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Mining & the mines, 1937

4,349 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 218

Gold Rod Out of Challenge Eight Pounds In Excess Of W.F.A. A.J.C. DOUBLE

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 2

GOLD ROD was awarded 9.0 for the Challenge Stakes, weights of which were issued yesterday. This impost represents eight pounds over…

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Solid Six Furlongs Gallop By Gold Bod At Randwick Revels in Work Nothing Wrong with Colt Hadrian Fit

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 2

ALTHOUGH Gold Rod was withdrawn from the Challenge Stakes yesterday, there was nothing amiss with…

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Daily Telegraph Classified, Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining G. J. Coles's Shares Reach New High Level

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 13

ACTIVE, but not heavy, buying was responsible for a further advance in industrial stocks yesterday. A batch of half-yearly dividends is due within the next few months, and…

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Killed, Hurt in Mine Crash

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Arnold Pinner, 29, married, was killed, and Thomas Walker Littlegoes, 28, single, was badly injured at the 600-ft. level…

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The Price of Gold

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 19

At London yesterday the price of gold was £7/1/6½ an ounce fine as against £7/1/5½ an ounce fine on the previous Tuesday…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 15

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended January 8, is at the rate of approximately £8/1/5½…

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Gundagai Gold. Development Plans Accepted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 15

At the annual meeting of Gundagai Gold N.L., yesterday, [?] scheme for developing the mine was accepted by shareholders, who left the application to the discretion of the…

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Believe Teeth Are Clue Skeleton in Mine Shaft Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 7

The Mildura police to-day received information which may solve the mystery surrounding the remains of a man in a mine shaft at…

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Mining the Share Market. Business More Active

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 15

An increased turnover was recorded in mining shares in yesterday market. M[?] Lyell, responding to the soaring price of copper, rose strongly on heavy buying…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 14

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/l/6½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/1/8 yesterday. TRINITY COLLEGE EXAMINERS. Messrs. C. H. Adolph Mann and W. H…

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Germany's Mechanised Army? . . . Gold Rod Back For New Laurels

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 28

WlTH 46 future captains and engineers aboard, the Tatset Maru, of the Mercantile School of Tokio, has left Japan on a training voyage. She is on her way to the south seas. THEIR owner away on holidays, these two poms, are "boarding" at the King Edward home for dogs, Waterloo. One seems to have a decided…

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Money, Mines and Markets Aust. Cement Nets £84,985 Reduced Taxation Helps Profits

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 4

Gross income of Australian Cement, Ltd., for the year ended November 30 last, shows a decrease of £1200 in comparison with that of…

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Windeyer.) Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation and Others v "The Labor Daily."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 9

This matter, which is part heard, is reported elsewhere in this issue. Mr. Dudley Williams, K.C., and Mr. Eric Miller (instructed by Messrs. Abram Landa…

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New Turn in the Mine Skeleton Mystery Rubber on Man's Trousers Description Resembles Find in Shaft Camp Fire Discovery Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 13

Fresh hope has come to detectives investigating the Wedderburn mystery. They have been told that a man resembling the description of the mine shaft victim left…

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Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Finance And Commerce Markets And Mining Mt. Lyell Responds to Big Rise in Copper

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 14

BECAUSE of another exceptional rise in the price of copper, Mount Lyell shares attracted renewed heavy buying yesterday, and the market moved up strongly on the purchase of over 2000…

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Clues in Mine Shaft Mystery

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Detectives believe that if a woman, who was seen last June with a cross-eyed man can be traced, swift developments may…

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Moorefield Gold Cup Winner

Referee · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 10

TUCKIAR (winner of the Peter Moore Gold Cup at Moorefield, N.S.W.), is a four-year-old bay horse by Heroic from Miss Dinette. He was…

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United Westralian Gold Clean-up

The Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 33

United Westralian Gold reports result clean-up on December 18 as follows:--Battery, 225 tons for 54oz.; cyanide plant, 220 tons for 30oz.; slags, 6oz…

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Transfer of Gold. Philadelphia, Jan. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 11

Approximately 2,000,000 dollars' worth of gold (£A,500,000) has been secretly transported to Fort Knox (Kentucky) and placed in the new bomb-proof vault which has been…

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Big Research Scheme Extending Use Of Coal Cabinet Approves

The Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 21

A coal research scheme involving an expenditure of some thousands of pounds each year, was approved…

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