered a report that the enginedrivers at the Helensburgh Colliery had been replaced…

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Lucknow Gold Recoveries

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 16

Lucknow Gold Recoveries Uns cyanide and 90 tons of sands for a recovery of 28oz. gold. Value £171181. Now installing Huntington mill…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 11

Price movements in the mining shaie market on Saturday were few and slight. The only bright trading was hi Placel Development which conceded a fraction of Fridays…

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Strike Threatened. South Coast Mines. Enginedrivers' Ultimatum

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 9

A general mining strike on the South Coast is threatened. A meeting of the State executive of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's…

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Miners Just Hear Of King George's Death HOBART

The Sun · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 9

NEWS travels slowly in the rugged south-west of Tasmania. King George died nearly three months ago, but miners in the Port Davey area learned about it only a few days ago. Over the air the news came to…

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