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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1929

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Colliery Profits Coal Commission's Report. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 August 1929 · page 5

The Coal Commission's report dealing with colliery profits for 1927 will be presented to the Government within a few days…

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£170,000,000 W.A.'s Gold Production. Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 August 1929 · page 4

At Bullfinch on Saturday, the Premier, Mr. Collier, unveiled a tablet on the first lease pegged out on the eastern goldfields which led eventually to…

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Coal and Oil Reserves in Australia. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 August 1929 · page 5

Lecturing before the members of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the president, Mr. Andrews, said of the known coal reserves of the…

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Coal Trade Excess Labor Supply Inefficient Collieries Group Amalgamation Urged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 August 1929 · page 7

Of special interest in view of its bearing upon the crisis in the coal industry in New South Wales is an addition to its series of economic books published by…

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Australian Gold £1,000,000 for Bank of England. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 August 1929 · page 5

Gold coin valued at £1,000,000 has been sent to London by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. It has been sold to the Bank of…

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Police Raid Mine Coal From Old Workings. West Maitland

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 August 1929 · page 4

The police raided the old workings of the Stanford-Merthyr colliery during the week-end and took the names of 40 miners, who will be prosecuted…

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Coal Commission Examinations of Accounts. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 August 1929 · page 4

The chairman of the Royal Commission on the coal industry, Mr. Justice Davidson, said to-day that every effort is being made to complete the report on the profit…

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Letter to the Editor Cheaper Coal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 2

Sir,--Our manufactures now give work to 485,000 persons. Coal--referred to even in our nursery rhymes as "King Coal"--has, though not an absolute monarch, a…

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Gold Reef Near Adelong. Adelong

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 6

A gold strike is reported in the neighborhood ' of Gibralta, where a two feet reef 25 feet down is showing gold freely…

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Explosive in Coal Grate Two Persons Injured. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 4

Two persons were injured when a terrifle explosion occurred in a kitchen grate after a quantity of coal had been thrown on the fire last night. The contents of…

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Coal Dispute Owners and Premier Original Proposals Stand. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 5

Representatives of the northern coal owners interviewed Mr. Bavin, to-day and discussed with him the position in regard to the coal trouble…

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COAL Early Govt. Action Miners Legal Costs Government Refuses Further Advance. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 4

It was learnt in Ministerial circles last night, that immediately the Commonwealth withdraws from the field of industrial arbitration and abolishes…

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Gold and Arsenic Progress at Valla Mines Modern Plant in Course of Erection

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 3

Discovered 40 years ago by a teamster who, when searching for his bullocks, stumbled against a heavy are outcrop, which under subsequent assay disclosed…

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Slipped on Coal

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 3

A loco driver in the employ of the Railway Commissioners named Richard Sewell slipped on a piece of coal at the Armidale loco sheds and sustained a…

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State Cabinet Transport and Coal Supplies. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 5

The State Cabinet to-day gave consideration to the Transport Bill. During discussion on the measure. Ministers considered the financial position of…

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Lake George Mines. Big Company to Be Formed. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 1

Milling experts anticipate the formation of the Lake George Metal Corporation in London with a capital of £1,000,000 will result in the conversion…

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Synthetic Gold Research Workers' Claim. Christchurch (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 5

Two research workers, G. P. Aston and H. V. Attack, claim to have succeeded in transmuting certain elements into gold. They state the discovery was made…

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600,000,000 Tons Yallourn Brown Coal Supply Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 5

Members of the Victorian Assembly were astonished when the Minister for Railways told Mr. McKenzie, member for the district, that the Yallourn brown coal…

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Leg Pulling Synthetic Gold Story. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 September 1929 · page 5

Research experts at the Imperial Institute were questioned to-day by a representative of the Australian Press concerning the cable from New Zealand, which…

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Sir Humphrey Davy Miners Greatest Benefactor Scientist and Poet

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 September 1929 · page 1

Among the most notable names in this year's calendar of centenarians is that of Sir Humphrey Davy, one of Britain's greatest, scientists, who died a hundred…

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