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Mining & the mines, 1937

4,349 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 218

Gold Rush From Tennant Creek. Rich Find in Desert. Tonnant Creek

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 19

Some cold brought in from the north-west br two prospectors. Albeit Lane und Mich[?] Michelsen, led ro an excited rush to the seens [?] the discovery by townpeople in cars and…

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Gold Rod's Favoritism Is Certain Can He Stay The Distance? Peerage Will Be Troublesome

Referee · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 7

ALTHOUGH Allunga was generally regarded as a certanty for last year's A.J.C. St. Leger, it was by the narrow margin of a long head he defeated Wykeham. It is probable that this year Gold Rod will start a warm…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Investment Stocks Regain Steadier Tone

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 23

SO far as a moderate volume of business afforded a guide, the investment market yesterday regained a much steadier tone following the pronounced easier tendency of the preed[?] day…

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Gold Rod Will Boost Leger Quality Not A Far Cry From Derby Third To Leger Chance In Weak Field

Referee · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 1

DECISION of connections of Gold Rod to start him in the Leger is what could have been expected with a member of the A.J.C. committee, Mr. E. J. Watt, his owner. The race sadly needs a fillip this year to raise it out of mediocrity…

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Caledonian Collieries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 9

Mr. A. Howard Smith, chairman of directors of Caledonian Collieries Ltd., informed shareholders at the annual meeting that the company's trade showed an increase…

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Mining. State Gold Yield. Two Months' Increase

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 9

Gold production of New South Wales for the first two months of this year shows an increase of 17 per cent. compared with the corresponding period of 1936…

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Mine Idle

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 4

CESSNOCK, Thursday. -- When Aberdare Extended miners attended that the management had not made that he tmanagement had not made…

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Mine Manager Prosecuted

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 9

WEST MAITLAND, Thursday. -- Norman Edmund Smtih (manager of Maitland Extended No. 4 Colliery, Rothbury) was convicted at Branxton…

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South Coast Mine Strike

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 4

BULLI, Thursday. -- Following pit-top meetings, 500 miners from the Wongawilli and Mt. Keira mines went on strike today…

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Tennant Creek Gold [?] Rush

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 9

TENNANT CREEK, Thursday. -- The rush from Tennant Creek to the reported new gold find has left the town without a barber, and the hotels short…

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Royal Show on Gold Standard

The Land · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 3

THE Royal Easter Show is apparently on the gold standard this year. The champion Hereford Bull was…

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How Miners’ Wives Can Do Their Bit

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 4

The question has been asked: Why should women be admitted to an auxiliary membership of the Miners’ Federation?…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 8

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/2/4 an ounce fin[?], compared with £7/2/3½ yesterday…

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To Survey Gold Deposits Canberra

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 10

values of gold deposits discovered in Northern Australia will be assessed by the Director of North Australia Geophysical Survey, [?] Herbert…

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Northern Coal. Higher Price Likely. Contract Rates Increased

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 7

Referring yesterday to a message from Newcastle that coal prices may be stabilised at a higher price, an authority on coal mining and shipping affairs in the city said it…

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Western Australian Gold Shares. London Paper's Criticism. LONDON, March 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 9

What is the matter with Western Australian gold shares? is the subject of a lengthy leading article in the "Financial Times," which considers that so many opportunities for rapid…

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Oil from Shale and Coal Deputation Prods Earl Page Stevens Dumps Northern Workers

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, March 23.—To urge the immediate completion of arrangements to re-open the Newnes Shale Oil works, a widely representative…

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Gold Find. Rush From Tennant Creek. 30 Claims Pegged. Tennant Creek

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 7

By daybreak to-day 30 leases had been pegged out on the area in which Albert Lane and Michael Michelsen made their gold strike recently…

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Cast-off to Win St. LEGER Barramul Has A Real Chance Gold Rod

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 2

WHILE premier Interest in Saturday's. races is undoubtedly centred in the Doncaster and the clash of brilliant two-year-olds in the Sires'…

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Thrills and Excitement in "The Land's" New Serial of Station Life Boom-time Gold Chapter Vi

The Land · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 18

IN the meantime Jimmie and Vernon had returned to the latter's office and from there they went on to lunch. Over their coffee and cigarettes they…

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