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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

2,096 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 86 of 105

Nine Days in Fourteen Coal Miners' Claim Owners and Men Confer SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 October 1921 · page 4

Whether miners should work nine days a fortnight, instead of 11, was considered by a conference of representatives of colliery proprietors and…

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Coal Depression More Mines Close £10,000,000 Relief Wanted LONDON, Monday night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 October 1921 · page 5

In view of the serious of the coal industry, the Miner's Federation has submitted to the Government a new scheme for the revival of…

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Mt. Morgan Mine. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1921 · page 5

In the Arbitration Court in Brisbane to-day, before a full bench, the Mount Morgan Company applied for the consolidation of all awards…

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Industrial Matters. Work at Collieries. Question of Intermittency Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1921 · page 4

The conference between the colliery proprietors and representatives of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees Federation on the question of…

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Coal Prospecting In Parish of Kahibah

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 October 1921 · page 1

Application for authority to enter land in the parish of Kahibah to prospect for coal in conjunction with the Newcastle-Belmont colliery was made…

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Dust Danger Menace to Mines How to Avoid It 3

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 October 1921 · page 7

If methane comes from the floor or from the roof, it is likely to collect in the gob, or where there have been falls of roof, or in places where the…

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Belmont Collieries. Extensive Prospecting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 October 1921 · page 6

In the Warden's Court. Newcastle, yesterday, before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, Warden, application was made by Mr. Church, on behalf of James Robertson, to…

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Miners' Trains

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 October 1921 · page 7

The miners who travel by the 2.30 p.m. train, Newcastle to Toronto, waited upon Mr. D. Murray, M.P., by deputation yesterday, and urged that he make…

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Coal Tribunal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 October 1921 · page 7

The Coal Industry Special Tribunal held a sitting at the Commonwealth Bank Offices in Sydney yesterday. After discussing matters affecting not only this…

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Mother O' Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 October 1921 · page 7

A story of the world and its people, "Mother O' Mine," Thomas H. Ince[?]s[?]atest drama for the Associated Producers, has been announced as the feature…

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New Zealand Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 October 1921 · page 7

According to newspapers received by the last mall from New Zealand numercus complaints concerning the quality of household coal have been received…

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Oil Versus Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 October 1921 · page 7

Extended experiments between York and Edinburgh show that while oil-driven locomotives are satisfactory as regards running, oil fuel is not economic,…

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Europe's Gold Reserve

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 October 1921 · page 3

While Europe sent to the United States more than 250 million dollars in gold during the first six months of the current year, a slight gain occurred in that period…

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Still Idle Richmond Main Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 October 1921 · page 5

Richmond Main Colliery still remains idle, and from what can be gleaned it is likely to remain so. The men are sail to be determined to see…

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The Rand Gold Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1921 · page 6

An upward movement in the price of South African gold-mining shares is noted in a recent issue of the "Statist." this is not on account of any increase in the…

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West Australian Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1921 · page 4

The output of coal from the collieries in West Australia during 1920, as shown by the annual report of the Department of Mines of that State, was 462,021 tons…

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Shortland Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1921 · page 4

A conference has been arranged between the executive of the Miners' Federation, with the lodge officers, and the management of Shortland Colliery; in…

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Burwood Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1921 · page 4

The dispute at Burwood Colliery, in relation to the payment of a lad employed at the pit bottom, will be discussed at a conference to be held to-day, at the…

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Rhondda Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1921 · page 4

Rhondda Colliery was idle yesterday, in consequence of a dispute over a wheeler. During the day Mr. W. Bronnan, secretary to the northern' branch of the…

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Wallsend Mine Idle Onsetters' Grievance Men From Other Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 October 1921 · page 5

Wallsend colliery had its second day of idleness yesterday, because of trouble regarding the onsetters' work at the shaft bottom…

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