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Mining & the mines, 1921

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Dangerous Mining Mount Mulligan Disaster Report of the Commission Brisbane

The Daily Express · Monday 5 December 1921 · page 1

Araongst the questions determined by the Mt. Mulligan Mine Disaster Commission are the following:—: Expe[?] were distributed,…

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Mining Gamble the Badak Bubble Criminal Action Rending. Melbourne

The Daily Express · Tuesday 6 December 1921 · page 1

The Press Bureay learnt to-night that a sensational development has taken place in connection with the Great Badak Mining [?] and that…

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Coal Strike. New Zealand Agitators Unsuccessful. Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 December 1921 · page 2

The efforts of coal mining agitators in New Zealand to cause a general strike are not meeting with success. Many men refuse to leave work, while…

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The Coal Trade Alleged German Dumping. Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 7 December 1921 · page 3

In Parliament today the Premier [?]plying to Mr. Abea[?] prom[?]ed to have [?]tries made conee[?] ramors that German coat is now…

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Gold for America. Another Shipment. Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 8 December 1921 · page 3

With all secrecy a con[?]ringment of gold was taken on board the American mall [?]namer Ventura before she sailed for San Prisco to-day…

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Will Gas Succeed Coal? Wasting Fuel By-burning It

The Daily Express · Thursday 8 December 1921 · page 2

Sir John Cadman, the technical adviser of the Coal Mines Department, [?]old the instruction of Mining Engineers, London the other day that a…

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Fire on Steamer. Bunker Coal Ignited. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1921 · page 3

When in mid-ocean, on her maiden voyage to Australia from Now York with a cargo of benzine, a serious outbreak of fire occurred on the steamer…

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South African Gold Serious Outlook Johannesburg, Dec. 10

The Daily Express · Monday 12 December 1921 · page 4

The continued tall in the price of gold is causing anxiety for the future of the gold industry. The Chamber of Mines proposes…

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On Fire at Sea Coal and Senzine Cargo. Sydney

The Daily Express · Monday 12 December 1921 · page 2

The [?] City of Che[?] has arrived in Sidney after an ex[?] Voyage. While the [?] was [?]…

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Less Work Miners’ Decision. Newcastle

The Daily Express · Tuesday 13 December 1921 · page 1

The Newcastle miners have decided to work only nine days in ca[?] fort-night, commencing January 10…

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Local and General Mining Warden's Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 December 1921 · page 2

On Monday, before Mr. Scott, an application for suspension of Labor conditions was made by the Cullinga Gold Mining Co., Extended, No Liability…

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French Coal Strike Against Foreign Supplies. Paris, Dec. 12

The Daily Express · Wednesday 14 December 1921 · page 1

A general coal strike begins to-day as a protest against unemployment. There also is a demand for the utilisation of coal stocks accumulated at…

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Fall of Coal a Miner Killed. East Maitland

The Daily Express · Wednesday 14 December 1921 · page 1

A tall of coal which burled four miners resulted in the death of one named Robert Irving, a returned soldier, His mates worked heroically to…

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Cheap Coal Overseas Shipments a Serious Anomaly. Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 1

Coal is being landed in Australia from Great Britain at a cheaper rate than suupplies can be obtained from Newcastle…

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Red Pepper Amazons. Miners' Wives Operate. Pittsburg

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 2

Red pepper filled the air as 2000 women operated at Kansas, the centre of the coal mining Industry. It was the scene of operations of a remarkable…

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COAL [?] [?] SYDNEY

The Daily Express · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 2

An [?] was [?] today by the [?] [?] that the [?] [?] to [?]…

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Coal Deposits in Riverina Company Being Formed

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 7

All the necessary exploratory work has been carried out on the new coalfield at Coorabin-Oaklands, the terminus of The Rock railway. Southern…

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Gold. Chemically Manufactured. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 2

Professor Irving Fisher, of the Yale University, lecturing in London on school economics, startled his audiences by announcing that he had been…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 2

Messrs Robert Warden and Norman Warden, shareholders in the Goobra Gold Mine, who have been on a visit of inspection to the mine,…

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Synthetic Gold. a Practical Joke. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 December 1921 · page 2

The Professor of Chemistry at the Melbourne University, referring to the German claim to have evolved synthetic gold, remarked. "Somebody seems to…

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