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Mining & the mines, 1913

6,594 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Export Trade. Coal for the Philippines. Japan Displacing Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 21

Mr. J. B. Suttor, Commercial Commissioner in the East for the Government of New South Wales, has forwarded to the Minster for Agriculture his report on the trade of the…

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Gold and Silver. Court at Buckingham Palace. London

The Sun · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 8

At their Majesties second court held at Buckingham Palace last night, the King wore the uniform of a colonel of the Royal Horne Guards, while the Queen was dressed…

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The Mines. Minmi Agreement. Bad Results Feared. Disruption of the Associations. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 19

The developments that have taken place in connection with the Minmi agreement suggest the possibility of the Colliery Proprietors' Association disbanding. Although the hint is…

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Trade with the Philippines. Losses in the Coal Trade. Canned Meat Not Up to Sample

Evening News · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 11

Mr. J. B. Suttor, New South Wales commercial commissioner in the East, has forwarded to the Minister for Agriculture his report on the trade of the Philipine Islands…

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Rich Gold Finds. the Lionsville Field. Five Thousand Ounces to the Ton. Grafton

Evening News · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 11

Further sensational finds of gold are reported from Lionsville. Rich specimens are being unearthed there every day. Councillor Rassetil writes that Bancroft…

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The Share Market. Williams' a Shade Better. Pall in Spelter. Mining Scrip Weaker. Barrier and Copper

Evening News · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 5

Sydney started 1½d stronger in Williams shares. About 500 changed hands for cash, and about 300 on times sales. Private cables state that [?] closed in…

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Two Men Perish. Lost on the Murchison Goldfields. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 19

The body of George Bates, aged 50, was found in the Murchison district. He left Northern Gully siding some time ago to walk to a station, where he had taken a fencing…

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Spitzbergen's Coal Mines

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 February 1913 · page 19

According to engineers who have returned to Denmark from Spitzbergen after constructing the Norwegian Government's wireless station, express the view that the natural resources of…

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Slack Time for Miners

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 February 1913 · page 4

No men are required at Nymagee, Cadla, Wyalong, or Ardletnan, so the breach omcera have informed Mr. Davis, general secretary of the Amalgamated Miners' Association in this…

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India's Drain of Gold

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 February 1913 · page 19

An interesting report has been prepared by a London banker who sets out to explain the demand for gold in India. During the last twelve years India has sold more merchandise…

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At Loggerheads. Newcastle Colliery Trouble Proprietors' Proposal Unpopular. NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Sunday 23 February 1913 · page 4

In spite of the decision of the colliery Proprietors to meet the miners' representatives on Tuesday, the trouble that has threatened the district for the past six weeks has not…

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Mining and Finance. General Remarks

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 February 1913 · page 7

The market opened firmly in the leading lines of both the copper and silver-lead divisions, but there was a very small turnover. This state of things was continued the next day, business being much restricted…

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Newcastle Mining Situation. Probable Conflict of Federation and Lodge. Newcastle, Saturday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 February 1913 · page 9

Though everything is quiet at present the mining situation is still peculiar. The proprietors' and employees' representatives will meet in conference again on Tuesday, and,…

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Miners' Narrow Escape. the Suspended Jubilee Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- It is stated that a number of the men who worked the last shift of the recently-suspended Jubilee mine at Scarsdale had a sensational experience, and…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 10

The market for mining shares on the Sydney Stock Exchange on Saturday was lifeless. Owing to the fact that Broken-hill shares in London were cabled out as being distinctly…

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Sanitation of Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 6

Serious allegations as to the insanitary conditions under which men worked in some of the mines at Wyalong were recently made by Senator Macdougall. The Minister for Mines has…

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Week's Coal Exports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 11

The total quantity of coal passed for export this week was 91,982 tons. Of that amount 54,810 tons wEre for the Commonwealth, and 37,172 tons for oversea countries. Details…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 11

The Waratah No. 10, crosscut on Magnet mine is in 4ft, carrying 50 per cent, first-class ore. The Cope's Creek Central Tin-dredging…

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The Northern Miners. Minmi Agreement

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Sunday. -- Considerable interest is being manifested in mining circles as to the attitude likely to be adopted by the Minmi miners regarding the proposed five years'…

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Five Years' Peace. Colliery Agreement Signed. Newcastle

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 9

The executive officers of the Minmi Miners' Lodge met Mr. John Brown, owner of the Duckenfield Colliery, to-day, and signed an agreement for five years, which, in the event…

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