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Mining & the mines, 1937

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Oil From Coal The Fischer Process LONDON, July 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 July 1937 · page 10

The queensland Agent-General (Mr. L. H. Pike) will go to Germany next week to investigate the Flsoher Process for the extraction of oil from coal…

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News of the Day Mining Mechanics' Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 6

A SPECIAL meeting of the delegate board of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association has been called for to-morrow morning, when…

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Kurri Business Men's Club Monthly Dinner Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., Reviewed Coal Industry

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 6

At the Kurri Kurri Business Men's Club monthly dinner, held at the Kurri Kurri Hotel last Tuesday night, Mr. J. M…

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Gold Lease Option Cairns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 July 1937 · page 3

A representative of a southern company has offered £2000 for a three-months' option at £40,000 if the option is exercised of The Coronation gold…

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Fishing for Coal with an Octopus

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 July 1937 · page 3

This is one of the strangest true stories over told. During the Great War, a large quantity of coal accumulated in the sea around the Island of…

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Coal Trade Quiet at Newcastle NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 July 1937 · page 8

Only 44,180 tons or coal, including bunkers, were shipped from Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State. The trade was quieter than…

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Miners' Claims B.H.P. Co.'s Attitude NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 July 1937 · page 9

Reports circulated that Broken Hill Pty., Ltd., which on Monday rejected the coalminers' log of claims for higher wages, shorter hours, and…

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Collieries Worked Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 2

Richmond Main COlliery, which was idle on Fridaym resumed to-day, pelaw Main also worked…

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Collieries Cannot Fill Orders From Overseas Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 5

Not since the stoppage of the mines in 1090-[?]0, when the great dispute over the reduction of wages in the Newcastle-Maitland field took place…

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Fall of Coal Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 5

Frederick Warland, 37. of williams-street, Cessnock, a miner employed at Eirington colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital to-day with a probale fractured…

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Miners' Claims Delegates Appointed SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 5

Messrs. Nelson and Orr, of Central Executive, London and Brown, South; Heare and Seanion, North and Roy and Schroder, of the West, will…

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Gold Production Figures for June SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 1

The Department of Mines advises that the production of gold of New South Wales origin for June was estimated at 8,170,21 ounces fine, valued…

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Miners' "Stay-in" Strike. Trouble at Burwood Colliery. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 2

Miners employed at the Burwood colliery to-day started a "stay-in" strike as a protest against what they claim to be the…

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Colliery Worker Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 5

Roy Clark, a top-hand at the colliery, sustained a broken arm yesterday while working an electric drill. The drill jammed while being…

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Mines at Work Kubri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 2

Both Polaw Main and Richmond Main collieries worked to-day…

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Coal for Egypt Welsh Exporters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 5

Wolsh, exportors have secured a large coal contract from Egyptian State Railways in the face of keen fercign competition. The order for…

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Hebburn No. 1 MINE Mechanics in Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 2

Mr, H. C. Morton, general secretary of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association, together with Messrs. W. Barras, C. Woodhall and D. Williams,…

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Log of Claims Payment for Skill Mine Mechanics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 2

"The delegate board of the Fede rated Mining Mechanics' Association has decided to make efforts to' secure bettor conditions for its…

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B.H.P. Miners Stage Saty-In Strike 200 Food Will Not Last Long Dispute Over Horses Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 7

Another "stay-in" strike of miners occurred to-day when two hundred men in the B. H.P. Burwood colliery, near Dudley, downed tools and refused to leave the mine. The…

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Price of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1937 · page 8

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for sold lodged at the Melbourne and Perth Mints for the week ended July 23 was £7/19/6 per standard…

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