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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1922

2,088 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 105

Digging Up Inca's Gold. Excavations in Their Lost City

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 14

Four hundred years and more it has remained hidden, the famous lost City of the Incas, which, until some time ago, no man had seen for 16 generations. When…

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The Miners' Leader

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 March 1922 · page 4

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, who ran second to Mr. Skelton in public favor, is the strong man of the district, so far as Labor interests are concerned…

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Fall of Coal Colliery Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 5

As the result of a fall of coal in Lambton B colliery. David Cummings (32), scraper, had one of the fingers on his right hand severely laccrated,…

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Will Have to Resign As Miners' Leader

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 1

Questioned as to whether he would resign from the position of president of the northern district of the Workers' Industrial Union of Australia…

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Hookworm Campaign Little Infection Five Cases Among Miners

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 5

Owing to the exhaustion of the State pudget for hookworm work in New South Wales, the campaign officials are forced to suspend operations in this State for…

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Coal Tribunal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1922 · page 5

The Coal Tribunal was occupied at the Newcastle rooms of the Northern Collieries' Association yesterday in hearing matters relative to several district mines…

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Miners' Federation. Compensation and Insurance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1922 · page 5

Some far-reaching proposals for the amendment of the Workmens compensation Act have been prepared by Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.P., president of the…

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Coal Tribunal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 4

There was a further sitting of the Coal Tribunal at the Newcastle rooms of the Northern Collieries' Association yesterday. Mr. C. Hibble was the…

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Warned Not to Strike Advice to Miners Willis Explains Trouble Coal Selling Price LITHGOW

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 5

Speaking at a mass meeting og Lithgow miners on Tuesday night, Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary of the Miners' Federation, said that the real cause…

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Water in Mine Elermore Vale Closed

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 4

Elermore Vale Tunnel has been closed indefinitely owing to the workings having become a[?] by water. The resumption of operations will…

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Industrial Matters. Accident Insurance. Proposals of Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 4

The northern miners' executive has under consideration, in conjunction with the proposals as to the amendment no the Workmen's Compensation Act, an…

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Coal Tribunal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 5

The Coal Tribunal sat at the Colliery Proprietors' rooms yesterday to consider claims submitted with respect to the Whitburn Colliery. It was pointed…

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To Find Gold Perth

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 7

An area of country 275 miles long by 50 miles wide, the western boundary of which is about 60 miles east of Kalgoorlie, has been chosen as the…

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Queensland Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 7

At the Styx River coalfields, according to a report issued by the Queensland Department of Mines, deflnite results with regard to locating settled country were…

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Hidden Gold Newcastle Stockings Sovereigns Banked

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 8

This morning a Newcastle man performed a patriotic duty. He took a gold half-sovereign to a bank and obtained exactly 10s for it. Any…

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Big Strike Production Ceases 6000 Mines Idle Vancouver

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 5

Co[?] production stopped to-day in approximately 6000 United Spaces mines. The Government is not expected…

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State Coal Mine Lithgow

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 April 1922 · page 7

Development work is proceeding at the State coalmine at Mart's Cully. The number of employees is now about 200, of whom 36 are employed…

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Southern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1922 · page 5

A report from the district check inspector was read at the lust meeting of the miners' delegate board of the southern district regarding an examination made by…

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Morwell Brown Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1922 · page 5

There are now well over one thousand men at work in connection with the scheme to utilise the brown coal for electrical purposes. The operations of…

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South Australian Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1922 · page 5

The report of the Department of Mines, South Australia, for the half-year ended December 31, 1921, states that the value of the total mineral production must be…

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