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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

214 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 11

Welsh Miners and Soviet

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 21 April 1920 · page 4

Welsh miners ridicule the idea that they have Soviets prepared…

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Mining. Federated Malay States' Tin Returns for 1919

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 2

The output for the year is considered satisfactory under the unsettled conditions prevailing. The total export was 37,000 tons…

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"A Little Parliament for Miners."

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 4

Mr. G. S. Beeby, M.L.A., giving evidence before the Coal Commission, said he favored a scheme of conciliation. His main idea was to set up a series of…

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Coastal Coal Trade

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 4

The Dundula has been placed in the coastal cargo coal trade…

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Broken Hill Miners. Offer by Managers

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 4

The President of the Broken Hill Managers' Association explains that the hours of all the Broken Hill employees are reduced. An increase in the basic…

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Coal at Glenreagh. Geologist's Report

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 7

The annual report of the N.S. Wales Department of Mines, which has just been published, contains some interesting particulars of the progress made…

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Coal Shortage. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 6 May 1920 · page 4

The bed shortage has seamed serious position in South Australia. Section are inadequate to meet industrial requirements…

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New England Mining

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 May 1920 · page 6

Considerable activity is reported in mining matters, though good rain is urgently needed for the dredges in the Emmaville district…

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Too Many States Now! Dumaresq Shire Gold-shoulders New State. Unification Not Multiplication

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 8 May 1920 · page 6

The New State movement did not receive a cordial reception by the Dumaresq Shire Council at its meeting on Thursday morning…

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Change of Bosses. Broken Hill Miners Prefer State

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 4

The Coal and Shale Employees' Federation has decided to ask the State Government to take over control of the mines at Broken Hill, where…

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Mr. Sullivan's Gold Brick. a Chance for Financiers. Critics "Don't See How."

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 8

Fifty ratepayers availed themselves of the opportunity afforded by a public meeting on Friday night to hear Mr. J. B. Sullivan propound a scheme…

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Coal Miners Again Restive

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 4

Sydney, Thursday.—There are insistent rumors current of impending trouble in the coal mining industry…

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Decreasing Gold Yield. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 17 May 1920 · page 2

The gold yield of the Commonwealth in the first four months of the present year shows a [?] of 59,000 [?] compared with the…

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Influenza on a Mine Sweeper

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 4

Sydney, Thursday.—One case of influcaza and three suspected cases on board the mine sweeper Geranium were reported while on her way to…

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Mining News. Further Local Development

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 2

The directors of Austral Siamese Tin Exploration have exercised the option of purchase held over an area of 147 acres at…

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Oil Instead of Coal

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 4

The monster steamers Olympie and [?] have been converted to burn in this redaring the crews by 300…

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Iron and Coal. Australia's Great Wealth

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 May 1920 · page 7

That Australia has large deposits of coal and iron is well known, hut what quantities has never been stated. The following is an attempt to indicate by…

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Mining Warden's Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 2

Before Mr. W. I. Perry, in the Warden's Court at Hillgrove on Thursday, the New Baker's Creek G.M. Co. was granted three months' suspension of…

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Local and General Bmmaville Arsenic Mine

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 2

The English sheep-dip firm of William Cooper and Nephews has been negotiating for the old Ottery arsenic mine, four miles from Emmaville. This…

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Mr. Perby's Commendation. Mr. W. I. Perry (Mining Warden) submitted the following resolution:--

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 3

That, in order to achieve the establishment of the Northern State a local branch of the New State League be formed…

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