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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

196 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 10

The Mooratunka Gold Dredging Co. Operations Discontinued. Plant to Be Sold

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 2

The Mooratanka Gold Dredging Co., which took up a lease of the Cropper's Lagoon reserve some few years ago and erected machinery, ctc. for the…

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A State Coal Mine Closed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 2

The Queensland Minister of Mines (Mr. Junes) has issued instructions for the cloning down of the State coal mine at Baralaba, Central…

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The British Coal Crisis. The Mine Owners Make a Move

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 3

Mr. Williams, president of the Mining Association has sent a letter to Mr. Hodges, that at a meeting of the executive of the Coal Mine…

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Coal-miners to Receive £20,000. Helsangfors, June 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 June 1921 · page 23

The Petrograd journal "Machovik" has announced that the central council of Soviet Trades Unions is sending £20,000 to the British miners, declaring that it is…

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Lucky Gold Tee[?]

The Independent · Friday 10 June 1921 · page 4

No one is more superstitions the gambler. The men and who hunt the tables at Mont[?] and other Continental casinos…

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British Coal Strike. London, June 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 June 1921 · page 23

Mr. Lloyd George's letter to the Miners' Federation, stating that the offer of the Government to contribute £10,000,000 to the miners' wages fund…

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General Cables. Miners Reject Offer. London, June 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 June 1921 · page 19

It has been announced by the executive of the Miners' Federation that the districts have rejected the Ministry's proposals for the settlement of the British…

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Late Cable News. Coal Position. London, June 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 June 1921 · page 45

Following upon the suggestion by the colliery proprietors that, in view of the letter from the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), fixing a time limit upon the…

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John Verran, Leader. New Miners' Union Breaking Away From A.W.U. ADELAIDE

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 10 June 1921 · page 4

Mr. John Verran, ex-Labor Premier of the State, now President of the newly-formed Miners and Smelters' Union, is urging the out of work…

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Feeling the Gold Mornings. Pine Grove, Ungarie

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 June 1921 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my, first letter to the "Banner." I like reading the children's letters very much. I am thirteen years old and in the fifth class at…

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Molybdenite Mine at Everton

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 June 1921 · page 2

Mr. Reid, a representative of the American company which has negotiated for an option over the Standard molybdenite mine at Everton, made an…

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German Colliery Explosion Berlin, June 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 June 1921 · page 28

More than 150 people were killed and 80 injured in an explosion in the Montceris coal mine in Westphalia. Hundreds of workmen are still imprisoned…

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The Coal Strike. Conditional Settlement Reached. Resumption of Work on Monday. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 June 1921 · page 2

The coal strike has been settled, and a resumption of work will take place on Monday, subject to Government financial aid…

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Finding Entombed Miners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 43

An instrument invented during the war for finding the positions of underground operations by means of sound has now been put to the use of locating entombed…

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English Coal Strike Over. Miners Resume on Monday Next. Government Subsidy of £10,000,000. London, Tuesday 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 23

The Coal strike has been settled, and there will be a resumption on Monday next. At the Coal Conference the miners executive provisionally accepted the terms…

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English Coal Strike Ends. London, June 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 23

It was announced carly this afternoon that the British coal strike, which began on April 1, against the proposal to fix wages on a district basis, had been settled…

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Germany Bids for Gold. Berlin, June 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 23

The Reichsbank, up to July 3, is exchanging German and foreign gold, offering 300 paper marks for the 20-mark gold piece, and 425,000 paper marks for a…

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General Cables. British Coal Dispute. London, June 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 20

Owing to their complete failure to obtain support for a general strike or anything beyond vague expressions of sympathy from other trade unions, the coalminers…

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Gold Discoveries. Success of Hargraves

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 July 1921 · page 4

Lecturing before the Pioneers’ Club in Sydney, Mr. H. M. Suttor stated that the total value of gold raised in Australia up to 1914 was…

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Gold and Silver Beetles

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 7 July 1921 · page 4

In these days of gold shortage it is interesting to know that there are insects in this world which are said to be gold-producing! The most…

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