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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1924

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Australian Gold. American Bank's Purchase. Purely a Business Deal. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 February 1924 · page 5

The New York and National City Bank has announced the purchase of £3500 worth of gold in Australia, declaring that the transaction is purely of a…

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Coal Miners. Want Local Commission. Maitland

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 5

Serious trouble is threatened on the Maitland and Cessnock coalfields. Idle miners of three collieries have decided to insist on a local commission into the…

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Safety Appliances. Not Respected by Miners. Mine Manager's Statement. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 5

The alarming report of Mr. Barnett cheek inspector of the Northern coal mines, and the consequent stoppage of several of mines because of this report…

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Mine Inspector's Report. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 5

In a report to the Minister for Mines, Mr. Fitznatrick. to-day the Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. Hindmarsh, rebuts the charges by check inspector Barnett…

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Smoking in Mines. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 5

The Police Magistrate at Cessnock declared the penalty for smoking in safety lamp mines was not heavy enough. If legislation was introduced providing for…

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News of the World. 42 Miners Drowned. New York

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 5

A message from Crosby (Minnesota) states that 42 miners perished when the bottom fell out of a small pond and flooded the working of the Milford iron…

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"No Abnormal Dangers." Chief Inspector on Coal Mines. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 5

Chief Inspector Hindmarsh has submitted a further report on the safety of the South Maitland coal mines. He says that the Aberdare Central Colliery…

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Year's Coal Output Worth £8,607,892 Only Twice Exceeded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 4

The Minister for Mines to-night received a report from the Under-Secretary for Mines, which shows that the output of coal for 1923 was 10,478,513 tons,…

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Coal Seam Found. Old Prospector's Discovery. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 5

Coal has been discovered somewhere in the vicinity of the North Coast railway line, according to a report made by E. J. Pepper, a coal prospector, who has…

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Gas Packet. Explosion in Mine. No Damage Done. Maitland

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1924 · page 5

A terrific explosion in Aberdare Colliery, the oldest on the Cessnock fields, caused alarm in the mine and throughout the district yesterday…

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Nugget of Gold Found. Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 5

A prospector found a nugget of gold weighing fifty-one ounces nineteen dwts. on an alluvial patch about half a mile east of Mr. Gonger…

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Safety Lamps. Aberdare Mine Idie Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 4

Aberdare colliery is idle to-day for the first time since the big strike. The trouble is due to the fact that the man agement, consequent upon a slight gas…

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Telegrams Coal Lumper Killed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 5

Emanuel Erickson, coal lumper, of Petersham, was working on a coal hulk to-day, when he fell down the hold and was killed…

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Germany. Gold Credit Bank. Paris

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 5

Dr. Schadt, president, of the Reichsbank, has left for Berlin. He will return to Paris in a week when he will reconfer with the Experts Committee in regard to…

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Wanganui Gold Cup. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 3

The Wanganui Cup was won by Cold Steel, with Murashi second, and Sunart third. Won By 20 lengths…

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Telegrams Miners' Federation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 February 1924 · page 4

During 1923 levies apart from contributions paid by 24,000 members of the Miners' Federation amounted practically to a quarter of a million sterling…

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Mining at Lionsville

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 February 1924 · page 2

A correspondent writes:--"Mining matters are still on the move up here, and we expect to have several new shows under way very shortly. Messrs. C…

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"Tons of Gold" a Knight's Arithmetic. Reply to Sir Thos Henley. Propositions Awaiting Solution. Sydney, Tuesday

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 February 1924 · page 5

Commenting to-day on the Auditor General's decision in connection with the 1916-17 wheat claim, Mr. Buttenshaw, M.L.A., said it was not his intention at…

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Gold and Copper Traveller's Strange Story. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 February 1924 · page 4

A man named John Vance called at the Prime Minister's department today and told a strange story. He said he had travelled to Melbourne from Charleville,…

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"Cheapjacks." Jewellery Auction Case. Gold or Gilt? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 February 1924 · page 5

At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, three young men, Ernest Salon, Leonard Wilson and Arthur Greenhalgh, were charged with conspiracy…

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