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Mining & the mines, 1927

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Coal From Great Britain. South Australia's Action. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 9

It is a fact well known to all who are connected with, the coal trade at Newcastle, that a large proportion of the foreign trade of the port has…

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To Close Down. the Mount Morgan Mine. Economic Working Not Possible

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 2

A meeting of shareholders of the Mount Morgan Goldmining Company, Limited, held in Melbourne yesterday, decided that the company should…

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Mine Flooded. Pithead and Plant. Disappear in Crater. London, July 25

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 2

A cologne message states that the whole pithead and plant of the Auguste Victoria mine in the Ruhr district disappeared in a crater 220…

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Mining Conference South African Minister Leaves for Montreal. Capetown, July 22

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 13

Mr. Beyers, Minister for Minos, left Capetown to-day to attend the Empire Mining and Metallurgical Conference at Montreal…

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The Collieries. Work for Fornightly Pay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 August 1927 · page 6

Eleven days constituted full time at the Collieries in the northern distrilt for the fortnight. A dispute was responsible for the…

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Coal Export Shipments From Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 August 1927 · page 6

The amount of coal shipped at Newcastle during last months for places beyond the State was 408,154 tons, of which 358,371 tons…

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Great Gold Mine. Loss of Half-million in Six Years. Mount Morgan to Close Down

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 August 1927 · page 6

Shareholders in the Mount Morgan gold mining company have decided that the company shall wind up voluntarily. Losses during the past six…

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Colliery Fatality. Inquest at Abermain, Abermain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1927 · page 8

Mr. George Brown, J. P., District Coroner, conducted the inquiry before a jury of six at Abermain Police Station to-day, touching the death of…

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Mount Morgan Mine to Close Decision Affects 10,000 People

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 August 1927 · page 4

Mr. Morgan. the world-famed gold and copper mine in Queensland, is to be closed down. The decision of the company at the week end to wind-up…

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A Romantic Story. £30,000,000 Worth of Gold and Copper

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 August 1927 · page 6

Until the end of last year Mount Morgan had yielded 5,058,081 line ounces of gold and 119,280 tons of copper, of a total value of £30,116,549…

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Newcastle Coal Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 August 1927 · page 4

A loss of £1733 on working account is shown by Newcastle Coal Mining Company for the half-year-ended June 30. After transferring…

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Workmen Entombed Colliery Explosion. London, August 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 August 1927 · page 2

Following an explosion heard for miles around, ten workmen engaged in sinking a new shaft at Cardowan colliery, near Glasgow, were entombed,…

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Mining Industry. Decadence in Queensland. Government and A.w.u. Blamed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 August 1927 · page 2

A scathing indictment of the Queensland Labour Government was made by Dr. H. Jensen, the geologist, who returned to Brisbane from an…

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Coal Mining. One Union for Industry Miners and Mechanics Debate. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 August 1927 · page 4

Cessnock Colliery Mechanics listned to some spirited addresses last night on the advisability of one union in the coal mining industry. Originally it…

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Edie Creek Gold Fields

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1927 · page 1

Mr. D. Lyall, who is at present at the Edie Creek goldfields in New Gumea, and who was at one tune a resident of the Terrace and Karuah district writes of…

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Oil From Coal a New Industry

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 August 1927 · page 2

It is understood that a syndicate is considering the installation of by-product factories on the South Maitland coalfield, the main idea being the…

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Colliery Accident

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 5 August 1927 · page 4

Williams (“Taff”) Shears, 20, of Cumberland Street, was. Injured at Aberdare Central Colliery last night Shears who is employed as a slider,…

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Aberdare Extended Colliery

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 5 August 1927 · page 3

Aberdare Extended Coliery, after ten days idleness, resumed work on Monday. At a full meeting of the lodge. on…

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Strike at Colliery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 August 1927 · page 2

A dispute at St. Heliers Colliery brought about a cessation of work yesterday…

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One Big Union. Discussion at Colliery Mechanics Meeting

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 5 August 1927 · page 5

Cessnock Colliery Mechanics listened to some spirited addresses on the advisability of one union in the coal mining industry on Wednesday night…

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