Strange but True Only Quicksilver Mine
AT Kilkivan (Q.) Australia's only quicksilver mine is in operation. The quicksilver produced in the district is said to be the purest in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining & the mines, 1940
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General Mining and Investment
A net profit of £4,727 is shown by the General Mining and Investment Co., Ltd, for the year ended September 30, 1939. The report states that the rate of profit was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Company News Wallsend Coal's Profit Steady
Net profit of £11,250, the same as for 1938, was disclosed by the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co., for the year ended December 31,1939…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Paringa Gold Profits Advance £11,549
During the year ended August 31, Paringa Mining and Exploration Co., Ltd., earned a profit of £32,340. This is an increase of £11,549 on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Combined Mining Unions Wield Authority
A conference of the combined mining unions' committee and district officers of the F.E.D. and F.A. yesterday decided to recognise the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Company Meetings General Mining and Investment Co. Ltd. Chairman's Address to Shareholders
The Annual Meeting of the General Mining and Investment Co., Ltd., was held in Sydney on Thursday January 18, 1940…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Gold Salute Shock
ALAN COOPER spent a very anxious week with his 10,000 guineas colt Gold Salute. On returning home from Randwick last week-end, he found that there was some heat in the chestnut's fetlock joints, and though…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Watching Coal Dispute
"Those engaged in the coal-mining industry would be ill advised to turn their backs on the Commonwealth Arbitration Court."…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →General mine hold-up looms
CESSNOCK, Saturday. -- Unless some official action is taken soon, a general…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Raised a Gold Spark
THEY say a change is as good as a holiday. Apparently it is doing plenty for the diminutive apprentice, K. Andrews, as he has now ridden two winners in the last ten days. The kid was indentured to the Randwick trainer, Danny Lewis, until some little time ago, and was then transferred to Bert Papworth, at Rosehill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Spark's Stocks Get Boost
Racing at Rosehill yesterday gave little guide to the main Randwick double, the Challenge Stakes and Anniversary…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →City Engine Burns Cash for Coal
SYDNEY County Council bought a second-hand locomotive from the Railway Department five years ago for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canada's Part in War Gold, Munitions, Men For Empire
Industriously and economically, Canada is in the war to the last dollar, just as, physically, the Dominion is in it to the last man and woman. WHAT she has to offer the Motherland to-day is a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →New Atom-smasher May Produce Purest Gold Confirming Dreams Of Alchemists
"The time is past when the release of atomic energy and the transmutation of base-metals…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →"Can't Beat Gold Spark In The Anniversary" Trainer's Tip at Randwick
"I don't know how they are going to beat her in the Anniversary Handicap," said Gold Spark's trainer, A. G. Papworth, after the mare had won the Rosehill Handicap yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →Major Crisis Industrial Paralysis Looms in Mining Dispute Big National Problem
THE coal mining industry is swiftly approaching another paralysing crisis. A tie-up of the entire…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Big Punters Fall Into Trap Trainer Puts Unknown Apprentice On Gold Spark To Get Good Price
To get a price about Gold Spark for the Rosehill Handicap yesterday, trainer A. G. Papworth gave the mount to a little known apprentice, Ken. Andrews…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Norseman Gold Mines. Profit of £112,525
Norseman Gold Mines, N.L., for the year ended October 31, shows a net profit of £112,525, compared with £100,005 for the previous year. The piont includes income…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Mines Idle To-day Stop-work Meetings
All mines will be idle on the northern fields to-day when the enginedrivers and firemen will hold special stop-work meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pensions for Aged Miners
The Royal Commission to inquire into pensions for mine employees over the age of 60 will be set up within the next few days and will…
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