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Mining & the mines, 1938

4,311 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 216

Refused to Take Gold Key London

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 1

QUEEN MARY to-day refused to perform the opening ceremony of a new building with a gold key…

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Mine Fire Damage of £25,000. Destruction of Plant. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 11

The fire on Friday night at the New Re[?] White and Blue Consolidated mine at Bendigo was the most serious in a mining plant in the history of the field. It destroyed…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, May 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 12

Gold was quoted on Saturday at £6/19/11 an ounce fine, unchanged from Friday…

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Staying Filly. Gold Spark's Good Run. Relief for Bookmakers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 15

Bookmakers had two welcome results at Moorefield on Saturday, and the success of Gold Spark in the Moorefield Handicap was probably the most profitable. In a good…

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Gordon Gold Nets £40,158 and Pays 5 Share

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 13

Reduced profit of £40,158 was earned Cordon Gold. N.L., for the year ended March 31, the previous year having shown a profit of £43,916…

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Too Many Gold and Silver Keys. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, May 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 12

Queen Mary, who is to open the new Lynden Hall of Residence for women students of the Queen Mary College at South Woodford, has declined to perform the ceremony with a…

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Market at Stand Still. Mining Shares Neglected. Quiet Inquiry for Tin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 8

A pronounced lull In the mining share market reduced business on Saturday to a negligible amount. In view of the apathy of both buyers…

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Queensland Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 8

Qucenaland gold yield was 33,1[?]oz fine for the tbree months ended March 31, an increase of 7,517oz fine compared With the first thrce months of 1937…

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Coal Lumpers and Labor Council

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, May 13—The Labor Council last night received a letter from the Coal Lumpers’ Union announcing the union’s resignation…

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Cables for Mining. Purposes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 8

The Standards Association of Australis announces the issue for public critical review of a draft Australian standard specificstion for electric trailing cables for mining…

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Mayor to Rescue of Gold City

The Sun · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 3

Over 3000 miles of telephone wire the Mayor of Kalgoorlie, Cr. R. G. Moore, to-day leapt to the defence…

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Gold Rod Needs No Telling About Holidays

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 16

GOLD ROD is the brainiest thoroughbred Tim Sweeney has ever seen. And Tim should know his horses. He is foreman of trainer…

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Newcastle Coal Shipments 54,327 Tons For Week

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 3

Although trading with South Australia improved considerably, coal shipments from Newcastle last week were lighter. Victoria imported only…

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Section for Girls and Boys (Conducted by South West Wind.) Phantom Gold Chapter Vi. the Phantom Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 23

JENNIFER and John sat down on the ground, eager to hear the old man's story, and while John Plied the strange-looking person with questions, Jennifer listened, hardly able to believe…

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General Cable News. Price Op Gold. London, May 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/1 an ounce fine, compared with £6/10/11 on Saturday…

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Base Metals Inactive. No Change in Market. Some Gold Shares Brisk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 8

Base metal shares made no headway in yesterday's market from the prevailing pronounced inactivity. Barriers were little chanced…

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Miners' Officials

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 May 1938 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.--The following officials have been elected by Aberdare Miners' Lodge:-- President. Mr. T. Duncan; secretary, Mr. E. Hudson; treasurer. Mr. J. Patrick;…

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Crocodile Creek Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 May 1938 · page 14

Shareholders in Crocodile Creck Gold Dredging, N.L., at a special meeting in Melbourne yesterday, authorised the directors to dispose of the company's dredge, leases…

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Queensland Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 May 1938 · page 14

Queensland's gold yield last month was 11,734 fine 0%, valued at £101,450 in Australian currency. In Apiil, 1937, the yie[?] was 8.2340z. The return for the four months…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 May 1938 · page 14

ADELONG GOLD ESTATES.—Week ended May 14: Treated 17,000 cubic yards for 42oz 4dwt smelted gold. COCK'S ELDORADO GOLD.—Week ended May…

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