Pause in Barriers. Steady Tone. Bulolo Gold Higher
Leading base metal shares were pausing yesterday. Business quietened, but the tone was steady. North B.H. retained Wednesday's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining & the mines, 1939
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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, May 11
Gold was quoted to-day at £7/8/5 an ounce fine, compared with £7/8/5½ yesterday. BASE METALS. Base metals were quoted at noon to-day as…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gold Fields Australian. Profit of £stg. 67,629 for 1938
Gold Fields Australian Development Co., Ltd., a London company with Western Australian interests, shows a profit of £stg.67,629 for 1938. The company is paying a first…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Move to End Coal Strike Action By Roosevelt Our Own Cable Service
WASHINGTON, Thursday.--President Roosevelt has intervened in the American coal strike, which threatens to paralyse the industrial life of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Deficit Cut By More Than £2,000,000 In Two Months Railway Loss Expected to Exceed Million Coal Strike, Higher Wages Blamed
The State deficit has been drastically pruned during the last two months. The Treasurer (Mr. Mair) released the latest Treasury figures last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Mine to Reopen
LITHGOW, Friday.--Big Spur Colliery, a small mine at Blackman's Flat, which has been closed since 1929, is to re-open. Production is expected to begin in about…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining Notes
NEW ZEALAND PETROLEUM.—Progress in drilling of Totangi No. 1 hore during the last week has been slow owing to the nature of rock being penetrated. The hole has reached a depth…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Miners' Federation Against Lyons Grant
The central council of the Miners' Federation yesterday expressed its opposition to the "preferential treatment to Dame Enid Lyons by the granting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners to Fight New Bill
THE compulsory register of man-power was strongly opposed by the Central Council of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Aim Is Pensions for Needy
CENTRAL Council of the Miners' Federation yesterday expressed opposition to the granting of a pension…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mount Kasi Mines. Larger Profit Shown
Mount Kasi Mines Ltd., shows a net profit of £11,647 for the year ended December, compared with £8,046 for 1937, and a loss of £2,795 for 1936. The figures are…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Coal Oil Made for 5d GALLON
A MACHINE claimed to make petrol from coal or shale for 5d a gallon was demonstrated in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fall Into 2900ft. Mine Shaft Melbourne
The mouth of an abandoned shaft, 2900ft. deep, at California Gully, near Bendigo, collapsed this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2 Miners Die in Poisoned Shaft Melbourne
Overcome by bad air, two men died in a mine shaft at Eganstown, near Daylesford, today. One lost his life in trying to rescue his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Urges Wider Control of Small Mines Newcastle
A GOVERNMENT mines inspector advocated wider powers in the control of small mines at the Royal Commission into Health and Safety in Mines to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unionists Win U.S. Mine Fight New York
JOHN L. LEWIS, the Labor leader, won one of the greatest victories of his career when the coal-strike deadlock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Metal Shares Ease. Less Support. Gold Shares Steady
Support for the chief base metal shares at the improved rates ruling was hesitant yesterday. When sellers pressed slightly, North…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Copra Market Slump. Hardship in Solomons. Search for Gold
Mr. F. N. Ashley, now visiting Sydney on his way back to England after having spent 10 years in the Solomon Islands as Resident Commissioner, said…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Two Miners Killed. Foul Air. Man Sacrifices Life. Rescue Effort. MELBOURNE
Two men were killed by foul air in a mine near Daylesford this afternoon. One of them sacrificed his life in an attempt to rescue his…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Cheated Death Again Survivor Of Mining Shaft Tragedy MELBOURNE
Tom Muxworthy, hero of yesterday's mine tragedy at Eganstown, near Daylesford, when two miners lost their lives in foul air, had the…
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