U.s.a. Coal Commission
President Roosevelt took the unusual step on November 5 of calling in the entire United States Bituminous Coal Commission, apparently to discuss the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1938
2,483 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 125
Quiet Week Holidays Affect Coal Shipments 14,990 Tons Shipped
The Christmas holidays and the consequent closing of the Northern mines affected the coal shipments from Newcastle this week. Shipments, including…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Exports Soar Coal Trade Best for Decade Loadings Last Year
The coal trade at the cranes at Carrington last year wad the beat for 10 years. The increase was due chiefly to a heavier volume of oversea and interstate transfers,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Holdings British Equalisation Fund Statement by Treasurer London, December 30
The Treasury has issued the following statement— "On June 28, 1987, in the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal in Manchuria
The Manchurian Coal Mining Co. and the South Manchurian Railway Co. have agreed on a five-year plan for increasing coal output, mainly with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Industries Mines to Resume on
The available working time for the collieries in the northern district for the last fortnight of December was reduced by half owing to the holidays. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →International Gold Currency Advocated by Schacht Berlin
The former Minister for Economy (Dr. Schacht), in an article in the "Law Academy Review," advocates an international currency based on gold…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Waste Winning Methods Change Advance in Technical Side of Mining
The coal resources of this State are being drawn upon at the rate of approximately 10,000,000 tons annually. The figure was almost reached in 1937,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Rod Withdrawn From Challenge Sydney
Gold Rod who was top-weight with 9.10 for the Challenge Stakes was withdrawn from the race shortly alter the weights were issued to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"HUMBUG" Unemployment Figures Mr. Orr Points to Miners Sydney
"The Stevens Government will not be allowed to get away with this humbug among 10,000 mineworkers and boys who cannot find jobs in the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Currency Dr. Schacht's Advocacy BERLIN, January 3
Dr. Schacht, former Reich Minister of Economics, in an article in the "Law Academy Review," advocated an international currency based on gold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wasteful Mining Methods Mayor Suggests Expert Committee
Formation of a committee which would work for the scientific mining and processing of coal, was suggested by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Rod Retains His Brilliance Shakespeare's Good Seven Furlongs Sydney
Gold Rod, by running a fast half mile at Victoria Park this morning, showed that he had lost none of his brilliancy during his spell…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tall Stories of the Western Goldfields
SOME of the meatiest tales ever told concerning the nineties on the Western Australian goldfields are those which now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Miners
The Secretary of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation (Mr. L. Halliday) said yesterday that there would be a general resumption of work at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Mine at Bulli
A now colliery is to be developed on the South Coast. The shaft, located at Bulli will be 20ft. in diameter. Tenders for the sinking to a depth of 1100ft. are invited…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners on Holiday Only Three Pits Resume
For the big majority of miners on the Cessnock Held this sunny day at the seaside or on a fishing boat, on the Lake had a greater appeal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Shipping Morpeth's Bid in 1907 an Agitation That Failed
A movement which, had it succeeded, would have established Morpeth as a coal-loading centre and brought back to it some of the prosperity which it enjoyed in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Truck Murder Inquest on Demsey Begins "Never Carried Gold" Over 100 Witnesses to be Called MELBOURNE
At the inquest on John Thomas Demsey, truck driver, which opened to-day, the owner of the truck, Victor Darbyshire, who was a brother-in-law of the dead man,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Aberdare Extended Still Idle Only Two Collieries Worked
Aberdare Extended miners who reported for work at the pit top yesterday but were unable to go below because the majority of their…
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