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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

51 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3

Miners' Conference

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 7

The proprietors and coal miners' representatives have decided to ask the Prime Minister to presids at futare conferences…

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A Coal-saving Device

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 4

Out of Germany comes an interesting coal-saving device intended for the economical housewife who is anxious to made her coat supply delivet…

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Mining

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1920 · page 2

A Bungendore correspondent writes:—The Bungendore Proprietary Copper Mine Local Syndicate has been formed to work an…

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Latest Cable News. France's Coal

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 June 1920 · page 7

To date France has received only half the annual supply of coal promised by Germany under the peace treaty…

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Huge Electric Colliery

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 3

An English company has commenced sinking operations at a new and largo colliery which they are opening at Deri, about two miles from Bargoed, in South…

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Mining Industry

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 2

Signs of activity are being evidenced in the Fairy Meadow district, six applications for authorities to enter on the properties of…

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£5,000 for Coal Mine

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 July 1920 · page 2

A mining expert considers that £5,000 is an ample price to pay for the Central Illawarra Coalmine, which is under offer to the City…

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Detaining Miners' Tools

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 July 1920 · page 2

The miners at Mount Kembla are suing the mine manager for the detention of their tools in the mine, which the men claim is dangerous…

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Stopping Fires in Mines

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 July 1920 · page 4

Coal-dust floating in the air in clouds is just as likely to cause explosions in coal mines as fire-damp, and there are three ways of overcoming the danger…

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Science Notes. Finding Entombed Miners

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 July 1920 · page 4

An instrument invented during the war for finding the positions of underground operations by means of sound has now been put to the use of…

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British Miners' Demands

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 July 1920 · page 2

The British Government replies to the miners' demands to-day, and in the event of the reply being unfavorable a serious situation may arise. The miners will…

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Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 July 1920 · page 2

Quite a small rush has set in at Mulloon for copper. So far the following applications have been lodged for authorities to enter at the…

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Araluen Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 July 1920 · page 2

Dredging at Araluen may fairly be described as being on its last legs. The only dredges working now are the Araluen Redbank and…

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Bungendore. MINING

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 August 1920 · page 2

The Mulloon copper mine promises to be a great success, and will very shortly be placed on the market. One gentleman from Sydney, after inspecting the mine,…

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Coal Mining Industry

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 2

No settlement had been reached when the Coal Conference adjourned on Wednesday. Immediately deliberations began the employers' representatives announced…

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Coal Tribunal Appointed

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 2

The threatened trouble in the coalmining industry has been averted by the appointment of a Coal Tribunal…

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Mining at Mulloon

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 2

The following additional applications for authorities to enter private lands in the parish of Fairy Meadow in search of copper have…

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Mining

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1920 · page 7

George Young and Alfred Vincent, of Sydney, have applied for authority to enter Portion 135, in the parish of Barnet, for the…

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Coal Shortage in New Zealand

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 31 August 1920 · page 2

The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has decided to urge the Government to send a delegation to Australia to inquire into the coal…

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Mining Outlook

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 September 1920 · page 7

The coal situation in Brtain has-assumed a brighter outlook as the result, of the move by the Minister of Labor. He lias invite…

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