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Mining & the mines, 1914

5,543 stories in Sydney's papers · page 79 of 250

Coal Shipping Appliances at Sydney. The Government's Decision

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 12

By agreeing to the proposal that a kind of committee should first investigate the actual needs and requirements in the way of facilities at Sydney, the…

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Yorkshire Mining Dispute. Conciliation Board Settlement

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 9

LONDON, Sunday.--The Conciliation Board Committee has arrived at a settlement of the South Yorkshire miners' dispute, provided the notices are withdrawn…

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Earth Tides. Results of Recent Investigations. Station in Great Cobar Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 12

Many remarkable things about this old earth have been found out since the far-away days when it was believed to be a fixed, flat surface, fitted somehow into space, and dangerous to…

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Mine Timbering. Use of Brigalow for Struts and Caps. Rockhampton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 11

A vote of members of the Australian Workers Union at Mount Morgan was taken on Saturday on the question of accepting the warden's decision to allow the use of…

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Yorkshire Coal Strike. Long Struggle Expected. (Independent Cable Association.) LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 1

In addition to the 20,000 miners who are already on strike in York shire 35,000 others have handed in notices of their intention to come out…

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Twenty Thousand on Strike. Yorkshire Miners Out. Better Pay Demanded. London, Tuesday Morning

The Sun · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 9

A big coal strike is in progress in Yorkshire, where 20,000 miners have laid down their tools to enforce a demand for an increase of 5d a day…

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Mining. London Quiet. Local Market Listless, Tin Ventures Sound

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 March 1914 · page 11

A meagre list of "middle" quotations from tho London Stock Exchange, and even those showing an easier tone in Barriers, likewise, no mention of metal prices, was not…

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Yorkshire Colliery Trouble. Miners Reject Advice

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 14

LONDON, Monday. -- The Yorkshire colliery dispute is due to a question as to whether the minimum wage includes percentages of increases on the standard wage granted to…

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Colliery Fatality. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 17

The death occurred in Wollongong District Hospital on Sunday of Stanley Johnson, aged 16 years. Johnson had been working at the bottom of the Mount Pleasant Coal…

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To Warn Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Particulars have been received by the Department of External Affairs through the High Commissioner's office, of a recently invented whisting apparatus,…

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Carcoar Iron Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 55

Work at the Carcoar iron mines is proceeding with renewed vigor, and two trains conveying about 400 tons of ironstone ore, are being dispatched daily to the furnaces at…

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Labor. Idle Again. the Metropolitan Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 23

HELENSBURGH, Tuesday. -- The dust trouble has caused another stoppage at the Metropolitan colliery. Work was only resumed yesterday, after two weeks' idleness…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 21

At the Duncan Options, West Wyalong, the mine has been unwatered to the 650ft level. The winze at the 500ft level has also been unwatered and one shift commenced sinking…

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Mining. Pulganbar

Evening News · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 16

The secretary of the Pulganbar Quicksilver and Copper Mining Company, Limited, reports that the directors visited the mine on March 25, for the purpose of inspecting the new…

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Coal Find at Breeza

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 55

Coal has been discovered at Breeza. Boring operations were in progress, and the bore pierced 17ft of coal, and was still in coal when work was stopped for the day. A stir has…

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Barrier Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 21

At the B.H. South mine last week considerable development work was done on the upper levels from 970ft up. On the South Blocks mine last week, in the main lode,…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 17

It was officially stated yesterday that a three months' option had been taken by the Mount Morgan G.M. Company, Ltd., over the La Loki mine, Papua, which was recently acquired by…

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Great Fitzroy Mines. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 21

The directors of the Great Fitzroy Mines, Limited, announce that they have given a three months' option of purchase to the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company, Limited, over…

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Interesting Mining Operations

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 55

A wire from Grafton states:-- Mr. W. Shipman has discovered a reef at Little Nymboida prospecting 10oz to the ton. It ranges from 5in to 10in wide. Mr. H. Jones has had a…

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When They Like. Maitland Miners and Holidays

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1914 · page 9

In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Kearsley wanted to know whether certain collieries in the Maitland coalfield had not been laid idle by certain boys having taken a day's…

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