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Mining & the mines, 1937

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Gold Rod Was Again Coalfield's Star Performer This Morning Sterling Seven Furlongs Hadrian Pleased With Good Half-mile Northwind Is Fit Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 13

GOLD ROD Was the star performer again at Caulfield this morning with a sterling 7 furlongs. He could hardly have finished up his task in better style…

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N.G. Goldfields Meeting Reasons For Non-Payment Of Dividend

The Sun · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 4

Many shareholders of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., at the annual meeting to-day, criticised the policy of the board, and wanted to know why…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Industrials Firm: Easier Trend in Barriers Without maintaining the higher tendency of the preceding day the investment market retained a firm undertone yesterday

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 17

Metal stocks quietened a good deal, Barriers suffering from lower overseas prices for lead. Mt. Lyell failed to respond to further progress in the…

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Continued Expansion of Gold Mining. Western Australia. The Largest Producer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 11

Gold production in Western Australia has doubled itself in the last seven years. In 1929 the lowest point was reached with a total for the State of only 377,176 fine ounces. The graph…

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Gold Rod Surprise

The Labor Daily · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 2

M. McCARTEN left Sydney yesterday morning to ride Gold Rod in the St. George stakes, to be run at Caulfield to-morrow, and he must…

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Triton Gold To Increase Output

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 19

Increased output from 6000 to 9000 tons monthly was proposed by Triton Gold Mines, N.L., the chairman (Sir Colin Fraser) stated at the annual…

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Worlds Gold. [?] Central Banks and Hoards

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 31

[?]uring the past year the two outstanding fea[?] affecting the world's gold were the continued [?]e in production and the devaluation of the [?] bl[?] currencies…

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Mining the Share Market. Base-metals Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 13

Business in all sections of the mining shar[?] market was on quiet lines yesterday. Of base metal shares, Barriers, which were almost passed over, made steady rates. Tin shares…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/1/11 an ounce fine, compared with £7/2/ yesterday…

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N.G. Gold Finds Little Profit in 7dwt. ORE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 19

High costs and other difficulties which make the treatment of ore unprofitable under 7dwt. per ton, were mentioned at the annual meeting of…

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Track Gallops. Gold Rod Brilliant. Hadrian Beaten in Trial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 15

The three-year-olds Gold Rod and Beechwood again pleased in their respective trials at Caulfield. Gold Rod ran seven furlongs in [?] 28½s on the steeplechase grass, and…

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Problems of Progressive World Recovery. Roving Money and Accumulating Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

WORLD recovery, how far has it progressed? In Australia, as may be seen by an article by Dr. E. Ronald Walker in this issue, there is substantial gain. The Economic Survey of the League of Nations, taking the…

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Mining of Base Metals. Broken Hill Prospers. Stimulus of Metal Prices

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 10

With lead soaring to prices not enjoyed for many years, the Broken Hill mining industry is now passing through a period of prosperity, that has every indication of being lasting—a prosperity that…

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Consequences of the "Gold Bloc" Collapse New World Currency Experiment. Great Advantages to Be Gained

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 7

By far the most important event in the economic [?]tory of 1936 was the collapse of the European [?]old blo[?]" and the simultaneous conclusion of [?] new currency pact between the United…

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Marriages Celebrated In The City And Country Cream And Gold Scheme Flowers From Parents' Garden Decorated Church Pretty Frocks

The Labor Daily · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 15

A GOLD and cream color scheme was chosen for the marriage last night of Miss Daphne Nerene Hennessy, third daughter of the late…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Long-dated Loans Below Par: Industrials Firm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 19

A STEADY flow of inquiry for industrials kept share prices very firm yesterday, but long-dated Government securities weakened on light realisations. All 4 per cent, bonds maturing after 1953 are now below par…

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New Guinea Goldfields. Burden of Heavy Costs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 13

Mr. J. P. Blaikie Webster, chairman of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., at the annual meeting yesterday said that the policy of the New Guinea Administration was "killing the…

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Gold Rod Sensation

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 17

GOLD ROD'S scratching from the St. George Stakes was a sensation. He had worked exceptionally well…

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Miners' Log of Claims. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 14

The annual meeting of the southern miners' delegate board was attended by the general secretary (Mr. W. Orr), who outlined a new log of claims put forward by the federation…

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Mining Yields. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 14

During 1936 the number of bricks manufactured from brick clay at Lithgow exceeded 3,000,000, a slight increase on the total for 1935…

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