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Mining & the mines, 1938

4,311 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 216

Port Kembla's Record Trade. Big Shipments of Coal, Coke, and Steel. Port Kembla

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 20

Last year 250.298 tons of coal. valued at £229,096, was shipped overseas and to other States from the Illawarra coalfields. Interstate and oversea coke shipments were valued…

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Bright 1938 Outlook for W.A. Gold Mines Million Ounces Should Be Passed

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 9

THE Golden Mile is in a particularly good position. The Lake View, Perseverance, North Kalgurli, Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie, Hannans North,…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 1

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

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Rising Mining Costs

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 9

RECENT remarks of the chairmen of the Associated Mining and Finance and Goldfields Australian. Development Corporations on growing costs…

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Town in Darkness. Strike at Colliery. Electricity Supply Stopped. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8

The small township of Bellbird, near Cessnock, was without electric light and power to-night as the result of a strike of members of the Federated…

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Inside Reports on W.A.Mines Marvel Loch Prospects

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 9

THE incoming manager of Marvel Loch places his faith in possibilities below the 300ft. level. There, he says, the lodes are strong and of better…

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Mining Town Without Light, Power CESSNOCK

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 4

THE town of Bellbird is in darkness tonight, following a warning by the Hetton-Bell-bird Colliery Company…

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Mining the Share Market. Small Scale Business

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 13

Trading in the mining share market yesterday was on a restricted scale compared with Thursday's market, owing to the general fall in official metal prices overseas. Buying orders…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London. Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £6/19/7[?] an ounce fine, compared with £6/19/7 yesterday. BASE METAL PRICES…

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London Predicts Another Boom In Gold Dollar Devaluation Likely Other Metals, Too

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 9

IF anything was needed to make the outlook for 1938 better than opening indications have already shown it…

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Secrecy in N.S.W. Mines Dept. Report On Broken Hill Extension Cannot Be Seen

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 9

CLOSE secrecy exists within the precincts of the N.S.W. Department of Mines concerning diamond drilling to test the extension of the lode at Broken…

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N.z. Miners Search for White Gold

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1938 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Saturday. -- Otago miners are combing the country at the head of Lake Wakatipu for "White Gold," otherwise known as sheelite…

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Mining

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1938 · page 27

THE mining market, on better base metal prices, was lively. Speculators were alert, and all movements were watched keenly…

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Gold at Deep Levels

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1938 · page 27

IN South Africa recently gold was struck by diamond drill at a depth of over 10,000 feet. The borehole was put down for New Central Wit…

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A Precious Nugget Of Gold

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1938 · page 3

I HAD arrived at the goldfields, where my father was prospecting for gold, about a fortnight before the time that my adventure…

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Gold Rush For Young Carnival YOUNG

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1938 · page 3

Professional and business men, shop assistants, and relief workers will take part in an organised search for gold which…

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Miners Searching for ''White Gold" Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

searching for scheelite ("white gold''),miners are combing country at the head of Lake Wakatipu (Otago), Tungsten is a product of…

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Empress Gold Option

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 11

Express Gold Mines. N.L's. option from Blue Bird Gold Mines, N.L., over Block 1,421, at Norseman (W.A.), due on February 28, has been extended for 12 months. The price of…

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Victoria Gold Dredging

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 11

Gold Mines of Australia, Ltd.. general manager and consultants of Victoria. Gold Dredging Co. N.L., report that erection of the superstructure of the dredge for the company's…

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New Lode Found. Great Boulder Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 11

A maior development has occurred on the Great Boulder Pty, mine. Dilving north from the Edwards shaft, past the main shaft on the 2,650ft level, into virgin, ground, has revealed…

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