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Mining & the mines, 1936

4,419 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 221

Facing Death Trapped Mine Drama Desperation Halifax (N. S.)

The Sun · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 1

ONE of the three men trapped in an abandoned gold mine at Moose Creek, on Easter Sunday, by a fall…

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Threat Of Mine Stoppage Effort to Settle Firemen's Dispute Cessnock

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 8

IN an effort to settle the trouble which has arisen at Helensburgh over the alleged employment of 11 staff men in…

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City Gossip Yokohama Bank Gold Premium Bank Profits Increased

The Sun · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 4

After making provision for bad and doubtful debts, rebates on bills, &c., the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., disclosed in its accounts…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, April 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/10 an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/10½ on Saturday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES…

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Coal Supplies For County Council. Alarm at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 11

Much alarm was expressed at to-night's meeting of the Newcastle City Council at reports of recommendations to be made by Mr. Forbes Mackay to to-morrow's meeting of…

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Southern Miners Will Affiliate But Demand Labor Government Help Workers Stop Splitting Tactics

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 2

WOLLONGONG.—After considering at length a notice of motion that they re-affiliate to the A.L.P., the Southern District Delegate…

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To Exploit Gold Deposits B.H.P. Shareholders to Participate Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 6

Plans announced at the August meeting of shareholders of the Broken Hill Pty. Ltd., for the exploitations of a large alluvial gold deposit on the…

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Miners Unaware King Was Dead Stars of A.B.C. Dance Band Jacobs and Norman Arrive

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 7

AUSTRALIANS : sure to like Howard Jacobs, the "headliner" English dance band conductor who arrived yesterday by the Mariposa to…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Further Improvement in Bank Shares Continued Selling of Govt. Loans

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 16

QUIET buying produced few outstanding movements in yesterday's investment market, but the upward trend in bank shares was again strong in evidence. Following last week's heavy…

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ENTOMBED In Gold Mine. One Man Dead. Ottawa, April 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 14

Mr. Herman Magill, one of the three men who are entombed 140 feet deep in a goldmine at Moose River (Nova Scotia), is dead…

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Balmain Mine Council Incident

The Sun · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 16

During the discussion at the Sydney County Council yesterday, on the purchase of railway trucks, Councillor McElhone, dealing with the necessity…

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Miners' Official Flies to Meeting

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 6

Travelling by an Air Lines of Australia 'plane secretary of the Miners' Federation. Mr. W. Orr, left yesterday for Brisbane to attend a delegate board…

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The Price of Gold

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 18

The price of gold in London yesterday was £7/0/9½ an ounce fine compared with £7/0/10 an ounce last Tuesday…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 15

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended April 17 is at the rate of appiotiniately £8/0/3…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 15

All varieties of all gold shaies weie quiet in yesterdays market even the few prominent counters relapsing to inactivity. Price movements showed an caslei tendency. Mount…

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Warning to Miners Conditions in Western Australia

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 20

Miners who may be thinking of going to Western Australia would do well to heed the following warning which comes from the Secretary of the Westralian…

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May End Miners' Split Re-affiliate? Southern Move

The Sun · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 15

STEPS are being taken to put an end to the bitterness engendered during the Bulli by-election of June,…

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Oil From Coal by a New Method

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 7

The Freeman process has been developed experimentally in England to such a stage that a plant on a commercial scale is to be put down at Belmont, Durham, to operate on a soft bituminous…

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Still Alive Trapped In Mine Halifax (N.s.)

The Sun · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 18

Dr. Robertson and Alfred Scadding, who are entombed in an old gold mine at Moose River, are still alive, but are weaker…

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Transport of Coal. County Council's Decision Further Investigation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 14

After discussing the advisability of inviting tenders immediately for the supply of waggons to carry the county council's coal supplies to Sydney from northern and western…

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