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Mining & the mines, 1937

4,349 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 218

Collieries & Shipping Companies Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 5

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present operating…

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Miners Want Relief Work

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 7

ABERMAIN, Friday.--Abermain No. 1 Miners' Lodge has agreed to request the miners' executive to call stop-work meetings as a protest against the…

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Family Finds Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 7

INNISFAIL (Queensland), Friday.-- C. Rawnsley and his two sons, who are working a claim on the Jordan Creek goldfield, have brought in 9oz…

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Theft of £500,000 From Mine New York

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 3

OFFICERS of the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveal now that thefts of gold from the Homestake Mine…

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Mining. Tin Control. Case for Continuance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 15

Because of the high rate of production now authorised by the controllers of tin production, suggestions have been made that restriction should be abandoned altogether…

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More Money for Mines of Aasia Chickens Comet Deeps Chances

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 9

AMONG the flock of chickens hatched and fostered by Mines of Australasia at Marble Bar (W.A.), is a three-acre patch adjoining…

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Soccer Rule. Taking the Coal Kick. Alteration Explained. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 17

Confusion is being caused among Soccer spectators, players, and even a few referees, by the altered goal kick rule adopted by the International Beard in June last year, and…

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Bright Prospects for Murchison Gold Dev. Finance Still a Problem

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 9

WITH a stroke of luck, Murchison Gold Developments, one of the de Bernales flotations, may justify its…

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Drew Lots for Priority at New Gold Find Tennant Creek

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 2

AT 2.30 a.m. yesterday, the first batch of men to reach the scene of the new gold find drew lots to determine who should have priority of choice. They then began feverishly pegging…

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To-day's--Controversy Why at Easter All That Glitters is Not Gold? Shop Window Lure

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 6

Sir,--Looking at Sydney by and large during this great Easter carnival festival one would be pardoned for thinking that everyone…

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Gold Upon The Waters

The Sun · Sunday 28 March 1937 · page 13

THOUSANDS of interstate and country visitors, combined with the strength added to the ring by several dashing…

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Gold Diviner Racket How Buried Treasure Myths Lure

The Sun · Sunday 28 March 1937 · page 2

One of the easiest "gold bricks" to sell those days is some form of gold diviner In the "World's News" now on sale, the artful dodges of the buried…

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Fuel Oil From Coal Federal Government Decides Against Hydrogenation Scheme

Truth · Sunday 28 March 1937 · page 12

THE Federal Government has decided that the cost (about £11,000,000 Australian) of a hydrogenation plant for the extraction of oil from coal is too much for the Commonwealth to bear at the present time, and it is…

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Gold Rod's Giant Strides Told In The Last Half Furlong Of St. Leger

The Sun · Sunday 28 March 1937 · page 14

Something more than sprinting ability carried Gold Rod to victory in the A.J.C. St. Leger at Randwick yesterday. The race was run to suit him, but the pace was not actually slow, as the time, 3.1¾, has been beaten only three…

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Money and Markets. Electrolytic Zinc High Value Of West Coast Mines In Tasmania Extensions at Risdon?

Truth · Sunday 28 March 1937 · page 25

ELECTROLYTIC Zinc of Australasia Limited is one of Australia's largest enterprises. It has its fingers in many pies, most of them metallurgical. In view of the trend in metal prices of late, there is no telling what…

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Gold Rod May Be a Melb. Cup Proposition Spreadeagled Leger Field and Showed Signs of Staying

Truth · Sunday 28 March 1937 · page 2

BOTH trainer George Price and jockey Maurice McCarten were afraid of only one thing for Gold Rod in yesterday's St. Leger. That was that Gold Rod might pull hard in the early stages if there was no pace on, and thereby take…

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Mining. Queensland Gold Yield. February's Large Increase

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 9

Gold production in Queensland for January and February showed an increase of 9.4 per cent. on the production for the corresponding period of 1936. The greater part of this…

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Wonthaggi Miners Ask £5000 Grant

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 2

WONTHAGGI, Sunday.--All pits in the State Coal Mine are still idle. Two are closed for safety work, another is being prepared, and the fourth, the…

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Gold Rod Wins with Comfort

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 15

Although McCarten had to use the whip to drive him past Barramul approaching the one furlong post. Gold Rod ran home a comfortable winner…

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Coal Prices. Stabilisation Problem. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 9

Despite the hopes that the increased Melbourne rates for New South [?]ales coal will be followed by a similar improvement in the local market, the northern coal industry is…

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