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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

2,642 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 133

Industrial News Position Unaltered John Darling and Other Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 8

The President of the Northern branch of the Miners Federation (Mr. J. Jack) stated, in reply to inquiry yesterday, that the position at the Broken Hill…

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Oil From Coal Maitland A.L.P. Wants Action

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 9

At a meeting of the Maitland branch of the A.L.P. on Tuesday night, it was decided to launch a campaign to arouse public interest in the question of the…

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Cooperative Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 8

Mr. J. Harris, of Wallsend, stated yesterday that in response to the representations of the District President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Jack),…

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Bellbird Colliery Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 8

Bellbird colliery was idle yesterday, owing to a dispute concerning the payment of wheelers for taking in timber from the flats to the working places…

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Whitburn Colliery Spontaneous Heating Sealing Operations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 6

Eleven men are employed sealing up Whitburn Colliery as the result of the discovery of spontaneous beating in the underground workings during the…

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Mining Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 8

Messrs T. G. Moran and H.C. Morton, President and General Secretary of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association, have been in conference during the week…

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Northern Mines Three Remain Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 8

The Vice-president of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Kellock), accompanied by the Assistant Secretary (Mr. J. Simpson), attended a…

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Shale Industry Miners' Federation Satisfied SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 7

The Chairman of the Shale Oil Committee (Mr. R. W. Nelson) said to-night that as a result of a series of conferences with the Miners' Federation regarding…

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N.Z. Mine Machinery Burnt Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 6

The main building of the British Mercury Mining Company, at Puhipuhi, which contained valuable machinery, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The…

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Coal Export 30,245 Tons for Week Improved Trade Expected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 6

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 30,245 tons, of which 5730 tons represented overseas…

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Trapped in Mine Gold Miner Was Drowned Sudden Flood Bathurst

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 4

Last night, by lantern-light, his comrades tolled at the pumps to recover the body of Harold Gillan, 30, of Exeter, who was…

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Australian Price of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 4

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended January 19, is at the rate of approximately £7/9/11 per…

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Coal Tenders West Australian Railways PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 10

Tenders called by the State railways for 15,000 tons of Newcastle coal, 10,000 tons of small at 29/5, and 5000 tons of small at 26/5, on slings at Fremantle, were…

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Mine Fatality Man Pinned by Earth Companion Badly Hurt Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 9

When two men working in a gold mine at Newbridge late this afternoon struck an underground river, one of them was killed and the other seriously injured…

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12,000 Tons of Coal Activity at Cranes To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 10

Work is usually slack at the cranes on. Saturdays, but that will not be so to-day. It is expected that about 12,000 tons of coal will be loaded between 6 a.m. and…

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Gold and Minerals Prices and Production Reports From Fields (Contributed.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 4

That the price of gold will reach a further upward level, as a result of the nationalisation of monetary gold and bullion by the United States, certainly…

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U.S. Gold Bill Attack in the Senate Administration Confident Washington, January 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 9

President Roosevelt's monetary bill, to re-value the dollar, and impound the nation's gold, was subjected to four hours' bombardment by constitutional argument…

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Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 3

Sir,—"Zam Buk," who is, apparently, a miner of some years' experience, states emphatically that miners are now better off than was the case 50 or 60 years ago…

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Lambton Miners' Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 3

At the monthly meeting of Lambton Miners' Lodge, which was well attended, it was stated that there were no colliery grievances of any note to be dealt with. All…

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Work At Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 8

Pelaw Main Colliery, which was idle all last week, resumed work to-day. Stanford Main No. 1 and Hebburn…

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