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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

196 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 10

Coal Employees and Non-unionists

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 24 September 1921 · page 2

The coal and shale employees have requested the State Government to boycott all collieries that employ non-union labor…

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Coorabin Coal

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 30 September 1921 · page 5

Arrangements were completed at Albury last Monday for an amalgamation of interests connected with Coorabin coal fields, Southern…

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The Miners' Proposed Boycott

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 September 1921 · page 32

The Coal and Shale Employees' Federation has requested the State Government to boycott all collieries that employ non-union labour. Mr. Baddeley (president of…

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Gold Near Mudgee

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 30 September 1921 · page 2

A gold discovery has been reported nine miles from Mudgee, weighing one ounce to the load…

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Incapacitated Miners : Broken Hill

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 October 1921 · page 2

Mr Doe : Will the Minister for Agriculture give consideration to the fact that a number of men at Broken Hill have been declared by the doctors to be…

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Gold Stolen From the Police

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 October 1921 · page 33

A daring robbery was committed at Kalgoorlie, W.A. Recently the gold-stealing detection staff raided a couple of treatment plants and seized…

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Finding Entombed Miners

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 13 October 1921 · page 4

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

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Cadia Mine Disaster

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1921 · page 32

There was only one contested claim before Judge Armstrong at the Orange District Court in connection with the disaster at the Cadia mines, Orange, last March…

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Coal and Oil in the West

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 October 1921 · page 13

Sir Egerton David, on his return from an inspection of the Irwin coal and the Nullagine mining fields, W.A., said he was much impressed by the mineral resources…

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The Deepest Mine

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 October 1921 · page 4

I.M. (Birkenhead) writes : “I see in the “Popular Science Sittings” a report that the Morro Velho gold mine in Brazil, is the deepest in the…

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Gold and Silver Beetles

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 20 October 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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410 Coal Strikes This Year

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 October 1921 · page 19

According to a statement issued on behalf of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Ass'ociation, 410 strikes have taken pLace at the various northern coal mines since…

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Riverina Collieries Limited

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 October 1921 · page 25

Messrs. J. M'Leod, Bolton, and W. H. Drew, of Sydney, arrived at Albury on Wednesday to complete arrangements for the registration and flotation of this…

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Coorabin Collieries, Ltd

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 October 1921 · page 2

An Albury correspondent writes:-- An important matter was transacted here when the affairs connected with the registration and flotation of…

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King Coal's Throne in Danger

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 October 1921 · page 45

Sixty years ago petroleum, or mineral oil, was unknown except as a little-used drug in a liniment; no one thought of burning it, or of employing it to drive internal…

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Riverina Collieries, Limited. Substantial Placing Of- Shares

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 3 November 1921 · page 1

An important matter was transacted at Albury when the affairs connected with the registration and flotation of the Riverina Collieries,…

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Fourty-four Hours in Collieries

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1921 · page 41

In the Special Court under the Eight Hours Amendment Act, an application was made to Judge Beeby by the N.S.W, Colliery Proprietors for exemption from…

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Riverina Coal Deposits

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1921 · page 22

At the Globe Hotel, Albury, on Thursday evening Mr. J. M'Leod Bolton, managing director; Mr. W. H. Drew option holder, and Mr. Johnstone…

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COAL MiNERS Ask for a Pool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 13

A special meeting of he council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Workers Federation has just been concluded. The official report states that the matter of…

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Coorabin Coal Field

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1921 · page 22

Mr. Gilbert M. Johnstone, who has underwritten the £90,000 capital that was required for the Launching of the Riverina Collieries, Limited, has spent the last five…

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