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Mining & the mines, 1938

4,311 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 216

Record Yield of Gold 1937 May Be Best for Twenty Years Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 10

Gold production in Australia [?] November amounted to 128,138 fin[?] ounces, valued st £a1,108,434--a record for any month for the last…

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Foreigners Are Glorified March to Nationhood Pageant Two Chinese In Gold Float All Types

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 5

THE forthcoming 150th Anniversary Celebrations are ostensibly of the foundation of this continent as a nation by Britishers and its…

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Mine to Reopen

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 4

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.--Abermain No. 2 Colliery, which has been closed down for 20 months, will reopen during the next two months, it is said…

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ABERMAIN No. 2 Colliery. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 17

After nearly two years' idleness, Abermain No. 2 colliery, one of the largest mines on the South Maitland coalfield, will be reopened in the near future on a basis of…

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Mine Resumptions And Stoppages

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.--Aberdare and Aberdare Central Collieries resumed work today. Aberdare Extended men were…

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Hargraves Discovers Gold

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 4

DOWN through the ages the bright glitter of gold has attracted all the peoples of the world. There are many who have risen and fallen through the lure of this soft lustrous yellow…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 19

ADELONG GOLD ESTATES: Week ended January 15, treated 13,000 cubic yards for 26oz 8dwt smelted gold. BARRYTOWN GOLD: First half of January, hours…

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Dismissals at Captain's Flat Mine

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 20

The Editor. Sir,—In the issue of the "Worker's Weekly" of December 21,1937, a report was published regarding the dismissal…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 19

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended January 14, is at the rate of approximately £7/18/[?]…

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The Price of Gold

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 20

At London yesterday the price of gold was £6/19/7½ an ounce fine, as against £6/19/8 an ounce fine on the previous Tuesday…

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Agreement Between the New Deloraine Gold Mining Company and the Australian Workers' Union, Adelaide Branch

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 17

This Industrial Agreement made in pursuance of Part II of the Industrial Code, 1920-1936, this 14th day of December, 1937, between the New…

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Gold Could Not Tempt Thevn LITHGOW

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 5

TWENTY--FTVE per cent of tha gold in the flues of the now demolished Cobar smelting works at Lithgow was no Inducement to local…

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Mining the Share Market. Barriers Ease Slightly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 19

In yesterday market, Barriers barely sustained the better rates ruling previously. The group opened casier, but the movement was discounted by a full recovery in Norths, on…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 18

Gold was quoted to-day at £6/19/7½ an ounce fine, compared with £6/19/8½ yesterday. BASE METALS…

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Mine Flooded. Colombo, Jan. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 11

Sixteen miners are reported to have been killed by the flooding of a plumbago mine in the Kurunagela district. There was a sudden inrush of water from a disused shaft…

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Govt. Ownership of Mines Sought

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 3

HARRISBURG (U.S.A.), Wednesday. -- Federal ownership of Pennsylvania's vast coal mines will be urged by Governor Earle on President Roosevelt when…

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Deluged with Gold Glut

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 1

GENEVA, Wednesday. -- Switzerland is embarrassed by the colossal inflow of capital from refugees of various countries…

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Church Decorated In Gold And Cream Tones

The Labor Daily · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 9

TWIN sisters, Misses Jean and Gwen Smith, nieces of the bride, were the bridesmaids at the marriage yesterday of Miss Ivy Florence Hillard at the Methodist Church, Hurlstone Park, to Mr. Ronald Alfred Ashworth, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J…

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Miners Endangered When Cyclone Hit Mt. Isa Mt Isa

The Sun · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 1

Men working underground in Mt. Isa mine were in danger yesterday, when a terrific cyclone hit the town, paralysing the electric system and stopping the ventilation apparatus…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £6/19/7½ an onuce fine, unchanged from yesterday. BASE METALS. Base metals were quoted at noon to-day as…

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