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Mining & the mines, 1921

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Gold for Notes. Man Committed for Trial. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1921 · page 1

Robert Donaldson appeared in the City Court, Melbourne to-day, charged with having in January, 1920, stolen from Henry Orford £140. Orford…

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Subsidy Dispute. Welsh Coal Owners. Agreed to Arbitration Settlement. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 October 1921 · page 2

A meeting of South Wales coal owners at Cardiff decided to accept the invitation of the Mines Department to refer the subsidy dispute to…

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Idle Miners 15,000 in North Wales Owners and Miners Readjusting

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 6 October 1921 · page 1

15,000 minors ate idle in North Wales, owing to economic conditions in the coal industry. Meetings of owners ana miners have been arranged…

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Mines Closing Down London. Oct. 4

The Daily Express · Thursday 6 October 1921 · page 2

The North Wales mines, employing 13,000 people, will close to–day, owing to their inability to produce at a profitable price…

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Ardlethan Tin Mines

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 7 October 1921 · page 2

The business people of Ardlethan have been badly hit (writes our correspondent, by the closing down of the mines on the tin field, and although there is a fair…

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Facts and Fancies. Natural Ice Mine

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 7 October 1921 · page 4

In the Alleghenies, just beyond Cudersport, P., there is a cave a few feet below the surface, which is a natural ice mine, the ceiling, walls,…

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Welsh Miners. Fifteen Thousand Idle. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1921 · page 2

Fifteen thousand miners are idle in North Wales owing to the economic condition of the coal industry. A meeting of owners and miners has been…

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Huge Loss. for Past Financial Year. Broken Hill Mining Co.'s Report. Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1921 · page 4

The directors of the North Broken Hill Mining Company, Limited in their annual report state that a nert loss of £62,242 was incurred during the last…

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Gold in Boxes. Customs Authorities' Find. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 October 1921 · page 2

Customs searchers became suspicious of two weighty cases which were being placed aboard the steamer Taiynan which trades with the East, and it was…

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Excited Chinaman Loses £200 in Gold. Sydney, Sunday

The Daily Express · Monday 10 October 1921 · page 1

Before. the steamer Taiyuan salled for Bong Kong yesterday she was searched by Customs [?] who discovered two boxes of gold coins,…

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Miners’ Diseases. Broken Hill

The Daily Express · Wednesday 12 October 1921 · page 1

The number of men drawing compensation at Broken Hill owing to miners tuberculosis is 354, costing the Government and Companles £2300 a…

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Copper for Gold Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 12 October 1921 · page 2

New halfpennies, which ar[?] said to be part of the stock in trade of men who offer to change [?]tes for gold, were found in the possession of two…

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Half-pennies. Notes for Gold Trick. Two Men Detained. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 October 1921 · page 2

Detectives Thompson and Alchin were standing near the Orient Steamship Company's office this morning, when they saw two men account a third who…

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American Gold Offers to Australia. Victoria’s Refusal New York, Oct. 10

The Daily Express · Wednesday 12 October 1921 · page 1

The Australian Press Association learns authoritatively upon inquiry in Wall Street, that financiers, at treated by the success of the Queens…

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Gold You Can See Through

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 14 October 1921 · page 4

Gold is an extremely interesting substance in many ways. It can be beaten so thin that a quarter of a million leaves of it piled…

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Mine Collapses. Caused by Earth Termor. Perth

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 October 1921 · page 2

[?] of the Boulder district West Australia, were awakened by a loud report early on Tuesday morning, and on examination the cause was found…

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Wheelers' Reign. Almost at an End. Miners' Lodge Experiment. Maitland

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 October 1921 · page 3

The Richmond Main miners have broken new ground in dealing with sectional strikers which should, if persevered in, be of benefit to the…

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"The Pavement of Gold."

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1921 · page 6

David Watson, a 20-year-old Scotsman, visited Highgate Police Court, London, recently and thanked the magistrate for a service rendered to…

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Mine in Back Yard Thought to Be Opals. Sydney

The Daily Express · Monday 17 October 1921 · page 1

Albert Wills, occupier of a house in Regent Street, City, has discovered a quantity of peculiar stone in the back yard and believes it to be opal…

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Gold for Notes. Two Rogues Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 October 1921 · page 2

Sydney Grant and George King appeared at the Central Court to-day to answer a charge of being rogues and vagabonds, in that they, being…

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