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Mining & the mines, 1937

4,349 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 218

Go-slow Tactics Continue Zinc Corporation Mine Dispute Broken Hill

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 2

No headway was made at this morning's adjourned meeting of the Zinc Corporation employees concerning the dispute between contract…

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History Through the Windscreen. Bathurst's Birth and Gold Boom

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 11

HARTLEY and the surrounding district having been dealt with historically, the N.R.M.A. touring department in this article delves into the past, continuing along the Main Western Highway to Bathurst…

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Colliery Idle. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 4

For the second time in a fortnight the Steelworks Colliery is idle owing to a dispute. Efforts are being made to arrange a settlement, and to this end a meeting of the…

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Victorian Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 11

The Victorian gold yield for December was 15,144oz gross, or 13,574oz fine, valued at £96,170 on the basis of £7/1/8.280 an ounce, the London average price for the month. A…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 11

CONSOLIDATED GOLD AREAS, N.L. (period ended January 15).—No. 2 level, section 5 north, lending stope started and advanced to 13ft. Average value 8[?]dwt over a width of 76in. No. 3 level:…

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Mining the Share Market. Quiet and Easier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 11

Business in mining shares dropped away in Saturdays market With metal prices lower base metal shares eased slightly Barriers were verv quiet Souths in the only…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 10

Gold was quoted on Saturday at £7/1/10 an ounce fine, compared with £7/l/10½ on Friday. SIR EDGAR BRITTEN'S ESTATE…

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Money, Mines and Markets to Stabilise Prosperity Bankers Talk On Measures LONDON

The Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 5

Bank chairmen who have spoken so far have agreed with the economists that now is the time to think how prosperity can be…

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When Winged Feet Won Gold 'Greatest of the Greatest' Outstanding Events In Big Racing Days (NO. 8.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 6

I HAVE often wondered whether Joe Wallis could give an honest answer to the following query: Which was the most exciting fight you ever refereed? When I set myself a similar problem concerning the many…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Lower Commodity Prices Cause Profit-taking Fall in Barriers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 14

ALTHOUGH a normal number of sales were recorded in the investment market at the weekend the volume of business transacted was below the average, and prices were irregular. There is still a large amount of…

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Cessnock Collieries Dividend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 13

Directors of Cessnock Collieries, Ltd., have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum for the half-year ended September 30…

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News From Mines New Guinea Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 14

New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., announces the resignation of Major G. A. Harrison, D.S.O.. and Hon. A. M. Hemsley and the appointment as directors of Senator H. S…

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Queensland Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 13

The Queensland gold yield for December was 10,267oz. fine, a decrease of 89oz fine compared with December, 1935…

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Mining the Share Market. Slightly Easier Tone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 13

On dcalinss rarely more than of moderate size, the mining shale market tended a shade easier yesterday. Mt. Lyell and North B.H. were leading base-metal representatives…

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Fifty- Fifty Letterettes In Fifty Words "Gold Digger" Rings?

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 11

Please stop this stuff about engagement rings. We know women don't use them as private property signs, but that it is merely their "gold…

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White and Gold Gown Coronation Of Queen LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 16

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S Coronation gown will be of specially-woven deep ivory white duchesse satin, intricately embroidered in gold thread…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 11

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/l/9½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/1/10 on Saturday. AFFILIATED REGIMENTS. Archdeacon Riley, of Perth, at 12.30 p.m…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Easier Tendency Develops in Share Prices Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 14

IN the face of lower commodity prices and a fairly large amount of profit-taking, the investment market held remarkably well yesterday. There were, however, distinct indications of weakness in some of the leading industrials…

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Cessnock Collieries Dividend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 15

The interim dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, declared by Cessnock Collieries, Ltd., for the half-year ended December 31 last, represents a departure from…

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Fortune From Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The State has taken £640,000 in death duties from the £1,500,000 estate of Lord Joicey, the Durham coal-owner, son…

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