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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

303 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 16

Badak Tin Mine Declared to Be Valueless

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 August 1920 · page 31

Sensationay news has come to hand concerning the Badak Tin Mine. This mine, which was floated with 400 shares of £10 each, sprang up to £1000, and afterwards…

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Coorabin Coal Mine. Important Possibilities

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 3

A Sydney correspondent writes:-- According to the representatives of a Sydney syndicate interested in the new cool field discovered at Coorabin,…

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Premium on Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 45

The directors of the Gold Producers' Association Limited expect to make,at the end of this month, a final distribution of premium for the half-year enled June…

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Coal Shortage in Victoria

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 43

The Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, made a statement, in the House of Representatives in reference to the coal shortage. He said that he had discussed the…

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The Mining Dispute

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 2

The minors and mineowners have agreed to submit their claims to a special tribunal for final adjustment. [Representatives of the colliery…

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The Coal Crisis. Parties Meet Mr. Hughes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 4

Representatives of the colliery proprietors and the coal miners met in conference with the Prime Minister in Sydney on Tuesday to discuss the differences of…

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Broken Hill Tribunal Question of Working the Mines. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 4

The Broken Hill Tribunal was continued to-day, when a discussion took place on the conditions existing at the Barrier…

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The Coal Tribunal

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 August 1920 · page 2

The coal tribunal chairman said that while the tribunal would not take notice of isolated stoppages, yet if there was any concerted action to…

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Coal Shortage in N.z

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 August 1920 · page 2

Owing to a shortage of coal, caused through the waterside workers' dispute at Wellington, New Zealand, the trams have practically stopped…

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Coal Miners Conciliatory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 August 1920 · page 33

The conference between representatives of the colliery proprietors and the colliery employes and the Prime Minister regarding the industrial differences which are…

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Wages in the Cold Mining Industry

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 August 1920 · page 31

The directors of the Bendigo A1 Gold Mines state in their report for the June half year that the general economic conditions of gold mining are giving them…

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The Coal Miners' Ballot. The Yorkshire Figures

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 August 1920 · page 2

The Yorkshire miners strike ballot resulted: For a strike, 58,530; against, 55,979…

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The Threatened Coal Strike Result of Miners' Ballot

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 August 1920 · page 2

The coal miners' strike ballot resulted in the two-thirds majority for a strike being secured…

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The Coal Tribunal

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 1

Mr. Baddeley, the miners' president, declares that the failure of the special tribunal now sitting to settle the men's grievances would sound…

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The English Coal Crisis. Trade Union Congress Sitting

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 3

A trade union congress, which it is hoped will avert the threatening coal striker by securing mediation between the miners and the Government, has…

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Stumbling Over Gold Mines

The Independent · Friday 10 September 1920 · page 4

All is not gold that glitters, but the rusty spur of quart" over which Jacob Cook stumbled recently turned up trumps…

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Factories and Coal Mines. Two Hundred Seized at Tubin. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 2

A Turin correspondent states that 200 factories and coal mines have been taken over during the last 24 hours by a committee of Soviets…

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Coal at Savernake

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 3

It is rejected that during boring operations for water on the property of Mr. H. P. McDougall at Savernake recently, coal was struck, evidently a…

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The World-wide Unrest. The British Government's Tremendous Task. Difficulties Abroad and at Home. The Problems of the Threatened Miners' Strike

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 2

It is unquestionable that no Government, throughout history, has ever been called upon to face such a succession of cyclonic problems as…

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Coal Position Drifting. the Miners Divided Yorkshire [?]T Smay Continue to Work. London, Sept. 13

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 4

The coal situation is still obscure. The miners' leaders have adopted an obstinate policy of drift, hoping the Government will cmake a new offer,…

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