Gold Content of Dollar. Washington, Jan. 20
President Roosevelt yesterday requested Congress to extend for two years his power to regulate the gold content of the dollar and the Act creating the Stabilisation Fund…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining & the mines, 1939
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Steadier Market. Less Drift. Dollar's Gold Content
Resistance was offered by the investment market yesterday to the slackness which had gathered way for several days…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Rotten Timber in Mine." Statement by Official. LITHGOW
John Patience, an officer of Lithgow Valley miners' lodge, giving evidence before the Royal Commission on the safety and health of workers in…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Wallsend Coal Raises Div. to 4½ p.c
Higher profits have led to an Increase in dividend by Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co., Ltd., from 4 to 41 per cent., for the year ended December 31, 1938…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Barriers' Tone Better. Light Trading Bulolo Gold Higher
Leading base metal shares improved slightly in tone yesterday. Though still light, trading in Barriers was wider…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →W.A. Gold Outlook Favors Increased Production In 1939
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN gold mining started the new year with assurances of a satisfactory period in 1939. Given continuance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Tin Mine Is Short of Water LAUNCESTON
Sixty men have been thrown out of work by the cessation of operations at Storey's Creek tin mine through the shortage of water. The mine is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fruitless Search for Lost Gold Reef Kalgoorlie
Six men came out of the desert to-day after a fruitless two months search for a lost gold reef. In temperatures of 120 degrees they wandered over barren country, and once, when they lost their way, their water…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Industry Probe Old Miners Write Views to Judge Lads' Plight In Industry
Old coal miners have not been reticent in writing their opinions on the recent coal dispute to Judge Drake-Brockman, who is hearing miners' industrial claims in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Notes
APEX GOLD MINES.—Drill down 275 feet. NEW GOLDEN MILE (CRACOW) (Bardoc, W.A.). —No. 3 winze sunk from 80 to 88 feet. Six tons of mullock hauled, and 14 tons of ore for an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Norseman Gold. Results for 1937-38
Norseman Gold Mines N.L. reports a net profit of £109,005 for the year ended October 31, after providing £10,408 for depreciation. A sum of £66,593 was brought into the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Western Queen Gold. May Instal Treatment Plant
If returns from the treatment of development ore come up to expectations, the directors of Western Queen (1936), N.L., intend to instal a treatment plant on Maybell mine, at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tin Mining Application. West Wyalong
Applying for authority to enter 5,000 acres of land at Kikoira for tin prospecting Mr. Edward Walter Bouwick, the representative for the Mount Parish tin mines, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 22
Gold was quoted on Saturday at £7/8/8½ an ounce tine as compared with £7/8/7 on Friday. AUSTRALIAN KILLED…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Coal Dust As Fuel. Use Instead of Oil. Tests in England
The possibility of running Diesel engines on coal dust instead of oil is one of the subjects discussed in the annual report of the Fuel Research Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hardships in the Desert. Search for Gold Reef. KALGOORLIE
Long camel journeys over waterless country, a struggle with floods, which turned desert areas into a bog, and other hardships suffered during a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Finance Editor's Column Keen Buying Of N.Z. Gold Dredging Shares
STRONG Sydney interest in New Zealand gold dredging companies has led to the exchange of several thousand shares in the past few weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining Notes
NORMANBY TIN.—Sluicing of wash, with [?]sequen[?] s[?]dy tin recoveries plus stripping of over[?]den in new paddocks, will be operative forthwith…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Men to Load Dalfram Coal
Seven members of the Port Kembla branch of the Waterside Workers were picked up to-day to load coal on the steamer Dalfram, due at Port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lithgow Miners Resume Work. Lithgow
At a special meeting to-day the state Mine lodge decided to resume work to-morrow, provided a conference could be had with the manager, Mr. Fullagar, in the afternoon…
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