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Mining & the mines, 1937

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Metal Stocks React to Fall in Overseas Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 15

CLOSING reaction in metal prices, substantial except for tin, accentuated profit-taking in dependent stocks yesterday, and prices were appreciably lower. North B.H. fell 36, B.H. South 3,…

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Mining

Truth · Sunday 14 March 1937 · page 25

MOST interest centred on base metal stocks, as in the previous week. Tin shares sparkled, following some rapid advances in the metal price…

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Regent. "Gold Diggers of 1937"

Truth · Sunday 14 March 1937 · page 30

Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Lee Dixon, Victor Moore, Rosalind Marquis, Osgood Perkins. (Warner Bros.)…

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Gold Rod's Leger Prospects What McCarten Thinks Of His Opponents

The Sun · Sunday 14 March 1937 · page 20

MAURICE McCARTEN is one racing man who does not believe that Gold Rod could win the A.J.C. St. Leger at little more…

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Money and Markets. High Finance Moves Revaluation Of Gold May Be Nearer Than Was Thought Britain Avoiding Boom

Truth · Sunday 14 March 1937 · page 25

IN December last the world sat up and took a good deal of notice of Britain's announcement that £65,000,000 in bar gold had been transferred from the Exchange Equalisation Fund to the Bank of England…

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Mount Ida Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 11

A total of 138 tons broken in 150ft level south drive between 241ft and 285ft south, was treated at the State battery for a return of 158oz, end half a ton of concentrate, assaying 233dwt…

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A Broker To His Client Mt. Kembla Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 13

Client: Twelve months ago I had hopes that the 1936 accounts of Mt. Kembla Collieries would reveal better trade and a return to profits…

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Eleven Bodies Taken From Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday.--Two more bodies, making a total of 11 recovered, have been brought out of the Macbeth coal mine, Logan, West Virginia,…

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Long Mine Dispute Has Ended

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

BROKEN HILL, Sunday.--The dispute at the Zinc Corporation mine is ended and work resumed tonight. Retrenched men are to report to…

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Outbreak of Fire in Coal Bunker

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

Recent rainfalls, followed by a hot day, causing spontaneous combustion, is believed to have caused a fire in a coal bunker on Howard Smith's…

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Film Reviews "Gold Diggers of 1937."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

When Avery Hopwood wrote his "Gold Diggers" for David Belasco about eighteen years ago, he probably never realised that eisht years after his death Warner Brothers, who…

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Russia's Big Reserves of Gold Moscow

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

Russia's gold reserves are bigger than both England and Franco, according to official figures. The reserves are exceeded only by those in…

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Mine Explosion in U.S.A. New York, March 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 9

A message from Logan (West Virginia), says that l8 miners were killed as the result of a gas explosion in a coalmine. Rescue workers strove to reach the…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Mar. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 10

Gold was quoted on Saturday at £7/2/4½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/2/5½ on Friday. ICE-SHTP FOR ANTARCTIC…

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Plays of The Screen "The Gold Diggers Of 1937"

The Sun · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 11

Dick Powell, Joan Blondell Gold could not glitter with more allure than the little "Gold Diggers of 1937," Warner Bros.' latest…

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Money, Mines and Markets Rise in Sugar Price Benefit for Victoria Nyanza Co

The Sun · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 4

Shares of Victoria Nyanza Sugar Co., Ltd., at about 16s, are considered in the share market to have possibilities. Sugar has participated…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance and Commerce Markets and Mining Higher Quota Sends Tin Stocks Upward

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 13

AS a result of the increase in the International tin quota to 110 per cent, of standard tonnages. Eastern dredging shares were strongly bought on Saturday, and a number of[?] rises was recorded…

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When Winded Feet Won Gold Halcyon Days Can Come Again Ted Lazarus Expresses Hope For Future Stirring Series Ends (No.15.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 6

I AM hot alone as I write this conclusion to my series on the halcyon days of professional footrunning in Australlia In my office are four ghosts. I cannot see them, but I can picture them to-day just as they were 50 years age The Cantain the first mate, the chief engineer and the helmsman of the…

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Colliery Dispute

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 2

LITHGOW, Monday.--Renown colliery, near Cullen Bullen, is still idle, because of a dispute concerning men working in deficient bords…

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Gold Discovered. Ungarie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 9

About six years ago a gang of men under the supervision of the senior telephone linesman erected a telephone line east of Weethalle. Recently a prospector, examining the heaps…

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