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Mining & the mines, 1937

4,349 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 218

COAL: Now Feeds Petrol To R.A.F.: Will Free Germany In Two Years! Why I Publish Smith's Weekly Lyons Boggles At Price Of Oil From Coal Plant

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 12

COAL Australia has in inexhaustible supplies. The great deposits in Newcastle, Maitland, and Cessnock, N.S.W., can be drawn upon at a vastly increased rate for centuries ahead. And were a market available, Queensland coalfields in the Dawson Valley could open up…

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Demands by Miners on State Object To Present Management At Wonthaggi Safety First Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 5

UNION officials will confer with members of the Trades Hall Council Executive on Monday to consider the position at Wonthaggi…

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Price of Gold. Rush to Sell Shares. Rumours Continue. Uncertainty in London. LONDON, April 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 17

Liquidation of gold shares almost assumed panic proportions to-day as a result of the rumours that the United States proposes to cut the buying price…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Recovery in Metals Brings Firmer Tone

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 18

GUIDED by a good recovery in metals, which followed denial of rumors of a probable decline in the American price of gold, metal stocks improved a little yesterday, but the closing tones still reveal a measure of uncertainty…

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Mining

Truth · Sunday 11 April 1937 · page 31

THE steady drop in base metals during most of the week was too much for the mining market. Speculators and others thought of little else…

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Sorry Plight at Wonthaggi Town Suffers Through Mine Being Idle Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 11 April 1937 · page 7

The future of the State coal mine at Wonthaggi will be discussed at a conference on Monday between the Acting-Premier (Mr. Old), the…

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Gold Bugs Bitten

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday.--"This will not be a cheerful weekend for gold speculators," says the City Editor of the Sunday Express…

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Marvel Loch Gold Return

The Sun · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 5

Marvel Loch Gold Development, N.L., reports for March: Treated 4170 tons; recovered 570 ounces fine; gross return £4960. Australian currency. Low return due to…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Markets And Mining Finance And Commerce Base Metal Stocks Reflect Overseas Uncertainty Sharp Drop in Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 13

FRESH weakness developed in metal stocks on Saturday, largely because a recovery in metal prices that was advised in early messages was not sustained in closing quotations. Gold shares, however, provided the…

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1000 Out in Dispute at Mine at Wonthaggi Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 8

FRESH developments in the dispute between the Government and the miners at Wonthaggi are expected after a conference to-morrow…

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90-Year-oldster Wants to Prospect for Gold Again

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 2

AT 90 years of age, Mr. E. R. Langbridge, of Mortdale, has applied for inclusion in a prospecting party seeking gold "out Mudgee way." "I have had 70 years' experience…

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Wonthaggi Mine. Future to be Discussed. Men's Stoppage "A Blunder." Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 11

The Acting Premier (Mr. Old), the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bussau), the Minister for Mines (Mr. Hogan), the Chief Railways Commissioner (Mr. Clapp), and the general…

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Money, Mines and Markets Standard W'good Supported Div. Resumption May Be Possible

The Sun · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 5

Among the lower-priced investments, shares of Standard Waygood, Ltd.. have received increased support on the Stock Exchange of late…

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Trade Review. Costly Rumours. Markets Disorganised. America's Gold Policy. London, April 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 11

"As bad as the war," was one broker's description of the market chaos which culminated in frantic dealings in the street as "bears" scrambled to cover, following…

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Price of Gold. Rumoured Plan by U.S.A. President Roosevelt's Denial. Washington, April 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 9

President Hoosevelt, when interviewed by Press representatives, denied that the United States Treasury has any plan to lower the buying price of gold from the level of 35…

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Eleven Men Shot in Union Rivalry Wild Day in Texas Miners Rule With Pickhandles Riotous Tour New York

The Sun · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 1

ELEVEN members of a district union were shot down in the principal street of Galena (Texas) to-day,…

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Stay-in Threat at Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The miners at Ibon Colliery, near East Maitland, today threatened to hold a stay-in strike…

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Working of State Coal Mine Judge to Inquire Negligence at Wonthaggi Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 17

RESPONSIBILITY for negligence at the State Mine at Wonthaggi, will be investigated by a Royal…

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National Coal Strike Expected

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--A seven to one majority for a national coal strike is expected by the Daily Express after a ballot, on Thursday and Friday, of all…

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Miners Maintain Attitude Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 5

CONFIRMING the decision last Friday of members of the Miners' Union that work would not be resumed at Wonthaggi State Coal Mine…

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