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Mining & the mines, 1937

4,349 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 218

Zinc Mine To Work Fewer Days

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The Zinc Corporation mine at Broken Hill will work only three days a week until further notice…

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Retrenchments in Mine Broken Hill

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 6

An additional 40 men have been retrenched at the Zinc Corporation Mine, where the miners are fighting against…

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Our Gold in U.s.a

The Sun · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 21

Boston (U.S.A.), Wednesday.--The Taronga arrived here to-day with 22 boxes of gold bullion, worth more than £200,000 in Australian money,…

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Lord Nuffield's £1000 for Mine Dependents Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 5

The Lord Mayor of Melbourne has opened a fund for the assistance of the dependents of the men who lost…

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Award for Mine Employee Dust Is Blamed For Incapacity

The Sun · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 19

Before the Workers' Compensation Commission to-day, Peter Comonsoli, 50, of Corrimal, claimed from Corrinial Balgownie Collieries, Ltd., £4 2s…

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Black Diamonds Coal Gave Newcastle Birth and Life

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 23

ALTHOUGH Newcastle itself is no longer noted as a coal producing area, it is still the point about which revolves the greatest coal…

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Newcastle Coal Shipments 59,299 Tons Last Week

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 6

The total quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped from Newcastle last week for places beyond the State, was 59,299 tons, compared with 52,853 tons…

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A Big Improvement Gold Digger Finds Lost Pace

Referee · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 11

FORM reversals in Sydney are becoming almost every day occurrences, and Gold Digger, in winning the Welter Handicap at…

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Discovery of Gold Reported at Weethalle. UNGARIE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 15

It is reported that Mr. Hector Gibson struck gold at the eastern end of Weethalle township. and within the last few days he has pegged out a considerable portion of land, extending from…

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Mining the Share Market. Base Metals Higher

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 11

Leading base metal shares in yesterday's market overcame the previous days slackness, an prices tended to harden again. Of Barriers Norths in which the first dividend on…

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Killed by 300 Tons of Stone Bellbird Mine Tragedy Cessnock

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 1

NEARLY 300 tons of stone fell in a bord at Bellbird Colliery today, crushing Robert Dixon to death…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 10

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/2/0[?] an ounce fine, the same price as yesterday's. MR. ANTHONY EDEN. The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden)…

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Public Inquiry Into Mine Explosion Financial Aid For Victims Of Disaster MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 20

THE Acting-Premier (Mr. Old), on his arrival at Wonthaggi to-day, said that the Government would hold a public inquiry into the mine explosion as soon as possible…

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Money, Mines and Markets Producers and General Poor Market For New Issue Rights

The Sun · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 4

A marked disparity has developed between the market price of the £1 shares of Producers and General Finance Corporation, Ltd., and that…

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Rope Placed on Neck Men's Threat To Hang Suspect Gold Cups Theft

The Sun · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 19

CHRISTCHURCH, Thurs. EVIDENCE that a man had been threatened with hanging to make him disclose…

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Bodies in Mine. 12 Recovered. No Hope for Last Victim. Lord Nuffield's Gift. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 9

All the bodies of the victims of the Wonthaggi mine disaster, except that of Harry Harper, 55, oversman, have now been recovered…

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Railway Link. Darwin and Adelaide. Interest Revived by Mining Activity. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 10

Mining and prospecting activity in the gold-fields in the Tennant Creek area of the Northern Territory has revived interest in official quarters in Canberra in the possibility of…

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Twelve Bodies Recovered Tragic Search in Wonthaggi's Stricken Mine Evidence of Death by Gas Poisoning Wonthaggi

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 2

ONLY one of the thirteen men who met death in the Wonthaggi disaster remains to be discovered. He is Harry Harper, 45, married, with three children. Working on doggedly, but hopelessly today, the rescue…

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Twelve Bodies Recovered From Mine Grim Search Nears End Only One Victim Still Missing Tragic Scenes Wonthaggi

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 5

SEVEN more victims of the appalling Wonthaggi State Mine disaster were taken from the shaft to-night, making the total number of bodies recovered 12. Only one man, Harry Harper, 45, remains unaccounted for…

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Miner Crushed to Death Fall of Coal in Bellbird Great Efforts By Mates FOR 2 Hours Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 1

FIFTEEN men worked feverishly to save the life of a workmate when, a fall of coal occurred at Bellbird colliery…

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