Work at Mines
Pelaw Main and Stanford Main No. 1 Collieries, which have been idle all the week owing to slackness of trade, were again idle to-day. Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1934
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Gold and Minerals Reports from Fields
The present price of gold is no more based upon the economic cost of production that it was 500 years ago or during the roaring days of the gold rushes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Customs Minister At Newcastle on Wednesday Inquire Into Coal Industry Melbourne
The Minister for Customs (Mr. T. W. White) will visit Newcastle next Wednesday. After making inquiries into the coal industry he will proceed to Queensland on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oil From Coal Deputation to Mr. Lyons Venue Not Definite Melbourne
The Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) and the Minister in Charge of Development (Senator A. J. McLachlan) will receive a deputation this month from those…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£3,000,000 in Gold Berengaria's Precious Cargo LONDON, February 28
The Cunard liner Berengaria, with gold valued at £3,000,000, left Southampton for New York to-day. She will pick up a further consignment worth £1,500,000 at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Borehole Miners
The Assistant Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. B. Simpson) said yesterday that the success of the train excursion, arranged by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Work at Mines Fortnight's Figures
The average number of days worked at the Newcastle district and South Maitland mines was again fairly high during the past fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oil Companies and Govt. Opinion of Miners
Declaring that foreign oil interests had a strangle hold on the Government, the Vice-President of the Northern Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Mechanics Position of Dapto Members
The General Secretary of the Federated Mining Mechanics (Mr. H. C. Morton), who returned to Maitland from Dapto yesterday, stated that he had attended a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal Trade Brisk Improvement Maintained 50,260 Tons Exported
The recent improvement in the coal export trade in Newcastle has been maintained during the week, and for the third time this year the weekly total has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Romantic Discovery Man Who Sought Gold and Found Porcelain
February 4 was the 252nd anniversary of the birth, of Johann Friedrich Bottger, the discoverer in Europe of the art of making poreclain. Bottger was an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Visit From Mr. Lyons See Deputation at Cessnock Coal Industry's Plight
Cessnock has been definitely agreed upon as the place where the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) will meet on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Leader Review of By-Election Mr. Lang Criticised "No Policy Put Forward"
The President of the Northern Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Jack), in the course of an interview yesterday, offered some frank comments on the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Geological Survey Tennant's Creek Goldfield Minister's Instructions Canberra
Acceding to repeated requests from miners on the Tennant's Creek goldfield, the Minister for the Interior (Mr. J. A. Perkins) has instructed the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Millfield Colliery
Millfield colliery has now been idle five weeks, and the men are hopeful that the Federation will make strike pay available this week. The terms put forward by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Industrial News Northern Mines Work for the Fortnight
Pelaw Main, one of the properties of the J. and A. Brown and Abermain Seaham Collieries was among the mines that remained idle during the fortnight,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inter-union Dispute Enginedrivers and Miners Aberdare 2 Idle
An Inter-union dispute was to-day responsible for the holding up of operations at Abermain No. 2 colllery. An effort is to be made to secure a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Industry Revival Mr. Baddeley's Plan Not Disclosed
Though details of the scheme of the former Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddcley) for the rehabilitation of the coalmining…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold Movements Surprise Britain Gains in Exchanges Continent Drained London
Official records support in a surprising degree the suspicion that gold imports into Britain exceed by £52,000,000 the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Millfield Colliery
Acting upon the advice of the Vice-president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Kelloch) and the officers of their lodge, members of Millfield lodge have…
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