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Mining & the mines, 1928

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New Guinea Problems Discussed Mining, Education, and Labor CANBERRA

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 2

Since Parliament rose the Minister of Home and Territories, Mr. Marr, has devoted most of his time to a consideration of New Guinea problems…

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Griffith Race Club Gold Cup Meeting

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 3

The Griffith Race Club is out with an attractive programme for the Gold Cup meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, January 25th and 26th…

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Civic Commission Tenders for Coal Supply Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 2

The first official action of the Civic Commission was to refuse tenders for a three years' supply of coal, which were called by the City Council. It…

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Gold Near Eden Returning 40 Ounces to Ton Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 2

The inspector of mines has received a report on the recently discovered gold mine at Sugarloaf mountain, near Eden. A return of more than…

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Coal Mines Idle One Man the Cause Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 3

Three collieries are idle, because one miner started work out of his turn. The trouble is likely to spread…

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Idle Mines Newcastle

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 1

Three collieries are idle, because one miner started work out of his turn. The trouble is likely to spread…

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Mining Scrip Frauds

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 3

By the addition of a number of thoughts to be the scrip of certain tin and rubber companies in the East, big frauds have been perpetrated. The…

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Coal Trade Bad in the West LITHGOW

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 1

So bad are the local conditions that it is expected that 70 per cent of the men will be idle…

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Coal Petrol Australian Rights Secured LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 2

The first public demonstration of the Dvorko[?]itz system of coal carbonisation was given at Slough to-day…

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Coal Carbonisation New System Inventor's Romantic Career LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 2

The first public demonstration of the Dvorkovitz system of coal carbonisation was given at Slough to-day. It is understood that the exclusive…

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Australia's Richest Gold Mine

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 6

On New Year's Eve there was written one of the most important obituaries of the year. At midnight, Mt Morgan, which…

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Colliery Fatality West Maitland

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 3

Falling 250 feet down a shaft at Airfield Colliery, Edward Killer, employed as a wheeler, was killed instantly. The body was mutilated beyond…

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Many Miners Idle. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 2

There are now 1300 men [?] Hebburn Nos. 1 and 2 and the [?] rington collieries…

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Coal Petrol. Russian Invention. Australian Rights Secured

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 4

The first public demonstration of the Dvorkovitz system of coal carbonisation was given at Slough, England, on Wednesday…

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Good Gold Find 40 Oz. to the Ton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 5

A report by the Inspector of Mines on the recently discovered gold find at Sugarloaf Mountain, which is situated in rough country about 12 miles…

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Mine Subsidence Three Stations Collapse. Cape Town

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 1

A serious subsidence occurred at the Witwatersrand gold mine this morning, when three stations at the Connor shaft fell in almost simultancously,…

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Mine Sensation Free Fight at Hebburn Manager Draws Revolver West Maitland

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 2

Bad feeling between the colliery surface men and the miners, who, they state, should not be working at Hebburn No. 2 colliery, came to a head…

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Colliery Trouble. Hebburn Miners Resume Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 2

No further trouble is anticipated at the Hebburn No. 2 Colliery, where the manager had to draw a revolver yesterday to protect J. J. Cram against…

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New Guinea Gold Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 1

The steamer Montora, which arrived in Sydney yesterday from New Guinea, brought gold valued at £30,000…

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Artificial Gold Bohemian Inventor's Claim

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 3

A Bohemian inventor, Joseph Benovics, claims to have discovered an alloy of a rich yellow color, which does not oxidise, which is much…

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